Busy Bee #33

This took a while. It's a video I did for the Town of Chapel Hill to introduce our department, Communications and Public Affairs, to the Senior Management Team. My task was to illustrate that the new department was formed from two other departments and the website management duties, and to show the other departments that we did indeed do more than just photocopy things and sit around during Council meetings. There were several last-minute changes made long after the script had already been approved and the whole thing had been edited, so that throws off the intended flow a bit, but all in all I think it turned out to be a nice little corporate-style video.

Pardon the couple of scenes with shaky tripod-less video. See above issues.

Busy Bee #32

Finally finished the short movie that was born of Ryan's "Scrambled Video Eggs" project. You can see the final cut of "The Wrath of Grapes" here and the outtakes here. Full story on my main blog here.

Busy Bee #26

Saw this wacky idea for an "Angry J. Jonah Jameson" meme, and was terribly amused by it. Full story (with link to all my versions) in The Transmutation Effect.

Whew! And now I'm caught up with the posts for the past seven days of creativity. So let's see...it's been four months so far of posts, and this is the 26th post, so that's an average of 6.5 creative endeavours a month. Not a remarkably high number, but more than one a week! And some are more involved than others, so that's fairly decent. There's also been some ongoing creative projects over the past few months that haven't seen the light of day yet, so hopefully they'll make it to The Wretched Hive soon and will add to the body of work.

ONWARD!

Busy Bee #25

Sam Kirkpatrick asked me to make a bunch of scene transition graphics for his comic book move, "Captain Constitution". And I get steak and whiskey out of the deal! (I'm just including the splash screen here, so the rest can have the impact they need within his film.)

Busy Bee #21

Just a silly little thing I mocked up for somebody I work with. The picture is from her 1963 high school yearbook. Apparently she actually *was* featured in an ad for a local savings and loan, so I mocked up what I thought it might look like as a lark.

Busy Bee #17

Here's a bit of meme-action that I tripped over. I think my friends in the comments did better than I.

Busy Bee #15

My buddy Nick Faber recorded a song that got stuck in my head and DEMANDED a video be made of it! (That is, the catchiness of the song demanded a video, Nick Faber did not threaten me.) I put this together with Photoshop, Motion, Soundtrack, and Final Cut Pro, and it's composed of antique clip art and heavily manipulated video from Nick's previous videos on YouTube.

Check out my video here.

Busy Bee #5

Ethan Kaye came up with this funny idea: taking a particular amusing series of classic Superman panels and replacing the text. Go check out his versions first.

Then Jeff Scronce (nee Skronch) made his own, converting Ethan's hilarious idea into a meme. Go check out his stuff now.

Now that you've seen the innovators, you can go see mine:
Adam West
Motorhead
Star Trek
007
Superfriends

And finally, a blank version in case anybody else wants to give it a go.

Busy Bee #1

We'll start off the year with a video. Amazon is letting people do video reviews now, where you make a video reviewing a product and then upload it to their site. I made a little two minute clip reviewing the movie The Ten. It was fun using existing footage as source material--all the video is from the movie (except for the action figure, which I had laying around the house) and all the music is from the soundtrack.

You can find the review here.