Jake's Production Notes

Thought I’d celebrate the season with some seasonal horrors. Feliz Navidad, Amigos!

Quick video I did for the ETSU Drumline. Jason Jones & Zion Madden of the Digital Media Services division of the Office of eLearning at ETSU provided videography, international students Giulia Andreazza and Paras Pageni provided the talent, and I performed all post-production with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Audition, and Premiere.

Quick video I did for the ETSU Drumline. Jason Jones & Zion Madden of the Digital Media Services division of the Office of eLearning at ETSU provided videography, the ETSU Drumline provided the talent, and I performed all post-production with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premiere.

Just caught this amazing little workaround for those not intimidated by epoxy, solder, razors, and risking the destruction of a Canon DSLR kit lens.

And here’s a quick look at the resulting footage.

In a word – ingenious.

Just watched this reel of test footage from the new Canon C300. The title says it all . . . awesome.

First came my Sony Mini-DV HandyCam. Then, after cutting my teeth in HD on a rented Sony FX-1, I was able to upgrade to a JVC GY-HD100u – still on DV tape but relishing that 24p advantage. Now, after my best year as a video pro, I’ve dived into the world of DSLR cinematography and NO MORE TAPES!!! Here’s to the future . . . and to that 300 page manual that I’ve got to digest!

This intro is from a massive project that I completed in late September. The project was for NPI’s continuing dental education webinar series – Dental Marketing Summit Series – hosted on Dentaltown. The project consisted of a little over 7 hours of greenscreen footage that I edited down into 7 hour long episodes. Each episode had it’s own custom intro and outro and a myriad of slides in between. All slides and intros were written by co-host Mark Dilatush and I provided the design & animation. This is the opener for the first episode.

This is a quick motion graphics intro that I made back in February for Professor Griff’s presentation at ETSU during Black History Month. No big frills just some Photoshop & After Effects. I’ll post a link to the whole presentation here when I finish uprezing the presentation (it was originally SD & HD).

Just caught this trailer on YouTube and can’t wait to track this one down.

I finally got the time to get this one finished – at last. Carter Legacy a mini-documentary that tells the story of how East Tennessee State University was founded and the role its benefactor, George L. Carter, played in making the school’s founding a reality. John Fleenor, Media Collections Manager at ETSU’s Archives of Appalachia, provides narration of a story by Ned Irwin, University Archivist. David Currie, Josh Elliot, and Jason Jones assisted with the live action shoot and all still photography was provided by the University Photo Lab, the Archives of Appalachia, and the website Johnson’s Depot. Thanks & props also goes to ETSU Digital Media Services who produced the project and aided in the distribution. I served as director, editor, visual effects artist, and producer utilizing Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, and Audition on a Mac & PC.

This project required a massive amount of Photoshop & After Effects work for the 2D/3D shots which I’ll go into a little more in a future post. It will be featured during ETSU’s Centennial Celebration next month. Check it out below.