Beyond the French Quarter is a student production that captures the unconventional accounts of youth volunteers in New Orleans. Follow us beyond the cameras and tourists, as we try to find hope in the areas that still haunt of desolation three years after Hurricane Katrina. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts filed under ‘Productions’
Beyond the French Quarter: A Documentary (2008)
Happy Birthday / Yang Fan is Born (2008)
Official selection for NPAR 2008 in Annecy Film Festival, France
This is a story of two strangers with the same birthday. The first one, a quiet boy, receives a phone call from his girlfriend that she wants to break up with him. The second one, an apparently socially active girl, wants to find some solitude on her birthday. But something happens that draws the both of them close together. Read the rest of this entry »
Concert Video for Student Symphony (2009)

Concert Video for Williams Student Symphony: Saluting the Sea. In this concert, we brought a crew of five, with a four-camera set-up to film the event. Three of the cameras covered various angles of close-ups of the performers and the audience, and the last camera was mounted on a 12-ft tall ProAm Crane, which provided a sweeping, grandiose, panoramic shot of the entire concert hall. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Birthday II (2009) with 8-ft Camera Crane
We own an 8-ft ProAm camera crane. If you would like to check it out, contact Danny Y. Huang at yh1 [at] williams [dot] edu. Here is a short film that I made entirely using this crane.
Volunteer training video for Images Cinema (2008)
A production by Purple Valley Films, this video serves as training material for volunteers working at Images Cinema, a non-profit organization in Williamstown, MA. It tries to recreate the 1960s educational film style, which is often cheesy and full of cliches, in the action and narration. Read the rest of this entry »