Hi Def Pictures

In Studio for Innovative & iRacing

Bill — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:03:25 +0000

We spent two days in studio this week shooting green screen on camera standups and B roll for iRacing.com, produced by Matt Mays for Innovative. iRacing.com is the world’s leading online race simulation service, and they will soon be opening the iRacing Driving School to help up and coming sim drivers compete with the best. I didn’t get a chance to try out the simulator, but just watching someone else use it was a lot of fun.

Learn more about iRacing.com.

Thanks to Innovative for bringing us in for this shoot (and to Conrad for snapping great pics).

Diving DVDs On Sale

Bill — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:22:16 +0000

While supplies last, we’re putting all four of our scuba diving DVDs on sale. You must order from our website to get the sale price of $10.00 + $5.00 shipping. DVDs will be shipped USPS Priority Mail, so the price is only good for US Domestic orders.

St.Vincent Foundation – “Join Us”

Bill — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:22:29 +0000

This is a series of three 30 second spots for St.Vincent Foundation, produced for St. Claire Group. We provided editorial on these spots and were pleased to work with beautiful still images from photographers Drew Endicott, Polina Osherov and Tod Martens.
Well Done Marketing served as Creative Agency, with Matt Mays as Producer.

Hi Def Pictures Welcomes New Team Member

Bill — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:02:05 +0000

We’re proud to say we have a new team member here … Hank the dog. We adopted Hank from a lab rescue program in Cincinnati called Circle Tail. He’s a lab mix, about four months old, and quite possibly the best puppy we’ve ever met. He’ll be hanging around the office quite a bit, reminding us that it’s a good idea to have some play time now and then.

Another Green Day

Bill — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:31:13 +0000

We were in studio at DL Images this week, shooting green screen for some upcoming
St. Vincent TV spots. This is another collaboration with the St. Claire Group & Well Done Marketing. We shot footage for four 15 second spots which we will be cutting in the coming weeks. The spots should be on air later this fall.

Thanks to the crew for another great production day. You can see some more photos from the day on our Facebook Page.

Angola Prison Visit

Bill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:35:11 +0000

Today we made a scouting trip of sorts to the largest maximum security penitentiary in the United Sates, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. We’re working with our friends Rex Powers & Matt Mays on a potential TV series where Angola would serve as a primary location. Angola is like a city in itself. It’s basically an 18,000 acre farm that happens to have prisoners on it – more than 5000 of them. The inmates mostly stay in dormitory style housing, with only the troublemakers spending their time in one man cells. As long as they are physically able, the majority of prisoners work in jobs ranging from mechanics and auto body techs to cattle ranchers and field hands. Several Hollywood movies have been filmed here, including Dead Man Walking and Monster’s Ball. We hope to eventually be able to add our production to the list.

You can see more photos at our Facebook page.

St. Vincent Hospital Oncology – “Our Fight”

Bill — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:15:30 +0000

This is a series of four 30 second TV spots for St. Vincent’s Oncology campaign, “Our Fight”.

Hi Def Pictures teamed up with Saint Claire Group and Well Done Marketing to shoot and post these spots, directed by Matt Mays. The concept for these spots was to create a visceral, gritty, battleground sort of look and feel. We shot for four days and came away with some great looking spots.

Flying Delta? You might see our stuff …

Bill — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:56:51 +0000

A couple of months back a good friend and client of ours, Keith Sahm at Sunset House in Grand Cayman, asked if we would share with another production company some of the High Definition footage we shot for the Sunset House promo video. This particular company specializes in a pretty unique niche – they edit videos to be played during flights on Delta Airlines. So of course we clipped out some selects and sent the footage on it’s way. We had kind of forgotten about that until Keith posted this link to the finished video on YouTube. And if you’re flying Delta in October, you just might see this video on the plane. We’re happy to say whoever edited this piece included quite a few of our shots, both underwater and on land, to include in the final piece.

Diving & Shooting in Eilat, Israel

Bill — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:18:29 +0000

Earlier this month Bill was hired to shoot underwater video for an independent documentary production. Now, being hired to shoot video underwater is unusual in itself, but what really made this job unique was the location. All work would take place in Eilat, Israel in the waters of the Red Sea. Of course, Bill jumped at the chance and traveled to Israel to spend three days scuba diving and shooting underwater video.

It was 24 hours of travel to get to the location. We spent three days scuba diving and shooting, then another 24 hours to return home. This was a quick trip for sure, but was definitely a great experience. We did some great work and met some really good new friends along the way. There’s a few photos here. See more on our Facebook page.

Project 18 PSAs featuring Peyton Manning

Bill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:46:22 +0000

Here is a series of four 30 second PSAs for Project 18, a new initiative from the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at Saint Vincent. We were hired by Well Done Marketing & the Saint Claire Group to shoot and edit these PSAs, targeted at kids and parents on the topic of childhood obesity. We spent two days in studio and several days in post to put together these four spots. Everything was shot in 720p HD with the Panasonic HPX 500 and finished on Final Cut Pro.