May 18, 2008

This one went down very well indeed.
I did quite a bit of research before I made this, trying to get the feel of the thing just right. My final port of call for this was to contact my good friend James, who is an expert in film, cinematography, and particularly early film. I was very pleased to read his response to my question of conventions for silent film, because I had fulfilled all but one of them.

The music plays a big part here. It's amazing how much atmosphere it adds. When we showed this at the North York congregation, the sound didn't work, and I found it rather dull.

Yawan really got into this one, and I think that all three main characters will reprise their roles at some point in the near future; I don't know how I'll top the pie in the face at the end though...

April 13, 2008

When I decided to do a commercial themed video, I did a bit of research. I found some amazing commercials, most of which I didn't use as inspiration. It's interesting for me to look at commercials that are considered to be classics over here in North America that I've never seen.

I went with a combination of new commercials, some of which I was familiar with, and some old ones that only North American people would recognise.
This was the second time that I'd used an introduction to the announcements that didn't end up being the main focus for the video - the first was with Steve and Sandra Long in Israel on the March 23 announcements.