This is a Public Service Announcement I made for the Knoxville Youth Action Council for their annual Come Together community service event. In the past, the even had not been publicized very well; luckily, this year, one of my friends was on the board and she recommended that I work on the PSA. After a class at a local college fell through on making it, they gave me the job. The members were all very enthusiastic about making a PSA that would air on television, and they even lent my their voices for use in the commercial. Ultimately, the Council was very pleased with the final product, and it aired for about a month on 13 local television channels!

This is West High School's submission to the Cinema Romana competition at the 2010 TJCL State Convention. This movie has been the most labored-over to date. I started with my own concept, and even wrote an entire script for the actors to see. I also organized and directed all of the actors. I even made a movie poster and had it printed out on a 30 inch sheet of paper! This has been our biggest production yet, and it turned out great. Besides the comedic lines, this movie has been my most serious production, and I made sure everything went as planned. Enjoy!

This is another short, artistic film I made in one day. It was filmed around Third Creek in Knoxville, TN. That day, the temperature was 60 degrees, a huge increase from the winter weather we had been having for months. So, with nothing better to do, I decided to go film this short movie. Although it is not the best by far, it gave me some good practice with framing shots and using post-production color correction. For the amount of time put into it, this movie turned out pretty nice.

I was called at 10 am the day of the debut of this movie, being told that the company who Regas had hired to create this movie backed out on them that morning. Regas is one of the best and most-formal restaurants in Knoxville, so I was suprised that they picked me. Anyway, the co-owner of Regas along with other creative directors of the retaurant flocked over to my house to create this documentary. We went through too many trials (malfunctioning DVD burner, a faulty DVD player, not enough gas in the car, the list goes on...), but eventually we played the DVD to a small audience at the restaurant. Everyone was amazed that we were able to put this movie together in less than 6 hours, and frankly I am proud that I finished any of it on time! This movie is just a small snippet from the beginning of the actual documentary, as to not completely spoil Regas's surprise.

After walking my dogs one night, I fully realized the beauty of my neighbor's horses. And, having not filmed a movie in a very long time, I wanted to make sure my skills were still existant. So, in an hour-long shoot, I went to the horses' field and got some footage. I used the ending song for the movie "UP" as the music, which I think fits perfectly with the timelessness of the horses. I am very happy with the result.

This movie might be the most absurd one I have ever made. A few of my class mates decided that it might be worthwhile to make a movie for extra credit in a class, so they decided to film this. The gave it to me to edit, and, let me tell you, it was quite the entertainment. Enjoy!

This movie is very particular. One of our good friends, Brayan Zavala, volunteered to make a movie for his church's talent show. Being a Jehovah's Witness, he decided to make a movie about a (bad) day in his life. He borrowed one of our cameras to film the movie, and then came back and gave us the footage to edit. This is the result. It actually turned out to be the most successful comedy we have made thus far. The main character is played by Brayan's older brother.

Having no luck in comedic movies, GravyTrain 5 Productions decided to create an intense and gloomy one. Once again, Marek Twarsynski stars. We came up with this idea after a game of tennis and shot it in less than an hour. While the subject matter is not very virtuous, the cinematographic aspect is great. This was also the first movie that utilizes believable special effects.

This movie is my final short from the one-week New York Film Academy, which I attended in the summer of 2008. This movie is particularly interesting, as I had many restraints: it had to be around 2-minutes long, it had to be shot in 4:3, and there could be no diologue or atmospheric sound. I also was assinged two actresses; this, at first, screwed up my entire plot (which revolved around two boys), which I had to re-write. In the end, however, the resulting new script made for a better movie. I managed to shoot it in less than 3 hours, and edited it in half a day. It turned out that I had the only serious movie, while all the others were comedies. Still, the audience at the final screening enjoyed my short, and so did I.

Yes, I intentionally spelling "gravy" wrong. Biscuit and Gravey started out in the mind of Marek Twarzynski on an excruciatingly boring day. So we made a movie. Besides, it was time I made a movie about one of my other dogs (only 1 left!). I, for one, wanted to make a serious movie, or at least a partly-serious movie. I also shot it on my new Canon HF10 to test it out. Along with that, I used this movie as a way of testing a few of my other skills. I wanted to have a underlying score, thus with all of the music. Also, this is the first movie I color corrected thouroughly. And finally, it was the first time I used a good dolly, also known as my car. For the small amount of time that was put into this, I think it came out very well.

Zombie Hunter: 1849 was made for a school project. It was filmed and edited in May 2007 when I was in Bearden Middle School. It is about a zombie hunter living in the future that is "time warped" back in time to the beginning of the California Gold Rush: 1849. There he finds out that he has time warped, gets is a fight, and meets Levi Strauss. This movie is one of the only real movies I have done for two reasons; 1) there are real actors, and 2) there is actual dialogue. It was filmed at West Hills Park and the flood plain in my backyard. There are too many actors and actresses to name - look at the ending credits.

The Sea of Monsters was also created for a school project at Bearden Middle. It was shot and edited in May 2007. It was based on the book The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. It is about a trio- Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson- who go searching for the Golden Fleece in the Sea of Monsters (or the Bermuda Triangle) to save their camp. If took about a week to edit, mostly because of the special effects. It you pay attention, you will notice one of the actors has only one eye. That effects was done in Adobe After Effects. It was filmed at and around Stuart Hall's house. There are too many actors to name right here- look at the ending credits.

This movie was made during the winter of 2004 at a friend's house. The only real reason it was made was because we were bored to death. There was no story board nor a script. We made it up as we went along. There was no plot, either. I'm not particularly proud of this movie, but it was one of the better ones I made at that age. David DeMeritt played the role of Nerf Bond, and Joel DeMeritt played his enemy. Notice how it, along with The Great Raid, are filmed in full screen. I did notknow about wide screen at that time in my life.

The Great Raid was made in August of 2005 in my backyard. Again, like Nerf Bond, its was made on the spur of the moment. Joel DeMeritt helped me film it. It does not have a plot, and the only reason I like it was because it was the first movie I had ever used actual fireworks in. Even better, they were mostly fireworks I made myself. The movie stars plastic army men. I used sounds out of the movie Saving Private Ryan. The beginning titles and blood at the were solely ideas from Joel DeMeritt, not me.

Olly was made so long ago I don't remeber when it was filmed. It is the first music video I ever made, though, and it was the first movie that I evermade with animals in it. Olly is a black lab, and is the daughter of a brown lab we have named Biscuit. This movie, lika all of my early movies was made without a scrpit. In fact, the source of our ideas were things we found laying around our house, like the confetti and the piano. The person that helped me with the movie was my baby-sitter at the time, Lauren Hipp.