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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.

Dork Energy Cheap Thrills

I consider bloopers and outtakes as cheap laughs. There's nothing witty or clever about it and anyone can become a comedian when it comes to a blooper reel, but you know what? We never claimed to be high-brow.

So here are some outtakes from our recent shoots...

Most of this was not shot by me. This is how they really are; totally unscripted. Tanja and Tia are always at it. Pay especially close attention to the last quips... they take a potshot at... at ME! Oh, if I didn't love yer crazy antics...!

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!

Sweepstakes Results? Where are They!?

Alright folks, thanks for being patient.

I have a whole series of fun posts I will be uploading VERY soon so I appreciate your patience! Between editing some awesome wedding videos; going on fantastic photo shoots with photographer friends; meeting new clients; interviewing possible interns; and a bunch of other stuff, I've barely been able to get to my Sweepstakes Drawing Videos.

So I apologize for the delay.

But, as I said, they will be going up very soon and I can't wait to post them! So stay tuned.

Meanwhile, here's a short video teaser of something I'm working on for my friend, celebrity photographer, Tanja Lippert.

Video Geek's Stocking Hangers

NLE = Non-Linear Editing

I am a video geek. Was there ever any question?

 

Why No Bloggy?

Here's a real-life account of the dialogue I had with my blog last night:

Me: Hey, blog. What's goin' down, vato?
Blog: ...
Me: What's wrong?
Blog: Nothing.
Me: Don't tell me, "nothing" - clearly you're upset.
Blog: Do you even care about me anymore?
Me: What?!
Blog: You used to pay so much attention to me. To the tune of four posts a week -- but lately I feel like... I feel like ...
Me: What?
Blog: ...you ... you just haven't spent a lot of time with me lately, that's all.
Me: What are you talking about? I'm sitting here every day for hours on end.
Blog: But you're never really paying attention to ME.
Me: I've been working OK? If you want me to stop working, there would be no reason to even keep you around.
Blog: !
Me:... sorry... I didn't mean that...
Blog: I don't even know who you are anymore.
Me: Look; I said I'm sorry.
Blog: Just go do what you have to do.
Me: Don't be like that. I've been editing client wedding videos; working on important marketing materials; a new video to launch my proposal videos; a brand new 'legacy video' feature; and a whole bunch of other things. Plus, I need to spend time with my family for the holidays! Not to mention the fact that I've hardly been sleeping because of the new puppy and I haven't touched a Playstation 3 controller for like three months!
Blog: Excuses excuses.
Me: Ugh. I can't talk to you right now.
Andrew's Fantasy Football Team: For what it's worth, Blog. I feel the same way you do.

Re:Frame Re:trospective

Before I get to writing my recap of the VERY inspiring and helpful videography conference, Re:Frame '08, I wanted to spend a post recapping the hilarity and good times that was had by all. I met a bunch of reallyreally talented and passionate videography professionals who are more accurately described as filmakers and storytellers.

The "storyteller" moniker is important because stringing together a series of nice shots and including music in the clip isn't storytelling and it isn't particularly hard. But what separates the good from the great is the ability to tell a story. Your story. (Hence my current, somewhat prescient, ad campaign that touts, "every fairytale needs a storyteller")

But in between the note-taking and q-and-a sessions was the fun stuff - the stuff that builds relationships and causes your sides to hurt from laughter. It was good times indeed. Check out just a sample...

The Top Ten Actual Things Overheard at Re:Frame '08: A Tongue-In-Cheek Retrospective

Champagne Prank

Saturday's wedding was wild. Here's just a tiny tiny sample of how the night was progressing.

A random guest grabbed my video camera and started filming me and a group of his friends. You can see his friend come up with the brilliant idea of showering us with an exploding volcano of bubbley when he talks into the camera in Vietnamese. I didn't realize the two were cohorts until I reviewed this clip.

Good times. See for yourself.

Keep in mind this shaky came footage is not mine. Clearly, I'm in FRONT of the camera this time around.

Out. Of. Control. (in a good way :-)

Saturday's wedding (about which I blogged briefly here) was the craziest wedding I've ever shot. Here's a bullet-point recap of some of the notables:

• Sweltering.The ceremony was at the Hotel Valencia courtyard. Needless to say, SJ + heat wave + outdoor wedding = test of your mettle. Good thing I had the foresight to wear white and not my usual black. (How do you spell meltyourfaceoff?)
• Familiar Faces.I saw a bunch of my old clients, Thanh, Thuy, Kerri, and James - all of whom have babies now! It's great catching up with old clients and knowing you're still a significant part of their wedding memories.
• Booze.This group of crazy kids was the same group of crazy kids that at Kerri and James' wedding years ago, brought their own vodka, gin, and rum to the reception and were doing shots and got redfaced and blitzed before the announcement of the bridal party. This time was no different for some reason*.
• Solo SDE. I had to put together a same day edit all by myselfand with no assistant in a matter of hours. It was especially tough because I was only booked for about 30-minutes of pre-ceremony (which is where I usually get a lot of my favorite shots) and had to try to make an interesting movie with so little footage. (You can see the video I made here.)
• Technical Difficulties.I suffered a malfunction with my editing system that caused me to have to improvise. It set me back about 45 minutes but sprouting gray hairs or not, the show must go on! :-)
• Grey Goose. There was this one groomsman who figured it was his job to get as many people as drunk as he was in as short a time as possible. He made it his personal mission to become the mobile bartender for some reason*.

Palos Verdes/Redondo Beach Wedding Recap

Those of you who follow my blog know that I relayed a SoCal wedding into a family vacation by taking a four-day cruise a few days after my wedding shoot a few Saturday's ago. I shot the wedding with my good friend, Ricky Wong of W Photography. I wanted to recap some behind-the-scenes stuff that I didn't mention before.

Firstly, here are some magnificent photos from Ricky's blog.

What's interesting about the photo above is that the hair/makeup artist you see, Sherry Younge, is the cousin and makeup artist for the bride from my Last Minute Wedding that I blogged about a few weeks ago. Considering the two weddings were separated by roughly 360 driving miles and some 670 hours, to say it was a coincidence that I worked with Sherry both times is an understatement! It really is a small world, isn't it?