Jack Miller Media Notes
Original notes from the work behind this portfolio: how I plan short films, choose images, shape edits, and use 3D experiments to practise visual storytelling. This page adds context to the finished pieces instead of repeating gallery captions.
Most of my video work starts with a feeling rather than a finished script. I collect references, sounds, lighting ideas, and locations first, then reduce them into one clear visual promise: what the viewer should feel in the first ten seconds. From there I plan only the shots that support that promise.
A finished edit needs a beginning that gives the viewer a reason to stay, a middle that changes the visual energy, and an ending that feels intentional. Music and ambient sound are treated as structure because they decide where a cut feels natural.
I choose images that hold tension and group them around mood, motion, and atmosphere. I treat 3D work like camera work too: where the viewer looks, what the light is doing, and what the movement reveals all decide whether a study feels finished.