16 Months Strait, 60-80 Hrs/Week

With only a single class during my last semester, I finished with only 30 mins to spare.

“I had so many technical problems with this project, I felt like I was surfing the wave of a nervous breakdown. Not only was I the only student at Emily Carr using motion capture in my grad film, the data I had was partially corrupted which left me unable to achieve the original idea. It was only with about a month left before it was due that I made the decision to tell the story through dancing flowers. This turned out to be serendipitous as it ended up working better than I could have hoped for. At the premier at Emily Carr, I did everything possible to not openly and quite loudly sob, including biting my lips as hard as I could. At the end, there was complete silence in the room as they all were touched. Sure, I told the story, but make no mistake, I deliberately engineered this short film to reach into your heart and soul, wrap itself around it and squeeze out the tears. Editing this in post production was emotionally exhausting as like clockwork, towards the end, the waterworks came….over and over and over and over…and over and over and over again. So much of my experience at Emily Carr was in honour of my mother who passed from breast cancer when I was 8, that I wanted to honour what little time she had on this Earth. When I say that I love dance, I mean it. It takes a special breed of the emotionally and technically committed to produce this film given the technical hurdles involved. When I say I can crush systems, I mean it.

Here is an image of an experimental sequence I ran where I used the mocap positional data as particle emitters which emitted rose petals. However it would have literally taken months to simulate and render off the sequence as seen here in High Definition and that was before I was know if the shot would work or not. I ultimately elected not to use this and many other sequences, models, uniforms and more, simply because of the technical hardware limits I faced. Never the less, although only a student film, I am still very happy and proud of this achievement I produced in honour of my late mother Nadine.”

“I invite you all to watch the short film. Rest in Peace Mom. I hope you love it. We all love and miss you dearly.” – Joseph

Dance is the physical expression of passion through the movement of the human body, painting is a scaled down proxy of that. Green spent 16 months working on his grad film where he secured the skills of ballroom dance champions Kora & Simeon Stoynov to choreograph and perform a routine inside a performance capture suite, along with securing the support of Dramatic Soprano Heidi Muendel and the orchestra The Plastic Acid Ensemble, the ridiculously amazing family of Stephanie and Jacqueline Ko, Alison MacLean, Rhys Lillo to all whom contributed to his vision: providing his late mother one last dance with his father.