The San Francisco Diesel Film Racing screening was held tonight at the Embarcadero Center Cinema. I carpooled with my friend Andrew. We misjudged how long it would take to get there and ended up arriving an hour early! No matter… We sat and talked for a bit and then other team members began arriving. I have to say that indie film makers are a unique bunch!
We stood in line for our tickets and then made our way to the theater. I was surprised with how many people arrived. Of the 19 teams that registered there were 17 film entries. A couple of the videos were very good. A couple were very bad. Ours was somewhere in between (is that horrible to say?) . After the films were shown a member from each team was asked to go up to the front of the theater and speak briefly about the film. I made Andrew go up =o)
I recorded Andrew speaking on my Treo (thought to do it last minute) and posted it here. I must apologize for the quality but you can understand him for the most part. He confessed to the audience that he and I are actually wedding videographers and that got the crowd laughing. Is that a bad thing?
So all the films will be posted on www.filmracing.com in 2 to 3 weeks. A month from now I should find out where our movie places in the San Francisco race of which the winner will move on to the national competition. After the films are posted on the website the public will be able to vote for their favorite, so if you think our film was good please visit www.filmracing.com and vote for it.
Una Bella Sera was a blast! Crystal and Nicole did an amazing job with the event. When my wife and I walked into the Amber Room my wife said that she wanted to get married all over again! This picture is from my phone and does no justice so please check their website for profesional images: http://www.unabellasera.com/photos.html
My wife and I arrived about an hour after it started and it was packed. I visited with some of the vendors, including Rhee, who was kind enough to invite me. Casa Real is a special place and I envy the couples who will be tying the knot there, I wish I could do it all over again!
Today is also our sixth anniversary and so after we said our goodbyes at Casa Real I took my wife out to a quite dinner.
Rhee Bevere, an awesome photographer here in the Bay Area, was kind enough to invite me to Una Bella Sera, an event hosted by Nicole Ha Designs and Amazáe Special Events at the beautiful new Casa Real in Pleasanton! I am very excited about the Casa Real and am looking forward to filming at this location in the future!
So this weekend was a blast! My friend Andrew Hsu and I competed in the Diesel 24-Hour Film Race wherein a central theme and a surprise element are emailed to each competing team at exactly 10pm Friday night and the completed film must be dropped off in San Francisco no later than 9:59pm Saturday. This year’s theme for the San Francisco race is “Chores” and the surprise element is “unlocking something.”
It was a grueling 24 hours but OMG was it fun! I think the biggest challenge was that our team was comprised of only Andrew and myself! That’s right! We both were responsible for not only acting in our movie but everything else as well!
Andrew already posted the video on his blog so I embedded it here on my blog as well. Enjoy!
On March 8th I filmed a wedding at St. Michael’s and reception at the Palm Event Center. The following clip is a highlight of the Palm Event Center getting prepared for the reception.
Since I posted the bride preparations segment of the Daley wedding video I thought I’d go ahead and post the rest of the video as well (see previous post). Check back soon as I am finishing up 2 more videos and will have them posted here also!
Among the wedding videos I am working on I wanted to share with you the bride preparation segment for the Daley/Krieg wedding. My style is always changing and I believe this is a new chapter in the evolution of Burkart Video Productions.
One of the packages I offer to my clients is my Bronze package which is edited in my Documentary-style. With my Bronze package the focus is to capture all of the events cleanly with little to no “creative” or “artistic” camera angles or editing effects.
The events of the day are lightly edited with the resulting video roughly an hour-and-a-half in length. Here is a complete Bronze wedding video: (This video is over an hour in length so grab your popcorn!)
I just added the ability to play Flash videos in my blog and wanted to test it out. Here is the opening segment for the wedding video of this wounderful couple.
The wedding ceremony took place at the St. Mary’s College Chapel in Moraga. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Stay tuned because there will be more to come!
*** UPDATE *** So I have completed this wedding video and now the complete video is available to watch. This was a custom package, my Bronze package with some cinematic editing included.
The San Francisco Diesel Film Racing screening was held tonight at the Embarcadero Center Cinema. I carpooled with my friend Andrew. We misjudged how long it would take to get there and ended up arriving an hour early! No matter… We sat and talked for a bit and then other team members began arriving. I have to say that indie film makers are a unique bunch!
We stood in line for our tickets and then made our way to the theater. I was surprised with how many people arrived. Of the 19 teams that registered there were 17 film entries. A couple of the videos were very good. A couple were very bad. Ours was somewhere in between (is that horrible to say?) . After the films were shown a member from each team was asked to go up to the front of the theater and speak briefly about the film. I made Andrew go up =o)
