Nicholas Homsher
Pitches
Aukera: Fragments of Sky
Produced, Coordinated, and Edited Fantasy Featurette with Greenscreen Fx, Special Fx, and on-location action.
Scratch Beginnings
Spec promotional video pitch for a local restaurant in Norman, OK.
Sauce It Up
Spec Digital Design Campaign for a local pizza restaurant in Norman, OK.
Age of Dragons
Wrote and Directed Fantasy Short which incorporated heavy Greenscreen Fx, Special Fx, and on-location action.
Ad Club Social Media
Communications Manager: Created Social Media Accounts and Captioned
Posts for The University of Oklahoma Ad Club
An advertising networking club that connects students to the professional advertising community through the American Advertising Federation.
Western History Collections
Produced, Shot, and Edited A Promotional Video for the University of Oklahoma Libraries Website
Treatment
The video will center around seated interviews with the collection’s curators which will take place in their offices or in exhibits of their choosing. Interview questions will be customized to emphasize what separates the University of Oklahoma collection from other collections and museums. The interviewees will be asked to provide background information on what made them choose to become curators for this collection specifically and what they love about it.
The video will include smooth panning shots of the staircases and individual collection rooms like the predsidential room. Moving shots will reveal the graduate assistants at the checkout desk and the reading tables in the collection. Close- up shots of maps and photographic records will demonstrate the types of materials available for checkout. A closeup of a graduate student sliding a checkout form across the desk will indicate how to check-out these materials.
Background Info
Lina Ortega serves as the Operations Director of the Western History Collections and as a Native American Studies Professor at the University.
Students must wear gloves when handling original photographs and maps in the collection but otherwise remain uninhibited in their exploration of the collection. In order to check out an original artifact a student could fill out a request form with the graduate assistants at the front by the stairs and the graduate assistants will present that text, photo, or map to them.
Marshall Fuller serves as the Curator and opened his exhibition Red Dust which focuses on historical Oklahoman poets.
Contacts
Lina Ortega: Head of Operations for the Western History Collections and Native American Studies Librarian
Todd Fuller: Curator of the Western History Collections
Chelsea Julian: Bizzell Library Outreach and Marketing Director
Hive Coffee Shop
Produced, Shot, and Edited A Demo Commercial for OU Housing and Food
Midnight Dreary
Wrote and pitched a TV show premise to peers
Premise
Sarah, a young college student enrolls in a Writers and Mysteries class which teaches her about the Poe-Toaster, a mysterious figure who visits the gravesite of Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary of his death. She tells her friend that she’s going to the grave for inspiration for her writing.
When Sarah arrives, she meets the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe and he sends her back in time to uncover the culprit of his murder.
Sarah loses the famous writer and must find his murderer before they kill Poe again. She meets Poe’s Fiance and her family as well as Poe’s doctor.
Poe ignores the initial warning that he will die in the next few days and Sarah must convince him. Sarah becomes attached to Poe and refuses to see him suffer the same fate again.
“A young writer named Sarah travels back in time to solve the
uncover the circumstances surrounding the death of Edgar
Allan Poe.”
In the end, Sarah writes a book about her journey titled Midnight Dreary about the revised ending of the previously unsolved mystery.
Battle Scars
Wrote, Produced, Directed, and Edited A Dramatic Short Film
Concept Word: Self-Control
Logline: An army veteran’s struggles against his PTSD as the illness causes his world of discipline and stability to unravel.
Framework: Drama
Logline: An army veteran’s struggles against his PTSD as the illness causes his world of discipline and stability to unravel.
Framework: Drama
Treatment
On a Friday night, Justin, an army vet, comes over to see his girlfriend, Courtney, for a movie. As he walks in, a kitchen timer goes off. She leaves to save the food in the oven before it burns. The timer increasingly gets louder and a thin layer of smoke fills the room. Justin experiences a hazy and indistinct flashback to the war zone of Afghanistan. He shakes off the episode and goes to grab food from the kitchen.
Courtney and Justin sit on the sofa with their dinner and turn on the movie. A blockbuster film plays with lasers and explosions. The explosions get louder. Justin pauses the movie and goes to make popcorn. He breaths deeply and talks to himself bit, trying to make sense of his surroundings.
He opens the bag and it begins to pop. His brain processes gunfire. His muscles tense and his adrenaline soars. He’s tapping, anxious, pacing around.
He puts the popcorn in a bowl and sits down on the couch. Courtney can tell he’s rattled. She checks on him, asking him “Are you alright?” and “Did something happen?” He lies through his teeth and she knows it but they restart the movie.
Justin is back in Afghanistan, and reaches for a gun at his hip but he didn’t bring one to movie night and the realization brings him back to reality.
Courtney glares at him. She demands to know what’s going on but Justin can’t explain it. It all seems like a reflex. She sees the genuine confusion dawn on his face and demands he see a doctor.
Justin and Courtney go in to see the psychiatrist and talk about the test results. Justin has PTSD. His jaw sets in a firm line, he wants to overcome this. Courtney tells him that this isn’t another drill and that he can’t fix this through willpower alone. Justin looks at her - terrified.