Storm History Documentary - Part 1

Part 1 of our Storm History Documentary is up on the Storm website.  This is part 1 of what will be a six part series documenting the Storm's history.  This episode focuses on the teams formation and first season, 1999-2000.  It's made up of an interview we shot with Karen Bryant outside of KeyArena and a bunch of footage we found on beta tapes at the Storm office, including an old interview with Lin Dunn.

Storm Opening Night

Photo by Neilson Eney

One of the strange things about making videos for the Storm, is that we rarely get any feedback from the fans.  It's not as bad with the Storm as it was with the Sonics, but it's always hard to tell how much of the crowd actually pays attention to the time-out videos, plus I'm working in the video booth for the whole game, so I can't even see the crowd react.  But it turns out at least some of the fans pay attention to the videos, and they talk about them on StormFans.org.

The opening video was touching, but not crowd pumping. I think it was just some sort of cinematic orchestral piece. The graphics looked really good on it though. It starts on the light on the top of the Space Needle (possibly from the logo), the red bleeds out and flys into the KeyArena logo. then it goes inside the Key to the court with some pillars and a huge torch like thing. Around the torch are revolving screens that show memorable moments in Storm history. The announcement by Ginger Ackerley, the drafting of Sue and Lauren, the championship, the purchase by Force 10 and then a bit about last season and the incredible home record. Then a 2009 drops down, pulses and explodes. Behind the explosion is our starting 5 (or there abouts since I think the starting 5 will be changing up from time to time). So that was the opening video and you can see why most people do storyboards. I'm sure my explanation doesn't make a ton of sense. I'll be curious to see if that's always the opening video. It looked expensive to produce so I would guess yes. But it also wasn't a clap-along type of piece.

That is a freakishly accurate description of our intro video... they remember all that after one viewing? (the graphics in the intro video are by Lars Simkins AKA, AAD Productions)

Jumbotron opening made me tear up.  That's our history people and I'm proud of it.

At least we got one of them!

I am not sure if that is the season long piece...we shall see.  I took good notes, but it is late so I will write tomorrow.

They take notes!!!

They aired Part 1 of a 6 part video series on the history of the Storm.  It was an interview with Karen Bryant about the founding of the franchise and covered a lot of Lin Dunn doing what Lin did best.  Loud applause for both Lin and Kamilla as the first player on the franchise.

Some of these videos will be online soon, I'll update once they are.  And thanks for the feedback stormfans.org, keep it coming!  let me know what you like, don't like, and want to see more of.

Doppler @ Sea-Tac & Spike Lee on Capitol Hill

Doppler waiting for Sue Bird at Sea-Tac

Couple of my videos up online this week. The first is a Doppler Skit I shot a couple of weeks ago, where Doppler goes and greets Sue Bird at Sea-tac.   It's not the greatest thing I've ever shot (some seriously bad audio throughout the whole thing), but it got some pretty good laughs when it played in-arena at the Storms pre-season game.  Some of the footage I shot that night also aired on King 5 the next evening.

Spike Lee at the Egyptian

The other is a CHS article/video of Spike Lee.  Spike Lee was being honored with the Golden Space Needle Award at SIFF, so I went and shot some video.  The event was pretty dissapointing overall, terrible questions from the moderator and audience lead to a pretty boring couple hours... as you can read about in the comments

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EditQuette

Joy Moeller – EditQuette from Art+Copy Club of Kansas City on Vimeo.

Funny video for anyone who's ever edited with a client.  I love #10. I'm sure any editor could put together a list like this, and I bet they would all look pretty similar to this one.

Random Stuff 5/24/09

A coupe of random notes...

1) I changed my email address to dalbrightvideo@gmail.com, and my twitter name to dalbrightvideo

2) About a month ago I started getting a ton of spam comments, so I've been in the habit of deleting mass amounts of comments at once.  The way I thought I was telling the fake comments from real ones was by looking at the website entry and if it said http://website, then I figured it was spam since that's obviously not a real website.  Now I realize that if you leave the website field blank, which most commenters probably would, it puts http://website.  So sorry if you left a legit comment and it never showed up. But who am I kidding... nobody comments on my blog anyways, they were probably all spam!

3) I added some more twitter feeds to the right column over there.  One is the @CHSfeed, which just puts out a twitter message everytime a new story gets put up on the Capitol Hill Seattle Blog, sometimes it will be one of my posts on CHS but not always. The other is the @seattlestorm, which is of course, the Seattle Storm.