Kids & Candy Open
I truly enjoyed those opportunities where one of the digital shows for the Food Network needed a 10 second open and I was the one they turned to. This Kids & Candy open was one of my favorites since it had a lot of action in it’s duration. I was able to build it on time and under budget.
CHEESIEST SHOW EVER
Another program for the Food Network’s digital channel that needed a 10 second open was the ‘Cheesiest Show Ever.’ This open went from concept to completion in half the time it usually took to build. This was another project brought in on time and under budget.
NIGELLA Blooper Reel OPEN
I was glad to be asked to do an open for a video that would not be broadcast, but to be played for Nigella Lawson during an honors dinner. I thought the best way to handle the open was with a montage of snippets of her bloopers rolling across the screen with a camera track.
SCRATCHED - EPISODE 5
Some serious rotoscoping was in order when a client wanted the show’s logo on the monitor screen and couldn’t re-shoot the scene with the cats. I was able to display the logo and rotoscope where the cat steps in the way which saved the client the added expense of the re-shoot. Because it worked so well, the process had to be performed on the other ten individual episode opens that season saving the client the additional re-shooting expense.
Contact Us
Girl ON THE MOVE
While playing with some Nuke software I was able to find some friends to chase after a little girl. I found Nuke to be very versatile and easy to work with and will welcome the opportunity to use it again.
CLONE STAMP & TRACKING
During the production of season nine of ‘The Best Thing I Ever Ate’ it was found that some of the text in the chef’s bios were landing outside of safety. Editors quickly learned that bringing the text back within safety resulted in a gap at the top of the image that needed to be repaired. With no time to re-shoot, I suggested I use some clone stamping and tracking to repair the existing shot. The results saved the network a considerable re-shooting expense and for my quick thinking I was given Visual Effects credit at the end of the show.
DOUGLAS ELLIMAN OPEN
One of my clients, Independence Plaza at Tribeca requested a promotional video showing the benefits of living in downtown NYC. It was quite a break from the typography work I was doing at the time and a glimpse as to what I would be doing in the future.
While working for Rainbow Network Communications, they needed an instructional video describing their new – at the time – Media Asset Management system to teach the staff. I was proud to put one together for them. I was also told that this three minute video was the perfect teaching aid and was shown to every single operations manager in the company at the time.