I just posted a new video featuring Fly Freestyle team member and nationally ranked aerialist, Kendal Johnson. The video can be viewed here on our website at Twosherpas/snow. This inspirational two-minute video tries to capture some of the hard work that goes into staying in top form in the sport of aerial jumping. Thanks to everyone at Fly Freestyle who allowed me to shoot this video.
Earlier this year we separated our personalized documentary service under the CINEMA OF LIFE name with its own website. We offer a multitude of services, focusing primarily on creating professional, high definition, personalized documentaries for our customers.
I've really been wanting to shoot a quick video featuring close up details involving a young athlete training in the way they do everyday. I got the chance this week when I found some free time, then...a quick shoot, a not so quick edit, a much longer sound design in Soundbooth, and then some frustration with After Effects, but in the end it turned out as I'd hoped it would. I shot it on a T2i at 720p60 with a variable ND filter to keep the DOF shallow. I color corrected using Colorista and color graded using Looks.
It has been a while since I posted anything, but it's not like I haven't been busy. I've completed a lot a different projects in the last few months, primarily focusing on commercial work which has given me the opportunity to work on my After Effects skills. Below are a couple of videos that represent some of the After Effects work I've been doing lately.
The first video is a slideshow for the Ogden Valley Winter Sports Foundation that utilizes a script that allows the photos to change to the beat of the music. The script can be purchased at AE Scripts.
The second video is an ad for the Imagine Ballet Theatre using shots I took around Ogden, Utah. I inserted various text in After Effects and imported the tracking data from Mocha AE. The ad turned out better than I expected.
The third video was used in IBT's ballet, Alice: Adventures in Wonderland and was projected on a large scrim when Alice falls down the rabbit hole. This piece utilizes footage shot against a green screen in the dance studio and was composited in After Effects. A little time remapping and an overall color look using Magic Bullet Looks and voila!
The last video is a proposed ad I threw together for the Utah Olympic Park in Park City. I used a baseline After Effects comp another graphics designer created and modified it for this specific spot with video I shot last summer, some creative commons music by Jason Shaw, and audio effects from the Apple Final Cut Suite library.
That's not all I've been doing, but it gives a good feel for the kind of work I've been spending my time on this spring.
We've completed the most recent Cinema of Life personal documentary for Alden and Eleen Rigby. Alden Rigby, an eighty-nine year old Bountiful, Utah resident is a decorated World War II ace. As a member of the famous 352nd Fighter Group, he earned four of his aerial kills in just twenty-five minutes during an enemy attack on his airfield in Belgium on New Year's Day 1945. Here's a short excerpt from the documentary.
Meet Alexis Monet Flores. Three time European Junior Champion. Three time Guatamalan Junior Champion. Mexican Junior Champion. Monet has won over seventy of the ninety-two golf tournaments she has entered during her short and spectacular career. Now she's looking to play in the LPGA.
The Ogden Standard Examiner published two articles featuring Two Sherpas. The first article highlights composer Alfonso Tenreiro and his work, including his collaboration on Two Sherpas' short film ADLER'S BUS STOP. The second article features the documentary FOR THE LOVE OF DANCE, which plays at the Foursite Film Festival this week.
It was just announced that Alfonso Tenreiro won a GOLD MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE for his original score in ADLER'S BUS STOP at the Park City Music Film Festival 2011. Congratulations to him, as well as Michaela Pentacoff, who did the final audio mastering of the short film.
The organizers of the Foursite Film Festival have selected the documentary, FOR THE LOVE OF DANCE, as one of three films to play the opening night of the festival in June. ADLER'S BUS STOP was also selected to play at the festival, which will be held in Ogden, Utah on historic 25th Street.
The Utah Arts Festival has selected JACK AND JEN as one of five films to compete for the title of BEST UTAH SHORT FILM for 2011. The competition will take place in June during the FEAR NO FILM FESTIVAL as part of the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City.
ADLER'S BUS STOP won the Best Picture Award at the RE:Image Film Festival in New Jersey.
Yes, this entry has nothing to do with film making, but hopefully it shows that creativity is still flourishing here at Two Sherpas. As an excuse to push away from the soul sucking act of writing screenplays, and to sharpen my Photoshop skills, I submitted a few ski designs to G3 as part of their Ski Graphiks design competition. While other designers took the first place honors, G3 is including two of my designs at an art gallery showing in Nelson, BC as part of the opening night festivities of the Kootenay Coldsmoke Powderfest. I'll let you guess which ones made the cut.
Independentcritic.com reviewed ADLER'S BUS STOP giving it an A-. Quotes include: "A beautifully constructed short film that gently weaves its way with tenderness and compassion" and "[the film] should enjoy a long life on the indie film festival circuit." To read the full review go to the review at the Independent Critic Website (LINK).
Here's a link to Chris Morgan's Q&A about ACES OVER EIGHTS which is playing at the Poppy Jasper Film Festival this month.
JACK AND JEN won the BEST OF UTAH Award at the 2010 Foursite Film Festival. KAITLIN'S DREAM was nominated for BEST DOCUMENTARY and BEST SHORT SHORT.
Here's a nice article written by Nancy Van Valkenburg featuring local filmmakers Colton Tran and Christopher Morgan. http://www.standard.net/topics/features/2010/06/10/foursite-film-fest-features-local-directors
ACES OVER EIGHTS was selected as one of the short films to be shown at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival to be held in Seattle, WA from 6-13 June, 2010.
Check out the trailer for My Girlfriend's Boyfriend - a film I was lucky enough to be a part of as the Assistant Locations Manager last summer. The movie stars Alyssa Milano and was produced by Fifty Films of Salt Lake City.