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: