Some info on the video. (click)
What you have witnessed in the above video is a small montage of some of my best work that I have worked on. As you could tell, I have dipped into multiple fields of filmmaking, from action shooting like the hallway scene, to commissioned works for MaccPow, my 2025 documentary, and a 2 shot horror experiment. I also included a lower third graphic that tells you what role I played in, and some context of what the video was about/for. I wish I could fit more in, but let’s be honest, it would be like 10 Ish minutes long, and I bet you would like to get on with better things than watching all my stuff. So that’s why I chose 4 of my best works to show you, what type of films I have worked on during my time in college. The documentary is the most complicated film I have done to date. In the next images below, I will go in depth of what made that video possible.
In all of these, I have noted my roles. But to give context for the role, “One man team”. That meant that I was the only person working on that documentary. However, I had some help from other students and from my tutors. They were not a part of the team but were just assisting when I needed them.
The rest of them my role was primarily the DOP/camera operator and the video editor. I enjoy being the camera operator. It’s my main specialism that I brought from doing photography in secondary school and in art & design in the previous year. I’ve always wanted to be a camera operator; I like lining up the shots and lighting them accordingly. Being the most important person besides the director and the editor. It makes me feel like I’m in control of what the camera sees. The director just controls the actors on set and gives feedback to the DOP or camera operator on whether they like it or not. If he doesn’t like it, they can just ask for an adjustment. Having that little creative freedom just makes me feel less chained to the strict margins that come with working on someone’s movie.
This passion for filmmaking was inspired by both members of my family and by the film directors who have made some of my favourite movies. My main favourite films are the Star Wars movies (both the original and prequel trilogies), Dunkirk (2017), Oppenheimer (2023), Interstellar (2014), Saving Private Ryan (1996), Twister (1996), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), Top Gun (1986), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). There are more, but I can’t fully remember them all. I love a film that has good cinematography. Either it’s the fast-paced camera movements in action films, or well-framed stationary shots like in Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, and Inglorious Bastards by Tarantino, or the films that Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick have made. That’s where my love for cinematography came from.
