This is the opening sequence to a video I’m doing for Celebrate Recovery at The People’s Church. Due to anonymity, I can only show this opening sequence in my portfolio.
Celebrate Recovery Opening Sequence from Toby Sturgill on Vimeo.
Camera: Canon XF105 at 24 frames/second
Software: Final Cut Pro 7
Music: “The Healing Has Begun” by Matthew West.
This is a pretty cool blending of design elements, 3D animation and film:
The Ambassadors Design & Animation Showreel 2011 from The Ambassadors on Vimeo.
I love the look and feel of this video by Mark Cowart. The attention to the details of the room and not just a static shot on the person talking is super well done. Also? I’ve wanted to do this to my walls forever!
I love a good lifestyle video. This almost makes me wanna get remarried. Woah.
This is a great one coming from Feria Cinematic.
One of my new favorite shorts… A recent widower deals with his grief through his wife’s broken camera. One of the more original shorts I’ve seen in a while. This is from Ryan Dunlap and Daros Films.
What are your thoughts? What’s the meaning? Is there a message?
After living a year in Northern Virginia and the DC Metro area, I’ve discovered that there really is no place like home. While I made some fantastic new friends and had some of the most memorable experiences I still couldn’t see myself in the DMV for much longer.
The time was right for me to leave Nashville a year ago and the time was right for me to return just last month. Over the course of that year I helped produce the Denver #filmcamp for Inside|Out Global and attended the Gideon Media Arts Conference and Film Festival.
Back in 2009, I went to New Zealand for 15 days to be part of a group that taught filmmaking to urban youth as a way for them to discover their strengths, tell their stories and influence their culture.
A year later, I joined them again in Washington DC to do the same workshop with Metro DC youth. Two weeks after that I found myself moving to Alexandria VA with only what I could fit into my SUV.
So what have I been doing this past year in DC? Helping to get Inside|Out Global (IOG) established as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We’re finally official!
The mission of IOG is to empower young people to tell their stories and discover their gifts and strengths through filmmaking and the creative arts. Our vision is to see the world’s youth find, embrace and offer their unique gifts to influence and enrich their cultures.
Bonus: now that we’re a 501(c)3, means that you can make a tax-deductible donation to help us do this year round! (We accept checks of all sizes *wink).
This year, in 2011, we’re bringing the same workshop that’s been done in New Zealand and DC to the Denver area at the end of the month! I’ll definitely be blogging more about this experience as it unfolds.
Be sure to check out our brand new website and watch some of the videos the students have done. Keep in mind, these are filmed by students that (in some cases) have never picked up a camera before or seen the inside of Final Cut Pro. The stories they tell are true. I’ll post more videos this week as we gear up for Denver.
When I heard of this yesterday and then watched the trailer for the film I couldn’t believe it. Ditore Mayo Entertainment was asked to make a promotional video for a new planned community in Dallas called “Castle Hills.” They came back to their client and said, “We’ll see you one promotional video and raise you a real movie.” (Or something to that effect… I wasn’t there so I can’t say for sure.) A real movie based on a planned community?! Branded entertainment?! I love it.
Never mind the plot or the characters of “Cooper & The Castle Hills Gang“… I want to acknowledge the creative genius of this idea! It’s one thing to have Castle Hills be the location of a film. It’s another thing entirely to make a movie that SELLS Castle Hills. See the difference?
I’ve often said that Franklin, TN planned community “Westhaven” is much like a movie set. It was created by the same developer (Southern Land) who built “Seaside“, a charming & magical community that looks so fake that it was a perfect location for the film “The Truman Show” (of which I auditioned for three times and never got a chance to be in. I digress.)
When places like Castle Hills are created and are made to be so magical, it only makes sense to make it the location in a movie. Movies, after all, allow us to imagine and dream and see what it’s like to be on the inside of the character’s lives. Why not show (sell) those characters (lifestyle) to the country in a 50 minute film about the place and the charming people who live there.
From the first frame with the Jeep driving by against the bring blue sky, I knew this was Grade-A work; that it wasn’t B-Rate at all. From the lighting, camera moves, score, these guys have made a stellar piece of art that tells a story, but also (hopefully) sells homes within the Castle Hills community.
I’m all for new ideas and going beyond what’s been done before. Have you heard of something like this being done before?
Wow. A lot of work went into this project to pull it off without a hitch. Good work, sir!
And thanks for raising the bar that much higher for the rest of us.
This past weekend I found a homemade cassette tape from 1987. My mom and I were playing “school” and while I was the only physical child in the classroom (our kitchen table), I insisted that she call on my imaginary classmates Johnny and Susie before I was called on with the right answer. The tape ends with me singing songs from The Sound of Music, a film that would become the bedrock of my childhood.
purchased from iStock Photo
Upon the foundation of inventiveness, music and imagination, a love for the arts and filmmaking was built. I could recite any song by Rogers & Hammerstein and I knew the script to Newsies backwards and forwards. I wanted so much to be part of these great films. I was fascinated by the behind-the-scenes segments and the how’d-they-do-that shows on TV. Any chance I got, I wanted to see what was going on behind the camera.
My dream is to be part of something bigger than myself and to influence culture for the greater good.
