Tempo

Welcome, dear reader to Tempo, my second feature film!

Like Assassin League: Episode II – Shadows of an Empire

this project will be fun, accomplishable, and fit within

the timeframes of the cast and crew.

This is a culmination of several important aspects of my

life including drumming, friends, family, my past and

dreams of being a YouTuber.

Logline: Told across converging timelines, Tempo follows a

driven young drummer and his friends chasing YouTube fame

in 2015 suburbia, until one violent night forces him to

outgrow the world that shaped him.

Why this film? It seems all roads led to becoming a

filmmaker and I love the idea of being able to simulate

both YouTube and drumming success in a film.

Why it works? Tempo works because it captures something

deeply familiar: the aimless suburban hangout years of

life with your closest friends before you must move on.

Those college years of party culture when you may be

talented enough to see a future, but not yet disciplined

enough to reach it.

Like American Graffiti, Clerks, and Superbad, this film

captures the zeitgeist of an era among the youth.

Set in 2015, the film revisits a cultural moment just

before everything accelerated — before AI, before the

pandemic, before everything changed. It was the early

creator economy: