This is an additional promo I created for the World Rolling Series filmed by Benjamin Buttner, Kato, Jordan Maders, Ivan Narez, Matthew Dearden, Simon Mulvaney, Vinny Minton, Mike Torres, Jason Reyna, Juan Mosqueda, Alex Beaupre, Anthony Finocchiaro, 912 Crew, PMG, Hawke Trackler, Sam DeAngelis, Karsten Boysen, Martins Jansons, Brazilionaire, Sophie Planque.

What it really came down to is pretty simple. The main focus for a lot of people when discussing the current state of rollerblading is television. Rollerblading does not have that massive broadcast exposure it once had… I decided to take it upon myself to do a complete X-Games/ASA style broadcast of the Bitter Cold Showdown with fellow video-bladers. Rather than simply sit back and complain, I decided to take action and see what happens.

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Check out an additional promo for the event below.

Check out all the action from the weekend below.

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This short film won best editing, cinematography and writing in the Madison, Wisconsin 48 Hour Film Project.
This short film won a Wave Award in the 2009 Media Communications Association of Madison Wave Awards.

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This television commercial won a Wave Award in the 2009 Media Communications Association of Madison Wave Awards.

Shot in L.A. with a 6 camera HD crew, it came into my hands with all of the takes and angles one would expect. Organizing all of the footage, finding the selects and eventually narrowing it down to the final versions was a huge challenge but the kind of challenge that every editor relishes. Editing was done in Final Cut Pro and I used Adobe After Effects to composite GoDaddy.com’s home page on the laptops in the courtroom.

Produced by Jim Stiener and Jonas Dolkart of ProVideo & Film, Inc., directed by Billy Nahn, written by Marc Rhatigan with additional graphics by Paul Musselman.

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This television commercial won a Gold Addy and the Best of Category in the 2009 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Addy Awards.
This television commercial won a Wave Award in the 2009 Media Communications Association of Madison Wave Awards.

This advertising campaign won an Award of Distinction in the 2008 international Videographer Awards.

This advertising campaign won an Honorable Mention in the 2008 international Videographer Awards.

This corporate video won a Silver Telly in the 28th annual Telly Awards.

This advertising campaign won a Platinum Award in the 2007 international Ava Awards.

This corporate video won a Silver Communicator Award in the 14th annual Communicator Awards.

“Vile Affection” is based off of a brutally violent script entitled “Playing God” in which the protagonist has a “god-complex” leading him to stalk and in the end kill his victim by crucifying him to a wooden floor. I chose to work with this script because it was drastically different from any of the other selections and posed an entirely new set of challenges for the actors and myself.

The first challenge in the production of “Vile Affection” was to modify the script to make it more appealing to a college aged audience and allow for a greater connection with the main characters. The protagonist remained a confused, disturbed, schizophrenic whose actions eventually lead him to become violent and the “god-complex” was replaced with confusion over his sexual orientation. Whether or not this was all medically sound was irrelevant to the story because it gave the protagonist the needed internal struggle that leads him to become violent not only towards his initial victim but the victim’s girlfriend as well. This helped the story reach its intended audience but also became the next big challenge.

Although the script was modified, the violence was kept along with the addition of another violent scene ending with a sexual assault. We were warned early in the process by professors that film violence should not be taken lightly especially when it involves novice actors and directors. Thus, the proper steps were taken to choreograph the action with the help of a Ball State University professor, Darrel Rushton, who specialized in theater violence. Not only was the physical safety of the actors a high priority but also their mental well-being; especially surrounding the sexual assault. Both Sarah Haworth and Zack Florent were terrific in the planning, choreography and execution of this scene and even more importantly, understanding after the initial footage was taped over and the scene had to be re-shot. Which was completely my own fault.

The third major challenge was taking advantage of the technology that I was able to use for this project. Shooting the entire project in HD on a camera that no one was familiar with was a big challenge and would not have been possible without all of the help from my Director of Photography, Krystal Rizzo. She spent a lot of extra time acquainting herself with the camera so that we had one less thing to worry about while on set. Additionally, we were granted access to a Steadicam for two scenes of the film but no one was able to overcome the steep learning curve to proficiency. So our professor, Tim Pollard, stepped in to help us get exactly what I wanted.

The finished project was premiered to a large group of students along with other selections from the class at the newly constructed Sursa Hall on campus.

The majority of the project was shot early on a weekday at a Goodwill store in Muncie, Indiana while it was open to the public. It is amazing what you can get away with when you are producing a student film. Additional scenes were shot at the home of the lead actress (Lana Cook) and throughout the city of Muncie. The original script was meant to be a linear story and this remained the intention until after everything was shot and I began editing. I have always been fascinated with non-linear films and this was the perfect opportunity for such an experiment. In the end, it paid off because it received the highest grade in the class for that round of projects and, as a reward, allowed me to utilize additional resources for my next project; “Vile Affection”.