EAH had me video introductions for each of the speakers that were speaking at their Christmas party event. This event contained many video elements. Below are the speaker intros. The event introduction video can be found here.

 

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Central Baptist Church in Round Rock, Texas asked me to create a promotional video to introduce their building campaign. They wanted the video to be high impact and incorporate the building campaign logo and 3D models of the new building. This video was designed to cast the vision of building a new worship center and induce fund-raising.

Forward by Faith from Dave Curlee on Vimeo.

I wanted to make a short video introduction on the splash page for DaveCurlee.com. I decided that this should also be a short sample of compositing work I can do. I took one of the photos I took while in Chicago last fall and wanted to have DaveCurlee.com fly in between the buildings. To accomplish this I:

• - Used Photoshop to separate the front buildings and elements from the back buildings and elements.
• - Extended the buildings and elements on the back layer to provide visual information for any panning or 3D camera movements in After Effects.
• - Imported the Photoshop layers in to After Effects and added to the comp, making them 3d layers.
• - Added the text layer and made it a 3d layer.
• - Placed a camera in the comp.
• - Adjusted the back and front layers of the photo on the Z axis so as to create some depth.
• - Slightly blurred the back layer to provide a sense of field depth.
• - Positioned the title layer between the front and back photo layers, adjusting for the perspective in the actual photos.
• - Animated the logo flying between the photo layers.
• - Created a shadow to be cast on the title when it passes behind the front layer so as to mimic the shadow on the building in the back.
• - Animated the camera panning from left to right and zooming in slightly.
• - Rendered and exported the comp and imported into Final Cut Pro.
• - Added the final title using Live Type.
• - Added the ambient downtown street audio.

 

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This sample contains and example of 3D match-moving, set extensions, and compositing. This comes from a church building campaign promotional video. I was given the CAD geometry created by the architects.

To achieve this I:

• -Imported it in to 3D Studio MAX
• -Positioned a video segment behind it to act as a reference for manually matching my original camera moves.
• -Animated the 3D camera movements according to my original video footage
• -Matched the lighting / sun positioning
• -Rendered the scene without the reference video segment
• -Imported that scene into After Effects.
• -Placed the 3D sequence in the comp with the original footage
• -Extended elements in the 3D video to better match up with the existing footage
• -Extended the parking lots to mimic the still images rendered by the architects.
• -Rendered the final comp.

*Note: The second clip is a slow motion view of the comp.

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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“….they come ready to give their lives so that your child, parent…..or friend might live”

The Fierce & The Few video project was produced in order to raise a national awareness and to re-capture a lost respect and admiration for the men andwomen who daily lay their lives in harm’s way, so that we may be able to survice life’s most tragic moments.

The Fierce and The Few from Dave Curlee on Vimeo.