Digital Media Production
These are my favorite film projects from my NIU classes for my Communication Certificate. Please don't use without permission since some have images and videos from mainstream music, films, art, images found online, etc.
Thank You!
Intro Field Production
Fox River Trail
A walk at the Fox River Trail between St. Charles and Aurora. This was a solo project, entirely filmed and edited by me. Please do not use without my permission.
Outstanding in their Field
Outstanding in their Field is a documentary focusing on my uncles, our family farms, and the technology used to bring in the fall harvests. This documentary was a solo project, filmed entirely on location on my family's farms and directed, filmed, and edited by me. Please do not use it without my permission.
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Special thanks to my uncles, Kent and Kyle Johnson, for taking up their valuable time during harvest to allow me to interview and film them for this documentary.
Pompeii Bastille Covid Edition
This video was a music video for my final project for my college Certificate in Digital Media Production's Introduction to Field Production course during my 2020 Fall Semester. I decided to base the video on what my college was like during the COVID Pandemic. This was a solo project, entirely directed, filmed and edited by me. Please do not use without my permission.
Special thanks to my friend and cousin, Emily Wilson, and her father and my cousin, Tim Wilson, for being my actors for the film.
I do not own Pompeii by Bastille. Rightful credits are below.
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Music video by Bastille performing Pompeii. (P) 2013 The copyright in this audiovisual recording is owned by Virgin Records Ltd.
Special Topics in Media Production
The Serpent King Fan Poster
This is an animated poster assignment from a Special Topics in Media Production class focused on editing. I chose to create this Serpent King Fan Poster for Red, a creator from Overly Sarcastic Productions (OSP). ‘Yes, Hollywood, when is this movie coming?’. The recolored characters are screenshots from the original YouTube video, The Serpent King, from OSP. Please do not use without my permission.
Link to The Serpent King (Movie) Episode:
Nightmare of the Axe Man
For the Special Topics in Media Production Class final, we individually made our own short films from the raw footage given to us from Cinestudy's Horror Scene challenge. The Professor wanted extra enhancements included in the project. To make an opening with an original film production company name, make an opening title sequence, edit the color correction and sound design, add VFX effects, and then add my name as the Editor in the end credits. To my Professor's delight, I included an extra step and added a found image of an old factory for the opening title sequence and found B footage I used for the home's exterior, birds flying in the background, the weatherman scene, and the newscast.
(Please do not use the video I made. I will be posting this on YouTube soon.)
Adv. Narrative Field Production
$1.25 (60 Second Film)
$1.25 was a group project to make a sixty-second short film for our Communications 427 class: Narrative Film Production. We were given a camera and assigned to make a film less than 2 minutes long during class. We had a total of 2 hours and 40 minutes to shoot the film and edit it on our own time. I was the Editor for this project. We went back to make our own Director's Cut to put it on YouTube. I make a cameo appearance in this film portraying the college student at the end.
Official Description from Parker Otto's channel: "A college student tries to get Cheetos from a vending machine when things go awry."
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Please do not use without Parker Otto's permission.
The Same Old Story
"The Same Old Story" was one of our end-of-the-semester student film projects directed by Parker Otto for our Communications 427 class: Narrative Film Production. I was the 1st Assistant Cameraman for our student studio, Studio 427. I also filmed the two dolly-tracking shots used in the production. You can see the photo of me above next to this section's heading, Digital Media Production, operating the camera on the dolly while being pushed by the film's Director of Photography, Larry Eissler.
Official Description from Parker Otto's channel: ""The Same Old Story" - A couple (Seamus Fleischman and Kate Drury) go on a date to the Egyptian Theatre. While watching the classic film "Casablanca," the pair find that the world around them has drastically changed and they see how cinema makes all of life's little problems seem insignificant. This film is the narrative directorial debut of Parker Otto and was made by the students of Advanced Narrative Field Production at Northern Illinois University. The director wants to send his deepest appreciation to the NIU Dept. of Communication for the equipment that was used to film "The Same Old Story," the historic Egyptian Theatre in Downtown DeKalb for allowing their location to be used extensively in the film, the people who selflessly donated funds to the film's production budget and every person in the cast and crew who worked so hard to make "The Same Old Story" a reality."
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Please do not use without Parker Otto's permission.