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Ravenswood Poptent Contest

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Mixing wine with Oklahoma video production.

I did this spot for the Ravenswood Wine contest on Poptent.net and to add to my directing reel.  Special thanks to my friend Heather Mickley and her grandparents for the use of their farm. I found out about the contest 36 hours before the deadline. With no time to throw together a full cast and crew, Heather and I just went for broke to see if we could pull it off in time. Ultimately, I would have loved to have an actor to play the 'wine taster' instead of me. However, Heather's grandfather and uncle did a great job.

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2010 Demo Reel

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From the Archives:

For posterity, this is my 2010 Demo Reel. A good chunk of this is from my "student" work while at Oklahoma City University. I say "student" work because I went back to school after working professionally a number of years to get my degree. There is also some professional work mixed in as well as some contest commercials.

Projects making an appearance in this video are:

Three Little Words

Unsolved - Feature Length Film

Hefner Road Pet Resort

Whistle Stop Trains

Batter Blaster Contest Spot

Oklahoma Video Production Is Part of a Balanced Breakfast

I did this spot for Batter Blaster's commercial contest.  Batter Blaster is a cool product and they gave us a lot of room in the creative.  I thought a tongue-in-cheek '60s style comic book mashup would stand out. 

Thankfully, my mom's next door neighbor is in real estate and had a house with a pink vintage kitchen on the market.  My friend Heather jumped at the opportunity to dress and did a fabulous job helping me out on this one.  Sadly, there appeared to be a high degree of voter fraud in the contest's polls (people used bots to rack in thousands of votes in a matter of minutes), and we didn't win.  Still, I love this little piece.

The Hero!

The Villains!

Pow! Boom!

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Three Little Words

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All's Fair in Love & Oklahoma Video Production

This is the second short film I did while I was at Oklahoma City University. I wanted to explore the idea of what happens when some poor schmuck screws up the classic 'I love you' moment and the people around him chime in to tell him how they would have done it. What was great was that I was able to build on the lessons I learned from the first short I did that just a few months prior. It was also my first time to shoot any green screen footage so it was very helpful to learn how to do that while still in school.

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My First Short Film: Extras...

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Discovering a Star in Oklahoma Video Production

This is the first short film I did while I was at Oklahoma City University. It also happens to be my last SD project ever. The idea was more of an exercise in filmmaking; I hadn't made anything in several years and I wanted to get my feet wet again before trying something more ambitious (see: Three Little Words).

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Art in a Bottle

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Earning a Degree Oklahoma Video Production! 

Art in a Bottle is my capstone film in the Moving Image Arts Program at Oklahoma City University.  As with most capstones, I was tasked with taking on the majority of the essential roles of film production: writing, producing, directing, editing.  I had the privilege of being the first to attempt a capstone in the program.

Other students helped fill in the crew and I used my long-time friend Russell Macway to light the film. The shoot happened over the course of a weekend with a couple quick pick up shoot a few weeks later.  Being crunched on time, post-production occurred in the space of three weeks to meet the deadline for graduation.  While the film was accepted with high marks, I later went back and had the sound reworked with Red Chair Productions in Oklahoma City.