Post-graduate Work (MFA)

At the outset of my graduate studies I created an original story for an epic science fiction film to provide a foundation that I build from over the succeeding years of my degree. The goal was a straightforward recreation of a feature film, but with no budgetary constraints. The only restrictions were to provide the opportunities for research my studies required. Ultimately, the project naturally evolved into an exploration of an alternative of film development where the pre-production stage does not end at the beginning of the production process. What would it look like if this stage was extended, and even had its own substantial correlating budget (monetary and technological). Could the this phase develop a story and be involved continuously throughout the project’s lifespan rather than ending once the film is green-lit?

To explore this notion, I turned to friends: David Dozoretz (https://www.daviddozoretz.com/), TyRuben Ellingson (https://www.tyruben.com/), and Kevin Conran (https://kevinconran.com/kevinconran/About_Me.html), to extract some of their professional insights into this idea. The conversations were illuminating as we spoke in a safe “academic space” (in the industry this notion would never fly) about the feasibility of granting a pre-pro department carte blanche and trust to create the narrative; an unorthodox method but not unheard of, for a theoretical project of this scale.

As time constraints abruptly pushed their way into my schedule, I explored breaking the prime narrative into an anthology that could take place concurrently within the over-arching story as a backdrop. The following samples of the work demonstrate methods that I explored to create and embrace the natural evolution of the story as it revealed itself. I used both the standard visual development practices that I have been familiar with over the course of my thirty years in the industry, to pushing myself to develop a character through simple modeling and animation.

Thesis: https://shorturl.at/qU2sU

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O’Neill ship exterior
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PITCHDECK

Pitchdeck: Provides a written synopsis of the film in its entirety and includes relevant imagery to develop an initial first pass of the visual language and tone of the film.

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