On the night of the 27th of December, Jonathan came up with the concept for the Bartlett Farm Pork commercial. (Now keep in mind, our deadline was the 30th.) The next morning Jonathan, Peter and I scripted and storyboarded the ad. At about 2:00 p.m. Peter and I headed out to start filming. (everybody else was busy butchering chickens) We got done right at 5:00, just in time for Peter to get ready to milk.
It must be a Bartlett Productions thing to either have it snowing, or raining during a shoot. But, in both cases, it made the scenes more interesting. Another example of God's provision was that the battery on my camera (the only one that would hold it charge) ran out right after as we took the last shot. Don't tell me that's "chance" or "luck" because I won't believe you!
I downloaded the footage to the computer that night and did a tid bit of editing.
The next day, (the 29th) I worked pretty much all day editing and also animating the titles in After Effects. This was my second project using the Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. Then came the narration. We wanted to have someone with a British accent do the narration, kind of like Planet Earth (the BBC version) but we didn't really have time to contact anybody so that evening we had Peter do it faking a British accent. (if there is any real British out there, you could probably tell!) By about 12:45 a.m. that night, we had the picture-lock uploading to Vimeo for Benjamin Dawson to compose a score.
Bartlett Farm Pork Ad by benjamindawson
On the 30th, while Benjamin was working on the music, I worked on color correction, the "Approved for all Audiences" intro, and the credits. Benjamin got us the music before supper and I added it into my project file. I also made a few other tweaks, and uploaded it to the web!
Don't Wait! from Bartlett Productions on Vimeo.
Watch this humorous short video to find out why! Share it with your friends via Facebook, Twitter, Blogger. http://www.bartlettfarm.us/ Copyright © 2012 Bartlett Farm
Andrew Bartlett
Isaac Watts
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2 comments:
Wow! Well done! That is a GREAT commercial. :)
Thank you for the comment! We had a lot of fun making it.
Andrew Bartlett
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