The Frame

When I started doing VFX work, I dreamed of working on a project like The Frame. For an entire summer, I drove over to Jamin and Kiowa Winans' house, camped out in their basement and worked on shots all day long. We had plenty of time, a good budget, long lunch breaks and tons of fun. The shots were challenging but I learned an endless amount working on them. I would break down the shots on this page, but I don't want to spill any details and ruin the movie.

Jamin was so secretive about the story details during post production, I honestly had no idea how these shots played into the rest of the movie as I was working on them. This may seem unusual, but Ink is one of my favorite movies ever and Film School Rejects titled their review of The Frame 'A Sci-Fi Miracle Among the Chaos of Indie Filmmaking,' so it was all good. And since I had no idea how these shots played into the rest of the movie, after months of hard work, when I saw the final product at the The Frame's premiere, it was that much more exciting. If you want to check out The Frame, go to DoubleEdgeFilms.com and grab yourself a copy and a bunch of other awesome stuff!

Urban Hope

There's a couple of TV shows in The Frame, and like any TV show, they needed show intros and commercials. These were played on TVs during key scenes within the movie. Urban Hope is a dramatic medical procedural, so I tried to create something similar to a lame weeknight show you'd see on network television. It was fun to overthink this. The show was late in the season, so I figured they'd have one of those "cut down" intros where they only have the title and maybe a credit or two after a thrilling cold-open.

Thieves & Saints

Thieves and Saints is another TV show within The Frame. I wanted the promo for this gritty, cartel thriller to feel like the opposite of Urban Hope. The warm, positive and feminine feeling of Urban Hope is gone in this cold, masculine and hopeless promo. This one was especially fun to make. Jamin Winans is a great action director so it was quite an honor to cut his footage.