I was the Vault Manager for this talent agency during the transition to their new website. My responsibilities included transcoding the entire 5000+ clip library and uploading them to the new website. I also created a few reels for the clients and did simple IT work around the office.
I worked with Jonathon Irons on both the 60 and 30 second versions of this commercial creating and animating the titles and graphics. We did a standard lower third, a moving list, a few text animations and a packet highlight sequence.
I was hired by MirageQuest Media to help complete last 7 episodes of The Dreamsters. My responsibilities were compositing, additional editing, preparing broadcast tapes, transcoding material for the web and authoring DVDs. I also did some graphic design and animation for the company.
Electricby Cameron CartioLos Angeles, CA
I worked for gaffer Ace Underhill on this video as G&E swing. This was shot on a large green screen stage and we had the challenge of lighting both the screen and the band with limited instruments.
Havaeeby Shahrum KashaniLos Angeles, CA
I worked as G&E on this music video with Nick Oberlander. It was a simple small green screen shoot. We set up the screen and used one general lighting setup for most of the video.
The Martin Lindstrom company hired me back to create dailies
of the research footage. My duties included transcoding AVC footage, syncing sound without a slate, and making DVDs for several 2-3 hour events. We had up to four different video and audio feeds per event.
This project was very interesting. We were tasked with gathering video and audio research for Martin Lindstrom's next book. As an assistant to the producer I handled rental of equipment and hiring camera people. I also handled sound recording and hidden camera placement.
I did the video and sound editing on this pilot example episode. It was used during meetings to show the style of the show instead of doing a more standard sizzle reel.
For this Audience Favorite
nominated short I served as gaffer. It was a pretty small crew and the Director of Photography Ace Underhill helped out a lot with the G&E duties.
I was the picture and sound editor for all seven episodes of this web series that appeared on Hayneedle.com. I was responsible for compression and delivery of the episodes as well. Additionally, I was the production audio recorder and boom pole operator.
I worked as the DIT for this independent feature film shot using the RED camera. My responsibilities included backing up the RED drives to hard drives and quality checking the footage.
My Worldby Bascom HillLos Angeles, CA
I was on the G&E crew for this music video. I was hired as an extra hand by Ace Underhill of Brilliant Screen Studios.
As key grip I got the pleasure of hauling HMI lights up and down a mountain every day of this 7 day independent feature shoot. I was one of a sometimes four person G&E department. I worked under gaffer Ace Underhill.
I was the fill in sound mixer and boom pole operator for a short scene that, as I understand it, was supposed to be a companion piece for the original short film.
I worked as camera support for Director of Photography Nick Oberlander on this short film. I did some focus pulling, helped rig up the glide cam rig, changed lenses and backed up the footage. I also boomed for part of the day.
I was the key data downloader for this independent feature film. This was the first 4k feature shot on the Dalsa Origin using S.Two's hardware. My other responsibilities included capturing and syncing dailies for the director and cinematographer Aaron Platt.
Instructors include: Sharon Teo, Sandy Veneziano and Rick Endacott
This movie was made mostly because we wanted to work with all the actresses we knew, and partially because people really did ask us why we never had girls in our movies.
This was shown at the 2010 LA Comedy Festival. The sound for this short was particularly difficult because I had a limited number of farts to work with and all of them were terribly funny to listen to.
I only appeared as talent in this one. Nick and I came up with the idea and shot it all the same day. Since the majority of the shots were going to be special effects shots and it was so short Nick just did the edit. It was easier for both of us and he's a very capable editor.
This was shot when our friend Sean was visiting for the Fangoria horror convention. It was perfect timing. We were itching to shoot another movie after Confessions: Recession and we always talk about doing sequels to our stuff especially for thirtysevenrobots later.
We shot this during Jonathon's spring break trip. Since we had the old band together we wanted to do something. We hadn't shot anything since we moved to Los Angeles.
This is one of my favorite movies we've ever made. This was for a Halloween film festival contest hosted by Cinema 16. We won first place. It also appeared in the 2010 LA Comedy Festival.
This short was something that Jonathon and I came up with and executed pretty much by ourselves. I have never been able to figure out why it came out of Avid so dark.
This was for a 72 Hour Film Contest hosted by Cinema 16. I love the credits Nick made for this so much.
I love this short. We shot this with some actor friends of mine at their actual security workplace. I laugh ever time when Vince takes off his glasses and then decides to leave instead of saying anything.
This was our entry to spring semester 72 Hour Festival. It started the same night as Jonathon's 21 birthday, so we went out and all got pretty drunk then wrote the script for this movie. I love this thing so much. It's so weird and terrific. I was very surprised when we won first place for this. It seemed like the audience was extremely quiet during it, but I guess they all liked it.
We made this during our actual lunch break before going to Sam's thesis shoot. We locked off the camera and made due with available light and it is my favorite video we have ever made.
This was a blast to make. It was so fun. We entered this in the Halloween festival along with Spectral Terror.
I'm not even sure how this idea came about exactly. I think it was in my digital animation class when our instructor showed us a website that you can download pre-made models. What I remember most about this was brainstorming the title, and most people don't even realize it's also a joke.
This was our tribute to the laugh-a-minute summer comedy Dragon Wars: D-War. That movie impressed us with a flashback inside a flashback and we just riffed on that until we came up with Flashback Loop.
The only reason this exists is because we are braggarts. We scoffed at needing 72 hours to complete only one movie. We ended up drawing twice and for this one drew: toy dinosaur as our prop, the genre monster movie, the line "God bless America!" and the character name Fabrizio. We completed this in just 6 hours.
This was for the first Cinema 16 72 Hours Later
competition which gave each registered team a randomly drew list of elements that had to be in the movie they would complete in the allotted time. Ours requirements were: Genre: French New Wave Character Name: Murdock Prop: Underpants Line of dialogue: What would Abe Lincoln do?
Team thirtysevenrobots took first place at the competition. This was a lot of fun to make.
I think this is a good visual joke and I'm apparently the only one. I like this because it's a joke that is best delivered in this medium.
This was shot the same day as Republic of Texas, and became the basis for a bunch of other videos. This is just so silly, and was a bit before we really honed in our awkward brand of comedy.
This was our very first video. Nick, Karl and I got together to test out my newly purchased HVX200 and we riffed on ideas until we came up with this. Karl was the master mind behind carrying the bikes. Republic of Texas even got mentioned on a blog making it our highest viewed video to date.
I did data management for this as well as acting. This was only the second film to have a set built in our studio theatre, and it was a lot bigger more impressive set.
I did data management for this movie, as well as supplying some equipment. It is one of the best things I've seen come out of our school as well.
I was co-gaffer on this project, although I couldn't make it to the shoot for the first, of three, parts.
This short was my thesis film that won my school's Best Sound award at the end of the year banquet. I wrote, directed and edited the four minute comedy.
This film was shot over most of the semester. I recorded sound for this for some of it.
This was my favorite, and tightest, thing I edited during college. It continues to be my main example of dramatic editing.
I was the sound mixer/boom operator for this interesting piece. It used video and film to contrast the experiences of the characters in it.
This rom-com was a lot of fun to work on. It was about a young man who was obsessed with Star Trek, but don't worry he finally gets the girl. I was Director of Photography for this. It was fun to try and do a shot-for-shot of the classic Spock versus Kirk fight.
I wrote this script for our Film Production II final video project. Honestly, if I could go back and do it again I would've said no to the class when they picked it. It was just too big for our budget and time frame.
I worked as the sound mixer/boom operator for this film. It was really fun because of how ambitious it was. There was multiple characters in werewolf make-up and one vampire.
I was best boy for this film. It was my Film Production II final film project. This was a really good learning experience. This ended up being shown at the Omaha Film Festival that year.
This was our scene project for Film Production II class. We got the highest grade out of the class for this.
This was our Film Production II documentary project. It was fun to dabble in that kind of filmmaking, but it's not something I really want to do again.
This was my final film project for Film Production I. We won an award for best sync film for this at the end of year banquet.
This was my first Cinema 16 Halloween festival entry. It's not too bad for my the first thing I made in college.
I edited this project from our Film Production I class. It was a challenge because our film was ruined and we had to re-shoot it all on video. Since the class was a non-sync class I couldn't use any of the in camera audio, so that was fun.
This is the first thing I ever made at school. It was our first class project in Film Production I. I was the director of this experimental movie.
This was the first thesis set I worked on. I griped for this. Actually mostly spent my time sitting outside watching the HMI lights.