Promo: AT&T Mobile Website Hosting

When a client offered me the chance to create a screencast video to promote a mobile website hosting editor they were developing for AT&T, I jumped at the chance.

Turns out, the site wasn’t actually up yet–and wouldn’t be until after the video was done.  I’d have access to a testing site, where I’d be able to create a few isolated screen-capture clips, but those clips would not be the focus of the video.

Thus began my crash course in motion graphics… and this is what I wound up with.  I think it looks pretty cool.

Postscript: AT&T took my video and spruced it up a bit before they actually started using it.  That’s not surprising.  They’re AT&T; their video-production capabilities are lightyears beyond any freelancer’s.  But I’m proud to note that the bulk of my video still shines through.

Slideshow: Cadence Skyscape Watch

I’ve completed several video-editing projects for the Cadence Watch Company over the past few years.

But for their New York Skyscape watch, where each number on the watch face represents a famous building in Manhattan, they wanted for a photo slideshow featuring the actual buildings.  So my role this time was to research the buildings, write the script, find public-domain photos, create the slideshow, doing the narration, and put it all together.

I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out–and so was Cadence.

Slideshow: Ambassador Promotions

I’ll freely admit, this one was a challenge. Ambassador Promotions and Events, a company that does one-on-one marketing (like street teams, trade show staffing, and in-store promotions), conducts on-the-street surveys, and so forth, waas just about to spin off from their parent company. All they really had for me to work with, were a few dozen photos of their teams (mostly from a distance), and a list of the clients their staff had worked with in the past.

I honestly wasn’t sure how to turn those materials into an effective video… until I noticed two of the photos in particular, obviously taken seconds apart. First, a member of the street team hands something to a passing pedestrian. And then that pedestrian stops dead in his tracks, turns back, and BEAMS.

I’ve already talked on this site about my love of telling stories. Well, that right there? That’s a story. I knew I had to make the video about that moment.