Saguaro silhouettes against a desert sunset
Comp — not final

EXT. SONORAN DESERT — GOLDEN HOUR

Alexis
Rodriguez

Writer · Director · First AD

I write the scene, then I make the day work.

View the reel

Scene 01 — The pitch

Two jobs, one person

Most sets have someone who knows what the scene is about and someone who knows whether the day is achievable. When those are two people, the schedule wins arguments it shouldn't. I do both jobs, which means the coverage that gets cut is the coverage the story can afford to lose.

Capability, as a call sheet would list it.

DeptPosition
WritingWriter

Features, shorts and pilots taken from outline through production draft — and rewritten on the day when a location falls through.

DirectingDirector

Shotlisting, blocking and performance. I arrive with a plan specific enough to abandon deliberately.

ProductionProducer

Scheduling, budgets, locations, and the paperwork that keeps a small crew legal and insured.

Production1st AD

Stripboards, call sheets, and running the floor. Safety meeting before the first setup, every time.

PostEditorial

Assembly and rough cuts, so a director’s cut exists before anyone else is paid to open the project.

Scene 02 — Selected work

Work

Four projects, the role held on each, and the crew who made them. Open any frame for the full credits.

Scene 03 — About

About

Portrait in low light, black t-shirtComp — not final

Alexis started as the person on set who wrote the thing, which is a bad place to stand if you don’t also know how long a company move takes. So they learned the second half — stripboards, call sheets, the arithmetic of a twelve-hour day — and found that the two halves argue productively.

A recent graduate, which means the crews are small and everyone is doing three jobs. It also means the credits are real: these are the people who were actually on those crews, listed by name, and they will pick up the phone.

The work runs narrative-first, with commercial and music video days paying for it. The through-line is the same either way: know what the scene is for before you know what the lens is.

Every shoot day opens the same way.

EXT. LOCATION — DAWN, BEFORE THE FIRST SETUP

ALEXIS

(to the crew, before anyone touches a stand)

Nobody here is getting hurt for a shot. If something feels wrong, you stop it — you don't need my permission and you don't need to be right.

The nearest hospital is on the back of your call sheet. Water's in the truck — drink it before you're thirsty. If we lose the light, we lose the light. We'll get it another way.

CUT TO:

— and then we shoot.

Behind the scenes

  • A slate held up on a desert roadsideComp — not final
    Roadside slate — day 2
  • Operator holding a video cameraComp — not final
    Setting the 40mm — night ext.
  • A film crew working on a soundstageComp — not final
    Call sheet, revision 3
  • Crew gathered around a cameraComp — not final
    Video village, such as it was

Scene 04 — Documents

Resume

The PDFs are here, and so are the same credits as real text — a PDF barely gets indexed and reads badly on a phone.

Download

  • RésuméPDF · One page · Updated 2026Coming soon
  • 1st AD packetPDF · Sample stripboard and call sheetComing soon
  • Writing samplePDF · Silver Bracelet — production draftComing soon

Scene 05 — Fade out

Contact

hello@example.com

Available for narrative, commercial and music video work. Will travel.

Or send the details

Alexis Rodriguez

Writer · Director · First AD

↑ Back to top

Review build — imagery is licensed stock standing in for Alexis’s own. Credits sheet outstanding.