Progress

Original Release: 2019

This short film was my submission for the 2019 Moment Invitational Film Festival. The rules stated that the film had to be less than three minutes long and you had to have shot it on a phone camera. I used my iPhone XR, I believe, and got two friends to help me out with the filming and audio recording. We shot it in a day and while I ultimately did not get accepted, I think I turned in a solid short. I had grown quite familiar with the limitations of the phone by this point and was experimenting with lighting in a way that would make it seem like a lot of the lights were coming from natural sources. I also played with making dolly like camera movements without access to a dolly by using a tripod, a sandbag and some furniture slides. What resulted were some of my most favorite shots and compositions I had achieved up to that point.