This was done for my daughter, who loves The Housewives, especially Lisa Vanderpump, and taught me everything to know about these battling ladies. I used After Effects, and that, coupled with Tai Verdes' excellent cover of Weezer's Beverly Hills. makes this one of my personal favorites. And Lisa Rimma -- what a b.....! Iove her so much!
This is my After Effects masterpiece! It's called Kiss Me Kates! It pays tribute not only to my Kathleen Malloy, but to other famous Kates, all kissing someone, all erotic in their own way, one Cate morphing into Kate so that she can join the club, and it helps that she's the best kisser.
Do you want to see a cute puppy dog strutting to RL Burnside singing Please Don't Stay? Then you've come to the right place, my After Effects video of my daughter's four-legged son, Morty.
I wanted to learn how to Motion Track in After Effects. I was successful in the ambition by having gym-mate, Mirela, do overhead presses with giant anvils. Also, if you want to watch a freakishly strong woman lift outrageous weight without my special effects, then you will be wowed by Mirela.
This is my own workout video, a routine that I did often at the Red Rocks Amphitheater. It was made using Premiere Pro, nothing fancy, just me sweaty to two great ACDC cover songs, Money Talks and It's A Long Way To The Top. The camera work is shaky due to my two camera people getting exhausted following me up and down the stadium steps.
This was my first official video. My friend, the beautiful Julianne, wanted to make a commercial for our gym in Denver. We shot some shaky footage, and then I decided to just make it a workout video coupled with her modeling photos. She gives a voice-intro about how exercise is possible, if not necessary, at any age before the music kicks in and she goes into action demonstrating her routine.
This is my tribute to my fiancée, Kathleen Malloy, who died from ALS on June 25, 2019. She was a former model, a highly sensitive and intelligent woman. We understood each other's crazy personalities and had fun doing it. There will never be another Katerina!
Here is something my brother and I put together in a few hours. We were cooking a spaghetti dinner and decided, why not, let's film it and then interweave photos of us from toddlers to grumpy old men.
This is an emotional tribute to my bigger-than-life son, Joshua Walter Johnson, who died on September 1, 2021. It was sudden, unexpected, as I held his hand as he passed from this world. He was my funny little boy and my philosophical friend. I have not watched this video since the day I finished making it a few weeks after I lost Joshua -- too hard.
My Uncle Gary waited to play organized baseball until his peers were creaky, over-55-year old geezers, some of whom had to walk to first base due to arthritis. Here are "highlights" of a game, with Springsteen singing "Glory Days" to match the subject matter. It was a fun day.
This was my first video posted on my YouTube channel, but it was a collaborative effort in that two other people did the editing, one the visual, the other the audio. But I wrote, directed and shot it, and guided the process. Also, my coworkers at BCT-Colorado were all good sports in submitting to my direction. I do a front hand-spring.
This was my second BCT-Colorado work video and, really, my most accomplished one, the closet I ever came to making a short film. I wrote the opening poem, an alternate version of Twas the Night Before Christmas, and the song, Little Printer Boy, which was performed by a lady I hired for the task. I directed and cajoled my sometimes resistant coworkers into acting out my skits. Hopefully the viewer will bypass the fact that she knows none of these people but will still watch it from start to its glorious finish.
Here I tried my hand at making a promotional video for my newest place of employment, Edison Press in Maine. It documents how the company makes a booklet for a client. Again, I had to work with resistant coworkers and, this time, an even more resistant owner, hence the rush in shooting the footage, which sometimes shows in the finished product. Still it features some of my most ingenious uses of After Effects, especially how I make the company's logo appear as if it were drawing itself.
