In January 2011 I began working with a student group at the Centre for Digital Media called Man Kind. We created, managed and produced content for the Men's Health Initiative of BC. Man Up is an online community outreach program created entirely by our team. Manupcanada.ca is a web site aimed at getting young men (ages 18-35) interested in their health, and it is populated with content created by us. I am our primary researcher and copywriter, and work in the Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects) for design mockups. We shot and edited a 30-second PSA with the help of the Vancouver Canucks. With the help of Stan "Steamer" Smyl as our celebrity endorser, our spot ran on the Jumbotron at the Rogers Arena on March 31, 2011, as the Canucks played the Los Angeles Kings. The ad directed the 20,000 fans in the arena to the...
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This is a student project from the Animation in a Digital World class in my Masters of Digital Media program. Classmate Jordan Braun and I worked on creating a tilt-shift short video based loosely around our individual daily commutes. We shot all footage in digital video, batch processed in Photoshop CS4 for tilt-shift, and only kept every fourth frame to give it a stop-motion feel. Bon Voyage. (Tilt-Shift) from jordanbraun on Vimeo.
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Courtesy of project lead and team mate Al Sinoy, you can play 7 Days here. Or you can view the trailer for it here. The Project The first assignment for our Visual Story class required us to make an interactive photo-film. We had to pick a strong image and then storyboard a number of narrative lines that all used that one image. We decide to build a storyline around the idea of a man dangling from a ledge, being held onto by another man who could determine his fate. We then weave this into a storyline that involves a supposed love triangle between three central characters, good friends Dave and Mike, and Dave’s wife Mia. My Role On 7 Days, I played the role of Head Writer, fleshing out a multi-strand, cohesive narrative. I also acted in the production as the husband Dave, created a production blog for our group over at...
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