A still from a timelapse test. Fun Fact: the SS Klondike ran up and down the Yukon river from Whitehorse to Dawson City from 1937-1950 and was actually made using parts of an older ship (the SS Klondike l) that had run aground. I think they should get it back in the game as a travelling casino!
Thirst Aid
Yukon Brewery got in touch the other week to see if I could do some basic product shots for their new "Thirst Aid" cases. After some "very tough" negotiations, of course I said yes!
"Now, that's how you Dawson!"
This past weekend I had the opportunity to document a team of Whitehorse hockey players in the Dawson City Men's Tourney. Over the past few years I've heard legendary stories of the shenanigans that go on at this tourney, so I figured I'd better tag along and put together something of a mini-doc or a trailer of the weekend. Visions of a grittier HBO's 24/7 were in my head at first, but I quickly realized I didn't have nearly enough crew to follow the ever evolving storylines, nevermind the games themselves. I think you'd need a crew of at least 3 cameras to do it properly - but I did manage to get some gold...some that is "fit to print" so to speak. Other footage must unfortunately be left on the cutting room floor. Here are a few grabs from the weekend (click on the image below to scroll through. Trailer/mini-doc coming soon):
Yukon Highways & Public Works
I was recently brought on by Max Fraser Productions to work on a Human resources video for Yukon Highways & Public Works. I was responsible for editing, graphics & motion graphics. In order to replicate the dept. branding, we used a lot of browns and layered some scribbles from blueprints and other docs. One of the difficulties with this project was that they wanted a version in which they list pretty much all the communities in the Yukon and many of the services that they're responsible for - this was a LOT of text. So we had to get creative in figuring out how to get the message across while keeping people's attention and not jeopardizing the style of the piece. We decided to embed the text into the image and have it "interact" with the objects in the scene. This was done in AE and involved 3d Camera Tracking and rotoscoping objects, or matting.
Here are some samples:
YukonTravel on the BIG SCREEN!
Last night I saw one of the biggest films of the year - the Hunger Games - here in Vancouver and got a pleasant surprise when one of my commercials for Yukon Tourism played right before the trailers! The agency Outside The Cube brought me in to shoot a spot that highlights some of the things Yukoners like to do in the long, dark winters. The last time I saw my work played on the Big Screen was at my Film School graduation. Usually my work is shown online, or TV - so it was definitely a little different seeing this one projected in 2K in front of hundreds of people!
*photo by Robert Postma
