I am a cinematographer who’s work captures the inner dialogue, feelings, and emotions of a character without them even speaking a word. My work focuses around using the camera as the audiences six sense. As my bodywork of expands, my previous cinematic achievements come from working on smaller set pieces focused around a central character and having them find something out about them or the people around they didn’t know before. My latest project follows a girl who begins to find out that her boyfriend has cheated on her and what she must do to confront this unfortunate situation.

 

            Throughout my young working life in the cinematic arts, it becomes clear how I use the camera to expand upon what the audience is seeing on the screen. To go beyond the obvious. To capture what one is thinking. I use the camera to isolate a character and use its movements and angles to articulate how this character is feeling in the moment. How they look at something, how they move about in the scene, or how they angle isolates them from the rest of the scene. This is what I’m passionate about. telling a story without having to direct say anything. My work is usually short pieces that use long takes and movement to infiltrate the mind and inner workings of a character or characters.

           

            As a person who has struggled with writing and communicating without people, I find that using a tool like a camera is a way for me to do just that. From the young age of a freshman in high school, is when I took my first media production class. It was this very class that taught me my first introduction to techniques and etiquette how telling a story. From the first time I picked up a camera in that class, I know that this is what I want my focus to on when I go to tell mine and my characters story’s. It was this time in my life that I didn’t have many friends and felt alone sometimes. Coping with ongoing depression and anxiety from the world. Feeling as though no one cared for what I had to say or would listen. It was when I picked up that camera, I knew this is how I could do that. I could capture the insecurity’s on film and showcase how I feel in my films and make people feel how I wanted them to feel. Whether it’s a good laugh or a tear-jerker, I wanted to give my audience an emotion. Something the walking away feeling. Something they take with them.

 

            As I continue on with my work my ultimate goal is use the tools I have learned to give people like me a voice. Make something relatable. To showcase to those who might be conflicted with the same emotions. To making something that gives people hope. This isn’t the end. You can laugh, joke, and have a good time too. There is more out there. You just need to go out there and capture it. Like I did when I picked up my first camera. This is the passion and drive that makes me; an artist.