What's your film background?

[Lord Garth]

It took me a few months but I've wrapped my mind around FOT completely and am as ready as I'll ever be for the onslaught of ST XI. Now I'll turn more of my attention here. I like this forum. It practically moderates itself and seems to have a good community... yet I still haven't started even a single thread until now.

To get to know some of you better, what's your background in the media? Or are you more an enthusiast for other people's fan films?

I graduated from college in 2004 with a Bachelor's Degree in Communication. I've worked in three different television stations since then, two public access and a community college. I've put together news stories for one PA station, I'm primarily responsible for the credits and keys at another where my title is Character Geneator, and I do non-linear editing at Massasoit Community College which means that I'm involved with the post-production of what they shoot. I've used Pinnacle, Avid, and Liquid software.

On the side I've created material for You Tube and I'd love to put together a parody of Star Trek using clips from TAS, doing something Sealab 2021 style.

I'm in the middle of writing a script treatment for a movie. I made my first attempt at writing a screenplay while I was in college but the results were so disastrous that I didn't make another attempt for five years, which brings me to this past spring. I'm much more prepared to write a script now than I was back then.

In a nutshell, I'm exploring different aspects of the field, seeing what I like and what I don't.

 

[USS Intrepid]

I have zero background or training in media myself, though I always had an interest in writing, and had done some amateur dramatics when I was younger.

My degree is in biotechnology, and my post-grad education is in nursing. Which is a pretty long way away from media.

Intrepid was pretty much the first time I'd revisited writing and acting in over fifteen years. It did remind me how much I enjoyed those endeavours though.

 

[number6]

I am an audio engineer. I have been producing and recording local bands since 1986 and doing live sound since 1990. I have toured around the world several times over. I have worked on a couple of music video shoots, done live sound for television and worked as a boom op and recordist for a few small local indie films. I have musical directed several stage productions as well as worked in radio, producing commercials and doing on air. I play in several bands and I play several instruments.

 

[CaptainSerek]

I have had 2 years of film school as well as five years as a videotape editor and a film projectionist. I have the backgroud albiet fairly old school but I am getting the hang of all the tools of the new technologies.

 

[Venardhi]

Lord Garth said:
On the side I've created material for You Tube and I'd love to put together a parody of Star Trek using clips from TAS, doing something Sealab 2021 style.

I had the same thought a while back but didn't want to invest in buying the expensive TAS set for a whim. If you're still interested, I'd be happy to help out with writing/editing and provide a voice or two.

I'm mostly an actor, but I've done PA work on some crappy DTV films (only one of which ever came out) and a lot of stage work both on stage and back, even wrote and directed a few small shows. I tried to get into indy films but the giant egos inherent with 'artists' combined with their apathy from working for free just creates too much drama.

 

[Amaris]

Usually green screen. *rimshot*


-J.

 

[K'riq Sa]

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and a few others that I don't see.








artistically,

K'riq Sa
Minister of the Church of Non Orthodox Scientology

 

[Forbin]

I've been a wanna-be and a "friend of the guy who..." for decades.

Here's my only actual on-camera experience:
http://www.inpayne.com/film/film.html

I was also the villian in a Bond-spoof cable company promo about 15 years ago
I must dig that tape out and add it to my website.

 

[johnhazard]

I'm a Flash animator at Nick.com. I also do After Effects and some Maya. I'm a cartoonist with a weekly comic strip in The Jewish Journal in L.A.

I was animation director on the first season of Nickelodeon's "Romeo!". Now I mostly do game design. I'm hoping to do more character and prop design, and more real storytelling via cartooning or animation.

I have a B.F.A. in Film and Video from Pratt Institute.

I have so far only been a spectator of Trek fan films, but I'm hoping to participate one of these days, schedule permitting.

I wrote a screenplay for a proposed Starship Exeter animated episode, but due to the blessing/curse of my weekly comic strip, I doubt I'll have time to get back to that, or any project of a similar scale, anytime soon.

I greatly admire all the wonderful folks on this board who have turned their Trek dreams into reality.

 

[Venardhi]

John, I may not have your skill or qualifications, but I would be happy to help out if you did get an animated project off the ground. I have some artistic ability, an eye for composition and I once stumbled my way through teaching a flash animation class at a computer camp.

 

[Thalek]

J. Allen said:
Usually green screen. *rimshot*


-J.

Damn! He took the one I was going to use.

Now I have answer seriously, instead. :-(

Amateur films: U.S.S. Angeles: The Price of Victory, the subsequent short-lived U.S.S. Angeles series. Actor

Redshirt Filmette, misc. crew

Hidden Frontier, actor, background performer, head of makeup, misc. crew

New Voyages, background performer, misc. crew

Star Trek: Odyssey, actor, makeup artist

Professional work: Guest on a game-show pilot.

(Edited to correct error.)

 

[Zeppo]

I've worked as an assistant director and actor on over 70 film, TV and commercial productions over the last 11 years.