CanadaSCORES Vancouver

I was having drinks with a friend a few months ago and he mentioned he was doing some work with a new charity named CanadaSCORES, which runs an after school program for at risk youth across the lower mainland. The program combines soccer, poetry and community service as well as on-going mentoring for students. Right away I wanted to be a part of it. I grew up in Whitehorse playing soccer, played throughout University and even started the first local Whitehorse kids soccer camp during summers home from University - so needless to say soccer has been a large part of my life - to be expected I guess when one has an Irish mother. I asked my friend how I could help and within a few days I was CanadaSCORES' video guy. Here are a few screen grabs from outings with the team.

You can learn more about CanadaSCORES at http://canadascores.org/

SS Klondike

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: