For the second year we have been hired to edit ‘The MSI Big Mountain Series’ which features The North Face Masters, Freeskiing World Tour, and The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series. The overall series is produced by MSI and is aired on the Comcast Network, Ski Channel, and other stations as well. Currently we are finishing up the second TV show of a total of nine. Korey is also a field producer for these events so he is on the road until April.
Welikesmall wanted to tell a story of the new 725 Citori gun on Brownings website through video. As the gun is being shown used, different click-able features are displayed on-screen. This a great example of how powerful video imagery can make a strong impact on a viewer. We got to shoot the Photron super slow-mo camera for this shoot, which was a lot of fun. The pressure was on since we only had a half a day to shoot everything, no matter the weather and if the birds cooperated with us. But, everything looks good in slow-motion, so I think it was a success! Warning: the gun is shown killing a bird in slow motion. (All birds were eaten that night though and didn’t go to waste.)
After months of work, our documentary on wingsuit BASE jumpers is complete. It is called “Birdmen: The Original Dream Of Flight’. We believe it’s the first of it’s kind as it tells the story of where the sport came from, what it takes to participate in, and the mentality needed to stay alive. Next up is creating a movie trailer for it and a re-edit for film festivals that will be about 44 minutes long.
Rentler is a new start-up company who desired to add a human element to their very clean and modern website. They believed videos of their customers on their home page would be the best way to achieve this. We found Jared Allen, an artist and business man, as a perfect subject matter for our first video for them. We are currently in pre-production for a second video for Rentler.
For the past few months we have been mainly working on five short documentaries for Specialized Bikes. It has been a big project and it’s finally done! Problem is, the videos won’t be online until Specialized finishes their new site in April. Much thanks to Goodby and welikesmall for hiring us. More info to come on the whole process in April.
It’s been awhile between posts, but we have been busy creating a bunch of work for a variety of clients. 10 web videos and one full-length documentary will be released in the next couple months by us. First off, is our new video for Big Cartel. Thanks to Susan and to Big Cartel for letting us produce these cool videos for them!
The Ancestry.com microsite that welikesmall created and hired us to shoot footage for was Communication Arts Web Pick of the Week and also FWA Site Of The Day. Congrats to Mike and the whole crew at welikesmall. I edited some footage together that wasn’t used on the microsite, check it out here. It’s not for everyone, but poetry fans should love it. It was fun to make and a good chance to experiment with some faux black and white footage.
We created a new site featuring Video Sliders, which may be the first interactive video sliders of its kind. Local Salt Lake paper Deseret News interviewed me about the project here. Check out videosliders.com for some recent footage from Little Cottonwood Creek here in Utah and follow VideoSliders on Twitter. We’re looking to do some more sliders around the Salt Lake area, so more content will be coming soon.
For the past two months I’ve been helping out on editing a new series for Godfrey Entertainment called Nitro Circus Live. It’s a documentary series that will be on MTV2 that shows the difficulty of producing and performing in a live tour where every night death-defying stunts are performed. I’m really impressed with the athletes and the production crew on this show….more on this when the show premieres. We’ve also been working with some long-time clients on ten or so short web videos, four different 15 second commercials, and we are starting pre-production on a documentary on a local artist and two more docs for Big Cartel. Meanwhile my knee is finally working good enough to do long shoot days after a tough recovery from ACL surgery on April 5th. Things are looking good as summer starts…
Welikesmall hired me to shoot video for their microsite on the Civil War for Ancestry.com, which is now online. They wanted to give the viewer the sensation of standing and walking around the National Military graveyards before searching online to see if their ancestors were buried there. So they asked for some handheld, gritty in-the-moment shots from me. No polished pretty shots were needed; just raw moody clips with a bit of shake to them and some simple slow movement. They also used a huge amount of crisp historical photos which are awesome to check out. As for my shots, I knew they were going to have text over the video, so I framed some shots with objects in the far-right or left side of the screen with this in mind. I was pleased to see that welikesmall used about double the amount of shots in the microsite than they originally planned. It was an awesome road trip and a great project to work on, thanks guys! There were plenty great shots they never used (always a bummer but always a reason for it) so I plan on editing something together with these shots in the future.
February 19, 2012
Matt Sheridan
