About A Girl

While peddling cookies to finance the filming of O EMILY..., Catherine of Once A Pawn approached me and asked if I wanted to shoot their next music video. We tossed around a few story ideas, and began shooting on a snowy January evening at Duffy's. By the time we completed the final shots (the dance party), spring had sprung. It was unanimously agreed that we'd reconvene in the near future to shoot another music video. Rock!

O Emily...

1. TITLE CARD: 280 Main St.

2. TITLE CARD: Amherst, Massachusetts

3. TITLE CARD: 1860

4. Blinding sunlight streams through a window, shades drawn apart. Through the sunlight, trees, an enormous yard can be seen. The camera pans back, turns, to reveal a young woman, Emily (about 30), writing on small plain sheets of paper on a writing desk. She’s mid-sentence, lost in thought, looking out the window. From behind her, the bedroom door opens. She immediately covers up her writing, and turns to see her father, Edward Dickinson – a slender, tall, stately man – bald, with thinning hair. He motions for her to come out of her room. [This dialogue is only suggestive.] “Could I have a word with your for a moment, Emily?” The camera pans back to Emily – she hesitates a moment, gathers her writing, puts it under her pillow, and exits the room...

Filmed in October 2010 on a Canon Powershot 480. From a story by Greta & Ladd Wendelin.

O Captain!

1. O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;

Camera cuts in as WW is walking halfway through field towards the Lincoln skyscape.

Filmed in October 2010 with a Canon Powershot A480. With Robert Stewart as Walt Whitman. Meant as a companion film to O Emily - sort of a prequel.

Flight of the Bat

1. BLACK: Chirping. A flapping of wings can be heard.

2. It’s morning, around 7 AM. Cars whisk past along a one-way street, all on their way to work. Somehow, oblivious.

3. Later the same day, B. rounds the corner of an apartment building, walking down a driveway in between two buildings. He picks up his mail, flipping through a few envelopes – nothing special today. He crosses to the stairs leading into the apartment and notices a leathery brown wing and legs sticking out from under a cinder block. A bat. He pauses for a moment...

Filmed over the course of 3 weeks in March 2010 on a Canon Powershot A480.