Feature Film

In late summer 2022 I shot my first micro-budget feature film, which I wrote, financed, directed, shot, and edited myself.

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Student Films

I made these in the spring of 2022 while in the 8-week intensive filmmaking workshop at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. We shot each other's projects in small groups on weekends. I learned a lot, both in planning, shooting, and editing. These are the shorts in the exact form I presented them in class.

MISE-EN-SCÈNE

Each student designs and shoots a scene that has a beginning, middle, and end. Students will learn to pay close attention to the choice of lenses, camera distances, angles, movement, height and the blocking of subjects . . .Since the story will be told within one long shot, it must be staged to express as much as possible about the characters and their actions . . .

CONTINUITY

By making a “continuity film,” students learn the way edits can advance the story while sustaining the reality of the scene, and the difference between “film time” and “real time.” . . . The action in these films unfolds utilizing a variety of shots (10–15) in a continuous sequence (no jumps in time or action).

MUSIC & MONTAGE FILM

In this project, students are encouraged to explore a more personal form of visual storytelling. For this film, students choose a piece of music, and in the editing room, they cut their images to work in concert with, or in counterpoint to, the music.

THE SUBTEXT FILM

This project challenges students to explore the relationship between dialogue and dramatic action. It serves as the student’s first foray into directing a film with dialogue recorded on set . . . The student director determines the "who, what, where, when, and why" of the story. Above all, each student director must identify the characters’ objectives and dramatic beats of the scene.

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