About

My name is Toby Ashley Waid Moore, and I'm an upcoming film director and producer. I was born in 2006 into a countryside life surrounded by farming, mostly expected to follow the routes of my family name and continue the heritage of farming, a story which repeats itself every year. Two sheep have a lamb; through the months, you care for this lamb with everything you have, watch it grow, explore the world, have a life, a narrative, for it to be all grown up, for the same story to repeat next year.

However, I saw art in the world, mostly in film and photography, something which I understood with little to no teaching. But I always saw the composition of my surroundings to capture it in an image or video, like I had my own cinema, always crafting a film in my head with what is around me, seeing the shots, the editing that can ether build tension or relax it, with simple shot reverse shot, or having a more artistic framing which showed everything in a new spectacle. 

Pre-COVID, I had grown a joy for watching films, and not just the new spectacles which hit the cinema screens every month. I respected some old films and the creativity that went into them without being able to use CGI as an example, the science that went into some of the Charlie Chaplin films to leave audiences on the edge of their seats, in either laughter or general awe of the scene. Or the original Mary Poppins film using the same technology of green/blue screen before it was even a digital concept to just 'key out' the colour in 3 seconds.

Then during COVID, I went deeper into this and decided to learn it for myself, as I had all the time in the world while stuck at home with nothing but a computer and a phone. Starting simple by teaching myself to create a lightsaber in Fusion on a video of me swinging a stick around, then progressing to having two of me in one shot... The list continues. But for me then just having one shot wasn't good enough; there was no story, no character. So I wrote myself a Star Wars fan film. At the age of 13, this was not a good script, not formatted correctly, and poor dialogue looking back. But for me at the time, it was a work of art. I had created a story with my characters which go on an adventure through space! For me, I was shocked; I had never liked English as a subject. Being dyslexic, I could never understand a written text; it had to be visual, like you could touch it, and this script was that in my mind. I could see the sequences unfold in my head, like I had mentally created a film. My own film. However, most people would then want to make the film, and so did I, however after filming one shot I realised that it was a lot harder than aiming a camera and hitting record, especially by yourself. And I called quits on the project. However it didn't scare me away, I still loved creating a story, and editing it together, which I ended up doing with Fortnite gameplay video's. As I could construct the story while editing the video.

Later, after the first wave of COVID when I started my GCSEs, I chose to do Drama, as I have always enjoyed acting, and we had to create our own devised piece of drama. Through that journey, I was able to direct some actors into the characters we had made, tell them my thoughts, my vision which I can always see vividly in my head. That is when I pieced it together that I want to create films. No, in fact, NEED to.

As of now, I have taken my full name Toby A W Moore, which was born in farming, and making it my brand. Beginning TAWM studio as my output of creativity. As now i'm starting to create serious short films with a real narrative, learning with every shot I take, what complications come around on set and in post, but taking it as a positive lesson that I can fix.