Thursday, September 19, 2013

Here is another costume from the same film Convex 

Monday, September 16, 2013

Extra fun

Me on the set of Convex, a student independent project I worked on last september. Part of being a production assistant means you'll have to play an extra if needed. I personally loved watching the crew set up every shot while I had my makeup done and put in costume. This costume was designed for a party scene in which the lead actor was trying to make his way through a crowd of people dancing and lusting over him.

Walk On: The Pre-Interview

Before we could even imagine what our documentary Walk On was going to be about, my team decided to do a pre-interview of Nancy Winkleman the program director of FTEA. Friends for Therapeutic Equine Activities is a non profit organization in Winfield, Illinois. The organization is designed to help people with disabilities through horse therapy. The riding stable is small, but we managed to capture a great story about a young blind boy whose bravery got us nominated to go to Take 1 film festival.

Film school at it's best

Using the light meter to find focus for this project in Moving image production. Each group had to use the same script, props, and set design to come up with different ways of telling the story.

TV majors

Working on a TV project in the south suburbs of Chicago. Angel Orozco (wearing the hat and glasses) is director and lead actor in his short comedy about a breakup. Austin Gustafson is on the camera and Eric Griggs acting alongside Angel. Only camera sound on this project since the TV department gave us a broken nagra.

First project

Me and Jace Escobar using a bolex for the first film we ever made at Columbia College Chicago.

The Lead


My crew working on set of The Lead, Eric Griggs on sound, Austin Gustafson as Director of Photography, and Rachel Deming as my lead actress. This was the last scene of my short homage film to director Sam Mendes. There were a lot of technical difficulties with recording sound on location. We were in the basement of the Getz theater next to the generator which we had no way of turning off! Fortunately, we made it through the shoot without going insane thanks to everyone involved.