All Seasons Ski & Summer Video
A new promotional video for the ski resort of Sauze d’Oulx in Italy. The video is a compilation of both winter ski and summer footage edited to produce a video showing what the resort has to offer all year round.
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Winter Ski
winter promotional ski video / January 2017
A new promotional video for the ski resort of Sauze d’Oulx in Italy.
The video was edited in Premiere Pro and After effects, colour grading was done in Davinci Resolve.
A Taste of Summer
PROMOTIONAL VIDEO FOR ITALIAN TOURIST RESORT / 16TH APR 2016
A short form promotional video produced for the Comune of Sauze d’Oulx in Piemonte, Italy.
Recorded over summer 2015, for release in 2016, the video is part of an ongoing series to revamp the resort’s English language online media presence and increase English language publicity.
A variety of cameras were used in the making of the video from GoPros to DSLRs. The video was edited in Premiere Pro with colour grading in Davinci Resolve and post production in After Effects.
Videos for tourism and business by Lightworks
Jazmine Erta
Photography of Junior World Freeride Champion
Part of an ongoing project, this image shows the shoot in progress of gold medal winning snowboarder Jazmine Erta. Jazmine is the Italian World Junior Freeride champion.
The portrait was photographed utilizing a portable strobe set-up on a very cold March day high up in the Italian Alps. The final images of Jazmine and other gold medal winners will be released later in the year for the project launch.
Happy Sauze
The launch of Sauze d’Oulx Happy Video
Shot over five days in late April 2014 in the Italian alpine resort of Sauze d’Oulx as part of Pharrell Williams partnership with the United Nations International Day of Happiness 2014.
The video production involved over 100 people co-ordinated by co-producer, Jill Couzens, along with hotels, passes, venues and much more. My main tasks were directing, cinematography, editing and other post-production.
The weather changed pretty much every day during the shoot – from summer-like sunshine to heavy snow (by way of rain, of course!) creating its own problems that had to be overcome.
Of course, the main focus of the video is the people and they were unfailingly brilliant, helpful and ever-ready to make the video what it is.
Now we’ll be looking forward to International Day of Happiness 2015!
Technical
Colour grading the video in Davinci Resolve
The video was shot using Visioncolor presets and edited in Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC. Colour grading was done in Davinci Resolve using Visioncolor Osiris LUTs.
Further Information
Pharrell Williams website celebrating the ground-breaking video 24 hours of Happy can be found here.
More information about the United Nations International Day of Happiness can be found here and here
To get in touch about your video production needs in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Italy or wherever – whether for tourism, business or charity, get in touch here for a chat.
Some images from the video can be seen here
Happy Sauze Video
alpine hapiness courtesy of Pharrell Williams
There’s been an outbreak of alpine happiness in the Italian ski resort of Sauze d’Oulx as we’ve been shooting the resort’s Happy video to help promote it in social media along with, of course, supporting the UN International Day of Happiness.
The video production team has included producer, Jill Couzens, who has been an absolute star in arranging, co-ordinating and managing which makes my job, dealing with the creative along with the technicalities in shooting the video, much easier.
Every kind of weather made an appearance – from bitterly cold blizzard conditions to bright sunshine by way of a little rain at lower levels. Being the winter season’s end was very useful in ensuring the “real” people working in the resort were available to take part – and take part they did with enthusiasm, energy and ideas.
More details soon – in the meantime here are a few screen shots to give a sample of La Vita Felice.
Italy Commercial Photography
Photography commissions in Italy
A selection of images from previous photography commissions undertaken in Italy.
Commissioned photographic work, both editorial and commercial photography and video, is undertaken in Italy from the high Alps to Sicily (or Piemonte to Puglia), in addition to commercial photography in Devon, the South West of England and UK generally.
The images above are a small selection of (travel specific) images for tour operators and other clients along with general stock photography.
And now the test. Going in rows, from left to right, where are all these locations in bell’Italia?
Answers
1. Sorrento Coast
2. Sorrento Coast
3. Bressanone
4. Bressanone
5. Padula
6. Tuscany
7. Florence
8. Assisi
9. Bologna
10. Cremona (but could have been anywhere!)
11 Assisi
12. Assisi
13. Bologna
14. Turin
15. Isola Bella
16. Assisi
17. Assisi
18. Maratea
19. Orvieto
20. Bologna
21. Florence
22. Isola Bella
23. Lucca
24. Perugia
25. Tuscany
26. Orvieto
27. Tuscany near Pienza
28. Tuscany near Pienza
29. Bologna
30. Turin
31. Siracusa
32. Bologna
33. Bologna
34. Monreale
35. Turin
36. Ravenna
37. Ravenna
38. Somewhere in Umbria
39. Bologna
40. Bologna
41. Parma
42. Tuscany
43. Lucca
44. Valley of the Temples, Agrigento
45. San Gimignano
46. Lake Orta
47. Lake Orta
48. Lucca
49. Police in Umbria
50. Lucca
51. Valley of the Temples, Agrigento
52. San Gimignano
53. Pastoral Umbrian scene
54. Pastoral Umbrian scene
55. Lucca
56. Milan – fashion district
Ski Carving Cup
Ski carving cup being held high-up on the slopes of the Via Lattea (Milky Way) above Sauze d’Oulx, Italy, with a view of the snaking A32 autostrada towards Bardonecchia and France.
Dolomite Autumn
Lush green pasture offset against colourful autumn foliage as the days shorten and the first frosts appear. That special time as the leaves turn and cattle are brought down from their summer pastures. Waiting….waiting for the first of the winter’s snow…
Dolomites (Alto Adige), Italy.
Summer Pasture
Scenes of summer pasture with inquisitive cows high-up in the Dolomites (Alto Adige) Italy. There are some secret places you photograph, great accommodation, wonderful views and peaceful locations that you don’t want to share…while hoping to go back some day. Thus the vague location description. In summer the Dolomites are a wonderful place for people who appreciate scenery and hiking…and in winter for the Sella Ronda with its numerous villages, great for skiing, snowshoeing and more.
This image was used in an ad campaign for a Russian cheese spread amongst others.
