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Re:Frame Collective Blog Part I

Hey, friends!

Check it out! I'm featured on the Re:Frame Blog!

In this post I talk a little about the evolution of my brand some of the mistakes I made along the way. In a future post, I talk about the Canon MkII 5D and some other things. Be sure to check it out.

Being selected to be featured on a top industry blog like this is amazing! I can't believe my eyes! Someone pinch me. :-)

Take a look at part one of two: http://reframecollective.com/blog/?p=475

Please leave a comment here or there! Even if it's just to let me know I suck.

I Got Me Some *Style Me Pretty* Love

Check it out! The Beltane Ranch video that my friends at Thi Cosmetics invited me shoot is a hit! I'm so encouraged by what Abby Larson of Style Me Pretty said about my video. It just made my day!

"You are going to LOVE this next feature. And I mean seriously love.

The ridiculously talented Andrew Hsu of Studio MSV sent us this little clip that he put together during a photoshoot for Brides Northern California Magazine.

I mean…is that not the greatest thing you have ever seen?"

Thanks Abby and the SMP gang for the feature and the super nice words, (and for following me on Twitter!)

Introducing: Save the Date Movies

Introducing SAVE THE DATE MOVIES (aka SDM)

Why use MSV Save the Date Movies? The reasons are bountiful!

• Because movies are awesome - and starring in your own movie is doubley awesome!
• Because movies are the wave of the future! (You know YouTube but there's no such thing as YouCards.)
• Because it saves trees! I can post your video on your own special website and you can simply email your guests the URL without dowing a single tree!
• Because it saves on postage - which saves on fossil fuels. Do you hate the earth? >:-(
• Because it's different than the save the date cards your girlfriends got for their wedding last year (which makes your rad!)
• Because it saves money! At $550 per video, it can be cheaper than many Save the Date cards you'd get online (don't forget postage!)
• Because if you use Save the Date Cards instead of Save the Date Movies, you have to say "STD" instead of the less noxious "SDM" :-) hahaha! Just kidding!

So what does a Save the Date Movie look like? Here's one that I did for Thomas (of Thomas John Events) and his lovely fiancée, Melissa. (Yes, astute, readers! You're right - it's from my previous post here! Congratulations for remembering!)

Check it out:

Thomas and Melissa: Special Message from andrew msv or at the official "Save the Date Movie Page CLICK HERE

Contact me for more info!

BAPVA Tonight!

I'll be at at the Bay Area Professional Videographer Association tonight speaking on the merits of the Canon 5D MkII. If you're in the area (Santa Clara) or if you've always wanted to know about the MkII and how it can help improve your business, you should totally come!

For details, go to www.BAPVA.com and click on "meetings"

San Francisco is Like My Second Home

One of the cool things about working for yourself is that you can set your own hours and it's likely you can cut down your commute to almost nothing. I work from my home studio so my commute consists of walking down a flight of stairs.

But lately, I've been spending so much time in San Francisco, it feels like my second home!

Check it out:

Tuesday: Dinner with Evonne Wong of www.awaysoiree.com - direct from Maui! I shot with Evonne last March for my special edition of Vendor Chic. (The teaser trailer for that movie can be found here.) Here are some pics from that dinner - from Evonne's blog.

^ Clockwise from top left: Darrin and Evonne, me, Augie Chang, Nancy Liu Chin, Kevin Chin, Chung Li, and Viola Sutanto!

Here's Augie and me being silly.

Then, on Wednesday, The Knot had a gala event at the SF Design Center Galleria and I was invited to be the official videographer at the event. (The fabulous Michelle of MB Wedding Design was the selected coordinator of the event! Great job, MB!) While there, of course, I was able to meet up with many old friends and meet some new ones! I snapped just a couple of pictures; here are some of them.

^ Liz Guthrie and Evonne Wong.

^ Fu Chung Wong of FCWong Photography and Kathy Goodman of Well Rehearsed

^ Evonne, Jubilee Lau and Jean Marks

Then, on Thursday, I headed back out to San Francisco again to meet up with the aforementioned Kathy Goodman for some pastries and a chat just before heading off to a prospective client meeting in the Mission District.

I need frequent flyer miles for crossing the Bay Bridge!

Pro Bono Project: Volunteers of America Bay Area

A while back, I posted about a project I was invited to work on for the Volunteers of America charity organization. Well, after a bunch of red tape, meetings and coordinating of schedules, we finally went on our first day of shooting last Thursday.

I brought along my new friend, Luke Goodman to be the photographer for the project. Luke has experience shooting productions stills for feature films so I thought that would be perfect for what the VOABA was looking for on this project.

Anyway, here are some shots of us from Thursday's shoot.

Here's a group of teriffic, high-spirited seniors from the East Cliff Village, Santa Cruz (along with Mr. Bailey - red sweater - who is in charge of the Bay Area headquarters for Volunteers of America.)

Here's Luke and me.

 

 

The photo of Luke on the left is out of focus because... well, because I took it and I'm not a photographer. :-(

Stay tuned for more from future shoots!

I'm Featured on WedClix.com

Check out my short interview on the WedClix.com blog!

It's funny - not funny ha ha, funny like 'weird' - to read someone else's blog and have my words and 'voice' coming out of there! Check it out, won't you?

Go HERE to see the post!

WPPI Recap

As I said in a previous post, WPPI was important to me this year because it helped me cement some of my developing philosophies on how to conduct my business. But besides all of that deep stuff - you can read more about it here, if you didn't already - it was more fun than a barrel of monkeys. (It was as fun as a hotel casino full of monkeys!)

Check out my short recap video. (This video was a little harder for me to edit than I thought it would be because I really didn't get much footage. For those that don't know, the more footage I have to work with, the better the documentary. In this case my "documentary", is certainly no Man On Wire.)

Check it out:

Dork Energy Part 1

The whole reason why I, a videographer, attended WPPI - a photographer conference - was because my good friend Tanja Lippert (featured at Rangefinder Magazine HERE) asked me to help make the videos she would use in her platform talk at WPPI. This video she wanted to make was unlike anything you've ever seen at a conference. A big part of what Tanja does and how she gets such beautiful images, is she makes the models - yes, brides are models too! - to relax and feel like the whole photoshoot is one big fun adventure.

Our opening video for the 8am workshop had to (A) reflect Tanja's style, and (B) wake people the heck up. So here's your first look at what we saw last Wednesday morning... Tanja, and her best stylist friend, Tia Reagan. And a very unprepared city of Los Gatos...

Dork Energy from andrew msv on Vimeo.

Please leave a comment to tell me what you think!

WPPI

WPPI is Wedding and Portrait Photographers International -- the largest, most prestigious professional wedding photographer association in the world. Annually, they hold a big conference in Las Vegas and the top names in the industry get together to share thoughts, hold workshops, network and so forth.

This year will be my first time attending this conference and as a video guy, it will definitely be interesting seeing things from the photographer's point of view.

I will be out of the office from 2/15-2/19.

But it won't be all education, fun and games. I'm there to work as well. I will be presenting a couple of videos that I made for my friend, Tanja Lippert, who is speaking at the conference next Wednesday morning. (That's backstory behind the "It's a Mystery" videos I posted HERE and HERE.) I will also be shooting a promotional video for my friend, Scarlett Lillian, as the official sponsor of her Night Shoot Workshop next Monday night. (Stay tuned for the posts which so the videos soon!)

I will be checking my email as frequently as my phone reception will allow me to so I won't be totally unreachable. If you have anything you need to contact me about, please do email or call and I will do my best to get back to you in a timely manner.

Hopefully my first WPPI Conference will be a successful one! I have a lot of work I need to do before I leave for Vegas and I have a feeling I will be editing a lot while I'm there as well. Wish me luck!