FASHIONX

Role responsibilities: directing, production assisting, storyboarding, location scouting, casting, crew task delegation, call sheet development.

I created this short film in collaboration with other FashionX Executive Members while active in my role as Director of Marketing and Media (2024-5). The goal was to promote our annual Runway Show, a hallmark Stanford marquee event that attracts thousands of attendees each year.

Having had prior experience on-and-around set while working at FORTYTWO CO, I was tasked with heading this production in multiple ways, the most challenging (and rewarding) of which was building my crew’s confidence.

Since I was the most experienced and understood what being a producer, director, gaffer, audio technician, key grip, et cetera, truly entailed, I sat down with my team and broke down each person’s responsibilities in one-on-one sessions.

Empowering my peers and pushing them to get first-hand experience on set and in post-production was a job that I was glad to have been entrusted with. What’s more, it reaffirmed to myself and my community my own leadership qualities and the arbitrariness of gatekeeping. The bottom line is that lateral facilitation is paramount for young professionals. I champion that.