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 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.
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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.
Westward Ho!
shooting video at Westward Ho Devon
A test desaturated yellow colour grade using a still from the shoot
Shooting a video can be tough, especially when the sun is out and the temperatures finally creep up to 16C. This is a still from one of the longer term video projects I’m currently engaged with. Today’s location being Westward Ho! in North Devon – a place, I have to admit, that I have rarely been to before now. Ice cream vans, cafes selling great coffee and great weather. What’s not to like?
Colour grading a film or video is an immensely difficult art – for people not used to it at least. It can take weeks to do. Here I’m just experimenting with ideas and looks, in particular the warm, yellowish (Kodak film), washed-out (i.e. desaturated) and vintage look suits the images but may not suit the film in its entirety.
This video, being kept under wraps pro tem, will hopefully be ready in late 2014.
Exmoor Beast 2
Version 2 of this video is in colour and has a couple of clips from the riders talking about the sportive/challenge. This was the original cut, more-or-less, but due to time constraints this version had to be put on ice temporarily.
One of the toughest sportives of the season, The Exmoor Beast (starting in the Devon town of Tiverton), takes riders up both the pleasantly rolling and leg-burning hills of Exmoor in Somerset. Beautiful scenery is thrown in for free as is the obligatory dose of unpredictable and sometimes seemingly vindictive West Country autumnal weather.
More information http://www.exmoorbeast.org.
Technical:
5d mark II w/ Magic Lantern
25fps
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Magic Bullet Looks
Exmoor Beast Video
One of the toughest sportives of the season, The Exmoor Beast (starting in the Devon town of Tiverton), takes riders up both the pleasantly rolling and leg-burning hills of Exmoor in Somerset. Beautiful scenery is thrown in for free as is the obligatory dose of unpredictable and sometimes seemingly vindictive West Country autumnal weather.
The decision to make the video black and white was simply for aesthetics – an artistic decision.
More information http://www.exmoorbeast.org.
Technical:
5d mark II w/ Magic Lantern
25fps
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Magic Bullet Looks.
Exmouth Winter
Exmouth Winter Days video
An experimental video motivated by being drawn to a seaside resort in off-season. What storyline? Initially it was shoot and see what happens. A creative exercise. As time drew on, I realised the weather (variable to say the least) was the narrative – the rain driving me away from the town but leaving with memories of better days – which pretty much summed-up the filming of this piece. The draw was the idea of seaside resorts with fading splendour deserted in the winter but, as I discovered, there wasn’t much in the way of faded splendour – more an active out-of-season resort with always something going on and, more often than not, a sandy paradise for dogs and their owners.
TECHNICAL
One of the greatest issues to counter and overcome was, unsurprisingly perhaps, the awful weather or more accurately, the constant battering wind. A 1.4X converter was used on the 200mm f2.8 lens for most shots to give cinematic throw to the image and reduced depth of field. However, even the slightest wind-induced camera shake rendered the footage unusable (except for one or two clips After Effects managed to stabilise sufficiently). And there was a lot of wind. Did I mention the wind? The film was edited in Premiere Pro and graded in PP and Magic Bullet Looks. Magic Lantern was used during the recording achieving an average bit rate of 50mbps which definitely helped during the grading.