With time we need to up our game or boredom in old skills will kill you or your work. In order to progress you need to get our of your comfort zone. This is typically difficult for some people (especially me). Sometime we need a little bit of a push to move us forward. The following video was my push to get out of my comfort zone:

These past couple months I’ve been looking into means of upping the production value of videos I’ve been producing while decreasing cost in terms of time and money. After attending a couple seminar lectures and reading a few more books on the subject I realized that if I’m to up my game I’m going to have to learn Adobe After Effects or find some people who know the tool.

I did find some people who know the program but the factor of financial resources to compensate for time became an issue. Finally when boredom on current skills set in I took the jump. If you saw the post about iwannagetmarried.com video, The effects were done mainly in Adobe After Effecfs. I was quite suprized at the results it gave.

There were two main skills that I’ve leared with the last project:

• Text effects
• Converting a still image into 3D

With those two elements alone there is so much that one can do in terms of the creative potential.

     

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The following session is from the Youth Conference 2008 hosted parallel to the ICNA conference. This session was sponsered by Young Muslims Brothers, Young Muslims Sisters, and MSA National, featuring Baba Ali from Ummah Films and myself.

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- if for some reason you cant view the video, go here: http://blip.tv/file/1058537 -

I hope you benefit from this session.

     

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Stu Maschwitz (author of The DV Rebel’s Guide) post on his blog the other day a trailer for a short film by Ayyaz Waraich (judging by the name, I think he’s Muslim) titled “White Red Panic.”

What do I mean by “filming totally naked”? The trailer above was shot with a “naked” Canon HV20…

…without any special 35MM lens attachments or gizmos. Just your simple $600 camera.

It’s amazing what sort of results keeping to simple principals of video, photo, lighting, sound, and editing can get you.

Personally I’m looking to get the Canon HF100.

It’s similar to to the HV20 in price and features, except that instead of recording to tape in HDV, it records to SDHC flash media in AVCHD (compressed high definition) format. Personally I hate tape and the time it takes to transfer.

     

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