Skill/Ability: Motion Tracking

WhoWeAm is an online blog and research project, developed by the Imaging Research Center, that focuses on better understanding human behavior through aggregating contemporary scientific data along with documentary film making. It seeks to find common threads between our best scientific understanding and the reflected thoughts of individuals. There has been many iterations of this project over the last few years, and I have contributed to various aspects of production including media research, creative direction, 2D animation/compositing and most recently as a cameraman and lead editor. Some of the films I have edited are shown here, but additional media may be found at whoweam.com.

Speak Health was a media blog and research compendium designed to foster meaningful public discourse about holistic health perspectives developed at the Imaging Research Center. As part of the partnership between the IRC and The Institute for Integrative Health, I helped produce a short film about an interesting study that focused on the lower rates of heart disease found within a neighborhood that had developed and maintained a strong sense of community. I modeled and animated a giant human heart that acted as the central metaphor in the film documented in the videos posted here. Learn is more about the project here.

The Euphoria project is a fresh approach to a longstanding problem: substance abuse among teenagers. Instead of yet another short public service announcement telling people what NOT to do, it is a feature length film about how to get what everyone DOES want: happiness. And, instead of creating yet another clear and competent educational film that teenagers will sleep through, Euphoria uses dozens of improbable visual metaphors to draw people into connecting some ideas for themselves. These play against narration describing neuroscience, history and the social sciences related to happiness.