The Fabulous Miss Wendy "Jailbait" Music Video

This was another music video that I did with my Capstone film class from Madonna. The Fabulous Miss Wendy is an up-and-coming musician, and this was a great opportunity for the Capstone class to get even more experience in video production. I was the DP for the music video, and a fellow Madonna student was the steadicam op. In her role, she got some great footage of Wendy skating around the rink, while she was on skateboard holding the camera.

The music video was shot on location in downtown Detroit, the Masonic Temple, as well as a house in Novi. It was a two day shoot, and one of the shoot days involved the crew attending a Detroit Derby Girls game at night at the Masonic Temple to get footage for the music video.

The music video was shot on a Canon 5D, with two different lenses as well as a shoulder mount. The scene where the band plays in the middle of the rink, two Canon 5Ds and a Canon 6DD were used. For the scenes where Wendy is in the car, a car windshield mount for a camera was used. It really provided great visual eye candy for the scene.

The EDSI Way

In another video for EDSI, I wanted to showcase the mission statement and what EDSI means to their clients. EDSI CEO, Kevin Schienders, talks about what it means to see through their client's eyes, understand their needs, and deliver more than they expect.

I filmed Kevin outside of the EDSI headquarters, where is standing next to the EDSI building sign. I originally used two cameras for this, the Canon T3i and an iPhone 4S. The iPhone was the wide shot, and the Canon was the closeup, but during post, I felt the wide wasn't very personal and decided not to use it at all.

Like in the "Show Up, Smile, and Support" video, I used more b-roll footage from the office as well as interviews from EDSI team members as they say the mission statement halfway through the video.

Show Up, Smile, Support

This was the first video I did for my summer internship at EDSI. EDSI operates by many values, and one of the main values is to show up, smile, and support. In the video, the CEO of EDSI, Kevin Schnieders, talks about what it means to show up, smile, and support.

I filmed interviews prior to Kevin, and I incorporated different EDSI team members in the video as they say "show up, smile, and support" at the beginning. I also used b-roll that I shot at the office to provide great content to carry the video.

The video was shot on a Canon T3i, and Kevin's statement was filmed outside of the EDSI headquarters in Dearborn, MI. I used the camera to record the video, and a separate audio recorder to record Kevin's dialogue.

Man in the Mirror - ASL Version

Being an intern at Madonna during the Winter semester, part of my job was to help the ASL students create a music video that uses sign language for the lyrics. I have seen the past projects and was excited to help produce one with a group.

I met with my group, and they picked Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror". We had some brainstorming sessions, from the storyline to locations. For practical purposes, we decided to shoot on Madonna's campus.

The music video was shot with a Canon T3i. The opening of the music video was done in the Madonna TV studio, with a green screen used to project the images. I created a custom dolly by putting the camera on a tripod, and it put it on a rolling cart. I used this creative approach a few times in the video, and it really worked out well.

Post Production Final

This was the final video I did for my post production class. I really wanted to try some new stuff, and basically just wanted to have a fun time making the video. One of the things that I definitely wanted to do was to some kind-of bullet time technique, as seen in the Matrix films.

I set up ten cameras in the Madonna TV studio, and covered the back wall and floor with green screen. I also covered a rolling cart with more green screen, and I basically just jumped over the cart. Without having a real idea in mind yet, a fellow student joked that I should add in a pineapple in post as the item that I jumped over. Well, I decided that was a great idea and went with it!

The second part of the video showcases Destructoid, which is a website that combines a video stream along with a gamer talking and interacting with a live chat while they play a video game. I always enjoy watching it, and decided to incorporate myself in it as a dream sequence. I used footage of another student as whom I was talking with, which was recorded well over a year prior. With a lot editing, it came out great!

Celebrating Valentine's Day in the World of Warcraft

Machinima has become a popular art form on the Internet. Machinima can be anything from a video or a piece of art that uses in-game graphics from a computer game to tell a personal story. Being a huge fan of the World of Warcraft, I made a tie-in from the game for Valentine's Day.

To successfully capture footage from the video, I ran Warcraft on my Macbook which allowed me to record video from the game. It's a feature that is only available to the Mac, not the PC. From the recording, I had to convert the footage to the MOV format, so I could edit it in Final Cut. I used MPEG Streamclip, a shareware program, to do the necessary conversion.

I did not really have a storyboard in mind, I just basically logged into the game and worked on the fly.

Aellae

I made this simple video using my iPhone 4S. I really wanted to try out the video capabilities with the iPhone, and I was really happy with the final results. I was able to play with depth of field, and being how small the iPhone is, it was great at getting some interesting angles.

I filmed the water drain outside of the Broadcast department at Madonna. During post, I did color corrections on each clip, to bring out more Fall colors and add some brown tones, too. The title, Aellae, came from the name of the music piece that accompanies the video.