FEATURE
SERIES (TV & WEB)
SHORT-FORM
COMMERCIAL
Shiming Zhou: Keep Moving (2015)
Directed by Yi Ran Zhou
Cinematography & FX by Golden Zhao
Position: 1st Assistant Camera
Faraday Future: Aston Martin Rapide S (2015)
Directed by Nathan Nie
Cinematography by Golden Zhao
Courtesy of LeTV
Role: 2nd Assistant Camera
formal Education
2011-2013: COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS - Valencia, CA, USA
IGETC Core Requirements
Physical Sciences, German, & Film Production
2009-2011: PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY - Plymouth, England
Certificate of Higher Education
Political Science w/ International Relations & Spanish
Jul-Aug 2009: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, JESUS COLLEGE - Cambridge, England
Major: International Relations with Justin Bangs
Minor: Politics in the Modern World with Svitlana Kobzar
2007-2009: BRITISH SCHOOL MANILA - Makati City, Philippines
International Baccalaureate Diploma
Higher Level: European History [Tsarist Russia - Cold War], English A1, Psychology
Standard Level:
training & workshops
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE of New York (2016)
- Drawing the Figure with Leonid Brenner
- Drawing Fundamentals with Gregg Kreutz
- Life Painting and Drawing with Costa Vavagiakis
- Comics and Sequential Art with Stephen Walker
MONO NO AWARE (2016)
- 16mm B&W Filmmaking with Steve Cossman
- Lighting for B&W Film with Daniel April
BROOKLYN BRAINERY (2016 & 2017)
- Pewter Casting with Nikki Romanello
- Cardboard Lamps with Shannon MacColl
- Mixed Media and Collage Illustration with Malou Zuidema
- Classic Charcoal Drawing: Anatomy with Elysa Lozano
NFTS: Explore Filmmaking from Script to Screen (2015)
proficiencies
(in descending order)
CAMERA SYSTEMS
ARRI [Alexa, 435, SR3, Mini]
Hasselblad [500 C-series]
RED [epic, scarlet, dragon]
Blackmagic Design [4K, URSA, Pocket]
Voigtlander [Bessaflex]
Bolex [h16 rex-5]
Canon [DSLRs, C300, C500]
Leica [m3, m6, m10, q]
Pentax [Spotmatic]
Polaroid [Spectra, SX-70, 100]
Sony [F65, A7s II]
SOFTWARE
DaVinci Resolve Studio 12.5
Silverstack v5
Adobe CC [Premiere, Photoshop, InDesign]
ARRI [ColorTool, RAWConverter, LUTGenerator, MetaExtract]
RedCine-X Pro
Google SketchUp
FCP 7.0
AVID Media Composer
Fusion 8
Livegrade 3.7
CRAFT + MISC.
Illustration [figure + gesture; charcoal, graphite]
Lighting Design (entertainment + commercial/corporate)
Computer Construction
Instruments [playing, reading, writing; piano, strings (excl. violin)]
Painting [landscape; oil, acrylic]
Light Circuitry [LEDs]
Metal Casting [Pewter, Bismuth via Cuttlefish & Sand Methods]
Languages
(native) English
(advanced) Filipino/Tagalog
(intermediate) German, Spanish
(basic) Polish
traits
- genuinely interested in people and stories
- eclectic (background & experience)
- perspicacious
- autodidactic
- driven and inspired by good crews [who truly care]
- adaptive, imaginative
Hobbies/interests
- reading journals, old handwritten letters,
- hiding precious
- writing
- playing music by ear
- contributing content on Google maps and google translate; subtitles for youtube videos
- giving
- collecting mirrors
- showering
- contemplation
- watching films, lectures, documentaries, series that teach me things about people
- collecting light shades of green
- building and breaking down cameras
- illustration
- painting (light on canvass)
- tracing to observe value(you usually trace for edges, seldom ever values; when i trace for values, i find that I'm really looking)
- finding new ways to see and feel the world
- improving
- re-reading
- contemplating
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