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Tanner Herriott forwarded me this video earlier today. It’s a church vid promoting a series, this one called “Moments.”

What’s interesting, at least to me, is how it was shot. The subjects appear on screen and on the screen behind them. And it appears to be projected against a flowing curtain, which creates a cool effect.

Tanner is editing our next Cold Case Oklahoma video - read more from Ken Raymond’s blog on our Cold Case stuff, it’s really good. Ken and Tanner and Paige do a great job with the Cold Case series, tying the video to the print while each telling the story in its own manner. Tanner is using a reverse image to illustrate the timeline in this case. He lit a piece of paper then reversed the image creating a film effect that’s far more compelling than the typical Final Cut Pro lower third.

Moments Intro HD from Port City Community Church on Vimeo.

And yes, this post somehow went from church to murder.

Tanner and Angi covered Friday night's CANVAS art show. It featured shoes, of course Angi was interested.

Went out to NE 10 where the media is staging, or being stage, to cover the OKC police officer involved shooting. Took Tanner Herriott his laptop. Believe it or don't, wifi at that area. That's awesome.

Grabbed his footage from his drive, dumped it onto to my laptop, did a quick standup with Augie Frost from The Oklahoman and came back to The Oklahoman. Edited together a quick package for a noon update from the scene.

Great opening line from the latest Cold Case video. Props to Ken Raymond, Tanner Herriott and Paige Dillard - the usual suspects - for creating yet another fasicnating Cold Case, both in print and in video. This remains my favorite of the videos we produce. I wish we had more time to give it more love, to be honest.

April 23, 1986 Kathy Engle vanished from Shepherd Mall in Okalhoma City. Her murder has never been solved.

The Cold Case series is my favorite of all the videos we shoot at OPUBCO. The Oklahoman's Ken Raymond writes the stories for the print side. Then he goes several steps further by working with the video crew to set up interviews, provide sources and lead interviews. Paige Dillard writes for video and picks out the video and sound bites. Tanner Herriott shoots and edits the video.

Det. Kyle Eastridge from the OKC PD has been tremendously helpful and willing to go on camera for this series. Having that level of insight and expertise on these cases lends to its credibility. And it shows the eagerness of the police to solve these crimes.

Working with Ken is always good, here's why: he know his material, it's always a solid story and he's willing to help make the overall product the best it can be.

I wish we had more time to give this series more attention. The level of effort for these is more than most anything else we do because we usually shoot, write and produce these over a 2 week period instead of just a daily turn.

Red Tie Night was Saturday night at the Cox Center in downtown Oklahoma City. Escorted by my fiance Melinda, I met up with NewsOK.tv’s Tanner Herriott to capture the splendor of the event and score an interview with Jackie Cooper, the force behind the fundraiser.

Jackie and Barbara Cooper started the first Red Tie Night 16 years ago. Their son Jerry had died of AIDS in 1989. The first Red Tie Night attracted about 200 people and raised around $75,000.

Last night’s event was expected to attract around 850 people, but may have neared 1,000. Over $1 million was raised. Money goes to the Oklahoma Aids Care Fund.

We’ll have a video report from the event posted later this week.

UPDATE: Video has been posted here.

Another video from Paige Dillard and Tanner Herriott. Great content, footage, audio, video... really good example of long form video.

Paige Dillard and Tanner Herriott teamed up on this fascinating interview with Portwood Williams Sr.

We shot the video for Black History month. Portwood participated with Clara Luper in the sit-in at Katz in Oklahoma City.

Check him out. He's in his 90's, but clearly retains that fire, that spirit. The ending is powerful as he talks about respect. Great stuff.

Paige edited, Tanner shot.

I blogged about our High School Huddle efforts a couple weeks ago. We're about to tape our third episode tomorrow.

The Oklahoman's Ryan Aber has done a really nice job of filling in the blanks. He's good on camera, comes prepared and we typically knock out the segment in less than 30 minutes. Sometimes the set-up is the hardest part, people!

Here are segments one and two... Good studio set-up by Tanner Herriott. Good editing by Kyle Roberts. That Dave should work on his performance, though...