Chocolat

 

This last spring I started work on a redesigned title sequence for the movie Chocolat. I have found that my lest favorite title sequences are the ones where the film begins and the titles are just slapped on top of the image wherever there is space. This was the style of opening titles in Chocolat. In my opinion, if this is how you want to do your title sequence, you may as well not even have one. That’s not to say that titles have to have their own separate sequence. There are quite a few films that start right into the story and incorporate titles that work really well because of the way they are incorporated within the image.

So with this project, I wanted to experiment with integrating the typography into the sequence. I wanted to make the typography have equal visual weight as the imagery of the film and to make everything appear as seamless as possible. This wasn’t perfect by any means but was, as I mentioned, an experiment. I really learned a lot from both the mistakes and the things that really seemed to work well. And after about an hour or so of shooting, I got really sick of the smell of chocolate. But I have gotten over that now and can enjoy chocolate once again.

Special thanks to everyone that helped me with this project: Dora, Natalia, Joella, Tiera, Jorrien, Jocilyn, and Wendy. There is no way I could have made any of these delicious treats without their help. I can barely make cookies from a mix that just adds water.

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I Am Switzerland

This summer Dora and I had a chance to return to Switzerland where we first met. We spent 4 weeks there and loved every minute of it. It is such a beautiful place that I came away with nearly 6 hours worth of footage and even more photos. I’ll eventually get around to creating an infographic about the trip to give you all the exact numbers. This short film was written and filmed during that time (and edited during the two months that followed). Dominique, the owner of the hotel we stayed at, was kind enough to do the narration for the video. I certainly didn’t write the easiest words for him to say, but he did great.

USU Baseball

Recently I filmed the USU Baseball team and put together these two short films. It was the first time I have tried doing something with this style. I really liked this style and am thinking of other ways to use it. There are a number of things that I will plan to change next time I make something with this high contrast style and slow motion. It was definitely a good learning experience and hopefully round two will be much better.

Snow Day

 

For one of my classes I am taking this semester I had to put together a 2 minute montage video. Normally I really hate cold weather but love seeing beautiful photographs of snowy scenes. So on Saturday morning I woke up early and captured some footage and a few still photographs as well. Then I gathered up some older footage and put together this little video. I’m still trying to warm up from all that cold weather.

2012 Annual Report

2012AnnualReport-011Last year I discovered Nicholas Felton’s personal infographics. You can read all about that in my 2011 Annual Report blog post. Since then I have been tracking a few things about me throughout the year.

It is very interesting to look back and see a brief data set about my life and compare it to the previous year. It has been fun working on this and seeing that somehow I watched exactly 100 movies (including repeats) and exactly 100 different eating locations (includes picnics, restaurants and other’s homes). Click here to view the PDF version so you can actually read it.

La Lasagna

 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. While this video has nothing to do with Thanksgiving, it is full of food. Lasagna to be exact. For quite some time now, Dora has wanted me to make a cooking video for her. Almost like a video recipe card. So this is not a traditional cooking video that you would see on the food network or something. This is just a quick glimpse of the ingredients and process of making a lasagna with fresh pasta. I hope you enjoy the video, I know I enjoyed the lasagna.

Italy 2012 – Venice

We hadn’t originally planned on visiting Venice during this trip to Italy. But long story short, we had to change our flight home from Rome to Venice. So we hopped on a train and made our way north. We only spent one night there and I wanted to see as much as possible in that one night. So we wondered the streets late at night. Unfortunately Dora got a bit scared of our late night stroll.