8mm Home Film | Disneyland 1966

I found this film last year in a box of old family films. We grew up watching old 8mm and Super 8 films but for some reason we never saw this one. Maybe it's because of the bad quality or maybe, it was just lost for 43 years. Whatever the case, upon watching it I immediately knew the people in the film. My mother was a little kid all over again. My Aunts weren't a day over 5 and my Uncle was taking his first steps this day. Grandma and grandpa were young again. When I watch this, I wish for simpler times in my own life. I see how far life can come. Youth and innocence is a beautiful thing. Appreciate your kids when they're still young. Life races by fast but sometimes we can sit down and look into the distant past.

10 Cents a Day

Ok so this isn't a real ad but sometimes you've just got to get out there and let out you inner-madness. This video features my brother Israel Morales.

This is some of my Canon 60d footage from my initial test. I'm a traditional video camera type of guy and am switching over to DSLR video production. This is my first short. It was shot with a Canon 60d and a Canon 50mm | f1.8 lens.

This was shot in sunny & beautiful Southern California.

Candy

One of the curses/joys of producing multimedia is that it's hard to put the camera down. I find myself snapping photos and capturing video at just about every meaningful event that comes up; Halloween was no exception. This was my son's (Mickey Mouse) 2nd Halloween and he totally "gets" candy. Last year, he mesmerized the neighborhood with his force powers.

Meet Me In The Fields, Music Video

Last year, I got to meet up with a Socal band called Millbrook to film their music video. This video was filmed in 2 days in Arcadia, Ca at Platt College in '07. We filmed this entire video in a small room that was made for filming. I think we were the first ones that had used it because the walls still smelled of Chroma Key green paint! Going in, I don't think any of us had any preconceived notions of what the video would be like so we just came up with ideas as we went along. For props, we only had that cool 50's style microphone and a few odds and ends of other things. It was a very fun and creative approach. When you're filming with green screen, the sky's the limit. All of the forest scenes were created with photoshop & after effects. The challenge was to film this video in such a small amount of space and endure those hot, hot lights! The end result was thoroughly satisfying. View the funny "making of" video by clicking here.

I had the priviledge of directing & filming this video. Daniel Jacob Horine, the lead singer in the video, is also the editor of the film. He's an up and coming film producer and has some amazing projects lined up such as a 1920's piece called "The Death of The Matinee Idol." His company is called The Bashful Tenor Motion Picture Company. You can view a fun silent short he made called Stairway to Paradise by clicking here.

The Gadfly Project, Documentary Demo Reel

This is a teaser reel for a documentary I will be working on for 2008-2009 for Exodus8one.org, a human rights organization. One week before the start of the olympics, a controversial protest made news around the world. I had the priviledge to be a part of this protest in the form of being the multimedia producer for this project. It was a daunting task as I had to produce 30+ short videos & manage a website in a 20 day period. It's interesting to see the wide spectrum of views that people take in the face of protests, politics & religion. This documentary will shed some light on the issues that were raised and explore the topic of human rights protests locally and abroad. I've met some amazing people because of this project and hope to give the cause some justice in my telling of this story.