The final video from our lighting class I took over the summer. I did camera, cinematography and initial lighting design. Thanks to the rest of the class for helping with the final lighting design and for setting everything up.

Shot on a Sony Z5U at 1080p24.

This is our final project from corporate video class. It’s a promo video for Special Olympics Maryland. We shot it at WISP ski resort in Western Maryland in February, a week or so after the double blizzards that hit Maryland. Driving up there, the snow along the side of the road was higher than our car, but it was a lot of fun to shoot at the resort. Filmed with a Panasonic HPX-170 in 720p24.

This is my nature shoot project for our Corporate Video class, basically an exercise in color correction. Shot on a Panasonic HPX-170 at 720p24.

The hardest part of editing this was going through the 44 minutes of footage to find the few minutes of interview that I felt was really powerful and told a story. I also wished they had talked more about the history of Sharp-Leadenhall and what happened to them than about parking and the business of running the church which was what most of the interview was. But I still think what of the interview that did end up in the doc was really good, and I used narration to fill in the gaps.

As far as production, my favorite part of the whole documentary is the intro. Which actually came together by accident. I found the effect that I used to give their voices a more “tape recorder” kind of sound when I was trying to put EQ on and accidentally clicked something else and it sounded really cool. And I found the music while searching for blues jazz on freeplaymusic.com, and I wish I had more of that song but the entire piece of music was only 43 seconds long, so that intro is actually the entire song. That sort of mellow, simplistic, blue jazz is surprisingly hard to find.

Overall I’m quite pleased with the way the doc came out and I’d like to go back some time and get to do a more in depth interview about the neighborhood itself.

Listen here:

The Tale of John Dillinger – Spring ’09

Produced by: Kevin Vinck, Rachel Stump, Brian Debbie
Written by: Rachel Stump
Featuring the voices of:
Brian Debbie as Dillinger
Kevin Vinck as Pervis
Rachel Stump as Anna Sage
Additional voices: Earl Gray, Dominic DeLauney

This first clip is the full introduction segment:

Next is the story of how the term Hi-Fi for High Fidelity came to be:

This is the story of his favorite recording and how he came to do personal recordings of Rosa Ponselle singing after she retired in Baltimore:

A short clip on the original mechanical Victrolas as well as the first of two records in their entirety:

A clip on the quality of recordings and records during WWII, and the full recording of Enrico Caruso from 1919:

A clip on the origin of stereo and how stereo records work as well as the introduction of LPs:

And finally, the full conductors introduction to the first LP edition of Handel’s Messiah.

by: Kevin Vinck

This first one is from my Audio Production class last semester. The assignment was to take a short story and create and audio drama out of it. We chose Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish. Enjoy!

by: Kevin Vinck, Brian Debbie, Rachel Stump.