Tribute vid

This video is edited together by me shortly after my brother's death. I created the titles in After Effects, modifying a text animation preset (I added a transparency selector, not too difficult.) For the insider info on this story, check out RyanBennett.org. I did a couple things that might be of note to someone, basically the entire thing is pacing related. I slowed down the news story using multiple anchors and timing their segments differently. As you watch, I also did a couple other major edits. When Tony Cippola is talking to KCOY, I edited his sot with some slowdown to add impact. "He told me he was the happiest he'd ever been.........and that was just a few days ago." I'd never slow down someone's quote like that in a news environment, but as this is a tribute video expressing my emotions, I thought it worked. Also, I used black as a way of setting off the video. I faded to black out of the KCOY story to try and break it up.

Cinematicast

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This video was originally shared on blip.tv by DVGuruRandall with a No license (All rights reserved) license.

Client: Cinematical
Talent: Karina Longworth
Videography: Myself
Graphics: Myself
Editing: Myself

Comments: I'm very happy with Cinematicast. Karina and I did a show for about a month, and with her excellent skills as a writer, it was a breeze to tape, edit and upload. I really like this graphic package, despite taking a tutorial I found on creative cow and modifying it to fit my needs. I think it works really well regardless, and looks pretty cool too. Again... no lights, but we did what we could.

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Client: DV Guru
Video Editor: Myself, Adam Nielson and Taylor Wilson
Graphics: Myself
Videography: Myself, Adam Nielson and Taylor Wilson
Talent: Adam Nielson and myself

Comments: This is a pretty good example of what happens when you get really lucky and everything seems to come together. For video professionals, this might be a show they'd actually like to watch, other than our ugly mugs as hosts. I did some color sweetening on the outdoor shots, and we shot Adam's segment with an old beta cam that had some issues, but other than that, it kind of came out well. Again, we didn't have any lights, so this is all faking it lighting wise. Graphically, I enjoy the clean look, but understand that the actual design isn't everyone's cup o' tea.

Some of my reel

Client: Netscape
Video Editor: Myself
Graphics: Myself
Videography: Myself
Talent: Ryan Budke

Comments: We got into town and shot some quick pickups for this vid, and banged it out fairly quickly. The flow isn't optimum, but we needed it up. Graphics are OK as they can be without translating a 2d sphere/glass looking logo into 3d.



Client: Joystiq
Video Editor: Myself
Graphics: Myself
Videography: Myself
Talent: Chris Grant / Myself

Comments: This vid was pretty fun, and toward the end of E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. E3 was one of the biggest tradeshows in the world, and after a whirlwind of crazy experience, we decided to sit down and shoot some fun stuff. The biggest problem with this video is definetely the lack of lighting. On all Netscape / Weblogs, Inc. shoots, we had a Sony FX1, a Quadcore Mac, but we didn't have any sort of lighting till we went to ComicCon. We literally pulled teeth to get the most important elements, so getting the other elements was difficult. I really enjoyed this graphic package, not so much because it's uber brilliant or anything (quite the opposite) but the Joystiq logo was just fun to animate and remember pong.




Client: BloggingMilken
Video Editor: Alexia Prichard
Graphics: Myself
Videography: Alexia Prichard
Talent: Andrea Lake

Comments: We covered the Milken Conference, mostly shooting panels and not really shooting stories. I'd like to highlight my graphics package in this one, because it really came out well, and compliments the website http://www.bloggingmilken.com/ .