Mark Pleasant

Name: Mark F.Pleasant

Director of Photography, Editing, Graphic Design/Posters, Art Direction/Set Design

Mission statement: Let's face it I'm doing what I loved to do as a kid....Make Movies. Now the only difference is I used to charge my actors a buck to be in my movie...I don't know why that idea never caught on. Bottom line is I never grew up, I'm still a kid in many ways. But seriously one of the things I love to do is design images and make films. All I can say is it's great to be able to glorify God with a gift he has given you. And since I'm a kid I love working with folks my own age.

Day job: I formed Small Wonder Studio to do film, video production and computer animation. We have done regional commercials, music videos, corporate training and promotional films and documentary films.

Modus Operandi: I love working on films that essentially have no budget, because it forces you to come up with creative ways of doing things. Of course, it might not be any good but they are creative and sometimes it just might come out really cool. I also think it's fine to let the seams show a bit on our films. Sometimes a car or a light pole is going to get in the shot, shooting as fast as we have to shoot, it's going to happen.