Thursday, December 15, 2011

Busy, Busy! 4

Good golly! It just hasn't let up!

This particular blog is to catch y'all up to date from my last post till now. This has been a really incredible year, and its not over YET!

SAM, SAM, SAM:

We have had the privilege of working with some "top notch" folks up at Sam Houston University.
We are still in full swing with Studio A in the Dan Rather Communications Building, and are about to go into a full on blitz to get some major things accomplished while school is out.

In November we had a couple of days of shooting for the marketing department for commercials promoting the school. One of the days was at the Memorial Herman TIRR program center, showcasing the music therapy department. What an incredible bunch of people! We interviewed a couple of SHSU graduates and filmed them doing what they do best. It was quite obvious that these people are "called' to work in this field. The sincerity and enthusiasm of the people that work at TIRR is truly inspiring.

The second day of shooting were interviews with two first generation graduates and a history professor of SHSU. The interviews were very insightful of the fears and struggles of students going to college for the first time in their family. SHSU's student body is currently 50% first generation students, and they really have a system for helping these people out to make sure the students don't fall through the cracks!
The interview with the history professor shined some light on San Houston the man, which in turn educated me on a couple of points I didn't know about this interesting person.

So now that's all in the "can" we are off-lining footage currently to create a few commercials. We will also be creating some more insightful web pieces that will be able to be viewed on YouTube and the SHSU website.

We are shooting this series almost entirely on DSLRs. We also shot some greenscreen footage with 2 Canon XF305 cameras. The DSLRs we are using are 2 Canon 60Ds and a Nikon D7000. We will soon be picking up a 5D MarkII and are looking forward to the MarkIII!

It was fun also to shoot some of the interviews in SHSU's Studio C that we have lighted with all LED lighting!







Other News:

"Crash The Super Bowl" Doritos Commercial:

A Letter 3 Films Production, directed by Jack Updyke. Dad (Craig Loper) DPed it and I was an operator. We shot the commercial on our 60D and it turned out looking GREAT!

It's a FLASH compression so you must be on a computer, it's also a bit "crunched" from it being FLASH also, I saw it on a 52" DLP monitor and it was beautiful straight out of the camera!

Here are a few BTS shots.









Classes, Workshops and Seminars:

This is something REALLY exciting for me, and a goal that I set earlier this year that we are achieving!
We are now executing one on one and group sessions for "all things" media. 
Recently Kahunas (Dad's and my new company) had Jack teach an Adobe Premiere class for a team at St. Lukes.
Most recent, Dad and I taught a two day DSLR one on one session to get someone up to speed to shoot and edit with DSLRs. This is a TON of fun to get people excited about what we love to do!





Discount Tire Shoot:

I was hired to Discount Tire's annual awards gala. I've been shooting this event for 5 or 6 years now, and it's fun every time!

Keesh's Wedding!:

My good friend and my wife's (Pauline) best friend just got married the beginning of last month!
I was asked to shoot Keesh and Omar's wedding, and I was honored to. 
We had a great time and got some wonderful shots with the help of Dad, Mom and Pauline.






















Nostalgia Drags and Rod Run:

I'm in the home stretch of the t-shirt design for the event at Lonestar Motor Park in Sealy, TX March 3rd!
The photo shoot was a ton of fun and I'm really excited to see the shirts printed!

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Lone Star Pictures shoot:

I was hired as a DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) on a shoot with Scott Jones and Richard Lacy with Scott's RED. Since most cameras nowadays shoot on some form of solid state media, it is important to have someone on the crew that manages these files. As a DIT on set you are responsible to manage and download the files from the camera, back up the files, check quality of the image and files, and work as a  "safety net" for the DP incase of any anomalies that could come up shooting onto solid state media.

This was a fun shoot and always is enjoyable to work with stellar guys and phenomenal gear!

Well I guess that about wraps it up, except for a volleyball reel video I edited for a hot rod buddy's  daughter. I know nothing about volleyball, but us hot rodders gota' stick together ;)

Till next time...