Writing
Using words to tell imaginative and meaningful stories is extremely appealing to me. One aspect, as with drawing, is how direct writing can be. While it presents its own set of problems, not dealing with all of the software, hardware and financial challenges associated with making video games and experimental animations, feels freeing.
I would happily dedicate my life to writing screenplays and directing films if I manage to break into the industry. Hmmm, maybe I can carve my own indie movie making path.
Screenplays
Loco Parentis: Action/Adventure. A gang of outcast kids fight to save their town from anarchy after a mysterious virus causes all adults to behave like infants. View my writers profile on the The Blacklist
Upgrade (AKA Battle for Reality): Science Fiction (2012). My first feature length sci-fi screenplay made it into the second round (Top 10% of 6500 entries) of the Austin film festival screenplay competition. Won special merit award from the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood (Spring).
Postdoctoral
2016. B. Cullen, K. Collins, A. Hogue, and B. Kapralos. Sound and stereoscopic 3D: Examining the effects of sound on depth perception in stereoscopic 3D. In Proceedings of Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2016), Chalkidiki, Greece, July 13-15, 2016 (Winner of Best Student Paper Award).
2013. B. Cullen, D. Galperin, K. Collins, A. Hogue, and B. Kapralos. The Effects of 5.1 Sound Presentations on the Perception of Stereoscopic Imagery in Video Games. Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIV, San Francisco, California, Feb 3 – 7, 2013.
2012. B. Cullen, D. Galperin, K. Collins, B. Kapralos, and A. Hogue. The effects of audio on depth perception in S3D games. Audio Mostly 2012, Corfu, Greece, Sept 26 – 28.
PhD Thesis
2010 Thesis: A Portfolio of Audio-visual Compositions for the New Media Everyday – related my artistic practice to New Media Theory, Embodiment and Everyday Studies. Ph.D. (Electro Acoustic Composition) Digital Cinema/Sound Design, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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