Oisín MacMathúna Portfolio

Here is a bibliography of various media projects I have worked on, ranging from audio, short films, interviews and PowerPoints. In these projects, I was;

Director	Writer
Producer	Cinematographer
Casting Director	Storyboard Artist
Interviewer	Editor
Actor	Sound Effects

JUST ANOTHER PART OF ME (STUDENT SHORT FILM)

Plot: “Two women discover there’s more than meets the eye with their cheating boyfriend”.

Theme was regarding breaking stereotypes, so I had chosen how characters with mental health disorders are presented in media. In this scenario: someone with dissociative identity disorder being in an accidental love triangle. Besides the cast, the crew was basically just me. So I broke down the story beats and created profiles for each character, creating brief descriptions and creating visual inspirations as to what they would look like.

I also drew the story boards myself. Quite crude, and of course on a much large scope than what the end product ended up being, but it helped provide a template.

The main inspiration for this was an interview I had saw of someone with the disorder who would unknowingly go on dates with multiple men at the same time, which they found mildly amusing.

While the circumstances that lead to this disorder can be awful, I wanted to pivot from the cliché that someone with the disorder would be wacky or dangerous but were instead very normal and casual and would do no harm to others. I had consulted with someone online with Dissociative identity disorder to get their input and consult on the script. I wanted to make sure that on the page that the character of Costello was a regular person and not the threat that people in their community are portrayed as being and that their disorder was shown in an accurate way. Which included sound mixing and sound designing for when they switches alters.

This was an interesting production as it was my first time working with professional actors.

So I made sure that I left a good impression. Eva and Vanessa had a real grasp on their characters from the jump and were very collaborative throughout the shoot. There were some last minute rewrites on this production as it was meant to have a much larger cast but issues of illness and scheduling prevented actors from being able to partake in the shooting. Therefore the amount of characters were trimmed down to just three, with me stepping in for a role. However this worked far better as it kept the story focused and wouldn’t lean too far into absurdity.

You can see the differences from first draft to the final draft here.

ARTIFICIAL IRASMUS (STUDENT SHORT FILM)

PLOT: Actor Irasmus Kingston is reincarnated into an AI by his relative, Hector. To the surprise of Irasmus, Hector has ulterior motives…

Commentary on AI and it’s misuse with deceased actors. This a topic that has only grown more relevant since the creation of this short film. It was meant to be more a metaphor with a zombie but it was decided to make it a more direct commentary to avoid confusion. You can learn more about the production here.

Worked on this with Destiny Coker and Dylan Kenny. The scene were the AI Irasmus wakes up had to be reshoot due to issues with lighting in the original scene as well as the original location not looking that well on camera. The newer scene turned out to be far better, especially with the new lenses that we used in the scene. I had booked a slot at Fade Studios and paid for the slot to make sure we had enough time to film the scene.

Irish Neutrality Interviews

Asking TUD students their views on Irish Neutrality with Dylan Kenny. Due to some technical issues with Dylan, we had to scrap the 3 interviews we had filmed prior and start all over again. However, I managed to reach out and seek multiple students who were willing to be interviewed and even exceeded the requirement needed. This was of course a very sensitive discourse to discuss but we managed to find students from various countries, some of whom came directly from war torn nations, so it helped create an open dialogue while also ending on a note of letting the viewer decide what their position was.

IDENTITY, REPRESENTATION & MEDIA

This was a group assignment with Danila Timofeev, Auste Mockapetrye and Penny Williams. I had real difficulties speaking into a microphone so I had to overcome that stammer. However, Danila was quite patient with me. Speaking of which; the real credit belongs to the others who had worked on this production.

They brought their A+ game. They’re quite a talented bunch.

STUDENTS VS SHARK

Asking students in Creative Digital Media how long they could fight a shark. This was a simple and silly project, but I had fun with it as you can tell from the silly inclusions of Mortal Kombat, Dick Dale’s Misirlou and Austin Powers.