Journal

Project breakdowns from set and the edit room. How the work actually got made, first person, no filler.

Breakdown

Face Off: Two Directors, One Rock, Zero Overthinking

The biggest video of my life was built on one principle: don't overthink it. Here's how Face Off actually came together.

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YODA: Crash-Landing Tech and Wayne on Dankobah

The song is called YODA, so we crash-landed Tech and Wayne on our own Dagobah. A practical spaceship set with green-screen windows, and a full CG universe beyond the glass.

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A Beautiful Disaster: We Threw a Cadillac Off a Cliff

A short romance film set to Jelly Roll's 'Suicide', and the day we sent a 1979 Cadillac Coupe De Ville off a cliff and blew it up.

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Nothing Left At All: Reverse-Engineering an Insane Twist

Jelly asked for a 7-minute short film with an insane twist and ending. His words. So I wrote the ending first and built everything backwards from it.

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Roll Call: One Move Through the Whole Building

One continuous move through the whole Strange Music building, seven artists in their real rooms, and the party from the night before. How Roll Call came together.