Waching daily Dec 26 2018

What's going on everyone, Kellan Reck here! Today, well first of all let me say Merry

Christmas I hope everybody had a great Christmas yesterday if you're watching

this way after Christmas well happy whatever day it is for you today I want

to do another reaction video to a piece of my work from the Red Sox now the last

one I did was an open video from 2013 this is an open video from 2017 this we

used for a majority of the season and it played the first debut of it was opening

day of the 2017 season so before we get into it it goes to the song believer and

imagine dragons and the concept behind this was to project highlights of

players onto their own jerseys so a lot of that happened down at spring training

and you'll actually see some of that here I've got some behind-the-scenes

footage of that so you can see what that process was like but what we decided we

wanted to do was a projector themed project highlights on to the players and

mix that and mix that in with the actual highlights and create some sort of

cool-looking video so we'll dive in here I'll let you see what we got and I'll

stop and talk you through some of the things that happen in this video

so what you'll see here is a couple different things in this first chunk

first of all a lot of similarities to that 2013 open video that where we put

September up in the monster and the whole idea of starting with something

happening in the monster actually inspired me for this video where we went

into the Green Monster set up a projector and start shooting these

highlights so similar intro and that's where that came from that 2013 video so

just a fun little thing to think about I want to just jump back and you'll notice

a little editing trick as the door opens here check this out it's just a simple

mask so the door opens really to just black behind it but I'm asked the door

rounds to reveal this shot of the light rays coming in which is a totally

different angle than we would get of just straight through the door just a

fun little thing to notice alright and we will resume sorry let me just point

out this the way I edited this video here is we were submitting it for the

golden matrix Awards so I wanted to display all the boards we have at Fenway

this video in particular is actually more than just one board it plays on all

of the video boards Fenway we have three main boards and then a bunch of fascia

boards which are banner strips so you'll see those throughout the video here so

this shows you just what the various boards look like let's jump back in from

the message from the base speaking lesson from the brain seeing the beauty

so a couple things going on so far we've seen the highlights of the jerseys

you've seen stuff inside the Green Monster so what I have here for various

features if we just look quickly through so I can explain to you first of all

these close-up projector shots are a mixture of us shooting b-roll of a

projector that we had and also some stock footage that I got from Mitch

Martinez which I've done a video on his website he has a ton of amazing 4k stock

footage that you can download and use for free some of these projector shots

were used from him so check that guy out he's got amazing stuff that really can

add a lot to your videos and then if we scrub along you can see here we've got

the actual shots on jerseys so what we did is we projected standard highlights

and time lapses from Fenway Park that we'd shot on two jerseys and we got

close-ups of that so we can mix it in but then for a lot of guys we also got

their faces involved so you can see here that we've got Dustin Pedroia we

projected himself onto his face and then we had our standard green screen shots

of him down at Spring Training and I just had a projector blank onto a wall

and we overlaid his body onto the wall inside the Green Monster so a couple

different things with the projector theme going on here so this would be the

open video for games we're gonna get a bunch of stuff with you guys projected

and mix it into highlights it looks pretty dope right

how much all you see here is another feature we did with the numbers in the

Green Monster whatever players up to bat if you've

never been at Fenway Park the Green Monster shows their number on the wall

with these lights here so what we did before the season is we shot every

single number possible and then what I did is basically took the players number

overlaid it onto the shot using an opacity blending mode and just added it

onto the shot so that when a player was on the screen in this video their number

was also flashing and twitching out with the music so kind of a fun feature there

I want to dive in and show you some of the behind the scenes of me working with

the guys down at Spring Training to show you what the process was like down there

to get a lot of these shots so you're gonna face this wall and hold the glove

up sort of below your eyes and just keep it there for like 10 seconds

it's that'll be right on it's gonna be on your Jersey so why did you nail it

you nail that play right there yes I do the man here so we're gonna project this

highlight on you for the open video I need my water on your mouth let's go

then your bet so we'll get you on the white line up over your shoulder and

you're over at this wall Wow let's continue

yes we just had a guy named Steven Keeny help us out he built this sort of ribbon

banner so it looks like a projector film strip and then we put shots from the

year on that and those would go on our ribbon boards around the ballpark that

the fascia boards and just sort of roll throughout the video

I put a sort of flashing projector overlay as well to make it appear as

though everything you're watching the video is being projected even on to the

screen when it's a full screen highlight like this you can see this

last these less by the grace of the fire been the flames you're the face of the

future the blood in my veins all the highlights in this small behind the

Green Monster down in Spring Training at JetBlue Park there's a small room with

all the numbers we got all these highlights there with nobody in there

then we brought the players in so we could cut between just the basic

highlight and then the player there with the highlight as well broke down like

so that's it and when we were watching that it reminded me Handley here when we

showed him his highlight because we like to show the guys their highlights before

we projected onto their Jersey he loved to check out what he did when we showed

him miss eyelet so that's gonna be on your Jersey in here on a scale of 1 to

10 how bad did you crush that ball and I will say one thing that we did when

putting the shots onto the background here what I actually did is the

projected highlight onto the wall wasn't quite bright enough for the video so I

took the real highlight overlaid it feathered out sort of masked out the

edges so that it didn't have any harsh edges and it's it what it did was it

brightened up the shot a little bit so that the prominence of what I wanted to

show that was just a little bit brighter otherwise without that overlay of the

actual shot it just didn't pop the way I wanted it to so we had to do a little

bit of that throughout but overall the projector theme worked super well

between projecting onto the players the intra set up with the little projector

we had and then some of that stock footage and it it turned out into a

pretty cool project so let me know down below what you think about this

particular video about open videos about any of the effects or things that you

saw going on here if you have questions about other types of videos that we do

this format of reaction video is pretty cool I had mixed reviews on the first

one seems like some people were into it hearing how I do some of the work for

the Red Sox so I'm hoping that this one a little bit more recent video can show

you a little bit more and and give you a little more insight into what I do

outside of YouTube here so thanks for watching like the video if you enjoyed

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check you back next week thanks a lot