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Amber and Justin’s Wedding

December 15th, 2010

Okay. Trying to finish up 2009. A few more wedding videos in Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma and outlying areas. Then I moved on to some other really cool projects.
Toward the tail end of summer ’09, I was the wedding videographer for Amber and Justin’s wedding. The wedding was at a beautiful historic house in the Sumner area, and it could not have been a more beautiful day. Here is the Highlight Reel from the wedding.

I did the videography on a couple more weddings that year, but I think it’s about time to move this blog on to what I consider to be my single most monumental achievement of 2009. Next blog – Mutually Assured Productions and The Van Job.

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Jasmin and Louis

December 14th, 2010

Okay, it’s been well over a year since I’ve written on the blog here. So I’m going to start way back when I stopped updating it, and spend the next few weeks covering everything I missed; bringing it up to date. Sometimes this commercial and wedding video production gig here in Olympia, Seattle, and Tacoma keeps me so busy I don’t always have time to update. Wow, what an understatement!

Starting with Jasmin and Louis. June 27th, 2009. Jasmin and Louis booked early, which is great. Their wedding was at St. Ignacio’s Chapel, which is on the campus of Seattle City U. Beautiful church, really amazing. I loved shooting there, and would love to do it again. The architect of the church described the theme of his design as “7 bottles of light.” It’s really pretty.

Jasmin and Louis’s wedding was the first opportunity I had to utilize the camera I had just purchased; Panasonic’s HMC-150 AVCCAM. This is an HD camera that takes advantage of a relatively new video compression coded called AVCHD. After many months of researching, this was the HD camera I decided to buy. Panasonic had earned my loyalty years before with their DVX-100 line of cameras. Although the final product went out in standard definition, the HD stuff looks far superior, even on a DVD.

Anyway, here’s a couple of video clips from Jasmin and Louis’s wedding! The first clip is the pre-ceremony montage. This was shot exclusively with the HMC-150.

Next is the post-ceremony montage. This portion was shot with a combination of the DVX and HMC. You can actually see the difference between the two cameras when it switches. This is primarily due to adjusting the aspect ratio of the two cameras to match up properly.

Thanks for reading!

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The Mike McClure Benefit Golf Tournament

January 23rd, 2009

Back in September I received a phone call inquiring how much I would charge to film a golf tournament, and create a highlight video to go along with it.  The caller informed me if was for a friend of hers who had received terrible injuries from a horrible accident. The tournament was to be a benefit, to help he and his family with medical bills and other things while he was out of work.

I told her I would check my availability, crunch some numbers and get back to her with a price.  After finding that I had nothing scheduled, I started trying to figure out how much I would charge to shoot, edit, encode, and DVD author this video.  Then it dawned on me – I would do it for free.

I called her back and let her know that I would volunteer my time to shoot and edit this video. Each DVD copy would cost $20 dollars, and I sold 4. I certainly didn’t make any money on this thing, but that wasn’t really the point.  I think everything came out quite awesome, I like the videos a lot.

Brad Sucks is kind of a default music for many projects I do for a couple of reasons. One – He Rocks.  Seriously. Two – Royalty Free.  So Brad Sucks make perfect sense to use for stuff like this, he put his music out there for anyone to use freely, and I think that’s pretty rad.  I volunteered my time to film this golf tournament, and all in all it was a fun and entertaining day.

That was the intro video, and the next is the Highlight Reel of the day’s events. Be forewarned – it’s 12 minutes long!

Enjoy!

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Cobalt

December 2nd, 2008

My last post dealt with yellowbook shoots, and I briefly touched on how I am contractually not allowed to utilize the videos I shoot for my own promotional purposes.  That is to say I can’t put them up on my website, or my blog.  I wouldn’t be able to put them on a sample DVD or a demo reel that I sent out to prospective clients.

It’s a little frustrating, but there are ways around it.  Like this blog. I write on this blog, and I include a link to a video I saw online.  It just so happens that I shot the video I’m linking to.

Which brings me to my focus. A video shot in October for the company I’ve been doing the yellowbook shoots for. Apparently they like what I’m doing enough to have me do a shoot for one of their own clients in Seattle. They called me up and asked if I would be willing to do this shoot, and I’ll have to admit there was a bit of pressure. Well, that’s an understatement. It was a lot of pressure. I felt like this was a make or break gig.

My reason for mentioning the legality of showing videos is because I feel some small degree of angsty annoyance. I consider the video that I shot for them to be among the finest I’ve ever shot. No. It is the best thing I’ve ever shot. I’m very proud of it. I want it to be the core of my demo reel. It should be my flagship sample.

But I’m not allowed to use it.
Well, maybe in a couple years, I might be able to get rights to use it. By then, I should think, it will no longer be the crown jewel of my accomplishments…

I may have talked it up to the point wherein now, viewing it, you will be thinking “What’s the big deal?” I have no apology. I think it’s awesome.

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That’s just one of the things I need to learn to live with attempting to transform my passion into a successful business. There will be concerns that will not always allow me to keep every piece that I create. I need to think of this more as a business than an art.

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The Yellowbook Shoots

November 24th, 2008

Yeesh.  I need to get in the habit of updating this thing more frequently.  Here it is though, a long overdue update, and this time there will be no embedded videos.  No embedded videos because it would be illegal for me to feature these videos that I’ve shot for my own marketing purposes.

But I can LINK to them.

Last couple weeks of August, I get a call from a production company in LA asking if I’d be able to shoot some commercials for them in our area.  After considering their offer I quite willingly accepted.  For the next two months I shot over a dozen commercials for this company.  This company is contracted by yellowbook.com, and in turn they contract me to do the shoots.  I’ve travelled as far as Maple Valley and North Bend doing these, there have been several in Seattle, and a few in Tacoma.

I really enjoy shooting for these guys and I’m hapy with the way most of the videos came out.  There are a couple I’m not incredibly proud of, some because of a critical view of my own work, others because I didn’t appreciate what the editors had done with it.

Anyway, those of you who are here reading this may be interested in seeing a couple.  I’m certainly interested in sharing them, so here come the links! Each video is 30 seconds or 1 minute in length.

This was the first one I shot – Above All Roofing in Maple Valley.

Next was Northwest Dental Services in downtown Tacoma.

A. Robert Thomson Attorney at Law in Federal Way.

The Auto Buff autobody repair and detail shop in West Seattle.

Summers Chiropractic and Massage in Federal Way. I was a bit disappointed with the editing in this one, and wish they had picked a different opening shot.

Skyway Nail and Beauty Supply and Design Tacoma.

Water Out Tacoma.

Pro Flooring LLC in North Bend.

Daniel Whitmore Attorney at Law, Seattle.

La Dolce Vita Italian Ristorante, Seattle.

Auburn City Imports in… AUBURN!

It looks like that’s all that’s live at this time. There are a few more I’ve shot that aren’t completed yet, but I think there are plenty here to give you an idea of what these shoots are all about. They’re a lot of fun to work on, and they pay decent. Unfortunately I think the economic downturn we’re seeing has taken a chunk out of how many gigs I was getting. All of these were done in September and October, I’ve only gotten 3 new ones in the month of November. Things are slowing down…

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