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A Film Production 2 project I worked on. This was a lot of fun to make and I was surprised in the end how it all turned out. Here you go, enjoy!

A man awakens trapped in a storage room on the day of an unspecified apocalyptic event and desperately tries to get out as he reflects on significant moments in his life.

Ill Will

This production took its toll on me. I had come down with some relentless flu for weeks previous to this shoot. This was another class project this time the teacher assigned me the genre of "Suspense". I had to rewrite the original version of this script (which I had wrote in Screenwriting 1) due to the location. The original script takes place in New York in the Winter time and I was going to have to film on Miami Dade College's campus. I adapted the script to take place in a bathroom.

Sorry I don't have to many photo's to offer you this time. On this production due to me catching the flu I had missed a few classes and was unable to gather the essential crew for this project. I worked past that during production using one of my actors (Brian Brody) as somewhat of an Assistant Director. I shot this movie myself using a Canon T2i.

Here's the film. I hope you enjoy and it leaves you on the edge of your seat!

Are you asking yourself WTF? Do you find yourself wanting to know what happens next?

Danny Gorrin and I have made a deal, I told him I would write and produce the sequel to "Ill Will" if my youtube channel gets up to 60 subscribers and the video receives 300 views. With the sequel I wont have the restrictions of filming on campus or a lack of crew members. 

Uncharted Territory

So during the short break in between my Fall Semester classes and my Spring Semester classes I developed a plan to make a Spanish film in my Film 3 class. No one had really done it before in our classes or the classes before me (that I had seen or heard of). So I decided to challenge myself with something new and deliver a product no one else in my class had attempted yet. I knew I would have three projects to turn in during my production class, so I came to the conclusion that it would be best if I attempted my first Spanish film as a class project. I would just have to wait to see which project I should wait to make this attempt.
By the time we got ready to start working on our first project, our "music project", I determined this would be the assignment I attempted to do in Spanish. I was assigned a somewhat romantic sounding song and since I had never wrote a romantic film I decided to "kill two birds with one tommy gun".
I knew this would be a challenge as I do not speak a word of Spanish. Regardless I got right to work. I began by writing to the assigned track. I had written just a scene but nonetheless it was what I wanted. I went to school and found out it had to be a complete story so I went ahead and added two more scenes. My secret to this film I thought would be ingenious. I took my assigned song and blended it with lyrics from an interlude of a Blink 182. With those lyrics in Spanish I knew no one would ever connect the two.
As the production day grew near I assembled my cast and crew. A long side with my DP Ibzan Lagos, we finalized our pre production work and awaited the production date.

Here our some photo's from that day:

*Fun Fact about the production. Due to my inability to speak Spanish, my Assistant Director, Raul Rodriguez, actually monitored the audio during recordings while I watched the actors actions. 

Unfortunately the production didn't run as smooth as I would've hoped. Not to say it was a disaster, we shared a lot of laughs and accomplished what we set out to film. But we did finish way behind schedule and the end product wasn't what I had envisioned. I have decided to re-shoot the project at a later date. My cast & crew did an amazing job and even though as I said previously this wasn't what I imagined I still got an amazing film out of them. 

Here's the film "Para Ti Mi Amor". I hope you enjoy.