Narrative

00. Descent

Dec. 2022.

Descent is a short film about self-reflection, introspection, and how it can spiral endlessly. It was my final project for COMM 441 - Intermediate Digital Filmmaking at UMass Amherst.

I directed, shot and edited the film; there wasn't really a script, just an outline. I also color graded, did the audio, and additionally ended up doing my own music for the first time; I think it turned out really well. I'm partiucularly proud of the plucking/bubbling sound. The interiors were shot at Smith College.

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01. Transmission

Oct. 2022.

Transmission is a short film about the omnipresence of technology. It was a project for the 'experimental narrative' module of my experimental film class.

I directed, shot and edited the film. I also did the color grading and audio editing.

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02. Cordelia Lear

May. 2022.

Cordelia Lear is a short film production of a play written by Smith College professor Len Berkman. The monologue is set inside of William Shakespeare's King Lear, following the inner journey of the king's daughter, Cordelia.

I was co-cinematographer alongside my friend, Harrison Tan. I also edited, color graded, and did sound editing.

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03. The Machine

Dec. 2018.

The Machine was my final project for VM120 at Emerson College. It's a psychological-horror-themed short film about a young man coming to terms with the future., inspired by some of the darker episodes of Doctor Who and Black Mirror.

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04. Global Singularity Project

Apr. 2018.

G.S.P. was a short film I did for my high school senior project, inspired primarily by Denis Villenueve's Blade Runner 2049. G.S.P. was my first short film; I wrote, directed, shot and edited it. The music is by Caleb Kennedy.

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Music Video

00. Passing By (Official Music Video)

Jul. 2022.

Passing By is a music video I shot for my friend Gruff Davies, who wrote and performed the song under his artist name, Suncaster. Most footage in the video was shot at various locations around our home in western Massachusetts, with a few stock clips for the greenscreen section.

I directed, shot, edited, and color graded the video. I was going for kind of a retro vibe with the 4:3 aspect ratio and heavy film grain and glow. Personally I think it looks really good.

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3D & Motion Graphics

00. YouTube Shapes Intro

Feb. 2023

A stylized intro for my YouTube channel, made as part of a full rebrand, representing the letters as simple shapes. Modeling and animation was done in Blender, using a custom material to immitate “grain shading.”

I used After Effects to refine the animation, as well as composite with the background, add film grain, and colorize the shapes, which were grayscale in Blender.

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01. CS:GO - Zeitgeist

Aug. 2018

CS:GO - Zeitgeist is a “frag movie” I made using gameplay moments from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Footage was captured using the game's built-in "demo" replay system, as well as a third party tool called Half-Life Advanced Effects for keyframing camera moves. I rebuilt stylized UI elements using Adobe After Effects.

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02. Fear.

Nov. 2021

Fear. was a project for ART 374 - Intro Computer Animation at UMass Amherst. Using Autodesk Maya, the assignment was to pick one of four emotions, and express it using only lighting and composition.

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03. Collide And Slide

Jul. 2023

A Unity tutorial I made describing the process of creating a “character controller” from scratch. I used a JavaScript library called Motion Canvas to create the shapes and animations seen in the video.

I'm particularly proud of the thumbnail (the image seen here), which was created using a combo of Motion Canvas and Photoshop.

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Documentary & Montage

00. Senior Class Trip to Puerto Rico

Jun. 2018

Senior Class Trip to Puerto Rico is a vlog-style documentation of my high school class's senior trip. We went to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria to help a local organiztion in building sustainable shelter/school buildings and gardens out of recycled materials and bamboo.

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01. Adventure at Amethyst Brook

Feb. 2020

My then-girlfriend, Janna, and I took her dog, Nugget, for a walk at Amethyst Brook, a nature reserve in Amherst, MA. The video is set to music from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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02. Montage

Oct. 2018

Montage was a project for VM120 - Foundations in Media Production at Emerson College. The assignment was to create a montage using the various editing techniques we learned in class, using both original and stock footage.

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