Video for National Signing Day
Wednesday is National Signing Day. This is the day when High School athletes, across Texas (and the Nation, thus “National”…digress) sign contracts with their prospective colleges! The local school system has ask my colleague, Brooke Robbins and me to be there to help cover the event. Our main role is to help the High School A/V Program students to achieve effective “news” type coverage of the athletes as they sign, and then conduct interviews afterwords. Needless to say, the students have never done anything like this, especially in a live action environment… so they are nervous, but excited. We hope to make it a learning experience for the students while making sure we cover the event for posterity. Wish us luck!
Planning for Particles
I am preparing for a science project (been years since I have said that!) for a customer… a video about science.
While AfterEffects appears to be the right direction to go, it is not my strength. The goal will be to simulate particles dancing as they are heated up over a bunsen burner in a beaker. 
And then (insert boring science procedure here)…. yadda yadda… the particles explode or something… I have not seen the script, so for now I am just jockeying ideas. My challenge, is which software platform to use… Apple Motion (which is slowly dying, from what I understand) which I know very well… or Adobe AE, which I know “OK” and need to be better at in general because it totally kicks butt… but I am SLOW AT IT… so:
I found this handy tutorial on YouTube
And then we have the Trapcode Particulator 2:
I have also found Apple Motion (I know, RIP most likely) to be useful such as this “behavior” here:
While I am SURE I can create AMAZING particles doing EXACTLY what I need in AE CS5.5, I am stuck since I have VERY limited time on a small budget…
So… that is what my day has in store for me. That and some other quick YouTube videos for another customer.
Stay tuned and I will share what “happened”. Meanwhile, I will continue my goal to master AfterEffects (someday).
Music Videos of the 80s
Music videos in the 80s made bands… or ruined them. I have to admit that most bands benefited from music videos since they chose to tell a story…
(Poor) Example:
That said, “Alternative” artsy videos, in my honest opinion… would have ruined me for the bands.
I probably missed the point… but these were very poorly executed.
