Shooting two music videos in one night can be daunting…  Unless you’re shooting Florida’s power-rock band, HORNIT.  Here’s a behind the scenes look at the fun that was had.

I wanted to include all the footage in the reel, but it was just too long.  If only I could cut it in half and run both pieces at the same time… Thoughts on the format? Let me know via the comments below.  Thanks!  

Enjoy these highlights from some of the network marketing videos we produced in 2011 as well as a few random goodies thrown into the mix for good measure.

TG Studios was approached by Hasbro to produce a thirteen-episode animated series for the Transformers. • modeling and rigging each robot and vehicle • storyboarding • animation • rendering • compositing • sound   Here’s is the trailer for the series: And here’s the end credits for each “webisode”:

This was shot in two nights in Texas.  A majority of which was in a side room in a VERY busy restaurant with a freakin’ band playing in the very next room. Needless to say, audio was an issue.  If you listen closely, you can almost hear “Sweet Home Alabama”… Special thanks to the illustrious [...]

I fondly recall about six years ago… the early days of crowdsourced video stock and the thrill and convenience it provided to be able to pickup a great clip of footage for $5 that would’ve taken hours to create. Now – for reasons I can only assume are greed-induced, a decent video clip goes for [...]

  Move over, Apollo… Manny’s here and he’s ready to rumble.  Here, we take it a few steps beyond your basic green screen key, adding virtual camera movement, lights and particle effects to incorporate into a final edit. Visit CieAura’s web page for more product info & more Manny Pacquiao.

The Rastelli Direct family is a very cool group of folks.  We had a lot of fun shooting the interview segments of this piece as well as having the pleasure of directing the talented Tinamarie.

A few lines of copy, the product itself, and :30 to build excitement about IsXperia’s new flagship product, “Mystique”.  I had run across the audio track a few days earlier and it just stuck with me.  Another example of building the piece around the audio.

  Imagine a better dressed, much cooler & down-to-earth Tony Robbins… Meet Alex Arnold. This brief teaser is just the beginning of a massive campaign underway for world class entrepreneur, Alex Arnold. Look out for a web site, more video, a book, potentially a documentary, (hint, hint, Alex!).Visionary, Alex Arnold equips the average Joe and [...]

During post production on just about anything dealing with live action footage, you’re left with a TON of unusable video.  But sometimes, below the surface, down in the cracks is where you can find the really priceless gems.  I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the CieAura executive team for years – VERY down-to-earth people [...]

I like to consider myself fairly literate. Yet somehow, I’ve managed to send not just one,  but two mass-email campaigns with glorious typos in them back to back. And when I say glorious, I’m not talking about a common misspelling like their/there/they’re and the like. No,  these are elephants. As I was repeatedly slamming my [...]

One of the tricks with doing a conference is that the clients typically ask for a recap video to show the troops during the last day of the show.  What few realize is that with all the green screen shooting between the conference meetings and the footage from the actual conference itself, you end up [...]

Who knows more about west-side hip-hop?  Probably everybody.  Nevertheless,  here’s how the piece came together:

  When prepping for a shoot in a hotel room there are some interesting things to remember: 1. Hotel rooms come stocked with HDTVs which can make for gargantuan monitors 2. Use the PRIVACY PLEASE tags on the doors.  Nothing kills a take faster than, Tap-tap-tap, “Housekeeping…” 3. You’re going to have to move furniture.  Bring help. [...]

CieAura launched a just a couple years before this post.  One year, 50 countries and over $100 million in sales later, I think they may be on to something… I got the call from an old friend working with CieAura asking for 3 videos: a 3:00 Motion Graphics business opportunity piece with a few green [...]

Peerdrum is remote workforce monitoring software. I desperately needed a way to monitor remote worker’s progress. Initial design/development submissions were tending to be far enough off course that with the time it would take me to correct them and give updated direction to the remote worker, we’d quickly be over budget – repeatedly. Peerdrum lets [...]

Following a series of marketing videos for the multiple brands of IsXperia, superstar network marketer Jason Camper called and needed a :60 teaser video within 24 hours for IsXperia’s live event that weekend. Jason sent me a logo, the name of the music track they wanted to use, textual bullet points, and an audio file [...]

This was a fun shoot for Anutra, all with a Canon XH-A1, live at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. The decision to shoot the formal portion of the interviews with the founders was done on the fly with no tripod or mic stand, so I’m balancing the camera on a wobbly table with the mic [...]

ThinAir Wireless needed a way to automate their sales presentations and software features demo with one swift click and endless GoToMeeting demos and live Powerpoint sales presentations were becoming increasingly inefficient. Robust fleet tracking and management software doesn’t lend itself to glitter and explosions, so the idea was to combine their existing powerpoint and software [...]

CieAura launched a little over a year ago.  One year, 50 countries and over $200 million in sales later, I think they may be on to something… I got the call from an old friend working with CieAura asking for 3 videos: a 3:00 Motion Graphics business opportunity piece with a few green screen testimonials [...]

The main goal was to consolidate a lot of interview footage into a concise 3:00 presentation while peppering it with product motion graphics.  I keyed out the green screen with Keylight and created dynamic backdrops that fit with the style of the brand, without distracting from the subject. I wanted to make it look as [...]

ThinAir Wireless needed a way to automate their sales presentations and software features demo with one swift click and endless GoToMeeting demos and live Powerpoint sales presentations were becoming increasingly inefficient.   Robust fleet tracking and management software doesn’t lend itself to glitter and explosions, so the idea was to combine their existing powerpoint and software [...]