Aldan Rossnagel
Portfolio for the filmmaker based in Southern Florida and Southern California!
About me
My name is Aldan Rossnagel, and I am an aspiring
filmmaker from Florida. I spent the last four years
earning my Bachelor’s Degree in English Creative Writing
at the University of South Florida in Tampa, which I
paid for myself with my online small business and my job
at Walgreens as a Shift Lead. In college, I created the
Filmmaking Society USF club, which I built into a
thriving community that will long outlive me now that I
have graduated. During my presidency, I served as
producer for two short film projects, the award-winning
“Hard Pass” directed by Joana Riva, and “The Visionary,”
directed by Grace McCastlain. I also oversaw production
of five additional club short films. Additionally, I
wrote and directed my own short films, “Love and Fear at
College Age” and “The How and Why of Killing Your
Boyfriend.” I served as the editor of these personal
projects — as well as “Hard Pass” — using Adobe Premiere
Pro.
While my ultimate goal is to write and direct my own
professional feature-length productions, I am in love
with every aspect of film production and will happily
fill any role on a film set. I am experienced with
camera, lighting, and microphone operation, and I am
highly determined and resourceful. I also have a deep
knowledge of and appreciation for film history and
theory, which I studied and wrote about at length in
pursuit of my Minor in Film and New Media Studies.
I am a driven filmmaker as well as a dedicated
contributor to the creative projects of my peers, and I
am excited to launch my career in the industry for which
I harbor abundant passion and aspirations. I am eager to
fulfill any job on a film set that is offered to me!
Projects
Love and Fear In The College Age (Short Film)
“Love and Fear at College Age” is an experimental
short film that arose from an abandoned batch of
footage from a production originally entitled
“Loopstuck.” Rather than let the footage go to
waste, I was inspired by experimental cinema such as
Michael Robinson’s “Light Is Waiting” to twist what
we shot into something else entirely. The
non-narrative experimental piece that I ended up
with welds in fragmented behind the scenes footage
of our cast and crew, and its editing is intended to
impose the frustration and confusion of the project
onto its main character, Gauge (Jackson Fleming).
The “Loopstuck”/”Love and Fear at College Age”
experience taught me to roll with punches and remain
adaptable and determined. I exercised a mode of
editing with a hyper-specific affective purpose,
which I found educational.
tools used: Adobe Premiere Pro
Hard Pass (Short Film)
coming soon!
The How and Why Of Killing Your Boyfriend (Short Film)
coming soon!
The Visionary (Short Film)
coming soon!
Star Wars Project (Fan Edit)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Revenge of the Sith — The
Ultimate Cut (or Star Wars: Fallen Brothers if you
want less of a mouthful) is a four and a half hour
fan edit that I created that melds the third film of
the Star Wars prequel trilogy (as well as several of
its deleted scenes), the final four episodes of the
Star Wars: The Clone Wars 3D television series, much
of the final chapters of the Star Wars: Clone Wars
2D microseries, much of the first episode of the
Star Wars: The Bad Batch 3D television series. These
pieces of media all take place over the same few
days in the Star Wars universe, with overlapping and
entwining characters and plot points that compelled
me to see them play out in a single seamless film.
This required a careful balance of timeline accuracy
and filmic pacing, as well as implementation of the
Star Wars-specific brand of editing.
I also exported and edited tens of thousands of
individual frames of Star Wars: Clone Wars in
Photoshop, in order to correct several character
designs in the series that were incongruent with
current Canon. This constituted hours of extremely
tedious work, a demonstration of my dedication to my
projects and my dedicated work ethic. Additionally,
I meticulously identified and implemented musical
leitmotifs that originated in Star Wars projects
more recent than the material that I was working
with, but that related to ideas or characters
present in my material — such as Obi-Wan Kenobi
(Ewan McGregor)’s theme, that didn’t come into being
until his 2022 television show. This is to say that
I attack my projects with passion and gusto, willing
to put in hours of tedium in the name of pursuing
the ideal end result.
tools used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premeire Pro
Contact me:
email:
[email protected]
resume:
here!