Welcome to Introduction to Film Production

Hello and welcome to FST 201 Introduction to Film Production! Through this class, you will not only gain comfort in film, video, sound and post-production software technology, but you will also learn to work in different modes of film production: narrative, documentary and experimental. By the time you leave this class, you will have the necessary tools and terminology to create and understand films in any of these modes.

A little bit about me:

This is now my eleventh year teaching in the Film Studies Department at UNCW. Besides this class, I teach 2D Animation, Interactive Media, Post-production (Editing), Experimental and Documentary classes. I have my B.S. (yes, I know what you're thinking and no it's not that) in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin and my MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa.

But I don't just teach film, I make films, too.

Now for the factoids:

I have an eight-year old son and two-Chiweenies (Chihuahua-Daschunds).

I taught English in the Czech Republic for two years.

I have been teaching at UNCW since 2006.

I'm a bit of a generalist filmmaker (meaning that I do a little bit of everything) but my specialty is experimental animation.

I was born in Portugal, but moved to the US when I was three.

I grew up in Austin, TX where I was really into mountain biking/cycling but now that I live near the ocean, I'm really into kayaking and hope to learn to surf.

I am a shapeshifting reptilian.

One of the above claims is not true.