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Matt Cikovic
January 2nd, 2012, 01:31 AM
For critique:

One of three natural gas TV spots I shot and edited this fall. This one is by far my favorite of the three:

SCUD environmental on Vimeo

The others:
SCUD_experience on Vimeo
SCUD general why on Vimeo

Bryan Gilchrist
January 5th, 2012, 09:14 PM
Nice videos, you can hear pop's with the "P's" on the VO's though.

And I would mention to them that they may want to change their name...SCUD is associated with missiles... ;)

Matt Cikovic
January 6th, 2012, 12:20 AM
They have absolutely no sense of humor about that acronym.

But thanks for the feedback.

Jerry Porter
January 6th, 2012, 12:22 PM
Nice Matt,
What did you shoot it with?

Matt Cikovic
January 6th, 2012, 09:15 PM
Canon 60D with a Tamron 17-50mm F2.8, an adapted Nikon 70-200mm f2.8, and a Canon 50mm f1.8.

Jerry Porter
January 6th, 2012, 09:46 PM
Well done with the 60. They look like they were for broadcast. Did the local station give you any crap over the format or did you just send it to them digital? How did they hold up to the compression chain?

Matt Cikovic
January 8th, 2012, 01:02 PM
Well there's a bit of miss-communication around that. When I accepted the job and shot the spot they neglected to mention to me that they were for web (which I thought) and for broadcast. I didn't shoot 24p or anything crazy, but obviously I would have preferred to been in the loop right off the bat.

Per the TV stations request, I ftp'd an HD h.264 .mov and that was the last of my involvement. I know the spots aired but I never saw them. I can only hope it looked okay in broadcast.