Video & Filmmaking
Services:
Small Crew Productions: Your Mobile Production
Wayne has the ability to do small documentary-style productions with a highly portable set up with wireless mics, portable LED lights, lightweight 4K capture, and a travel drone. Wayne has taken great care into making this setup highly portable to the point where he can travel with it solo by land, air, or boat for location productions. Perfect for branded content for social media with real customers using real products, artist/musician/entertainer/public figure profiles, travel and destination content, how-to tutorial videos, and documenting the work of nonprofits to create videos that help spread their message and garner support. This style content has taken him to Argentina to create work for a travel startup, Guatemala to create a documentary series for a non-profit, and around the United States creating content for businesses and brands.
Small Crew Production Samples:
Promo Video: Shot, edited, and produced by Wayne Culpepper as a 1 sometimes 2-person crew. Captured in Argentina for 30-day coworking retreat startup, Unsettled.
Tutorial Videos: Shot by Wayne Culpepper and produced as a 2-person crew. Captured for GrowJourney, a seeds-of-the-month club.
Travel Documentary: Personal Project on the Kindness of Strangers During a Month in Morocco. Captured on iPhone and pocket cameras. Screened at Catfly Film Fest.
Larger Productions
If you’re looking for something with a larger production complete with location scouting, casting calls, storyboards, custom music, art department, multi-cam, grip truck, craft services, you name it, be sure to get in touch with Wayne to discuss your vision. Large productions are best as a collaboration and one of Wayne’s favorite endeavors is assembling the perfect team for any given project. He has a few key team players he collaborates with on a regular basis and he brings in the best experts to solve specific problems and needs that may come up on a per project basis. Whether it’s bringing in a specialized drone operator, finding a makeup artist that knows just how to pull off an unusual special effect or tracking down the perfect location for your aesthetic, Wayne can pull together his vast network of resources to offer a tailored solution to exceed your expectations.
Background:
Wayne first fell in love with photography and video production as an 8-year old when playing with his dad’s VHS camera on a family trip to the Grand Canyon. “I can remember being so blown away by the Grand Canyon while looking through the camera I told my Dad I wanted to find a way to make a living recording places like this for everyone to enjoy,” said Wayne. As a teen, Wayne and his brother got the skateboarding bug and begin documenting their exploits and editing them with two VCR’s to create videos to send to skate companies in an attempt to get sponsored. A few years later they were both sponsored by a local skate shop and several national skate brands. “Who would have thought that skateboarding, this sport that a lot of parents considered a dangerous waste of time, would have helped foster an interest in video production that would later influence my career choice, ” said Wayne.
Through College of Charleston, Wayne studied abroad in Santiago, Chile at Universidad Diego Portales where he had an internship at a local television station. He further studied multimedia, video and radio production at Jönköping University in Sweden. Later he completed the year long filmmaking evening program at Carolina Film Institute. In his twenties, Wayne pushed his video experiments to new territory when he began programming his visuals to be triggered by the piano keys of a midi-keyboard and setting up on stage to accompany musical acts. Here he would ‘play the visuals’ with his midi-keyboard and project them onto giant screens behind the band creating real-time special effects that were synchronized to the music. He’s been lucky enough to project his visual art in live concerts for Khaki King, The GZA (of The Wu-Tang Clan), Midnite, Elliott Lipp, EOTO w/members of The String Cheese Incident, The Malah, and Galactic, just to name a few.
Crew Experience & Freelance Availability:
I’ve had the pleasure of working as a freelancer on the teams of various production companies over the years. I love the community and collaborative spirit that filmmaking fosters and embrace the opportunity of freelance positions for other production companies whether it be commercial, documentary, or narrative films. If you have a project and need additional crew don’t hesitate to contact me. I have experience as a producer, director, assistant director, writer, actor, location scout, and grip.
Below are some various roles I’ve had with other production companies along with the accompanying films:
Dreadful Sorry
Director: Robert Richmond
Producer: Worth Keeter
Writer: Dionne O’Dell
Stars: Louis Butelli, Madeleine Hamer, Bonita Peebles
Director of Cinematography: Dan Kneece
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Grip and Lighting—Best Boy Grip
I’ve had the pleasure of working for filmmaker phenom Kira Bursky’s All Around Artsy Productions for many projects. She also frequently works for me as a photo assistant for my still photography assignments and has worked as editor/motion graphic artist for many of my video productions.
Here are some samples along with the roles I’ve filled for her All Around Artsy Productions:
Tree Hugger
“A short fantasy drama written and directed by Kira Bursky. In search of magic, high school freshmen Clara gets involved with Leo, an older boy, but the fantasy world in her head darkens when Leo takes advantage of her.”
Written and directed by Kira Bursky
All Around Artsy Productions. Starring Thatcher Johnson-Welden, Sam Bible-Sullivan, and Jack Fulghum.
Cinematography by Paul Lewis Anderson. Gaffer and Assistant Camera Brad Hoover.
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Assistant Director
Film Festival Screenings:
Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner, Queen City Film Festival, Reedy Reels Film Festival, Citizen Jane Film Festival, Qabila Film Festival, Laguna Film Festival, China Women’s Film Festival, Ruby Slipper Fringe Festival, George Lindsey UNA Film Festival, NFFTY
News article about Tree Hugger at Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner:
My Show—Trailer
Dark comedy musical with all original music.
Written and directed by Kira Bursky
All Around Artsy Productions. Starring Savannah Stone, Elizabeth Austin, Will Burton-Edwards, Kira Bursky
Original music by Robert Gowan. Assistant Camera and Gaffer Kevin Anderson. Makeup Abigail Jennings.
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Director of Photography/Cinematographer, Colorist
Demons in Disguise:
dark comedy: A teenage girl decides to seek revenge against her “demon” mother.
Written and directed by Kira Bursky
All Around Artsy Productions. Starring Aislin Freya Pax, Faye Foley, Erin Schmidt, and Tina Herring. Cinematography by Brad Hoover.
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Producer, Assistant Director
Film Festival Screenings:
MiCe Film Festival , StarLite Film Festival, NFFTY, Three Cities Film Festival, SC Comicon Film Fest, Laguna Film Festival
Dancing Children by Ian Ridenhour – Official Music Video
A boy navigates through a checkered world finding himself tempted by the colorful dancing people. The official music video for Dancing Children by Ian Ridenhour.
Directed/shot/edited by Kira Bursky of All Around Artsy Productions.
Wayne Freelance Role: Assistant Director, Lighting/Gaffer, Second Camera AC
Monsters by Ian Ridenhour – Official Music Video
This is the official music video for Ian Ridenhour’s song Monsters.
Directed/shot/edited by Kira Bursky of All Around Artsy Productions.
Wayne Freelance Role: Assistant Director, Lighting/Gaffer, Second Camera AC, Location Scout
Really Looking
Directed by Kira Bursky and produced by Massada Art Projects. Staring Ioanna Chasta and Ben Hinton.
Cinematography by Brad Hoover. Original score by Nicolas Martin.
Client: Massada Eyewear
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Assistant Director and Extra
Film Festival Screenings:
NFFTY, CineYouth
Wild Flowers—Trailer
Directed by Kira Bursky and produced by Massada Art Projects. Staring Madelyn Cline, Liz Harris and Taylor Cowan.
Cinematography by Brad Hoover. Original score by Nicolas Martin. Aerial Cinematography by Garrett Devin Meyers. Art direction by Zackery Irick.
Client: Massada Eyewear
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Assistant Director and Location Scout
Film Festival Screenings:
Cucalorus
Clean
A young girl befriends a strange man while trying to escape the clutches of her temperamental and “traditional” mother.
Written and directed by Kira Bursky, All Around Artsy Productions. Cinematography by Kali Belden.
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Gaffer, Assistant Camera, Actor
Awards: Best Cinematography 48 Hour Film Project Asheville
Sleepyhead
A lonely young girl taking care of her little brother by telling him circus stories finds herself in a nightmarish world where the stories begin to materialize.
Written and directed by Kira Bursky, All Around Artsy Productions.
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Gaffer
The Beckoning—Trailer
Here is the trailer for “The Beckoning” The 3 wives of a polygamist goat farmer compete to be his best wife while their daughter runs away.
Written and directed by Kira Bursky, All Around Artsy Productions.
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Producer, Actor
Eating For Beginners—Trailer
Written and directed by Kira Bursky, All Around Artsy Productions.
Wayne Culpepper Freelance Role: Actor
Check out more awesome All Around Artsy Productions on Kira Bursky’s Vimeo Page at:
https://vimeo.com/allaroundartsy
Collaborations:
Wayne co-created an award-winning musical comedy web series with filmmaker Kira Bursky that they both write and star in. Check it out here: Absurducopia