Jake's Production Notes

Just finished a series of videos for the Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis doctoral program at ETSU’s College of Education. All videography was provided by Jason Jones and Zion Madden of the ETSU Office of eLearning and talent by Dr. Bethany Flora, Dr. Don Good, and ETSU president Dr. Brian Noland. I performed all post-production duties with Final Cut, Audition, and After Effects.

Just finished another pair of documentary vids for the George L. Carter Railroad Museum at ETSU. These videos give a quick tour of the construction of the upcoming Tweetsie Railroad exhibit led by museum director Dr. Fred Alsop.

A book trailer that I put together for Harlequin Publishing is now live! Check it out below:

Finally found the time to punch up my mograph reel. Have a look below:

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.

Just got this opener together and approved for the College of Nursing to be used in their presentation to a national nursing conference on the plan of care regarding their Public Housing Clinic initiatives with the JCHC. Script, narration, and photography supplied by the ETSU College of Nursing with additional photography courtesy of University Photographer Charles Warden. Video footage filmed by Zion Madden of ETSU Digital Media Services. I was responsible for motion graphics, animation, and scoring with Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, and SonicFire Pro. Nothing super special here, but I thought I’d share the results.

Finally got this one online so I thought I’d say a few words about it.  This video was created as a PSA for the ETSU College of Pharmacy.  The script was written by the pharmacy students who also seved as the talent.  On the production side, I was assisted by Leena Agrawal of the Office of eLearning, and in post by Rob Russell who provided the main voiceover as well as the vending machine “voice.”  I used After Effects, Mocha, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Audition to complete the post duties.

Slowly but surely the subsite redesign is coming together.

Go there and check it out by clicking here!

The editing reel itself is still a work in progress at present as some of the included clips will contain never-before-seen snippings from Choices.  Now how’s that for drama?  Check back for updates . . .

In conjunction with my 2010 motion graphics demo reel, I did an overhaul of my online motion graphics portfolio.  Here’s the link

http://www.vfxjake.com/mograph.html

This is part of the annual overhaul of my portfolio sub-sites that I plan on completing in the next few months in an effort to simplify my website by making the subsites all one page portfolios to reduce the clutter of multi-page mini-sites.  I used jQuery for the first time with this one and found it surprisingly robust and easy to work with.  More to come!

I finished this project a few weeks ago and thought I’d throw it up here.  The concept was devised by David Currie, Director of Digital Media Services in the Office of eLearning, and was intended to help in promoting the University Seminar course at ETSU.  David had the idea that, by providing clips from student essays about the course read by actual students from the class, students would become more interested in participating in ETSU 1000.  All that being said, I must say that, in staring at a half hour or so of faceless hands typing on a keyboard, the ideas just weren’t coming of how to formulate this promo.

The funny thing with design is that you never know where or when inspiration will strike you.  In talking with a friend of mine about a music video project he was working on, we watched a few examples he was referencing and one included a sequence of video with thicker than normal letterboxing, giving the video a super widescreen kind of look.  Something about that sequence stuck with me and I began to experiment with my hands source footage.  Another element crystallized when I was thinking about how I rarely ever use a close to or pure white background in my promos.  A few days later, the Night of 1000 Hands was over and the ETSU 1000 Promo was a reality.

And now, credits.  the aforementioned David Currie was the director of the project and Jason Jones, also of the Office of eLearning, produced the footage.  The talent included various students from the ETSU 1000 course and I performed all post-production duties including design, editing, and graphics by way of Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut, Audition, and After Effects.