TRAIN. EVERYDAY.

I've really been wanting to shoot a quick video featuring close up details involving a young athlete training in the way they do everyday.  I got the chance this week when I found some free time, then...a quick shoot, a not so quick edit, a much longer sound design in Soundbooth, and then some frustration with After Effects, but in the end it turned out as I'd hoped it would.  I shot it on a T2i at 720p60 with a variable ND filter to keep the DOF shallow.  I color corrected using Colorista and color graded using Looks.

After Effects Work

It has been a while since I posted anything, but it's not like I haven't been busy. I've completed a lot a different projects in the last few months, primarily focusing on commercial work which has given me the opportunity to work on my After Effects skills.  Below are a couple of videos that represent some of the After Effects work I've been doing lately.  

The first video is a slideshow for the Ogden Valley Winter Sports Foundation that utilizes a script that allows the photos to change to the beat of the music.  The script can be purchased at AE Scripts.

The second video is an ad for the Imagine Ballet Theatre using shots I took around Ogden, Utah.  I inserted various text in After Effects and imported the tracking data from Mocha AE.  The ad turned out better than I expected.

The third video was used in IBT's ballet, Alice: Adventures in Wonderland and was projected on a large scrim when Alice falls down the rabbit hole.  This piece utilizes footage shot against a green screen in the dance studio and was composited in After Effects.  A little time remapping and an overall color look using Magic Bullet Looks and voila!

The last video is a proposed ad I threw together for the Utah Olympic Park in Park City.  I used a baseline After Effects comp another graphics designer created and modified it for this specific spot with video I shot last summer, some creative commons music by Jason Shaw, and audio effects from the Apple Final Cut Suite library.

That's not all I've been doing, but it gives a good feel for the kind of work I've been spending my time on this spring.

World War Two Ace Documentary

We've completed the most recent Cinema of Life personal documentary for Alden and Eleen Rigby.  Alden Rigby, an eighty-nine year old Bountiful, Utah resident is a decorated World War II ace.  As a member of the famous 352nd Fighter Group, he earned four of his aerial kills in just twenty-five minutes during an enemy attack on his airfield in Belgium on New Year's Day 1945.  Here's a short excerpt from the documentary.

13 Year Old Golfing Phenom

Meet Alexis Monet Flores.  Three time European Junior Champion.  Three time Guatamalan Junior Champion. Mexican Junior Champion.  Monet has won over seventy of the ninety-two golf tournaments she has entered during her short and spectacular career.  Now she's looking to play in the LPGA.

Two Sherpas in "the News"

The Ogden Standard Examiner published two articles featuring Two Sherpas.  The first article highlights composer Alfonso Tenreiro and his work, including his collaboration on Two Sherpas' short film ADLER'S BUS STOP.  The second article features the documentary FOR THE LOVE OF DANCE, which plays at the Foursite Film Festival this week.