Boost Mobile Commercial

Check out the behind the scenes video for the making of this Boost Mobile Commercial featuring Young Jeezy, Jermaine Dupri and Mickey Avalon. Click the title of this blog to be taken to the YouTube video site. After asking these artists to create a song to feature, production began to work on creating the ultimate commercial. Filming in front of a green screen, each artist was then added to a background created using Adobe After Effects, using the camera and lighting features to create a 3D effect. As an additional editing program, we have barely tapped the resources of Adobe After Effects. You may want to spend some time with this useful tool and figure out how you can spice up the flavor in your videos! Some helpful links...
Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects Tutorials
Creating an Explosion
You Tube Examples of Adobe After Effects
Check it out. If you find any other examples, post them! I'd love to see us utilize this program more! All it takes is a little time and a little interest...

Video Contests

So you've made a bunch of videos. What's next? Well, how about putting your videos to work and entering into a film competition? It's really easy to enter, and we might be able to help pay any entry fees! Just make sure the video is in the required format. You can create a new video to meet the requirements, or use a video you have already made. I know you've got it in you, now why not win some money and recognition as well?! Here are a couple of contests currently underway...

2nd Annual Green Screen Environmental Film Contest

MADD Sponsors "Party Safe, Party Sober"

Student Filmmakers Listing of Contests

SchoolTube Monthly Contests

Design a T-Shirt for Honest Foods ($500 scholarship)

Make a Video. Win $10,000. Fuel the Change Video Contest

I Heart Tap Water Student Video Contest

Also, if you find any other video contests that you would like to share, please post the link. Let me know what you are thinking of submitting and I can help you fill out the application and all that fun stuff. We can even ship it right from school or upload it from our studio. Good luck and I look forward to seeing what you decide to submit!!

Novi High School prank leads to Lifetime movie

Novi grad has the last laugh,'Queen Sized': Film pays off; teen is no longer butt of joke. Click the link above to read the Free Press article about a Novi High School student's experience that became a made-for-TV movie. Find an interview with the star Nikki Blonsky by clicking the link at the end of this blog.
After reading the article and watching the video, what is your reaction? If there was a made-for-TV movie about your high school, whose story might they tell? Who might be cast in the leading role? What do you feel are the benefits of this movie? How might the movie influence students and their behaviors toward each other? What else do you think television can do to help students learn how to be successful and respectful adults? Can you find any other Michigan students who have influenced television or film? Let me know what you think...