sammi needham : cogitate

Just a little video that Shaun, Ryan and i put together for 2009′s St. Kilda City Presentation Night. We were Premiers (and champions actually) this year, and generally that spurs on a bit of effort for presentation night. The last time this happened we re-did a scene from 300 which i really need to dig up. It was all just stills manually keyframed onto the actor’s faces. It was pretty hacked together. And now here’s presentation night video 2.0, with shot video, motion-tracked onto actor’s heads. It’s still totally shit, but it was funnier working with video rather than stills this year.

We put it together over the space of a couple of nights. Along with some other stuff that i can’t upload anywhere because it’ll get pulled for copyright infringement. Namely the music video for Def Leopard’s ‘Rocket’ with a dude from the club’s head flashing onto the screen every time the word rocket is sung. It also has a credit roll of all the players and administration involved with the Premiership winning team.

Had we had a bit more time it would have been fun to clean this up a lot more and do it properly. But it is what it is. And here it is…

Somehow (and i have absolutely no idea how) the first time that i exported the audio from the trailer, it didn’t export Brad Pitt’s voice with it. I have no idea why, but it was pretty handy to be able to just plonk in the new audio track that we (very badly) ADR’d and still play the backing track underneath it. I needed some of the other voices from the trailer in at other times and when i exported the audio a second time it included them. If anyone can indulge me as to why this might have happened it’d be greatly appreciative. Maybe it was a left / right channel thing? Or maybe the vocal and effects track was actually separate in the original quicktime, but it worked out very handy for me for this purpose.