Fellows Follows his Dream in Film

Brian Fellows

RVCC- It’s not unusual to find Raritan Valley Community College student Brian Fellows with a camera in hand. Having taken film classes at Franklin High School, he’s gained enough experience to follow his dream of shooting videos for celebrities.

Now out of High school, Fellows continues his work in film. He currently owns two cameras and the editing program Final Cut Pro. He’s worked on small projects for friends and recently finished a co-produced video for a local rapper known as Lexx.

But he says he won't stop there.

Movie created at Franklin
high school. Fellows served
as technical support.

“When I'm out of school I tend to always think of videos I want to shoot to songs that run on my playlist constantly,” he said. “It keeps my mind running.”

He’s currently hashing out a few story lines for two local rappers and plans to begin shooting this June.

Fellows, 18, has experience in producing, camera work and editing. He says he always had an interest in the film class' he’d been taking, however, he didn’t fully bloom until his junior year. Now with three years under his belt, he has shot and/or edited around 60 videos, many outside of class.

At Franklin High, Fellows served as videographer/editor for the school’s live student morning broadcast. He was also part of the senior crew for a student reality film called “Void”.

Damoni Rackley, a peer of Fellows, said that he likes Fellows’ work behind the scenes because he’s so neat. “He edits well, his time line is organized, and he labels things good, which is needed when you’re working with big projects.”

 

Fellows received two awards sponsored by Micheal Pinnix, video aspects teacher, for his work. One award was for the school’s morning show, and another for helping out so much in the program. He spent a lot of his own time in the studio. The awards were given out at the annual Aspects of Video Awards(AVA's) ceremony held at Franklin High. 

Michael Pinnix describes Fellows as a team player. “He has what it takes,” he said. “The passion to pursue this as a career.”

Fellows said he looks at people from Franklin who are succeeding in film as encouragement, and sees his high school film teacher as his role model.