Samsung Video: Samsung Developers Title Sequence

So this video became a little more complicated when I was asked to update the corporate graphics which had changed since the last time we asked about branding materials. The Samsung Developers brand has a new funky look and feel to it, but no assets from the usual mysterious agency in Korea.

Without further ado, I got busy with some Red Bull and some Motion to make something interesting!

Come back inner monologue, all is forgiven!

I've been on facebook since 2007, three years since it launched in the U.S.A. and as I'm physically removed from most of my friends, I've relied on it heavily, becoming both an active socialiser and the go-to guy at work for Social endeavours, even taking on the responsibility of the Samsung Developers LinkedIn Group management. Away from the corporate side of things, I'm at the point where I have a though, then copy-edit it and store it for future release via a social channel... Something doesn't quite feel right about the fact that my good, often unformulated ideas, become soundbites, reduced to 140 characters presented to a pool of connections I might not know as well as I should, or value as much as I should....

 

Recently I caught myself trolling on-line. I hadn't expressly set out to, but I'd found myself being mean, harsh and derogatory toward my connections on both facebook and LinkedIn and I realised I should know better. I gave myself a 10 day time out from facebook, (coinciding with a busy period at work) and did some thinking about Social Networking.

this is what I do: 2011 Test Flash movie

Found this while checking through my YouTube channel and thought I should make it live... The final version (in Flash) was used in the Commerce: Making money with bada video made in 2011.

appsworld 2012 shaped obstacle

So it's been about a month now since my last post, announcing work on the S Pen tutorial video and it's been a good experience so far. After shooting all the direct to camera, we recorded all the audio, leaving me able to go away and start chopping it out into scenes. I was quite happily sailing along, one eye on Motion, one on Final Cut when Apps World 2012 rushed us from a dark alleyway.

Same time every year - Diamond Sponsors 2012

Post vacation content planning

So this is my 2nd day back at work from my week and a half vacation and I've just submitted our most recent technical script for review. This video, looking at the S Pen SDK for the Galaxy Note devices should be a lot quicker to produce than usual, as I'm really pushing to not have any presenters on screen for speed of production. 

The S Pen (S is for SUPERFREAKINGAMAZING)

We've used a technical presentation as a storyboard but I'll create all the animations in Motion to improve the look and feel. I'm looking forward to getting started on this project as Motion is a great tool to play around with.

Samsung Video: The UK Developer Programme

The Brief - Come up with a teaser introduction video to show at events, with no budget ASAP.

I set about writing some scripted lines for everyone, thinking I'd splice them all together in post production, but when we started filming everyone wanted to freestyle it and say something 'like' what had been carefully written for them. Not wanting to cause any offence I let them get to it and we ended up with some good content.

My 2D to 3D Experiment

Following on from the excellent Premiumbeat.com article "Still Images: 2D to 3D using After Effects or Apple Motion" I thought I'd try my hand, as I often am on the scrounge for content and there is only so far Ken Burns will take you...

Being in possession of Photoshop and Motion I tried out Jonathan Fowler's approach but instead opted for Pixelmator as I've gotta get used to using it on the iMac.

Quick Mask Mode - A comfortable way to extract