Home Video 101
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.
