Hi, I'm Charlie, and you're reading my About Me (this is where I would pretend to draw Mickey Ears if I was a young Disney Channel Starlet).
Since graduating from Clark University in May of 2020, I've produced videos for the Worcester Art Museum's 2021 and 2022 virtual Flora in Winter events under extremely tight COVID and time restrictions as well as a project for the Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London exhibit. The opportunities at the WAM led to working on Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19 with local artist, Elizabeth Awalt. Most recently, I spent some time working on the set of the HBO show "Julia" and am currently working on personal projects and freelancing.
During my time at Clark, I graduated with Highest Honors in Screen Studies. For my senior honors thesis, I made a half hour documentary examining "PC culture" at Clark. I also had the opportunity to work on Meridian, a short horror film (over 13,000 views on YouTube!) which I wrote in the fall semester of senior year and shot in the spring semester as director of photography, poster designer, and assistant editor. When COVID hit and interrupted filming, we sat down and got creative; the show must go on! I completely rewrote the ending to take place mostly outdoors, in locations we could safely access. Filming was carefully planned watching as cases went down over the summer, our small crew of 16 shrunk to 5, and countless hours were spent meeting over zoom to discuss editing.
Poster and BTS Photo On-Set of Meridian
My other experience at Clark included a second documentary; editing a short neo-noir; and working in the video equipment room as a TA showing students how to use software and gear, helping the department decide what new gear to buy, checking equipment in and out, and maintaining the gear. Oh, and I was also awarded the Clark Simpkins Award to make a short found-footage film.
In 2019 I studied abroad in London. There I interned for Patchwork Productions, which provided me the opportunity to assist with multiple stages of the production of The Yearning (Isabel Anderton, 2019, UK, 6 min.). I was the on-set photographer, DIT (Digital Imaging Technician), editor of the short's poster, and also accompanied director/writer Isabel Anderton to the color grade and sound edit (to both observe and provide opinions).
This photo has appeared on ARRI's Instagram three times
BTS Photos Taken by Me On-Set of The Yearning, March 2019
Clients: Worcester Art Museum, Broad Institute of MIT, Clark University, CAPA Global Education Network, Crickets Flowers
Gear:
Camera: Canon EOS R, Minolta SRT-100, Fujifilm X100V
Lenses: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L, Canon 50mm f/1.8 stm, Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 DI Vi USD G2, Helios 44-2 58mm F2
Lights: Aputure Amaran 200x (x2), Godox LC500R, Godox SL60W, Aputure Amaran AL-MX
Mics: Rode VideoMic Pro Plus, Rode Wireless GO II, Zoom H4N Pro
Additional: DJI Ronin S gimbal; black, white and light blue backdrops, light stands, light modifiers
Software: Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe After Effects. I work on Windows, but if given access to Mac, I also know how to use Final Cut.
Additional experience with: Canon C100mkii, Canon EOS RP, Canon 6D, LitePanels Gemini 2x1, Tilta Nucleus wireless follow focus system, Steadicam, sliders, Sennheiser wireless lav mic and shotgun mic, Shure SM7B