Below is a portfolio of my writing samples, as well as some short films I have produced.
WRITINGS
Below are some of my writing samples. Most of these documents were created for either a Professional Writing or Screenwriting class at Western Carolina University.
Profile
"Dances With Zergs" -- This profile investigates the life of an avid player of the popular PC video game Starcraft II.
Press Release
Following AP Style, this press release informs the public of WCU's latest Literary Festival.
Short Film Script -- Carry Me to Titan
Written as a final project for Intro to Screenwriting, Carry Me to Titan is the story of a ne'er-do-well who finds he is the sole survivor of a biological disaster on a spaceship sent to terraform Saturn's moon Titan. He must overcome his own fears and misanthropy to complete the mission.
VIDEO
Sock Monkey Psycho -- 2009
I shot and edited this film (with the help of my two bunk-mates) over the course of a few months of an Iraq deployment. It is about a soldier who begins to go mad with fear after one of his fellow soldiers receives a package containing a mysterious sock monkey. This lo-fi horror romp is rough around the edges, but it's fun to watch and more importantly, it was a lot of fun to make -- which helped us take our minds off the drudgery of the deployment.
Intertextuality and Star Wars -- 2011
This short educational film looks at the concept of intertextuality -- the shaping of one text's meaning by other texts -- and the effect Star Wars has made on media texts and pop culture since its release in 1977.
