Archive for the 'Video' Category

This is Really Cool - Extreme Sports Videos in a Blog

I’m totally psyched by this one!  You’ve gotta check out this new blog I found called ExtremeSportsBlog.com . There are fifty (50) different categories of extreme sports with over 20 videos in each category.  I never even heard of some of these things before I saw this blog. 
You’ve got your Base Jumping, Winged Suit Flying, and [...]

The Trailer — Water Born

Here’s the trailer for a film I may make.  The project is called Water Born and it’s about a a girl that ingests poisoned water because her local water system was poisoned by a very confused individual. Just who this mal-content is and how he relates to the girl is a terrifying surprise. I can’t [...]

Video PSA Fluorescent Light Bulbs Save Money

I just wanted to let you know that I’ve completed the Public Service Announcement for the fluorescent light bulbs and you can watch it by clicking this link Lana Hawkins’ PSA on Compact Fluorescent light bulbs.  The file is coming from youtube.com, FYI.  Compact fluorescent light bulbs are a great energy saver.  They burn much cooler [...]

Dogheart Video and Walking Your Dog Without Pulling

This Thursday we shoot the 60 second web video spot for the Dogheart one on one dog training program.  To quote John Speiser, owner of Dogheart, ”Dogheart has set out to raise the bar of cultural canine consciousness.” 
When I first spoke to John about my dog Sadie I was frustrated about walking her, or basically having [...]

New Photo Assignment

We received a new assignment in the digital photography class. I’m going to make a book of about 10 pages of composited images.  Since I’ve rehabbed several old houses I thought it would be cool to put together a book on one of them;  it’s the before and after pictures. However, the images have to [...]

Video Today

Today we have Hatcow Productions at my house shooting a movie, or at least part of it.  They are really shooting too, using a blank gun.  I can’t believe my dog isn’t going ballistic with the rounds I’ve heard.
Well that’s what you get when you live in a cool old house (besides the extremely large [...]

The 60 Second PSA is in the Rough Draft Stage

Who likes to edit video? It is a very addictive process.  You can keep tweaking for hours at a time.  After some point you have to stop. And I have. I’ll take it to my group for a review tomorrow and make any final adjustments, then publish it for all to see, probably on youtube. [...]

Incandescent Bulbs are Energy Wasters

Currently I’m putting together a sixty second and a thirty second Public Service Announcement (PSA) for my web video class at Washtenaw Community College.  Did  you know that in the USA 8.8% of all the electric power usage is for lighting? That is about 101 billion kilowatt hours of energy used per year on lights.  That [...]