Storm Season in Full Swing

We haven't had opening night yet (May 16th!) but work for Storm season 2010 is definitely in full swing.  I've been doing pretty much a shoot per day for the past week, including Media Day on Monday.  Media Day is the day when we get all the players in one by one to shoot everything we're going to need from them for the ENTIRE SEASON's worth of videos, so it's a pretty chaotic day. Here's a pic of me with my EX-1 on a rented jib arm from the Storm's Photo Gallery.  I planned to use my ipad as a teleprompter (using the ProPrompter app) but we couldn't get it all organized and loaded in time so we had to stick with old school cue cards. There's also a behind the scenes video.

I produced a TV Spot which played during the Women's Final Four tournament, and then a whole new one which debuted at the Mariners game on Tuesday, and should start showing up on TV next week.  These are my first TV Spots, and man - those 30 seconds fills up quick, I used every single one of 'em!  I'll embed it here once it's up.

I also had a fun shoot on Tuesday, following Swin Cash behind the scenes when she went to throw out the first pitch at the Mariners game.  Some pics below of me and my giant camera backpack (Kata HB207), which now that I have I don't know how I ever lived without, it makes it so easy to take my camera with me anywhere.

Also had a good but soggy shoot in Issaquah when The Storm staff went out and helped build a house for Habitat For Humanity.  It was a struggle keeping the camera & lens dry, but I don't think I'd use it enough to invest in some kind of camera cover...

Storm, Bing Partner + Web Series Coming Soon!

Some exciting news for the Storm, they've signed a Marquee Partnership with Bing... see the video I produced below. 

There hasn't been much action here on my blog lately because I've been insanely busy getting ready for Storm season, and also getting ready to debut a web series that I've been working on for a while.  We finished the pilot a couple weeks back, and it got approved for a full season (26 episodes!) but there's still a lot of work to do before it's ready for primetime.  So basically tons of work without much to show for it at the moment... but Storm Opening Night is May 8, and then the web series debuts not long after that, so stay tuned!

Welcome to the Family!

Also if you happen to be watching Women's Final Four today... watch for the debut of our Storm TV Spot!

LJ is BACK!

I edited this video a while ago since we knew LJ was going to re-sign with the Storm, but the announcement was finally made today so the video is live!  As of right now, if you go to the Storm website it'll pop up and autoplay before you get to the homepage, so a lot of people will be watching this today!  I actually edited this video with totally different music (George Thorogood - Who do you Love), but we had to change it at the last minute so not everything lines up with the music quite how I wanted it, but I'm really happy with how the text treatment turned out, and the music has grown on me!

Trip to Bainbridge Island

I have a habit of taking video on trips, and then never editing them or posting them.  But not this time!  I took a short trip to Bainbridge Island and Bremerton earlier this week, and brought my new Sony EX1 along to get some more practice with it.  Beach shots are at Fay Bainbridge State Park.  Ferry footage is from the trip home on the Bremerton -> Seattle Ferry.

Used Final Cut Pro's built in SmoothCam filter on a bunch of the ferry shots, sine the ground was vibrating the whole time.  Worked wonders on most of them but at least one of the shots has some weird jigglyness as a result.