Ed says:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center just celebrated it's 1 year anniversary. I can't express enough what an honor and pleasure it was for us to be asked to help create this profile of the museum's first year.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Mission Coffee Can
Ed says:
The first episode of Mission Coffee Can is being released this week. This series is the culmination of months of hard work by Sinnott Productions and Motion Post for Bunn-O-Matic. This is by far my favorite kind of documentary project -- following interesting people pursuing a dream, not quite sure what we will get, then finding the stories in the footage and bringing it all into focus.
http://www.missioncoffeecan.com/
The first episode of Mission Coffee Can is being released this week. This series is the culmination of months of hard work by Sinnott Productions and Motion Post for Bunn-O-Matic. This is by far my favorite kind of documentary project -- following interesting people pursuing a dream, not quite sure what we will get, then finding the stories in the footage and bringing it all into focus.
http://www.missioncoffeecan.com/
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
American Medical Associaion House of Delegates Opening Video
Jeff says:
Four weeks before the AMA convened its semi-annual meeting they approached one of our clients and asked them too produce an opening video for the convention. The video was to highlight the seven planks of health system reform. You can read about their position at the AMA HSR microsite to which we also provide services.
Once the agency had lined up all the doctors we got the crews together. Time was tight, we had to have a few crews working simultaneously, so Tom McCosky and Dave Cosby were hired. The client had also lined up an interview with Joanna Rudnick, a patient that had been denied coverage because of her family history with breast and ovarian cancer.
Once shooting was finished the fun stuff began. We the took all of our interview selects and tossed them into different “buckets.” One bucket for tort reform another for the SGR and so on. After we had all our good takes sorted we looked at all on Joanna Rudnick’s interview and got all of her good takes sorted we knew she would be a good thread for the entire piece. Then we started to weave together the story with Joanna commenting on her situation and doctors responding in kind.
The first reaction from the AMA was very positive and we just had a few minor changes. After we completed the revisions I took the video into Apple’s Color. I really wanted to separate the interviews with Joanna from the doctors, so I added a color tint to the windows and more saturation to the bricks and a vignette.
Here is the original:
Here is the final look:
I also went through the entire piece corrected all the other interviews and b-roll, then returned to final cut to complete the final audio mix.
Here is the final piece.
Four weeks before the AMA convened its semi-annual meeting they approached one of our clients and asked them too produce an opening video for the convention. The video was to highlight the seven planks of health system reform. You can read about their position at the AMA HSR microsite to which we also provide services.
Once the agency had lined up all the doctors we got the crews together. Time was tight, we had to have a few crews working simultaneously, so Tom McCosky and Dave Cosby were hired. The client had also lined up an interview with Joanna Rudnick, a patient that had been denied coverage because of her family history with breast and ovarian cancer.
Once shooting was finished the fun stuff began. We the took all of our interview selects and tossed them into different “buckets.” One bucket for tort reform another for the SGR and so on. After we had all our good takes sorted we looked at all on Joanna Rudnick’s interview and got all of her good takes sorted we knew she would be a good thread for the entire piece. Then we started to weave together the story with Joanna commenting on her situation and doctors responding in kind.
The first reaction from the AMA was very positive and we just had a few minor changes. After we completed the revisions I took the video into Apple’s Color. I really wanted to separate the interviews with Joanna from the doctors, so I added a color tint to the windows and more saturation to the bricks and a vignette.
Here is the original:
Here is the final look:
I also went through the entire piece corrected all the other interviews and b-roll, then returned to final cut to complete the final audio mix.
Here is the final piece.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Beyond the Pedway
We are profiled the week on Beyond the Pedway.
Beyond The Pedway is a weekly video podcast dedicated to highlighting the creative entrepreneurs of Chicago.
Created by Tim Jahn, Beyond The Pedway seeks to discover creative entrepreneurs and explore their unique story of passion, dedication, and what truly excites them. A song from a local Chicago band is featured during the intro and credits of each episode.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Special Olympics
Jeff says:
Genesis of a project:
It always amazes me how many different people I meet at my kids sporting events.
This summer was no exception; my son Jack started playing travel baseball for the Oak Park Eagles. Travel baseball is pretty time consuming with 6 to 7 days a week of practices or games for the entire month of July. Needless to say you get to know the other families very well. Jack’s coach, Chris Winston works for Special Olympics Illinois and asked if we’d like to help him with a pro bono video about an upcoming fundraiser, the Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run Plane Pull.
After baseball wrapped up, we set up a meeting with Chris to find out his needs for the video: recruit more sponsors and teams for next years Plane Pull. Our producer Stacey Evenson worked with Chris and set up all the details for the production. She recruited our friend and excellent photog Tom McCosky to shoot the plane pull.
Production:
The event included a couple of dozen 20 person teams from area law enforcement and fire departments as well as a number of local businesses. Each team played a tug-of-war with a UPS Airbus A300 aircraft (weighing more than 198,000 lbs.) at the Lynxs Cargo Area of O'Hare International Airport in Chicago all for the benefit of Special Olympics.
Stacey and Tom showed up at 7am and worked straight through a beautiful sunny September day. They recorded interviews with Mayor Richard M. Daley, Tom Reasoner director of the Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run and many of the event participants. Tom really delivered some great footage. Great close ups of the participants pulling the rope, beautiful wide shots of the plane and the people.
Post:
After the event Tom delivered about 45 gigs of 720P30 P2 media to Motion Post and it was my job to make it into something coherent. I usually just go through all the footage and interviews to get a first impression, taking notes as I go. From there I’ll start to get my themes together, team names, plane pull techniques, how fun the event was, etc. With all the interviews categorized, I started to put together the show.
I decided to do a little montage at the top to create a little drama and excitement for the event. From there I figured I’d talk about the Special Olympics just in case a viewer did not know about the charity. After the brief Special Olympics introduction, I’d move into the event, showing the audience how fun it was to participate. For music, I grabbed a jazz track for the body of the show and an uplifting guitar piece for the end. Then I figured I needed some heart beats for the beginning along with a an uplifting track to help create the tension.
The first cut went over very well with our clients at the charity. They changed around a few bites and added a little voice over to the end. After making the changes I moved the entire sequence into Apple’s Color to color correct and finish the show. I really like taking the time to play in Color; the footage looked great originally but Color was able to really get the best out of each frame, adding more blue to the sky and pulling down the luminance on the concrete of the tarmac.
Take a look at the final product.
Genesis of a project:
It always amazes me how many different people I meet at my kids sporting events.
This summer was no exception; my son Jack started playing travel baseball for the Oak Park Eagles. Travel baseball is pretty time consuming with 6 to 7 days a week of practices or games for the entire month of July. Needless to say you get to know the other families very well. Jack’s coach, Chris Winston works for Special Olympics Illinois and asked if we’d like to help him with a pro bono video about an upcoming fundraiser, the Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run Plane Pull.
After baseball wrapped up, we set up a meeting with Chris to find out his needs for the video: recruit more sponsors and teams for next years Plane Pull. Our producer Stacey Evenson worked with Chris and set up all the details for the production. She recruited our friend and excellent photog Tom McCosky to shoot the plane pull.
Production:
The event included a couple of dozen 20 person teams from area law enforcement and fire departments as well as a number of local businesses. Each team played a tug-of-war with a UPS Airbus A300 aircraft (weighing more than 198,000 lbs.) at the Lynxs Cargo Area of O'Hare International Airport in Chicago all for the benefit of Special Olympics.
Stacey and Tom showed up at 7am and worked straight through a beautiful sunny September day. They recorded interviews with Mayor Richard M. Daley, Tom Reasoner director of the Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run and many of the event participants. Tom really delivered some great footage. Great close ups of the participants pulling the rope, beautiful wide shots of the plane and the people.
Post:
After the event Tom delivered about 45 gigs of 720P30 P2 media to Motion Post and it was my job to make it into something coherent. I usually just go through all the footage and interviews to get a first impression, taking notes as I go. From there I’ll start to get my themes together, team names, plane pull techniques, how fun the event was, etc. With all the interviews categorized, I started to put together the show.
I decided to do a little montage at the top to create a little drama and excitement for the event. From there I figured I’d talk about the Special Olympics just in case a viewer did not know about the charity. After the brief Special Olympics introduction, I’d move into the event, showing the audience how fun it was to participate. For music, I grabbed a jazz track for the body of the show and an uplifting guitar piece for the end. Then I figured I needed some heart beats for the beginning along with a an uplifting track to help create the tension.
The first cut went over very well with our clients at the charity. They changed around a few bites and added a little voice over to the end. After making the changes I moved the entire sequence into Apple’s Color to color correct and finish the show. I really like taking the time to play in Color; the footage looked great originally but Color was able to really get the best out of each frame, adding more blue to the sky and pulling down the luminance on the concrete of the tarmac.
Take a look at the final product.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Critics
Ed says:
In our new editing project for Zacuto Films, [CRITICS], film/video veterans, Steve Weiss, Director of FilmFellas & Critics, and Philip Bloom, a London based Cinematographer and Filmmaker, come together as dueling co-hosts to candidly critique web based video content.
[CRITICS] is an eclectic mix of personalities, perspectives and laughter.
In our new editing project for Zacuto Films, [CRITICS], film/video veterans, Steve Weiss, Director of FilmFellas & Critics, and Philip Bloom, a London based Cinematographer and Filmmaker, come together as dueling co-hosts to candidly critique web based video content.
[CRITICS] is an eclectic mix of personalities, perspectives and laughter.
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