With a video camera in hand, a script and crew beside him, Justin Marmorstein (‘06) of Marmofilms pursues his dream of becoming a music video director while filming a music video for Reggie “Reggie B” Bradley.

Since graduating high school, Marmorstein has realized his passion for filmmaking. During his sophomore year at BOHS, he was failing Spanish class, and to raise his grade he began to make videos for the class projects.

He enjoyed making the videos, and his classmates appreciated them as well. Four years after he graduated, his MTV Cribs video, the most popular video he made for the class, was shown to students as an example of excellent work.

Marmorstein also decided his senior year to quit playing basketball, which he had been playing since freshman year, so that he could focus on his career to pursue film.

In August 2006, Marmorstein moved to Los Angeles to attend the Los Angeles Film School where he majored in Directing and minored in Editing. His thesis film, “Brown Paper Bag”, was admitted to the Long Beach Hope and Freedom Film Festival last year.

He moved back to Orange County after two years in Los Angeles and experimented with wedding films and photography. It was clear at this point that he identified his ultimate career choice.

“I then found out my love for film and figured out I wanted to be a music video director,” said Marmorstein.

Currently, he has been traveling to Kansas City to work for the record label Innate Sounds.

So far, Marmorstein has directed nine music videos for the artists signed on to the record label. Some of the artists and bands he has worked with are Ces Cru, Back to Square One, Eyezon, and Reggie B. Bradley.

Marmorstein has worked extensively with Bradley. The two first collaborated on Bradley’s song “The Only One”.

“We shot ‘The Only One’ in one day in the middle of summer in Kansas City,” said Bradley, “Marmorstein wrote the script and basically did everything we needed for the shoot.”

The two have also worked together on several projects, including another one of Bradley’s songs, “Elevation” which involved cinematographer and director Mikael Columbu, where Marmorstein was brought on to shoot the green screen shots.

“For the ‘Elevation’ music video, Columbu directed the shoot through video chat from Paris, France while Marmostein operated the cameras,” said Bradley, “It was a new experience for me, both professionally and personally.”

During this time Bradley stayed with Marmorstein for about a week, and the two worked together eight to twelve hours a day on the video.

“We really bonded during those shoots, basically living together [during] that whole experience,” said Bradley.

Bradley and Marmorstein have since then worked on three additional videos, all shot during a one-week session in Kansas City for the hip-hop group Ces Cru.

Mike Viglione, of Ces Cru, has been more than satisfied with Marmorstein’s skill in the video making process. Not only did Marmorstein do his job well, but he implemented a great deal of concepts and ideas to the videos they’ve worked on together.

“We gave each other our visions, tapped what resources were available, and put together a mutual vision. To me, all the magic happened in the editing room. That’s all Marmo,” said Viglione.

Marmorstein has so far been very happy with how his career has been going, but he still has other goals and achievements he wants to fulfill.

“I really love what I am doing right now and I couldn’t be any happier. I am living my dream and hopefully someday I can be the next Hype Williams,” said Marmorstein.