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About mattkprovideo

Austin/San Antonio, Texas based digital film maker, animator and motion graphics editor. http://youtu.be/hnApJDsCw28 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3021382/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

House Lights, Travis Park, Baptist Church

https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/01/07/house-lights-travis-park-baptist-church/

Christmas lights at a private home in suburban San Antonio, lights in Travis Park(including the amusing “Singing Tree,” and tree lights at a Baptist Church in downtown San Antonio.

 

I did bits of time remapping, slow motion and color correction ( saturation, contrast, brightness, auto color etc) to the footage in Adobe After Effects.

I edited these clips in Adobe Premiere.

https://glass-geeks.com/

 

 

Govt dont play!

https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/01/07/govt-dont-play/

I just opened a downloaded image of a Hundred Dollar bill into Photoshop, and a government anti counterfeiting web page opened in my browser. WEIRD!

 

https://www.treasury.gov/services/Pages/Regulations-for-Reproducing-US-Currency-Images.aspx

Visit newmoney.gov for the specific regulations.

Here is a summary for authorized color illustrations:

  • Illustration must be less that .75 or more than 1.5, in linear dimension, of the currency
  • Illustration must be one-sided.
  • Destroy or erase anything used in the making of the illustration that contains an image or part of the illustration.

https://rulesforuse.org/

Precision Auto Masters

https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/01/04/precision-auto-masters-2/

Precision Auto Masters. 725 San Pedro. San Antonio, Texas. 
(210) 525-0044

This is a newer Version (with slight tweaks).

Below is the older version:

725 San Pedro
San Antonio, Texas
Call (210) 525-0044
Shot with a Canon video camera, tripods and sliders.
Edited with Adobe Premiere. Graphics made with Adobe Animate, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.
Script:
Hello guys this is Andrew with Precision Auto Masters at 725 San Pedro.
We’ve been in business for twenty years.
We will rebuild an install your engine and transmission.
We also do air conditioning service.
We will weld your muffler as well.
We would cut your car in half for a reasonable price.
Come down to Precision Auto Masters.
At Precision Auto Masters we believe honesty is the best policy.
We won’t sell you anything you don’t need.
We would rather put your money on what your vehicle does need and will need soon.
We also do financing up to three thousand dollars with great approval rates.
But if that doesn’t work for you come by and talk to me, I’m the owner I’ll do whatever I want for you as long as I make you happy.
Come by and see us at Precision Auto Masters, 725 San Pedro, San Antonio Texas.
(210) 525-0044
Thank you guys and have a great day.

North by inside a studio?

Cinematography question. In this classic, over analyzed scene from North By Northwest, as Cary Grant ever actually outside.. at that crossroads?
Or is he in a studio with a backdrop and/or blue screen (actually Ive read that back then they used a YELLOW screen for color film) it all looks so artificial.
That first shot of Cary Grant next to the bus seems real but ALL of the rest of, especially the close ups, feel like studio shots…
Those wide shots sure seems to be real outside shots of a plane ( or a model plane?) but the reaction shots of Cary Grant noticing the crop duster plane seem to be either Cary Grant in front of a studio backdrop or him in front of a matte screen.

The reverse angle of Cary Grant ducking from the plane are almost definitely studio shots… then the wide shot of Cary Grant getting up off the ground looks quite real.  Why not shoot the close up on the same day as when they shot that wide shot?

Then Cary Grant runs to the road to wave down a car. Im sure thats really Cary Grant really outside on a real road, right?

Cary runs from the plane and camera is dollying with him, thats real, right? Then the close up of him hitting the ground is a studio shot?

Grant runs across the ground and into rows of corn stalks, thats real right?

Somebody, maybe not Cary Grant but a stunt double, runs through the corn but we don’t see them.  Cary Grant is next seen in close up… studio mock up of a corn field?

The plane buzzes the corn field, close up?

Cary Grant ( or a  double?) flees the corn field and runs towards the truck.

Cary in medium shot waves at the truck and looks really artificial.

A real truck and surely a stuntman falls under the truck.

The real Cary Grant is under a real truck.. but it looks to be in a studio.

The plane hits the truck… once you look it is surely a well done set of models and model environment.

Then I think its a real truck and real plane ( really on fire) and….. Cary Grants character with his back to the camera so it might be a stunt man flee the scene.

Then the real cary grant flees the burning scene which seems to be really outside, but was Cary Grant added in on top of the burning truck and plane footage?  If its fake it works quite well.

 

Thats also my biggest problem with Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS… how fake it looks…

DARTH BY DARTHWEST

“DARTH BY DARTHWEST”- “VADOR AUX TROUSSES”. Short Film.

https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/01/02/darth-by-darthwest/

 

Alfred Hitchcocks film North by Northwest mashed up with Star Wars.

This was made by: Fabrice Mathieu

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5002591/

 

As I watched the larger youtube version, it got me thinking… in North By Northwest was Cary Grant ever actually outside.. at that crossroads?
Or is he in a studio with a backdrop and/or blue screen (actually back then they used a YELLOW screen for color film) it all looks so artificial.
Thats my biggest problem with Hitchcocks THE BIRDS… how fake it looks…

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/

 

Kingdom Collapse Jan 10, Fitzgeralds

https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/01/02/kingdom-collapse-jan-10-fitzgeralds/

Kingdom Collapse Jan 10, Fitzgeralds

New year! New Rock!
On January 10th come rock out with us at Fitzgeralds to the awesome sounds of
KINGDOM COLLAPSE

You’ll also get to experience the Hunters of the Moon CD Release party
and The Hollowmen and AO RIVER .
Discount Advance tickets availab le from the bands or the texas revolution llc facebook page
Friday, January 10, 2020 , 8 PM at Fitzgerald’s Bar & Live Music Venue

#live rock show, #new year new rock, #kingdom collapse, #hunters of the moon, #the hollowmen, #aoriver, #fitzgeralds, #live music, #venue,

Kingdom Collapse, Jan 10,@Fitzgerald’s

Kingdom Collapse, Jan 10, 2020 @ Fitzgerald’s

https://mattkprovideo.com/2019/12/27/kingdom-collapse-jan-10fitzgeralds/

January 10, 8pm.  With Kingdom Collapse, Hunters of The Moon, The Hollowmen, and Oddfellas. 

I edited this with Adobe Photoshop, ( I didn’t create most of the logos, I photoshopped them to have alpha channels for video) and edited with Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere.  Much of the content was made by other video producers, not me.

https://www.facebook.com/kingdomcollapse/

https://www.facebook.com/Hunters-of-the-Moon-122482194456314/

https://www.facebook.com/TheHollowmenTx/

https://www.facebook.com/oddfellasband/

https://www.facebook.com/texasrevolutionsa/

https://www.facebook.com/fitzrockssa/

Its a new year so you deserve some new rock!
New year! New Rock!
On January 10th come rock out with us at Fitzgeralds to the awesome sounds of
KINGDOM COLLAPSE

You’ll also get to experience the Hunters of the Moon CD Release party
and The Hollowmen and Oddfellas.
Discount Advance tickets available from the bands or the Texas Revolution LLC Facebook page.
Friday, January 10, 2020 , 8 PM at Fitzgerald’s Bar & Live Music Venue

#live rock show, #new year new rock, #kingdom collapse, #hunters of the moon, #oddfellas, #the hollowmen, #fitzgeralds, #live music, #venue,

#live rock show, #new year new rock, #kingdom collapse, #hunters of the moon, #oddfellas, #the hollowmen, #fitzgeralds, #live music, #venue,