May 7th - Bethlehem Steel Montage

Part of my recent project with the Dietrick Group was a montage of photographs taken at Bethlehem Steel to some opera by Pavarotti. The photos were powerful, and so was the music. I decided to make the montage as simple as possible so as not to distract the viewer from the beauty of the pictures themselves. I chose to do simple fade-in and fade-outs matching them to the music. It was shown, along with nearly a dozen other videos I had produced, at the Rave Theater in Center Valley, PA. My client from the Dietrick Group told me that several members of the audience who had worked at Bethlehem Steel before it was closed were crying by the end of the montage. This was a real ego boost! That kind of reaction, even from a video so simple, is what makes this job so great.
Below is the montage:

March 27th - Music of the Week

Ok, I admit it, I can be a nerd sometimes. One of my favorite shows right now is Battlestar Galactica (the new one). I know, I know, "Battle What?!?" Jokes aside, one of my favorite parts of the show is the music. It consists of a wide arrange of unique instruments with an ethic feel that really make the show so great. Right now I'm listening to the Season 2 soundtrack written and produced by Bear McCreary. Bear is extremely talented and the music he creates for shows like Battlestar Galactica is a testament to his abilities.
Any of you who have visited my online theater and watched the 2007 Demo video have heard music from this soundtrack. The particular song I used is entitled "Roslin and Adama." The track comes from a scene that conveys a feeling of true love between two characters. I wanted to create that same feeling in my demo. Weddings are not just an event or tradition that couples must go through at some point in their lives, it's an expression of true love between two people and I think the track "Roslin and Adam" really helped me to express that.

I really hope some of you look into this great soundtrack!

Into The Fray, the Creation of a Blog

Hi all! I've been toying around with the idea of getting a blog going for my videography company and now that that backlog has subsided, I have finally finished what I started back in January. And as my first "real" post here on the blog, I wanted to talk about something totally unrelated to weddings... music! I'm a fan of all kinds of music so when a corporate client handed me a CD they wanted to use in their project, I just fell in love with it. Right now I'm listening to it as I write. The CD is a collection of pieces from some of the world's best known tenors: Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti. Anyone who likes this kind of music... check out their work! It's really something else!