Music Videos Get the Views

A little less than a week ago I completed the final revision on a music video project for the local band Fick. The project had a tight time crunch and it took a little while to get hooked up with one of the band members to get things rolling. Once the project got moving the creative process took off and I felt like we arrived at some great concepts for the piece.

One of the main concepts of the video is not seeing the band members faces. An early choice I made was to support the lyrics of the song by denying the spotlight to the band. The song reflects on the desire for our culture to seek out the spotlight. Some people veiwing the video understood this right away and others asked "was the band okay with you not showing them?"

A great benefit that comes with making a music video is the fans of the band. This is my most view video to date after only a few days. I had heard from other people that this might happen. I am curious to see how far the views will climb as the band does more shows and promotes the EP that the song appears on.

When the video was finished I got many positive responses from the band I had a nice portfolio piece. Now the challenge is what will I do for my next music video?

48 Hour Film Competition

Last weekend I lead a team in the 48 Hour Film Competition from Santa Fe College. At 7:00 PM on Friday night all the teams met a the Santa Fe CIED in downtown Gainesville. We were given the theme of the film, one line of dialogue, and a prop. All of which were required to be used in the film in order to qualify. The theme was Heist. The line of dialogue was "I've got a bone to pick with you". The prop was a candle. Keep your eye our for these elements in the film.

I think one of the most amazing things about the project was that the story came from all the team members. Each person came over to my house on Saturday morning with an idea. We took those in and brought them together and created the film. It was a rough road at first but everything came together and we finished a couple of hours early.

Enjoy!

Video Production on the Go!

Over the last few days I have been attaending the Miche Momentum 2012 conference in Salt Lake City with my wife Lisa. This event gave me a great opprotunity to demonstrate the speed with which video can be shot, edited, and uploaded while traveling. I used a Sony Nex-5 camera, a Zoom H2 audio recorder, and a Sony wireless mic to record the media. In the hotel room that night I used Final Cut Pro X on a 13" MacBook Pro to edit. Between shooting, editing, and uploading the whole process took about one hour. It is so great to be on the cutting edge of the digital video revolution.

Gainesville Chamber of Commerce Video Challenge

This is my entry for the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce video challege. As is the case with these things it would have been nice to have more time but over all I think it is a nice piece.

Challenge the Status Quo

I recently participated in a web design contest and placed third. Below is my entry. I placed third among fifteen or so entrants. About a month after the contest I ran into one of the judges and they told me my work would have placed higher if I had located the "Home" button in the traditional spot which is  at the left end on the navigation bar. I chose to place it in the center of the navigation bar because it was the shortest word on the navigation bar and it looked balanced when placed in the center. In the world of web design this apparently was controversial and caused some debate among the judges. I had questioned the status quo and that didn't sit well. I don't mind this because one of my goals in design is to shake things up and challenge the status quo. How important is it to always locate the home button at the left end of the navigation bar? Would the design I used cause you to have trouble getting back to the home page? Let me know what you think.