Start at 1’52” – 2’24”

TITLE: HORSE
YOUR ROLE: Cinematographer, editor
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Sony A7iii
SPECIFICATIONS: 3840x2160px, 24 fps
DURATION: 6’09”
CLASS: FMX 314 Experimental Filmmaking
PROFESSOR: Warren Cockerham
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 20
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
LINK: https://youtu.be/m_wthkeQoV8
DESCRIPTION: This was my experimental final; I wanted to be able to show viewers the subtleties of horses since no one usually sees them like I do. I’ve been around horses since I was eight – I know them as more than just another animal. They have their own personalities and their own traits, their own markings that make each horse unique from the next. If you’re not an equestrian you don’t think about these things, so I used the power of montage to show it. There are also many shots of the barn; it shows wear and tear – chipping paint, chewed fences, rusting chains. Anyone stepping into the barn might not see it all right away, so I intermixed it with the images of the horses with the purpose of saying “hey, this is where the horses live, and they’ve lived there long and well.”

Start at 0’40” – 1’05”

TITLE: TV Commercials (Slightly) Reimagined
YOUR ROLE: Editor
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop
SPECIFICATIONS: 1920x1080px, 24 fps
DURATION: 4’01”
CLASS: FMX 314 Experimental Filmmaking
PROFESSOR: Warren Cockerham
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 20
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: I’ve always adored old, black-and-white tv and film so it was a no-brainer for me to try and create this nonsensical montage out of old tv commercials for this particular project. We were required to use some sort of masking or rotoscoping, so there are certain portions of the film that I ended up tracing/drawing over in Photoshop with the use of the video timeline. Other masking was all done in Premiere – now that I reflect on it, though, I wish I would have used After Effects instead, but because I wasn’t super fluent in it, I was too afraid to try and use it for the project. I did try to match the cuts based on the content of the tv commercial or what was being said, but I think that concept when over everyone’s heads when we screened it, so I do kind of wish I had come up with something else.

Start at 0’00” – 0’35”

TITLE: Long Take Exercise
YOUR ROLE: Cinematographer, editor
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Sony A7iii
SPECIFICATIONS: 3840x2160px, 24 fps
DURATION: 1’10”
CLASS: FMX 314 Experimental Filmmaking
PROFESSOR: Warren Cockerham
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 20
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: The first project we did in Experimental: a long take exercise. I didn’t have anything super interesting to film in the general area of my apartment complex, so I decided to go down to our boardwalk and capture imagery of the mangroves there. The goal was to have a pretty shallow depth of field so that’s what I was going for; this was, of course, before I realized I could slap an ND filter on my lens and shoot with my aperture completely wide open, so yes, the depth of field would’ve been even shallower had I done that!

Start at 0’50” – 1’15”

TITLE: A Glimpse of Nature
YOUR ROLE: Cinematographer, editor
MEDIA: Video
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CAMERA: Canon T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 1920x1080px, 24 fps
DURATION: 3’02”
CLASS: FMX 241 Sound, Image, and Motion
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 18
INSTITUTION: The University of Tampa
LINK: https://youtu.be/ock-Kc5bOxI
DESCRIPTION: I’ll be honest – I don’t remember a ton about this visual art assignment since I did it back during freshman year, but I know that my intent was to highlight the beauty of the nature around campus, hence the title “A Glimpse of Nature.” Every shot is superimposed with a different shot so you’re always seeing two things at once; whether it be the water superimposed with palm trees or the grass superimposed with a hedge of flowers, you’re getting this sense of peace and calm as you view what Mother Nature has to offer.