FAUFP In The UP

Found this old University Press article. We were shooting scenes from Conversations With God, a short film that I worked on as cinematographer.

You can see in the article that, yes, I am shooting a crane shot from a forklift. Those were the days.

http://www.upressonline.com/2.9202/fau-filmmakers-prepare-for-film-fest-1.1241372

The Eternal Sleep

My senior year at FAU saw a busy spring and summer. In the spring I was working on many class projects, and when summer came along I was selected to direct the FAU Film Club's summer production. I had presented to the club's selection committee a riveting expose on my knowledge of the film noir techniques and my vision for the project. Down to myself and another wonderfully knowledgeable student on the subject (the one, Casey Stone) I was, in the end, selected to direct.

We shot this short film for a week in the summer. With a budget of a few thousand dollars, it was our largest yet. We were able to secure period costumes for the actors which really put this production over the top.

The following is the 'director's cut' of the film. The editors and I made a few adjustments after the public screening that was held in August of 2005.

The Eternal Sleep from Doug Fairall on Vimeo.

Multimedia Practicum - Video Project

This video I edited together for my Multimedia Practicum class in the spring of 2005. It was basically a tech demo, showing techniques learned in Adobe After Effects. Its experimental nature still confounds me to this day.

Unfortunately, FAU is using a RTSP, so you have to click to watch the video.

Recollections

This short film was shot during the summer of 2004. I was the cinematographer (videographer I suppose, since it's DV) with my very good friend Erin Spofford behind the pen and director's chair. The two of us did everything on the shoot. He cast the actors and got some funding; I rigged lighting and did set design. He went creative while I held down the technical fort.


We shot over 3 days and ran between 10 to 14 days. There really is something magical about a film shoot that can make people work for long hours for nothing more than food.