Start at 4’50” – 5’50’

TITLE: Love Isn’t Perfect
YOUR ROLE: Director, Editor, Cinematographer
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Canon T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 1920×1080
DURATION: 6’14”
CLASS: FMX 312 Narrative Production
PROFESSOR: Aaron Walker
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 19
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: The idea for this film was based off of my own relationship – my boyfriend and I have been doing long distance ever since I came to Tampa, and we’ve certainly had our share of arguments, but we’ve also always worked them all out afterwords since we know communication is important. The couple in this story hasn’t talked for a few days since they had a fight, but they both realize they were at fault and come back together. I actually had different actors in the beginning, but both got sick and I had to scramble to find new ones. We were able to shoot all of the outdoor scenes before my new actress got sick as well, and I ended up having to improvise the middle scene between Bryan and Logan to make everything work. Did I admittedly procrastinate at the beginning for this? Yes. But did I still make it work? Absolutely. I’ve learned my lesson, but I’m proud I was still able to save the narrative.

Start at 0’47” – 1’20”

TITLE: Long Take Exercise
YOUR ROLE: Director, Editor, Cinematographer
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Canon T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 1920×1080
DURATION: 1’50”
CLASS: FMX 312 Narrative Production
PROFESSOR: Aaron Walker
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 19
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
LINK: https://youtu.be/01Xz4bKRL40
DESCRIPTION: A girl goes for a stroll on the riverwalk. I didn’t really have a solid idea of what to shoot for this, but I figured the riverwalk would provide pretty scenery. My friend agreed to be the actress and we just staged it to look like she was studying at one of the tables on the riverwalk, got bored, and decided to take a walk instead. I wasn’t super familiar with stabilization equipment at this point in time, so I had just mounted the camera on a fig rig and tried to keep it as steady as possible. It was a pretty hot day when we shot this, so we only did (I think) about four takes before calling it quits since I was worried about the camera being in the sun too long. If I remember correctly, I used either the third or fourth take for the assignment.

Start at 0’25” – 0’58”

TITLE: Stereo Love (POV Project)
YOUR ROLE: Director, Editor, Cinematographer
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Canon T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 1920×1080
DURATION: 1’14”
CLASS: FMX 312 Narrative Production
PROFESSOR: Aaron Walker
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 19
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
LINK: https://youtu.be/OBSmCXUYYqM
DESCRIPTION: I wanted to try something a little comedic for this assignment…my roommate had a light-up speaker that we’d use every now and then when we were hanging out, and I thought it’d be funny if it was the object that ended up being the point of the actor’s focus, hence the title “Stereo Love.” We shot this in the lobby of Jenkins Hall, and luckily it was pretty quiet so we were able to shoot straight through without stopping (not that it would have taken that long regardless). I shot all of Joe’s (the male “actor” – he was actually another friend) shots and expressions first, and then moved onto Amber’s (my roommate) shots to make everything flow a little easier. The wide shot at the end was shot last, which is funny since basically nothing will line up in order of shots like that. I added the soundtrack after editing the film to give it more of a light-hearted, goofy feel.

Start at 0’36” – 1’02”

TITLE: The Case of the Missing Sunglasses (Shot Progression)
YOUR ROLE: Director, Editor, Cinematographer
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Canon T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 1920×1080
DURATION: 1’30”
CLASS: FMX 312 Narrative Production
PROFESSOR: Aaron Walker
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 19
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
LINK: https://youtu.be/JiEvKHoOtFM
DESCRIPTION: This is a pretty simple concept: like the title implies it’s about a girl who thinks she’s missing her sunglasses, but they’ve actually been on her head the whole time (we’ve all done this at some point). I thought it would be a funny way to get a variety of shots in, especially when her roommate comes in and is wondering why the common room has had pillows thrown everywhere. If I remember correctly, we had to have a least five different types of shots in the short, and I was kind of challenging myself given that dorm rooms don’t have very much space to work within. I remember having to stuff myself into the corner for one shot and sit right up against the window for another. The extreme close-up of the sunglasses was shot with me perching on the edge of my bed and holding the camera over Thea’s head. Both of the girls (Thea and Amber) were actually my own roommates, and I thought that their acting was decent given the circumstances.

Start at 0’45” – 1’40”

TITLE: Gossip Girl Pilot
YOUR ROLE: Director, Editor, Cinematographer
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Canon T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 1920×1080
DURATION: 2’29”
CLASS: FMX 241 Sound, Image, and Motion
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 18
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
LINK: https://youtu.be/6bfd2TxHrqI
DESCRIPTION: This was my narrative final for Sound, Image, and Motion. The assignment was to recreate a scene from a movie or tv show, and I had been watching Gossip Girl at this particular point in time, so the first thing that popped into my head was to use the bar pilot scene between Blair and Serena. The setup seemed easy enough and so did the dialogue. I transcribed each girl’s lines on a separate document in Google Docs (I wasn’t familiar with screenwriting software back then) and then shared the document with Rose (Serena) and Natalie (Blair) so they could memorize the lines. The day of the shoot I had taken out a Lowell lighting kit to help with the lighting in Rathskeller (awesome that they let us shoot down there) and a T3i. I probably could have taken out two cameras, but I only went with the one since I figured I could just shoot all the angles on Natalie first and then shoot Rose’s angles. I remember being pretty happy with it…yes, you can see the light in the one shot – in my defense I didn’t realize it until I was editing the movie.

Start at 0’15” – 1’05”

TITLE: Visual Storytelling
YOUR ROLE: Director, Editor, Cinematographer
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Canon T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 1920×1080
DURATION: 3’35”
CLASS: FMX 241 Sound, Image, and Motion
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 18
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: My first narrative short ever. Looking back on it now, I’m not sure what compelled me to create this storyline because it is kind of weird and maybe even a little creepy on some level. It’s about a girl who’s been stressing over schoolwork, but then she gets a message from someone who has a crush on her, and she doesn’t know who it is. He asks to meet at Starbucks, and even though she’s busy, she relents and goes out of sheer curiosity. *sigh* You’d think I’d come up with something less weird and more romantic than that, but it is what it is. The order of the scenes that you see on screen is the order of how it was shot; I did it this way because it was easy for me to think of the storyline as I went. I hadn’t had anything scripted to refer to. There were only the three of us involved in this: me and my two friends. For what it’s worth, I didn’t end up needing anymore people than that. And, I’ll be honest, this was my true first time using a camera, so I was not as familiar with the different settings and what they did as everyone else. Obviously the ISO is way too high here; you’ll never catch me doing that anymore!