While at Mosaic Media, as well as for my own screenwriting ventures, I would use footage captured from various online sources in order to edit them into sizzle reels. If you don't know, the purpose of these is to visually approximate the story, tone and general flare a project might have before a frame of actual video is ever shot. At Mosaic these were used to attract talent (writers, actors, producers) to a project. For me, they were used to help producers visualize my idea while pitching a project.
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"Lace Up" is a project I pitched to Cartoon Network about a boy who finds a pair of shoes that allow him to change into different superheros whenever he puts on new laces. When an evil race of robots descends upon his city, it is up to him and his alter egos to "Lace Up!" and save the day. |
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"Braddock" was a Mosiac project that used footage from an ad campaign for Levis jeans and was shot in Braddock, PA, a desolate city in the rust belt undergoing a revitalization spurred on by hipsters who moved to the city because homes were so inexpensive. |
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"Donner" is a sizzle reel used by me while pitching a ten part miniseries depicting the struggles of the ill-fated Donner party as they made their way across the United States. |
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"Please Fire Me" was a sizzle reel created for Mosaic that was based on a blog of the same name. The general purpose of the piece was to entice writers to use the source material as a jumping off point for a new, outlandish workplace sitcom. |
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This sizzle reel was something I used while pitching a workplace comedy that was set in a county jail. |
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This "Limo" concept was made for a client of Mosaic who wanted to write a workplace comedy set in the high stakes world of limo driving. |