Kaleidoscope
Baltimore, Maryland | Film Short
Drama
An experimental short film with two vignettes: focusing on the private self-versus the self you presented to others. This film explores these versions of one’s self through observing the observer and exploiting the private self in a vulnerable state.
Kaleidoscope
Baltimore, Maryland | Film Short
Drama
1 Campaigns | Maryland, United States
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An experimental short film with two vignettes: focusing on the private self-versus the self you presented to others. This film explores these versions of one’s self through observing the observer and exploiting the private self in a vulnerable state.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Why Support Kaleidoscope?
Supporting Kaleidoscope helps the creativity of young female filmmakers and students. The diverse cast and crew, are extremely passionate that this film will showcase ideas, talent, and people whose representation is severely lacking in mainstream media; i.e. women, people of color, and the LGBT+ community.
What is Kaleidoscope?
An experimental short film with two vignettes: focusing on the private self-versus the self you presented to others. This film explores these versions of one’s self through observing the observer and exploiting the private self in a vulnerable state.
First Vignette:
Sydney, the protagonist, sits on a subway alone with their headphones in. The subway, representing the journey through life, is shown by the occupants who embark on the subway. Sydney observes everything from a pregnant woman, to a fighting couple, to an elderly lady as they silently sit away from everyone else.
Second Vignette:
Sydney is in the bathroom of their own home. They look at themselves in the mirror before undressing and getting in the tub. As they submerge themselves, they see their emotions and thoughts in real life swirl around them. Their imagination takes over the room through visions of events and movement happening withing the room. Once they emerge from the tub, a symbol of rebirth, they are confronted by their former self, the version that wore a mask and never allowed themselves to stand apart from others. The same self from the previous vignette.
Where will Kaleidoscope go?
Once the film has been shot and edited, it will be submitted to film festivals across the country and then eventually it will be released to the public.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Ikelite DL Housing for Sony A7 iii
Costs $430
We would like to get shots underwater and exploring the imagination the character.
Live Goldfish
Costs $50
Part of the imagination scene, we need the fish and the proper animal care for them.
Food
Costs $200
Food for both cast and crew
Art Department
Costs $300
This film is a visual piece so there is a lot of production design within the environments.
Makeup
Costs $30
Makeup for the actor
Insurence
Costs $100
Insurance to rent equipment and shoot on location
Festival Fee
Costs $550
Covers the cost of submitting the film into festivals.
Travel Fees
Costs $350
This covers the fees of getting the cast and crew to set.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
This is a tight knit group who has worked together on previous short films and they have built a strong working environment. The crew is excited to work on Kaleidoscope and make something meaningful as they all have found a piece of themselves in the script.
Mariam Salahvarzi
Mariam is a Cinematographer, Editor and Colorist in the Baltimore and DC area. She will be receiving a Bachelor of Science in Film and Moving Image from Stevenson University. Kaleidoscope, is her senior thesis and she is thrilled to see this project come together. She is passionate about creatively telling stories through unique perspectives and does so by lens choice, coloring techniques and various editing styles. Mariam has experience developing documentaries, narratives, experimental shorts and music videos. Her most recent work as a Director of Photographer and Colorist was, Reversal (2019) and music video, Wrecker (2020).
Jenna Miller
Jenna Miller is a Maryland based filmmaker. She's a student at Stevenson University and will graduate in May 2020 with her BS in Film and Moving Image. Jenna has been known to direct and shoot a variety of work. Her most well-known project is her 2018 short film, DARLA, which screened at the International Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore’s Best Student Film Festival, and CCBC Student Film Festival. Independently, she has also directed other films such as Reversal (2019), and several promotional videos for Maryland Department of Tourism (2018) and the Senator Theatre (2018). Jenna has also worked with Heartthreads, which is a news and media company that specializes in telling heartfelt stories. This partnership allowed her to broadcast varies documentaries and other videos on national television and multiple other news outlets.
Alexis Harris
Alexis is a senior Film major at Stevenson University and is super excited to work on this short film, Kaleidoscope. After working on various narrative films throughout her career, she is thrilled to work on a film that takes a deeper and more visual look into the personal self.
Ally Barlow
Ally Barlow is currently a senior Film major at Stevenson University. She has worked on a couple of recent projects as an editor such as Glue and Virus. She has also worked as a sound designer and sound editor on One Smell of a Night and Virus. As well as a sound mixer on 8 Minutes and as a boom operator on Subject 17.
Kyle Whitehead
Kyle Whitehead is a Baltimore based filmmaker, who is currently a Senior Film and Moving Image major at Stevenson University. Kyle will graduate in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Film with a concentration in cinematography and editing. While at school, he has written, directed, filmed, and edited many of his own films, while also working on others. His film DARLA was created in 2018 where he co-directed, shot, and edited. DARLA has been screened at the International Maryland Film Festival, Best of Baltimore Film Festival and CCBC Film Festival. Kyle was the Director of Photography for a promotional video created for The Senator Theatre in Baltimore. That video played before each film that was screened at the theatre. He worked alongside Martin Jenoff at Focal Point Productions creating corporate, promotional and documentary films for local clients in the area. In addition, Kyle has also co-created his own production company known as Phantomland Media. With Phantomland, Kyle films, edits and produces many different types of short based media. For example, wedding and real-estate promos.
Bryan Auman
Bryan is a junior Film and Moving image major with a concentration in Cinematography and Editing at Stevenson University. He is excited to work on such a creative story and work along with such a great crew.
Camden Praisner
Camden is a junior Film and Moving Image major with a concentration in Writing and Producing at Stevenson University. He is based in the Baltimore, Maryland area.
Erin Orwig
Erin is a senior Film major/Graphic Design minor at Stevenson University. She has made many student films, designed logos and branched into animation throughout her career. She hopes this film will move and inspire the audience.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Why Support Kaleidoscope?
Supporting Kaleidoscope helps the creativity of young female filmmakers and students. The diverse cast and crew, are extremely passionate that this film will showcase ideas, talent, and people whose representation is severely lacking in mainstream media; i.e. women, people of color, and the LGBT+ community.
What is Kaleidoscope?
An experimental short film with two vignettes: focusing on the private self-versus the self you presented to others. This film explores these versions of one’s self through observing the observer and exploiting the private self in a vulnerable state.
First Vignette:
Sydney, the protagonist, sits on a subway alone with their headphones in. The subway, representing the journey through life, is shown by the occupants who embark on the subway. Sydney observes everything from a pregnant woman, to a fighting couple, to an elderly lady as they silently sit away from everyone else.
Second Vignette:
Sydney is in the bathroom of their own home. They look at themselves in the mirror before undressing and getting in the tub. As they submerge themselves, they see their emotions and thoughts in real life swirl around them. Their imagination takes over the room through visions of events and movement happening withing the room. Once they emerge from the tub, a symbol of rebirth, they are confronted by their former self, the version that wore a mask and never allowed themselves to stand apart from others. The same self from the previous vignette.
Where will Kaleidoscope go?
Once the film has been shot and edited, it will be submitted to film festivals across the country and then eventually it will be released to the public.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Ikelite DL Housing for Sony A7 iii
Costs $430
We would like to get shots underwater and exploring the imagination the character.
Live Goldfish
Costs $50
Part of the imagination scene, we need the fish and the proper animal care for them.
Food
Costs $200
Food for both cast and crew
Art Department
Costs $300
This film is a visual piece so there is a lot of production design within the environments.
Makeup
Costs $30
Makeup for the actor
Insurence
Costs $100
Insurance to rent equipment and shoot on location
Festival Fee
Costs $550
Covers the cost of submitting the film into festivals.
Travel Fees
Costs $350
This covers the fees of getting the cast and crew to set.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
This is a tight knit group who has worked together on previous short films and they have built a strong working environment. The crew is excited to work on Kaleidoscope and make something meaningful as they all have found a piece of themselves in the script.
Mariam Salahvarzi
Mariam is a Cinematographer, Editor and Colorist in the Baltimore and DC area. She will be receiving a Bachelor of Science in Film and Moving Image from Stevenson University. Kaleidoscope, is her senior thesis and she is thrilled to see this project come together. She is passionate about creatively telling stories through unique perspectives and does so by lens choice, coloring techniques and various editing styles. Mariam has experience developing documentaries, narratives, experimental shorts and music videos. Her most recent work as a Director of Photographer and Colorist was, Reversal (2019) and music video, Wrecker (2020).
Jenna Miller
Jenna Miller is a Maryland based filmmaker. She's a student at Stevenson University and will graduate in May 2020 with her BS in Film and Moving Image. Jenna has been known to direct and shoot a variety of work. Her most well-known project is her 2018 short film, DARLA, which screened at the International Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore’s Best Student Film Festival, and CCBC Student Film Festival. Independently, she has also directed other films such as Reversal (2019), and several promotional videos for Maryland Department of Tourism (2018) and the Senator Theatre (2018). Jenna has also worked with Heartthreads, which is a news and media company that specializes in telling heartfelt stories. This partnership allowed her to broadcast varies documentaries and other videos on national television and multiple other news outlets.
Alexis Harris
Alexis is a senior Film major at Stevenson University and is super excited to work on this short film, Kaleidoscope. After working on various narrative films throughout her career, she is thrilled to work on a film that takes a deeper and more visual look into the personal self.
Ally Barlow
Ally Barlow is currently a senior Film major at Stevenson University. She has worked on a couple of recent projects as an editor such as Glue and Virus. She has also worked as a sound designer and sound editor on One Smell of a Night and Virus. As well as a sound mixer on 8 Minutes and as a boom operator on Subject 17.
Kyle Whitehead
Kyle Whitehead is a Baltimore based filmmaker, who is currently a Senior Film and Moving Image major at Stevenson University. Kyle will graduate in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Film with a concentration in cinematography and editing. While at school, he has written, directed, filmed, and edited many of his own films, while also working on others. His film DARLA was created in 2018 where he co-directed, shot, and edited. DARLA has been screened at the International Maryland Film Festival, Best of Baltimore Film Festival and CCBC Film Festival. Kyle was the Director of Photography for a promotional video created for The Senator Theatre in Baltimore. That video played before each film that was screened at the theatre. He worked alongside Martin Jenoff at Focal Point Productions creating corporate, promotional and documentary films for local clients in the area. In addition, Kyle has also co-created his own production company known as Phantomland Media. With Phantomland, Kyle films, edits and produces many different types of short based media. For example, wedding and real-estate promos.
Bryan Auman
Bryan is a junior Film and Moving image major with a concentration in Cinematography and Editing at Stevenson University. He is excited to work on such a creative story and work along with such a great crew.
Camden Praisner
Camden is a junior Film and Moving Image major with a concentration in Writing and Producing at Stevenson University. He is based in the Baltimore, Maryland area.
Erin Orwig
Erin is a senior Film major/Graphic Design minor at Stevenson University. She has made many student films, designed logos and branched into animation throughout her career. She hopes this film will move and inspire the audience.