While I have grown a lot since high school, these films are what really cemented in my heart that I needed to go into a creative industry.
In high school, I joined an upperclassmen filmmaking program called ComAcad. Over those two years, I was part of the creation of over 20 different ads, documentaries, and short films (though, unfortunately, many of them are no longer available to watch).
Here are some examples.
Business Killer
26 year old business mogul Remy Palmer struggles to navigate the dangerous and seductive world of finance.
In the second semester, every group was given a simple instruction: Make an original short film. We then spent the rest of the year writing scripts, storyboarding, shooting, editing, and revising the film. We were inspired by The Wolf of Wallstreet.
For Business Killer, our whole team had a part in every aspect of production, but I spent a majority of the project behind the camera.
Paranormall
At the end of my senior year of high school, we were given a very open-ended project. Make something. That's all the instruction. It was really just one last chance to use the school's equipment before we graduated. This was a silly project that I wanted to create to make light of the fall off of my local mall. I was the writer, director and editor of the short, which was completed in a single day.
