a.m. overtone: visual techniques

Visual Treatment for Jed and Lucia

Orgone is about to release their new album Cali Fever on Ubiquity Records

(Orgone is a name coined by Wilhelm Reich, meaning a Universal life force that defies measurement. Rad band name!)

Fanny Franklin with Orgone

Find out how your video is doing on YouTube Insight for FREE! Many people don’t realize how to access it. Click on My Videos and under My Account click on Insight. What’s really interesting is the Discovery link that tells you who is driving the most traffic to your video.

Vimeo Plus charges $60 a year to access Full Statistics. To find out who is driving the most traffic to your video, click on the “Embed” link on the bottom left.

“I’m Not” HD Video coming this summer to an internet connection near you!

The Concept combines all types of colorful 80s movies.
Including, but not limited to:
• Superman II: His ice fortress (in technicolor)
• Zod, Ursa, and Non in the epic outerspace glass prison effect
• Close Encounters: The UFO sound to light sequence
• Backdrops from 80s high school year book photos

Screen grab of the “sound effector” sequence in Cinema 4D

Screen grab of the imported sound generated C4D sequence into After Effects and using Sound Keys to map the effects to the frequencies of the beat.

I did a quick test between AE CS4 and CS5 on a new MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM to find out a pleasant surprise. Adobe doesn’t cap the RAM to only 3 GB anymore. I’m getting the full use of my 8 GB MacBook Power now!

The downside is that none of my plug-ins work in CS5 and the updates are not the free kind. The new Rotobrush Bezier tool is sloppy. The only real update is that it works with all the RAM finally, which should just be a CS4 update (shakes fists)

On the upside, I rendered out this LochNess Monster in no time!

Quick test for Serengeti’s New Music Video “I’m Not”

It’s up! I shot on the Canon 5D Mark II and edited in After Effects.

Also posted on Vimeo:

Puppy Dog Love (music video) from am overtone on Vimeo.

Puppy Dog Love
Serengeti & Polyphonic
Don’t Give Up
Audio 8 Recordings

http://audio8.com/releases/A8020.html

Buy the song on iTunes

CAST (in order of serengeti’s seduction)
Serengeti: As Himself
Victim#1: Vanae Tran
Victim#2: Ada Dyke
Victim#3: Natalia Cornelio
Psychic Detective: WDW aka Wade Weitzel
Bra Model Girl: Lipa Long
Make-up: Michi Rezin
Illustrations: Jun Xu

It’s finally done! The Music Video I made for Danny Chaimson on Cold Classic Records is now posted on both YouTube and Vimeo (higher quality)

“This Is Life” from am overtone on Vimeo.

O’Hare Airport Walkway, the longest neon installation (744 ft) by Michael Hayden

Effect test for “Move” by Serengeti & Polyphonic, using After Effects time-remap synched to the beat with Trapcode Sound Keys

Canon 5D Mark II, using the Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide Angle Zoom Lens

When it rains it pours…puppy dogs! I have two music videos due this month! This next one will be pure fun, featuring the music of Serengeti & Polyphonic “Puppy Dog Love”

Serengeti & Polyphonic on iTunes