Video class project #2: 30 second spot. I shot this on my new Panasonic GH2 with the kit lens the day it came in the mail.
This entire project happened in 2+ days—Matt, the owner of Bodylogic and I went over the script on a Tuesday at 10pm and looked for some stock pics. Wednesday at lunch and after work I found more pics, composited them with tilt-shifty-like blurs on paper textures, animated them in Premiere. I re-sized the original website flash of the logo and leaves and exported it as a MOV file, found some free music online, got a dvd menu designed and an encore file ready for the final project burn. Meanwhile, I had emailed the script to my girlfriend Jessica Tuesday night who was able to record the voiceover from home. She emailed me the MP3 Thursday around 11am. Thursday during lunch I had to work the college tv studio so I couldn’t touch it, but ran home after the news broadcast and grabbed my newly delivered GH2 DSLR n the front porch. I returned to work at Stonewall and charged the battery while glancing at the manual in between jobs. At 3pm I took a couple of hours off work, drove the 20 minutes to Bodylogic to shoot the video. The BL staff was great and I got everything I needed in about 2 hours. Returned to Stonewall at 5:30, downloaded the video and plugged the shots into the spaces I had left in the edit. I did some more tilt-shift-like blurring of the video clips and color correcting, rendered a file, burned a dvd with encore and was at class by 7:10! Fun, but I wouldn’t want to live like that for weeks at a time.
