My friend Chris Novinger has a domain that he bought a few years ago. Eliterecipes.com He’s given it to Katherine and I. Very nice of him. What a great name. We’ve determined that it will be easier to brand that name, over RealcookN.tv. We’re going to keep the name for the podcasts, but now they’ll be RealcookN by EliteRecipes.com.

One of the video types I’ve done over and over for wedding clients is the romantic photo montage. This one was created for a couple celebrating their 35th anniversary.

 

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For The Fierce & The Few, I was given many photographs taken at various fires and rescues. Some of these pictures were so compelling that I needed to put them in the music video. A still image by itself rarely has the emotional impact needed in this kind of music video. Sometimes panning isn’t enough. Therefore I composited various flame and inferno footage in these images to give a vary unique look. These are still images….yet they’re video… yet it’s “a picture”. Most people upon seeing this state that they’ve not seen this kind of implementation before.

During the planning stage of this video, we thought it would be good to get some firemen out and stage a rescue from a burning house. For this sequence, we shot a fireman coming out of a house at dusk. Then I comped in fire elements to give the house the appearance of being a raging inferno. It worked so well, that the home owner thought he might try to pass it off to his insurance company…

 

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