Interview - Po Chan - Director

Po Chan - Writer, Director, ArtistOn April 26th, 2012 I got a chance to have a conversation with Po Chan, Director of “The Ticket” which was the Canon roll out movie for the new EOS 1D-C digital cinema HDSLR. There had been so much buzz and discussion about the technology used to shoot the movie that I thought the art and the story was not getting enough… uh… “screen time”… so I decided I only wanted to discuss Po’s original script and her technique for working with a crew as more of an artist than a director. 

The interview ended up becoming “Episode 71” of the Digital Convergence Podcast that I co-host with Carl Olson from Atlanta. 

I would HIGHLY recommend you take the 50 minutes or so it takes to listen to this interview. Po is a facinating woman and her artistic vision is extremely inspirational.

You can find the podcast here.

Tutorial - After Effects Render Queue and Presets

One thing that can speed up your work and allow you to make less mistakes in AE is knowing the ins and outs of your Render Queue and making your own custom presets. In this tutorial I walk thru some steps that will allow you to know your renders are right the first time.

Ever want to learn more about Parenting thru 3D space in AE, check this out.

Tutorial - Parenting in After Effects - Dance With Me

In this tutorial I wanted to dig a little deeper into the way parenting works especially in a 3D composition. I’ve been working on a kenetic typography piece and I came up with this little technique for bringing new items into a deep composition and figuring how to get things in front of your camera. 

As always I’m suspecting there is a better way to do this and I welcome the input from anyone on how to go about doing this.

If you like this tutorial, you should check out the one I did on the Render Queue in AE.

Kenetic, Type Parenting, Null Object

More 7Lions - Live

In March we went to Vegas to watch the Lions play at an Autodesk event. Peter Dippery, Paul Koblic and I flew in and out in about 18 hours, about as much Vegas as I can stand. 

This was all shot on my iPhone, out of sync ‘b-roll’ shots peppered in from other songs, and the audio was recorded from a Zoom N1 sitting on the dog house at the front of house position. I didn’t even ask to patch in I just wanted the perspective from the mix engineers seat. I figured it should sound good from that position. I synced the Zoom Audio to the base iPhone clip and then laid in a few extra shots.

I think it would be fun to do a fan based video, just ask everyone to roll on one song, with their iPhone (4S preferred cuz its 1080) and then bring their phones to come to a download station at the venue to give up their clips. 

7Lions - Emergency

Watched this song, “Emergency”,  from 7Lions yesterday on the YouTubes and LOVED it. We’ve already contacted the band about doing another video for them. But check it out from Coachella, As of this posting, it has only 136 views (a lot of them are me).