Fleeting Moments
When we think about life's "mountain-top moments," we're often considered fortunate to be able to identify even a few. After spending several months in New Zealand, I was lucky to experience multiple, including many literal mountain tops, during some of my first experiences through-hiking and back-packing some of the larger mountains in the country. When the experience was over, and the travel-partners and friends I had made along the way scattered to different corners of the planet, I struggled to articulate just how much that experience meant to me. "Fleeting Moments" was born out of a desire to visually summarize both my time abroad in New Zealand, and my processing of the whole experience upon my return to the United States.
I filmed, wrote, edited, and narrated this project. All footage was shot hand-held on a Sony A7II camera, or a DJI Mavic Pro drone. All editing was done in Adobe Premiere Pro. Footage filmed on the south island of New Zealand.
MUSIC: Kusanagi (Instrumental) by ODESZA. I do not own the copyrights to this song. All rights are reserved for the owners of said music.
To Play
"To Play" was my first attempt at filming and producing a surfing video. I've always loved the lifestyle and mentality that surfing encourages, and I was lucky to spend several months in one of the best (kept secret) cities in the world for surfing, Dunedin, NZ. Dunedin is located on a peninsula that punctures the otherwise relatively smooth south-eastern coastline of New Zealand's south island. The positioning of this peninsula translates into favorable conditions for surfers year round, as swells are able to reach the beaches from three different cardinal directions. When I wasn't surfing myself, I was filming my friends and local surfers who took advantage of the frequently favorable conditions.
All footage was shot hand-held on a Sony A7II camera, or a DJI Mavic Pro drone, and all editing was done in Adobe Premiere Pro.
MUSIC: Young Hearts by NoMBe. I do not own the copyrights to this song. All rights are reserved for the owners of said music.
