:: Earl Green - Freelance Television Writer / Producer ::

This was a package with which I became more heavily involved than I imagined I would - I wound up shooting quite a bit of the B-roll. The story talks about motion sickness from playing modern high-speed 3-D video games, of which I only have a few (I prefer the classics myself), but it was better than nothing - which is what they had. I checked out the promotions camera and tripod and took it home for the weekend, where it was now my job to play lots of video games. It turned out to be a rather effective spot thanks to lots of quick cuts, explosions, and a decent music bed for that sort of thing.

It was literally a day of being under fire when wildfires broke out across the area, due to high temperatures, high winds, and months with no perceptible precipitation. The entire crew was out in force, and there was some amazing footage involved too.

40/29’s own chief photog, Mike Hall, offers time-honored video tips for those with camcorders, including such venerable advice as Keep It Steady! This promo involved putting a lot of faux camcorder crosshairs and recording indicators on the screen, and I took that one torturous step further by shrinking that down to fit into the screen of a camcorder which Mike had shot for the package. Of course, the camcorder was in motion, forcing me to at least attempt to match-move both the superimposed image (standing in for the camcorder’s viewfinder) and the crosshairs/record indicators to the actual video of the camcorder. Confused yet? Oh, and I threw in a secret message just to mess with people’s minds - the “woof woof” on the dog footage, which was only there for a few frames.