It’s kinda how I feel. Still churning out the end of summer editing backlog. Sure doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for this blog, so I figured I would go ahead and get one done while waiting for some footage to render. Mostly I’m just going to post clips of some of the stuff I’ve finished in the past month or so.
Mark and Jennifer’s wedding was great. The setting at a friends house on Henderson inlet was a beautiful location, and the sun gave everything a golden kind of hue that day. It kind of colored everything in a way that looks great, really almost film-like…
Hey Ken!
We just watched the DVD and everything came out sooo good! Thank you so much, you were really able to get a feeling of the day without actually being there.
Mark and Jennifer -
Next is Omayra and James. A little back story -
Quite a while back, little over a year or so, I was starting to get really serious about this videography as a business thing. After producing, directing, writing and editing a TV show for the 8 years I did it, I was determined to make this my living. No one was stopping me but myself.
My calendar wasn’t exactly full. Video Production was still a supplemental portion of my life. I needed to make industry contacts. I needed to network.
Firing off e-mails and phone calls to wedding planners and venues and flower shops and bridal boutiques yielded less than stellar results. Needless to say, there was frustration.
One day I drove past “Omayra’s Bridal Boutiqe” on Capitol, just south of Linwood in Tumwater. I decided to stop in and introduce myself. Things went well, and on September 3rd of this year, I filmed her and James’ wedding.
Here’s the clip -
Omayra loved the video so much that we will be giving DVD’s of the wedding out as promotional material for her and myself at Omayra’s Bridal Boutique!
Next is a couple that met at the University of Washington in an engineering program. Yongjun, Dingding and I met to discuss their wedding videography, and everything moved forward. Yongjun and Dingding are both from China, and their wedding was fantastic. I’m always excited about any opportunity to experience cultures other than my own. Yongjun had requested I film from the front of the church, facing the audience. This is not my usual shooting location, so I was a tad worried about lighting, but overall everything came out great. It was a lot of fun, and another beautiful wedding in Seattle!
Well I think that’s about it for this time. I have quite a few more wedding videos in the edit backlog, a couple of Quinceanera’s to complete, a benefit golf tournament, the Sweet Adelines concert, oh wow. What a workload I’ve shouldered! Yeah, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed, but I gotta keep crankin. Churning. Like a factory. A high quality factory of course, as you can see for yourself above!
When one thinks of “Barbershop,” many famous and influential groups come to mind. My personal favorites, and perhaps the most notable are The Be Sharps. This popular quartet enjoyed a string of hits in 1985, starting with the #1 single “Baby On Board,” from their debut album Meet The Be Sharps.
While The Be Sharps helped to popularize four part harmony in the mid 80′s, the concept owes its origins to a much earlier and simpler time. Many credit The Mills Brothers with learning to harmonize at their father’s barbershop in Piqua, Ohio as the birth of Barbershop.
A remarkable event in the history of the form is quoted from the wikipedia -
A meeting was called and at 6.30 pm on Monday April 11, 1938, 26 men gathered on the roof garden of the Tulsa Club in the Alvi Hotel. They eventually burst into four part harmony singing. The police were called and had to ask the participants to “keep it down.” The sound of their singing had reached ground level and all traffic stopped to listen, wondering where the harmonic sound was coming from. This incident is spoofed in an episode of the Simpsons.
Barbershop performers are apparently not strangers to the rebel rousing rock and roll lifestyle!
This brings me to the Olympia Sweet Adelines, and their upcoming concert at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Performing Arts Center. “Come Rain or Shine!” is the title and theme of this year’s show at the SPSCC. “A Musical Comedy about the Most Talked About Topic in Washington State: The Weather!” The Sweet Adelines concert is an annual event, and will feature guest perfomers from all around the state.
About the Sweet Adelines -
One of 600 chapters of Sweet Adelines International, a 30,000+ member, non profit worldwide organization of women committed to advancing the barbershop musical art form of Acapella four-part harmony for entertainment and education.
This Saturday, October 4th, at 2:00 and 7:00 pm! Ken J. Minnaert Performing Arts Center! Students and Seniors are $10, GA $15. Come one! Come all!
Why my sudden interest in barbershop and the Sweet Adelines of Olympia you ask? I’m filming the show of course! I sat in on a rehearsal for a little bit this evening, and I have to say there is something pretty awesome about what these ladies are doing. Seriously, they rock!
