These are films I made at UNC. Unless otherwise noted, they are wholly my own work.
| This was my final project for my animation class. The idea grew out of an insect curio cabinet turned burlesque show. I love the irony of Wilde's treatment and the heritage of the story. Salome was to be Norma Desmond's swan song in Sunset Blvd. |
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| This piece uses basic motion of matted stock photographs to create a sort of brief animated musical. My friend TJ Ward created the music. |
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| This was entirely improvised as a means of demonstrating the use of masking in adding a fake sense of depth to photographic backgrounds. I added the audio in the middle later, having realized that off-screen action is the ultimate animation "cheat," where you get to pass along all the work to the sound designer. Sadly I had forgotten that I was also the sound designer. |
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| My goal here was to create something hypnotic and visually pleasing. Again, TJ Ward created the music. |
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| This is a very short presentation of a time lapse project in the style of a video blog entry. One goal of the project was to become more comfortable with delivering prepared texts, as you can hear in the commentary in this clip. I wrote the video capture software using the Processing framework so that I could reduce the noise level in the extremely low light setting. |
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| This is a short flash animation that was meant to give life to simple geometric shapes, in this case a square and a circle. I used yet another genre framework since it's so much easier to work within time constraints when the genre is doing so much of the work for you. |
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| This demonstrates my l33t editing skilz and some of my style of humor. It is a video thank you card that we produced over the summer as a token of appreciation for a significant monetary gift from Scion Films. David Rabinowitz, who interned for Scion, gave me twenty minutes of interview footage and I did the rest. Dave will be the first to admit he's not a camera man, and his hands shake visibly when eating salad, much less trying to hold a camera steady. Now talk to him about screenwriting, that's a whole other story. |
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| This is a photographic story board for a short horror film. Appearing are Elizabeth Friend and Ian O'Hagan, a couple of friends of mine. |
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| This is a video realization of the concept I developed previously as the photographic story board. Since shooting video requires lighting during night-time shooting, I reworked the story around the same concept so that a daytime exterior could be used. This was done in Final Cut without the benefit of After Effects, which would have provided for more possibilities. |
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| This piece hardly qualifies as a film. Primarily it's a formal exercise in expressive montage. It is notable for its photographic qualities and its disquieting effect despite the quotidian subject matter. |
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| Contact joey at ibiblio dot org | ||