Film
Projects
Catalyst
TITLE: Catalyst
YOUR ROLE: Director of Photography, Gaffer, Sound Design
MEDIA: Narrative film
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
HARDWARE: Canon Rebel T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 22.3 x 14.9mm
DURATION: 2:59
CLASS: FMX 241
PROFESSOR: Warren Cockerham
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: As part of a group narrative film project for our Sound, Imaging and Motion course, my team decided to make an idea centered around an inescapable, liminal space akin to a bad dream or a Groundhog Day-like loop. A liminal space is a type of location that invokes an unsettling sense of nostalgia, as if the viewer recognizes the space despite never having visited it. My groupmates and I all had an interest towards these settings, and I was able to provide a suitably eerie location for us to shoot in the form of a vacant suite in my dorm room. Due to my experience in shooting my own home movies, I was put in charge of setting up the shots in accordance with the storyboards devised for my team, alongside helping to set up the surreal lights in the room. My final contribution was helping score the final sequence of the film, adding in the various static screeches, panicked breathing and cries of agony!
Catharsis
TITLE: Catharsis
YOUR ROLE: Sound Design
MEDIA: Experimental narrative film
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
HARDWARE: Canon Rebel T3i
SPECIFICATIONS: 22.3 x 14.9mm
DURATION: 2:23
CLASS: FMX 241
PROFESSOR: Warren Cockerham
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: For our final group project for FMX-241, we were to combine two film types of our choosing and create a short movie from there. My team from Catalyst reassembled with the intent to tell an experimental film focusing on the creation of a cup of tea underscored a narrative centered around a crumbling relationship. Due to scheduling issues, my role in the final film was relegated to sound design, wherein I added effects to muffle the audio of the two characters arguing, add echoing to the glass shattering, and distort the sounds water boiling. The latter two sounds act as examples of how I used sounds to characterize or signify the emotions going on in the background with the relationship’s deterioration, such as the boiling water being an analogy for the anger of the two parties boiling over and leading to the end of the relationship. My largest contribution to the sound design was the soundtrack itself, wherein I picked a suitably somber, almost reminiscent or mourning score fitting for some of the more tender moments of the short film.
