The documentary I’m working on for my third semester production class at USC is called Polar Opposites.  Here’s the logline:

Polar Opposites is a USC documentary film that attempts to investigate the pole dancing trend and why women are flocking to the pole in droves.

Here’s the pitch video for the documentary project.  This is what Caitlin, the director of this project, showed potential crew members, teachers and administrators as she was pitching the project for consideration as a Production 3 documentary film to be produced and funded by USC.

Click here to view the embedded video.

I’m going to be editing the project along with Erika Edgerley.  The director and producers are planning a whole web presence for the project, which includes a facebook page, a tumblr account, a twitter account and a YouTube presence that reveals news and informaton pertaining to the creation of this documentary.

Take a look around:

Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/plrOpposites

Facebook  - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Polar-Opposites/245176748450?ref=ts

Tumblr – http://www.polaroppositesfilm.tumblr.com/

Polar Opposites! is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

BSA Final Honors Ceremony 2006 from Neil Williams on Vimeo.

Duke University’s Black Student Alliance Final Honors Ceremony 2006.

My senior video created for Duke University’s Black Student Alliance.

Retro CrequeVision: 2006 BSA Final Honors Ceremony is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

Duke Magazine’s January/February issue has an article on the 25th Anniversary of the Mary Lou Williams Center. I was interviewed for this piece where I speak briefly about the documentary that I’m working on for the center.

Read the article here.

Duke Magazine Article on Mary Lou Williams Center is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

On December 11th, I showed a few clips of The Silver Rights Movement to a small audience at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. The audience included teachers, Durham city members, Duke Administrators and former students.

From the feedback, I can tell there’s still a good amount of work to be done, but I get the sense that the film is moving from being a strictly historical piece to one that is more thematic.

I was really happy to show a longer cut of the film to everyone and get feedback.

Plan is to take these comments, re-edit and have something finished by the end of the New Year…

Silver Rights Movement Rough Cut is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

Yesterday (November 29th, 2008), I shot some B-roll for the Mary Lou Williams Center documentary. Steve Milligan was the cinematographer and Kevin Wu, Duke ‘11, was the camera assistant.

MLWC B-Roll 11.29.08 from Neil Williams on Vimeo.

I’ll upload some footage soon. I had been wanting to work with Steve for a while now so I’m glad that we were finally able to make it happen.

B-Roll Shoot for the Mary Lou Williams Center is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

Working on the Mary Lou Williams Center documentary

… still logging and editing footage.

‘Bout to go eat some Turkey with the fam. Happy Thanksgiving!

Screenshot: Nov. 27, 2008 is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

Face-Up: Telling Stories of Community Life is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

Right now, I’m working on one feature-length doc, and two short documentaries. I start film school at the University of Southern California in January. So I’m working to finish things up before then.

Please continue to check out this website for updates.

Mary Lou Williams, Silver Rights, Face-Up and film school is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

Sneak Preview:

or also watch it on YouTube.

So I’m in the process of making a 30-minute documentary for the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture at Duke University. The doc should be done in Spring of 2009, but here’s a little segment that was shown last week at the 25th Anniversary of the center.

Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture Celebrates 25 Years is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)

I edited the following piece for Duke University’s 2008 Martin Luther King Commemoration.  I was also responsible for the After Effects work done at the beginning and end of the clip.

To learn more visit http://mlk.duke.edu.

Duke’s Martin Luther King 2008 Commemoration is a post from: CrequeVision (BLOG)