Earl Green - Freelance Television Writer / Producer

History Rocks: Pong

Earl — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:18:51 +0000

Not a lot of production work on my part here; I was contacted by the producers of this History Channel show about using photos and video that they had seen in the video game history section of my web site, and I wound up providing them with quite a few options to choose from, including video of the game itself being played. The video of the one-of-a-kind Pong prototype was shot by me in August 2005 in San Francisco.

GreenhouseFX.tv

Earl — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:37:07 +0000

At long last, here I am, working for myself at GreenhouseFX.tv. A full list of the services offered is up, along with helpful, user-friendly explanations of some of the terms and technologies involved.

It seems like it’s taken whole dog years to get a web site up and running for my little video venture (I’ve been so busy actually doing the stuff that I haven’t had a chance to really promote it yet), but now it’s time to get this show on the road. Items that I produce under the GreenhouseFX.tv name will be on display over there rather than here, though this archive is being kept open for any projects I undertake outside of what GreenhouseFX.tv provides.

Stay tuned.

Two For The Road

Earl — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:56:33 +0000

Two of my last topicals for 40/29, done on my last day; there was little or no footage for the “New Year’s Eve” story, so I decided to do one last big effects blow-out, just for the heck of it. (I promise never to do such a spot at 40/29 again.) The other topical was a case where I had good sound and decent video in advance, and decided to break away from the usual music and editing style we use on topicals. My last topical at 40/29 (not seen here) involved the execution of Saddam Hussein.

(News Package) Herman Stout Remembers Pearl Harbor

Earl — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:17:53 +0000

On the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing, local survivor Herman E. Stout vividly recalls the events he witnessed while serving there.

I don’t do them too often, but when I do edit a news package, I tend to enjoy it. In this case, the idea to edit the whole piece on the Avid came out of a discussion with the videographer who shot the piece; as it was already going to be a “nats pack” (a package consisting entirely of “nats,” or “natural sound,” without any reporter voice tracks), why not just do it up a bit? By the time we were done with the package, we were both pretty happy with it.

By the way, it was my privelege and honor to help tell Mr. Stout’s story. And I don’t often say that about something I do at work. This package aired on December 7th on 40/29 News at Ten.

NWA Roller Girls

Earl — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:21:07 +0000

Though the promo for this sweeps story barely ran, this is a fun little piece about a different kind of full-contact sport. There wasn’t a lot of footage to go on, and I was given nothing but nat sound, but it still turned out to be a pretty energetic spot. The “spin/blur” transition between shots is neat, even if the theme from Batman was playing in the back of my head everytime I saw it.

Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Earl — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:16:13 +0000

With this spot, I had a specific look in mind, namely all those high-tech medical spots that ABC produces for its own news shows like 20/20. Really, footage-wise, we were a bit poor on this one since the story was still being shot - we’ve had that breast cancer animation and those same two shots of doctors looking at mammograms for years now - though I tried to disguise that fact by dropping some animated elements in there (which were actually distributed by ABC to their affiliates for use in their initial 2003 coverage of the Iraq war). I was fairly pleased with how this one turned out.