About Me
Why this love for photography and film?
Your experiences are your life, and life is primarily visual. Intentional photography improves the experience of a moment. Regardless of this truth, many beautiful moments are lost to the passing of time. Everywhere you look in this world, you will find both beauty and travesty; photography enables you to exhibit both of these things from your unique viewpoint. When I take a picture I capture an instant and preserve it in time. Then I get to put my shot into editing software and get to manipulate this moment to make it mine. That's why I love photography.
Through my eyes creating a piece of film is the same as taking that perfect photo, just formatted differently. Yes, camera movement and editing are a specialty for film, but it is still about that curtain shot at that specific moment in the story to make the audience feel something. Cinematography is also a unique way to show the beauty and travesties of this world in a new light. I think the point of the film is to make the audience think and show something in a new light. There are so many ways to make an audience think but it has to be intentional which I love. Creating a film allows you to take this reality we live in and give it your own spin.
How I got into photography, directing, and cinematography
Ever since a young age I was always creative, at 5 years old I thought that I could make an invention that could change the world like this revolutionary laundry slingshot. Yes, a slingshot for laundry, this slingshot allowed you to pick up your clothes anywhere in your room and shoot them into your dirty clothes hamper. With a little welding help from my grandpa,, we made this new revolutionary slingshot. When I was in Middle School and early High School I was very into marketing and photoshop was my favorite. My dad let me make his business cards and posters for his stores. Anyways why is this relevant to how I got into photography, cinematography, and even directing? When I was 15 years old I picked up a camera for the first time. I did not think much of it you just have to point and shoot, and boom a picture. After taking these pictures I was told there was this Adobe software that you can use to edit them. I have been into Adobe Photoshop for some time now I thought how hard could this be. I started editing pictures and I thought there was something so fun and magical about editing this picture to give it the perfect lighting and contrast, I got to change the colors. Needless to say,, I fell in love. Fast forward 3, 4 years,, and I am still taking pictures trying to perfect the craft, and get an idea of what is different and special about my pictures. I was finally starting to get it and then I was asked to direct this movie, I have only directed and shot one music video before this. I did not know what I was doing but the space interested me so I accepted. Something about the storyboarding process and being able to pick out every shot at what angle and the movement the camera is making at a specific point. It kind of felt natural because I was always deciding which camera angle was the best for this picture I was taking, what I wanted the lens to see, and the story I wanted to convey in that specific shot. Some technical difficulties occurred while making this movie that I as a director or the producer did not think about in advance. We ended up splitting ways and canceled the production of the movie, which was in early June 2022. Why is the slingshot story so important, just like making this revolutionary invention I thought I could direct, shoot, edit, and score this movie without a second thought. Ever since then,, I have been hungry and I have been thinking of the best ways to get into this industry so I can show off my style and some of the ideas I got. I am up for the challenge.
What I am trying to do with this profession
I am not going to give you a top 5 films and allow you to assume my vision when I say those 5 films. Instead, I am just going to tell you what I love as a director and some of my plans.
Creating a great piece of cinematography is very difficult there are many components that I need to learn to make that beautiful cinematic experience. Shadows and contrast in my shot I feel like create so much drama in a film, but on the other hand, those bright pops of colors draw me in as part of the audience. It is something to look at, I want to put both of these things together when I am directing a film. Create that mood that the shadows and contrast give you but throw in these beautiful pops of color that get the attention of the audience. You might say this is done all the time but not how I imagine it. Wes Anderson's style is a thing of beauty that is too perfect to replicate. His symmetry and color pallets are like no one else's, and along with having such heartwarming stories, it truly is a thing of beauty. Being a photographer symmetry is something I do love within my shot and it will be used in my directing style. Okay, but who cares about your shots if your story sucks? I could not agree more. I think when a director writes his movie it is just better (I need to get on that), he knows the character more, he knows the emotion that every second of the film should feel like, he just knows the story, and in most cases that are shown throughout the film. Steven Spielberg is a whole different story, he can make a movie with any script and it will be great. That is such a special thing. I am going to end this about me with an idea of my ideas for my movies. It is the things we know, love, or hate with a spin. That is all, if you read to the end of all this I truly thank and love you.