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Event Montage Videos — Updated!

Event montage videos?! What’s that? Well, for one thing, I made up the name. Basically, it’s a video summarizing an event. You’ve seen them. The one to five minute videos that show off the highlights of an event, such as a wedding, party, or even just a basketball game. You may have seen this type of video before and thought that you could never do that. Turns out that they are quite simple to make. [Read more →]

Documenting Is Worth Doing

Perhaps you’ve been reading all the recent posts and have decided to make a movie. Or maybe you already have one in progress. Either way, have you thought of documenting your production? No? Well, I’ll tell you why you should and how we do it. [Read more →]

Building a (Mini) Winter Wonderland

Today I am going to break from my regular “tech” articles and do something different. The beginning of iSundae II called for a fun little scene with little animals having a snowball fight on a grand scale. In order to save time for the rest of iSundae II, we decided that I would shoot the scene after we finished the live-action parts. [Read more →]

Tea, anyone?

EXT Lydia’s Hut DAY and INT Lydia’s hut DAY. Just two short sentences from the script. As head of the “Phantom Moose Large Props Department,” it was my job to take those lines and convert them into a semi-believable reality. [Read more →]

iDVD Menus Unloosed

And here we are again this week. I hope you’re ready to finish that iDVD menu we’ve been working on, ’cause here we go! It’s time to put on the finishing touches and add some Easter eggs. In case you haven’t been following along, here’s part one and part two. [Read more →]