2016 - 2017
MAKING SILLY FILMS
An interest of filmmaking awakens within me, as my brother and I start producing our own silly films.
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My Journey
2016 - 2017
MAKING SILLY FILMS
I made my first so-called "films" in 2017, along with my brother. I don't recall where we got the ideas for these films from, but they were crazily out-of-the-box - the plot made no sense, neither did the script! (To be honest, we had no script) One of these films was The Devil's Trapdoor, a supposedly "horror" film, in which I tried incorporating a few "camera angles and techniques". Nevertheless, despite the "cheesiness" of our early films, I was learning the entire time and never knew had a talent in the making.
2018
GETTING SERIOUS
I had a growing interest in me about how feature films and documentaries are made - and very soon I found myself scavenging for information as to how films are filmed and produced (yes, it is true - I am a self-taught filmmaker). Eventually, I reached a point when I thought I had garnered adequate knowledge and decided to combine my passion of science with my newfound passion of filmmaking. I came across a filmmaking competition for all students in Australia called the Sleek Geeks National Science Film Competition and decided to enter into it.
And so I produced my first short science film - The Secret Language of Plants. I had made this film with my green bedsheet as a green screen and had used free iPad apps to make the animations - but, still, this was my first properly-planned-out film. Later on in the year, I also produced The True Nature of Reality, which was slightly better in technical terms and covered an entirely different scientific topic. I submitted it into the Victorian Science Talent Search.
All along, I never knew what prestigious awards these films would win (see below in My Films).
2019
GOING FULL OUT
I felt motivation surge through me after my surprising achievements in 2018. This motivation ignited a fire within me - to make increasingly better films. With this fire raging in my mind, I planned to enter into the Sleek Geeks Competition again and began searching for a topic. After more than five changes, I finally settled on exploring how the oceans became salty and wrote the script for my most ingenious and technically complex would-be film.
And it was. All That Salt, despite not officially winning any accolades, is by far my most creative, imaginative and technically brilliant film to date. The fact that it did not receive an award did not dishearten me for long - for it was in this film in which I significantly improved upon and demonstrated my filmmaking prowess. This self-motivation fuelled me to produce yet another film - The Yin and Yang of The Universe. This, I would say, was my overall best 2019 film, having stylish yet clever visual effects, carefully executed animations and a fluid script. It succeeded in the Victorian Science Talent Search, receiving a major bursary.
2020
GETTING PROFESSIONAL
I am always improving and in 2020 - I have leapt light-years in my ability. Learning the professional tool Adobe Premiere Pro and studying media in my school has given me another level of experience.
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My first 2020 film, Failed Dreams, was my first non-scientific film. For me, if my other films are pieces of work, then this one is a piece of art.
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The second film - The Secret Life of Droplets - came first in Australia's "Oscars of Science" and was my first musical science film.
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The third one, The Hijackers, was successful at state level in the Victorian Science Talent Search and is my best 2020 film.
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My Films
In 2017, I decided to launch my channel on YouTube. Since then, I have produced over 45 videos, covering all kinds of scientific topics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics to the deadliest snakes in the world. Yet only nine of these videos have come to be called films, and these are productions which I have entered into competitions and have taken months to create. I have put my heart and soul into each and every one of these films.
