Making of Dance Troupe & All Decade Team

Just got back from my trip to Sun Lakes today. Came back to find two more of my videos up on the Storm site. The first is of the Dance Troupe Auditions, which were the first thing I shot for the Storm this year, before I even knew if I had the contract for the season. I had 4 hours of footage because the plan was to make a series out of it with at least 3 episodes, one for each round of auditions, but it ended up being just one video.  It was annoying to have so much footage for such a short video, but it did give me the luxury of using only the best of the best shots and sound bites.  I was going for a reality show style and I think it turned out pretty well for the most part... although I didn't get as many good "confessional" type sound bites out of the kids as I would've liked to.



The next one is a video that Erik edited. This video announced for the first time the 10 members of the Storm's All-Decade Team, at the game on July 9th. This is the one that was supposed to play on ESPN2... but they didn't end up using it.

Autotune the News

Came across this video today from Barely Political, the same website that brought us Obama Girl.  It's one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time... It's funny enough that I'm willing to ignore the terrible green screen work, so that's saying something. This is episode #6 so there's more at Barely Political.

Bandera Mountain & Flip Issues

Hiked up Bandera Mountain last week with some friends, here's some video I took with my Flip HD.



I'm getting more and more annoyed with how difficult it is to get the flip footage to work correctly with Final Cut Pro. I'm exporting the videos before editing them, so they're movs instead of the mp4s that flip records, but I still have problems. Depending on which export settings I use I have different problems with the footage (general errors, playback problems in final cut etc.) but there's always something. The whole point of the flip was to be able to record and upload videos quickly, videos like this one really aren't worth the amount of time I spent on this today! I wonder if the Kodak Zi6 plays better with FCP...?

Ashley Walker & Dad

This was a fun video to shoot.  Ashley and her dad did a great job and seemed to have a good time despite having two cameras in their faces constantly.  We shot this last Thursday evening and had a 90 second version ready to go by the Dads & Daughters game on Friday.  This is the extended 3 minute version.  Couple things that didn't make the cut... Ashley is afraid of birds, and she has a really crazy sounding sneeze.

YouTube Rippers

If I ever catch you cropping my credit again...

UPDATE 6/29/09: I've started posting videos to the Storms Official Youtube account, so people won't have any reason to rip off crappy versions any more... And also, on the advice of my dad, I want to point out that the picture in this post is me messing around with a prop gun on a movie shoot in LA!  I mean really... I'm a Fairhaven educated Seattle liberal who makes Doppler skits for a living and documentaries about Obama Art for fun... so don't worry, I'm not a scary guy and I promise I won't shoot you.

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Just discovered that someone on youtube has been ripping videos (off my personal website, and off the Storms website) and posting them on youtube.  I wouldn't mind if I were credited, and if the videos didn't look like CRAP, but I'm not and they do.

I'm all about freely sharing content... all my personal videos are licensed under the Creative Commons, as opposed to full copyright, but it's only fair to credit whoever made the content you're sharing.  The Doppler & Sue Bird skit is only available one place online, the Storm's Video page.  The version on there ends with "Shot and Edited by David Albright," but this guy went through the extra trouble of cutting off the credit at the end of his ripped version of the video.  WHY?!

It also baffles me why you'd go through the trouble of posting something that looks SO BAD, what is that video like 2 frames per second?

So people... feel free to share my videos. Everything I have online is fully embeddable to make it easy for you to share it. But please, don't try and do screen captures of my videos if you don't know how to do it correctly, and definitely do not crop off the credit at the end of the video. No one is going to believe that you made it yourself anyways.