Hayden Blades

Writer | Director | Editor | Composer | Gaffer | Visual Effects | Producer

Synthetic Human Partner Since 05-01-2007 | Click to view IMDB page | Share

Hayden's love affair with the arts spawned when he was a mere tadpole, drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. He picked up his first video camera in grade school. Haphazard skits with his friends, in the basement of his Kentucky home, soon turned into full-fledged productions. In high school, Hayden's infatuation only grew as he worked and studied as a techie, building sets, staging lights and tailoring costumes behind the scenes of several large-scale theater productions at the Youth Performing Arts School.

In 2000, Hayden moved to phoenix Arizona to develop his design and animation abilities in college, and met David Matteson. Hayden and David instantly hit it off, and began working on many projects together. Hayden received his bachelors degree in multimedia art in 2003, and worked with Casey Moore to help finalize his documentary feature, Finding the Future. After writing, directing and shooting The Heaviness of Here with David, and winning the Best Cinematography award at the 2006 Phoenix Film Festival's "Dead of Winter" competition, they caught the eye of Stephen Krystek, and Synthetic Human began.

Hayden has used his eye for detail and composition as gaffer, lighting the scenes, and assisting in the direction of photography for all Synthetic Human films, though his talents refuse to end in the visual arts. Hayden is a competent music composer, scoring many scenes from Synthetic Human's arsenal of short films, and producing experimental albums with Jarod Anderson. His attention to dramatic visual pacing, and his ear for sound design, netted him awards for Best Editing and Best Sound Design at the 2009 Project Twenty1 Film Festival in Philadelphia for the film Pattern: Response.


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FILMOGRAPHY WITH SYNTHETIC HUMAN PICTURES:

Tension of Skin (2010) - Editor / Gaffer / Music / Producer
Contingency (2010) - Gaffer / Visual Effects / Score / Key Art / Producer
Being Nigel (2010) - Director of Photography (gaffer) / Editor / Foley / Producer
Wounds: The Park Job (2009) - Gaffer / Visual Effects / Editor
Pattern: Response (2009) - Gaffer / Editor / Key Art / Visual Effects / Sound Editor / Score / Producer
The Chekhov Class (2009) - Gaffer / Assistant Director
ROMANaBOTTLE (2008) - Writer / Director / Gaffer / Visual Effects / Sound Editing / Key Art / Producer
Her Special Day (2008) - Gaffer / Editor / Key Art / Storyboards / Producer
I'm Voting Republican (2008) - Gaffer / Camera Operator
Common Ground (2008) - Gaffer / Producer
Carousel (2008) - Gaffer / Visual Effects / Producer
Drain (2007) - Writer / Gaffer / Editor / Visual Effects / Credit Sequences / Producer
Heinz Commercial: Taste the Magic (2007) - Gaffer / Editor / Visual Effects / Producer
Heinz Commercial: All In (aka: Bet On It) (2007) - Gaffer / Camera Operator / Editor / Producer
Tip Jar (2007) - Gaffer / Editor / Producer
Not Quite Dead (2006) - Camera Operator / Editor / Visual Effects / Key Art / Sound Editor

ADDITIONAL FILMOGRAPHY:

Jolene (2006) - 'Next Turn Productions' / Production Assistant
I Loved Her Again, Yesterday (2006) - 'Perspective Pictures' / Director / Editor / Visual Effects
The Heaviness of Here (2006) - 'Perspective Pictures' Writer / Director / Editor / Sound Design
The Banjo Player (2005) - 'Dreamfilm Pictures' / Visual Effects
Finding the Future (2003) - 'Anomalous Entertainment' / Visual Effects
Good Things (2000) - 'Perspective Pictures' / Writer / Director / Editor / Actor

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