Browsing Archive: July, 2012

The opera, the upside-down camera and funky frame rates

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Sunday, July 22, 2012,

To be honest, the first time someone mentioned the term "flash mob" to me, I had no real idea what it was. So I turned to the source of all known human knowledge...I Googled it. The oracle then told me that it would in fact require a full multicamera shoot if I wanted to do it right.

When the NWU's School of Music approached me a while ago to do this project I realized that I would need a second camera operator. I enlisted the help of my friend Andrew Wallis who brought his Canon DSLR and...

5000 hits for matchframemedia.net

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Wednesday, July 18, 2012,

I just noticed that we're at 5000+ hits for this website. Thanks to everyone who stopped by. Hope you enjoyed your stay and that you'll visit again soon. There's a lot more in store in coming months!

Now, where's the bubbly..?
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For the connoisseurs

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Tuesday, July 17, 2012,

July is turning into a very productive month...

It's amazing how quickly word travels through the social media universe. This one was still just a vague idea in my head at 9:00am this morning... Now live on YouTube and Facebook. Keep an eye on the School of Music's Facebook page in the coming weeks for a few more of these.

Optentia Research Programme

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Saturday, July 14, 2012,

I pride myself in being flexible and efficient, but this project really broke all records. One interactive project and one video with all the trimmings completed in one week flat (Note - please don't ask me to do this every time, this was an emergency OK:)

Above: The main menu. The interactive project shares a lot of the video's visual elements

Optentia Research Programme is a research department at the NWU's Vaal Triangle Campus. They required material for a major psychology confe...

Wrap up your tablet

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Friday, July 13, 2012,

My editing and camera gear travels a lot so I'm always on the lookout for protective gear. If you're like me and you own and love your Wacom graphics tablet, you'll also know that they tend to live very hard lives inside laptop bags when you're on the move. This pouch offers a protective inner lining, two internal pockets for cables and accessories and an elastic pen loop.

It fits the Intuos 4 and 5 tablets but should be perfect for any of Wacom's similarly-sized Bamboo tablets. Order on...

Give your footage the Instagram look

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Friday, July 6, 2012,

Above: Background elements in this clip were given the DFT Film Stocks treatment to meet the latest NWU visual language requirements. View the full clip on YouTube

The NWU is one of my major clients and they recently changed their visual communication style to a modern contemporary "light and airy" look. Achieving what is basically a stylized "Instagram" look in future video projects through ordinary colour correction tools would take hours so it made sense to look at a serious colour grading...