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Friday, May 25, 2007

Modest Mouse - Fire It Up



Modest Mouse - Fire It Up - Video I edited for the Stereogum.com contest: http://www.stereogum.com/modestmouse/
They provided green screen footage of the band. I added the special FX and edited the video. I had to manually sync the tracks and add back in a high quality version of the song from their new CD "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank".

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Robot Wars



Robot Wars was made with a Fujifilm digital still camera and Media Studio Pro editor. I cheated on the numbers of frames per second, I used 3 frames per still image. It makes it a little more choppy, but the images would have gone by way to fast at 1 frame a scond.

Broose: So Lost Without You



Broose: So Lost Without You was filmed in early 2006. Broose drove up from Splendora, tx and spent several days at Tomorrows World Studios. The song "So Lost Without You" is from Broose's CD London Static. It was our first attempt at using green screen for a music video. It was edited with Ulead's Media Studio Pro. Which does green screen, but not very well. Since moving to Adobe After Effects with Keylight our green screen effects have much improved. The set was not lit very well and there was a lot of green spill on Broose. But over all we were pleased with the outcome. Broose did much of the editing himself. The process was tedious on a n older P4 system, rendering took forever. IT was hard to get a good preview on the results, so you just had to wait. The guitar in the center of video was used to cover up a hot spot in the lighting. We show the actual green screen several times, poking fun at all of the videos that use green/blue screen effects. We plan on re-editing all of the raw footage to create a whole new video (now that we have after effects and a faster computer).

Broose

Al Kinoman - A Director's Vision


This is one of my first videos on Youtube. We shot this a few years ago and I re-edited it for a contest. It was for Gary Cogill's three minute movie contest (ABC's Channel 8 Movie Critic). I took out all the footage from our films we had made. The original video was about 10 minutes long. It was one of the first things I put on the Web as well. For years it was on Broadcast.com's site. Mark Cuban's billion dollar making website. I think it was hosted there on behalf of the Dallas Video Festival.The video is spoofing all of the talking head videos that go behind the scenes of movie sets, talking to the director, cast and crew. The funny thing is we shot this before DVD's. The inspiration came from the HBO "making of" videos. But now all DVD's have this same sort of thing in the extras section.