Mizzou: Videography

For this video assignment we were tasked with interviewing one person and getting a matched action sequence with a minimum of 5 different shot types (wide, close up, over-the-shoulder, etc.). The goal was to film our subject doing an action, and make it a seamless visual transition between each shot.

This project is a video diary that explores the act of seeing, inspired by John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, emphasizing vision over explanation. Through sensory-based filmmaking, it challenges traditional narrative forms and uses cinematic techniques and juxtapositions to explore how perception, framing, and the presence of the camera shape our understanding of the world.

For this project, we were challenged to perform and record a monologue in three distinct styles, while applying professional 3-point lighting techniques. Our team chose to recreate the iconic opening monologue from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

This assignment was my experimental critique on the commodification of grief and death as well as corporate complicity in the destruction of the natural world. I combined archival footage with footage of my own to tell the story of a corporate worker selling and marketing special urns (“Ashes of Eden”), which contain
the last ashes of extinct trees and wildlife. After receiving an unexpected package, their reality fractures. The worker is dragged from corporate comfort into the wild beauty and vengeance of the ruined world from which their company profited.

I wrote, filmed, and edited this mock Subway commercial as part of my team’s submission to the One Show Advertising Competition. We were tasked with marketing the Subway Footlong Cookie to college students, with a goal of increasing late night traffic.