About a year ago, I provided the sound design and mixing for Mixed Nuts Productions newest short film Still.
Most of the project was fairly straight forward. There were some background sounds, some speech, simple effects for phone calls, etc. However, the climax of the film proved quite a bit more challenging!
The film went on to be officially selected for over 25+ film festivals all across the country!
Video – Still – Short Film
Recipe – Grinch Cookies (Chocolate Mint Toll House)
My family always makes the classic Toll House chocolate chip cookies around the holidays. I love them! They’re the seemingly universally accepted chocolate chip cookie.
However, I was looking to turn up the creativity a few notches. One of my favorite flavor combinations for sweets is chocolate and mint, so I figured I’d work that into these cookies for the holidays.
I didn’t want to call them Mint Chocolate Toll House Chocolate Chip & Andes Mints Cookies so I posted a challenge to Facebook to come up with a creative name that hopefully wasn’t too many syllables. The winner went to Mr. Rob Walker who suggested simply calling them “Grinches”. It’s fitting, one syllable, and adds to the holiday theme. Slam dunk!
Video – “Vote” Election Music Video Parody
I shot and edited a parody video about the 2016 election called “Vote” (based on Madonna’s Vogue)!
We tried to go shot-for-shot as best as we could with the original video. It’s a challenging video to copy – especially on a very limited budget. Overall I’m quite pleased with the results!
Headshots – Alyson Rodriguez Orenstein
Alyson Rodriguez Orenstein 
Alyson Rodriguez Orenstein
This last week I got a chance to fire up the camera and shoot some head shots for someone who was in my latest short-film Disconnecticut. Alyson Rodriguez Orenstein has many, many different looks which you can see on her website at www.alysonrodriguezorenstein.com. For this shoot she wanted warm and friendly.
Although it was QUITE windy that day, we got a lot of great stuff!
Video – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: THE MOVIE (2015) TRAILER
I had a minor roll in this Cinemassacre / James Rolfe production. I helped him out behind the scenes with some editing tips and went with him to collect all of the props for the tavern scene. As a result he let me be one of the least scene angry townsfolk in the very back. 🤣
Always a fun time to work on projects with James!