The 2019 intro for the live racing TV show. This years intro features a voice over from track announcer Frank Salive. I think frank's commentary helps get it a more immediate fell than some of the previous ones.
I'm hoping to get some good footage during this years racing season. So far the weather hasn't been too cooperative, but, there are still 38 race days left try.
Close-up and personal with The Kubasonics at Summerfolk right on the beach.
They are very cool people as well as fantastic performers. I know they're cool people because of the 1/2 hr conversation we had with them in the beer tent, where they totally rocked it later in the weekend.
Left over parts at a former boat storage & repair facility.
I rarely do Black & White but, every now & then I find something that seems like a good fit.
I updated the slide show from the previous post.
The only difference is that grading or stylized colour has been added.
Colour Grading is something I find fascinating to watch but elusive to create. When you see before & after shots of something before & after it was graded the difference can be huge. It obviously looks different, but it also feels different & that is usually the thing that's more important. The colour enhances the mood & emotion of the story. Even if you never see a before & after ideally you will still get the feeling they're going for.
Grading is hard. it's even hard to do a half baked job of it. It's really hard to do well and the people who do it well are wizards. I can't afford to send my little videos to a wizard to work on, which is why I'm trying to work towards doing a half baked job of it.
The idea with this one was to have it feel like dreaming of a happy memory then waking up & being a little disappointed that the dream is over, but happy you had it.
Original (no) Colour
Colour Graded
I'm not sure if the colouring really makes that much difference here, but you have to start somewhere.
I'm busy working on a series of projects that won't be finished for a while and I've finished one smaller project that I'm sitting on until after the official release by the client.
With all the longer projects on the go I don't have much to put in the blog. So I'm posting something small, mostly because I haven't posted in a while.
One of the projects that's going to take a while to finish is the Canadian Raptor Conservatory.
It was was more fun than I expected and I'd do it again. I'll be writing writing more about it later and there will be a video at some point too. For now here's a short bit of footage from that day.
As I said, it's early days and as I post this I'm looking at it and making notes about things to do different for the final video. But, that's part of letting other people look at things, it makes you look at it different. Things that are easy to over look are more prominent when someone else is looking.
Night
fall comes earlier every night & the lights are beginning to appear
around the neighbourhood. I've even seen a tree or two in front
windows. It's a bit early for us, but, the time is coming soon.
Part of me is saying "hurry up & get here already" & another , bigger, part of me is saying "I need more hours in the day and more days in the week to get ready.
