This week we will be launching our new website. We’re using a Wordpress theme called Sharpfolio, which was designed by WebRevolutionary specifically for portfolios.
This time, we’re keeping it simple. The center piece of the home page will be the new AF Creative promotional reel. The site also contains terrific features for presenting our video portfolio.
The new site will be here soon. Clients, feel free to let us know if there are other features you’d like to see on the site. We’ll see if we can make it happen…
The Copy is a three minute satire that was created for an online film contest at iStockphoto.com in 2007. It was the first short film produced by AF Creative. The following is a behind the scenes look, from script to screen…or eh, internet.
“If you watch it, seven days later…”
The theme for the contest was the future of technology. Obviously paying homage to the 2002 film, The Ring, starring Naomi Watts, The Copy gives a slightly different scenario over what happens when you watch a forbidden video. The script was written a few weeks prior to the shoot, and everything was produced and shot over the course of two weekends.
Weekend One: Test Shots and Pre-visualization
The first Saturday, we met on location, did some test shots and filmed a pre-visualization…
Storyboarding and Direction
After meeting on location, we storyboarded the film using freeze frames from the pre-visualization…
Since our office location was only available half of the day, the entire shot order had to be streamlined as efficiently as possilbe…
The actual Copy…
While Justin Rossbacher and myself were storyboarding and planning for principle photography, Won Novalis was working on the DVD video that Brandon’s character would watch. You can watch the stand-alone piece here.
Weekend Two: Principle Photography
The Results
Though we didn’t win the grand prize, it was a good run. The Copy won the popular vote and made it to the final twelve selections in the comedy category. If you haven’t seen The Copy yet, you can watch it here.
Starring Brandon Neal and Justin Snyder. Directed by Justin Rossbacher. Written and Produced by Justin Snyder. Cinematography and editing: Won Novalis. Assistant Directors: Darci Adams and Young Novalis. Co-producer: Dan Portnoy.
Awards:
The Copy was a finalist and winner of the popular vote in the iStockPhoto Future Now Video Contest.
Here we put together a short documentary telling the story of a young missionary named Scott Hara. Hara tells of his experience witnessing the violence in Sudan first hand.
We were given a collection of photos and a video interview to cut together this piece.
Graphics were created by Won Novalis. Editing by Justin Snyder and Justin Rossbacher. The interview was shot by Paul Ufema and the pictures taken by Andy Martin.
This production blog is here to share our client productions to the masses. More than a video portfolio, this blog will use video and pictures to take a closer look at all the the projects AF Creative is involved with.
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