Ian Baker(XVIII)
- Location Management
- Editor
- Cinematographer
Ian "Ian Babey" Baker was born in the quiet town of Fremont, Indiana, on April 21, 2000. After only a couple years living their, his family and him moved to Fishers, Indiana. This small town was working on transitioning to become the city it is today. Surrounded by suburban houses and cornfields, he took to art at an early age, creating and imagining what he could to escape suburbia. He started with paining and sculpting, but by the fourth grade, his dreams of Hollywood were on the horizon. He started to work at visual effects, before dropping it and moving onto writing, before dropping that then settling on camera work and editing. He found passion in both in middle school and held on to both. He started high school by joining the school's broadcasting class, HSETV, where he got to work on his camera work and editing. By junior year he was ready for more of a challenge and worked with the schools film production club, Olio Road Productions, on their film "Cut For Time", this was his chance to prove his skills as an editor and do some camera work. By his senior year he decided to continue the production club and broadcast together. the 2017-18 school year, he headed both the Cinematography and Editing departments for work on "Iris". By the end of his high school years, he had a done work on a full length feature film, several news segments, short films with friends, and improved his skills in editing. Right now he is going to University of New Mexico to study in IFDM program and he hopes to continue his film career further.