Award-Winning Director and Producer Wesley "Wuz Good" Armstrong visited Compton High School today and spoke to Mr. Jones’ Audio Production class about his job and his creative process. As part of the visit, he showed the class his newest film, Vigilante, which is currently being screened at film festivals.

He brought along the main actors from the film including Khleo Thomas (Holes, Friday After Next, Walking Tall), Maestro Harrell (The Wire, Fear the Walking Dead, Teen Titans GO! To the Movies), Jaden Martin (After Earth, Root of All Evil), and Tim Kennedy (NCIS, New Jack Fury), who also spoke to the class about their jobs as actors.

During Wesley’s talk, he talked about making a film starts with photos, as 1 second of film is 24 frames of photos. He led the class in a thought-provoking exercise where they got in groups and took 6 photos to tell a story. Then they showed the photos to Wesley and he tried to tell their story from the photos.

As part of his class, Wesley encouraged the class to be creative, stay motivated, meet as many people as they can, and attach themselves to people who are doing better than they are. He and the actors then stayed after and answered individual questions from the Compton scholars until the last one left.  

Wesley has more than 17 years of film and entertainment experience. He has directed multi-award-winning film festival shorts as well as music videos for major record labels including Def Jam, Interscope, and Atlantic Records. He has directed over $4 million of branded entertainment for companies such as Lyft and T-Mobile, and has amassed 3 million social media followers along the way, being named a "game-changing influencer" by Bloomberg Magazine.