Kingdom Post

Simple Solution

Josh — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:08:51 +0000

Sometimes keeping it simple is the best solution. Especially when deadlines are tight. Here is a sample of something I just did for Monster Energy.
Kyle Busch Motorsports did a press conference/ announcement in a little different style. A number of X-Games athletes for Monster Energy were there doing some acrobatic tricks with their bikes and Monster wanted a highlight reel of the event.
The client asked for an opening shot that showed the Kyle Busch sign where the event was held and incorporate the motorcycle jumps. So why not put both on the screen. So we took a shot of the sign and then found a shot of one of the jumps that matched the angle as close as possible and combined them. Here is a quick rundown of how we did this one.

I cut out the shot of the sign and positioned it.
I found a clip of time lapse clouds to replace the clouds in the sky.
I keyed out the Bike Jumper so that I had him and his bike as their own layer.
I did a very quick eyeball track of the bike-jump shot so that I could map the camera move to the shot of the sign.
Last is just a quick dissolve to bring in the ramp and crowd for the landing and viola! We have a shot to open with that has both the location sign and a jumper.

Original sign shot

KBM Sign cut out

Time Lapse clouds

Bike Jump keyed out.

Used nulls to freehand track camera move.

Original Footage

Original footage of jumper

Final Composite

Catawba Valley Medical Center

Josh — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:25:23 +0000

We recently had Emulsion Arts in the facility to help them finish out three spots for Catawba Valley Medical Center. We did Color Correction, Graphics Clean-up, Technical checks, and digital delivery to the stations. It’s always nice to have such good creative partners around to knock out some beautiful spots like these.
Click Here to see one of the spots in our portfolio.

Spots for Colonial Williamsburg

Josh — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:29:13 +0000

Christmas in Williamsburg TV spots

Here are 3 spots we recently finished for Colonial Williamsburg. They handed us a small challenge of turning 7 still images into three :15sec commercials. After collaborating with the client, we decided to separate some elements from the stills and then move through the pictures in a faux 3D style. The result came out looking good and all within a budget that the client was happy with. TreeFall Productions did an outstanding job of selling the experience with sound design and mix.
Grand Illumination Spot
You can click on Work Portfolio to see more samples of some work we have done.

Look up

Josh — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:55:00 +0000

If you get the chance to work with Craig in edit 1 you have got to keep an eye out for this little gem. You will be sitting at a gorgeous, custom built desk, and you will have a great view of your project on the HD projection screen. But you can not forget to look up! We converted these 60 year old studio lights into track lighting. They are one of the coolest features (imho) of the room (besides Craig, of course). We just installed these last week and they turned out so well I thought we should share it with everyone. The picture does not do them justice, you are going to have to come check them out for yourself.

Josh

We Have Moved

Josh — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:11:46 +0000

Moving on UP!

Kingdom Post is moving to a new location. You will no longer find us in the historic South End of Atherton Mills. We are moving into the Gotham City Studios building. We might be tough to get a hold of during the last week of July, due to the fact that we will be moving servers, phone systems, etc. Please be patient with us as we make the transition. Email will be the best way to get in touch with us during this time. We hope to be back up by Aug 6th. Thank you for your patience.

You can email Josh – Josh (at) kingdompost(dot)com

You can email Craig – Craig (at) kingdompost(dot)com

Our new address is. 2219 Freedom Drive Charlotte, NC 28208. Click on Directions to see where we are.