New Orleans [2006]

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Each summer, Woodlawn Baptist Church takes three trips to New Orleans. There we stay at the Rachel Sims Baptist Mission Center. We spend a week working there with the children of the area: The Irish Channel, inner-city New Orleans. My job this summer was to document that. So here it is, my view of the whole trip.

Final Cut

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Gordon could not focus on the essay he was writing after he randomly thought to shave his head. He wouldn't let me read my book until I cut his hair. I think that this is some of my best work yet. And I don't mean the video.

Tribute

Tribute

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James Martinez was the computer maintenence man for CCN this last year. A few weeks ago I was informed that he had been taken away from us. Silly high school computer nerds and their risky hacking competitions...

After I heard of his departure my heart filled passion. This is my mourning video.

James is ok though, and I'm pleased to announce that he's now living hapily in Cambodia under the witness protection program.

New Orleans [2005] Intro-Highlights

New Orleans [2005] Intro-Highlights

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Each summer, my church takes three mission trips to New Orleans. Last year I was appointed to be the video producer for the trips. After my completion of the video, it was screened to the church and released on DVD for each team member and for future promotional activities.

This is the first few minutes of the video.

Davy Nominations: Best Editing

Davy Nominations: Best Editing

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Each year at Crockett, CCN hosted an Oscar-style award ceremony that we called The Davy Awards. I was in charge of the nomination videos. This is one of the 16 categories.

The Applican't

The Applican't

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This is a short film I made in the film class at David Crockett High School. It was a last minute short that expressed my trivial frustrations with the college application process.

The official synopsis:
When a boy is faced with the deadline of writing an unusual college application essay, he conceives a utopian ideal that speaks louder than the standard drivel he has been forced to write.

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by joelisfar with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.

Swing

Swing

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This was the first video I ever made. Ever.

I'd like to think it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

I was using my digital camera that I bought for $20 at CompUSA. It could take very nice pictures with a resolution of 352X288. It could also take video for two seconds (10fps) at that res. or 8 seconds (10fps) at 176X144. Those are the settings I chose to use for this piece. Sometimes under this sort of gravitational pull the camera would kinda bleed all the colors into a purple distorted image, and I could've had my guys in hollywood clean it up, but I think it shows the native natural beauty of low res. digital photography.

Enjoy.

For the Record,

When I think about William Shakespeare, I think:
"He's an A+ number one writer dude"