My friend Zach and I did a short on Darrell for Restore Church (http://www.restorecc.org/). Without giving away too much about him, he’s basically a living example of somebody that found their way back to God. Darrell was a great guy to work with so watch and find out a little more about him. Enjoy!
Darrell from Drew Woolery on Vimeo.
There are millions of starving people in the world and my friend Austin is doing something about it. Something to Eat is a program that Youthfront created to feed hungry people all over the world. Simply stated, it’s awesome. My friend Austin actually heads it up and does an amazing job. I’m so thankful for friends and people like that. Anyway, I had the opportunity to be a very very small part in helping Austin by creating this video for a Something to Eat event coming up at the University of Central Missouri. I also helped, in part, because it’s where I went to school and Brad Smith with the Christian Campus House is heading it up on campus and CCH is funding it. Thanks to Kelsey Stephens for the stop motion addition!
One last thing…Austin’s sole income is by support from family, friends, or really anyone who wants to help. If no one supported him then there wouldn’t be someone leading groups of people packaging meals. You aren’t going to solve world hunger by supporting Austin, but every little bit helps. Austin didn’t ask me to say this and I’m not asking you to support him, but if you feel like that’s something you want to do then email me and we can get it figured out. Enjoy.
Two posts in one day? What?! That’s Crazy. Anyway, here’s another look at a video I shot for justbats.com. Marucci is a bat manufacturer that produces a large portion of the bats you see in the MLB. They are a young company, but really grew fast to become one of the hottest bat manufacturers of wood bats for the majors. You will see tons of Marucci bats in little league, senior league, and even high school and college baseball. So naturally we wanted to do something big when this new Marucci Black was introduced back in late October/ early November. Their tagline for the Black is “Beware of the Black” so we played off that idea and shot this pitcher vs. hitter battle. The beginning of the video shows a tie game in the 9th inning with 2 outs, so we know this is a crucial at-bat. Obviously if you watch until the end of the video, the hitter crushes the ball into the black of the sky and we as the audience assume he hit a home run or got an RBI to win the game. This shoot was so much fun to do! We shot most of it at night out on a local high school baseball field. One barrier we had to overcome was the fact that I’m an idiot and overloaded the outlets we had to use for our lights. So a few of the closeup shots of the batter we ended up shooting inside, but it worked out all the same. Again, this one was shot on the Canon 7D, which worked out very nicely for the slo-mo shots we did. We shot everything except for the last three hits in 60p and then slowed it down in post to 24. Overall I think it was a success. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!
Here’s a video I shot a few weeks ago for justbats.com. We played around with some different ideas, but eventually landed on this one. It’s basically about making your off season, and this could apply to anyone though we’re targeting baseball players, the best you possibly can so that when you step up to the plate or wander to the outfield this spring you will be the best player you can be. I think there’s a lot to be said about a player’s habits and mechanics during an off season and I think it goes well beyond what the coaches and trainers have them do. Shooting this was a blast! We shot the entire thing on a Canon 7D, primarily using an 85mm f/1.8 with a 135mm f/2 thrown in a few times as well as a 17-40mm f/4. Budget was a concern, so the shot of the guy running in the snow was shot mounted on a tripod out of the back of someones car. I was sitting in their trunk, thankfully it was an SUV, and we had the trunk door wide open. We lucked out as this was really the only snow we’ve had this year and I had already planned that shot with snow in it. It still would have been effective without the snow, but come on, you gotta admit it looks way better with! All in all I think it was a success. More videos to come. Enjoy and shalom. Oh, and by the way, be sure to set the quality of the video to 720 (HD).
This is the premiere of my first wedding video, which I shot on May 21, 2010 for Addison and Lydia Shockley. Enjoy!
