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Downtown OKC’s Starlight Supper: Raising funds for Emerson Alternative School

davemorris — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:01:10 +0000

I first caught wind of this event from Steve Lackmeyer’s blog, then proceeded to contact Gentry McKeown about access to cover the event. A wonderful night to attend an outdoor event – it had been freezing with ice and other horrors just two days prior. Downtown OKC posted on its Twitter account that over $10,000 was raised, proceeds go towards Emerson Alternative School. Pretty encouraging to see events like this downtown and the response from citizens to attend and contribute.

AAA root beer is back

davemorris — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:20:12 +0000

Escaping from mercenaries: Or how to make 80 minutes of footage into a story

davemorris — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:00:53 +0000

I ask reporters at The Oklahoman to bring back footage from their interviews. Most of the time a simple 30-60 second sound bite will add decent context to the text version on NewsOK.com. Shooting b-roll or asking their subjects for any additional footage is icing on the cake.

And Fridays are typically busy here at OPUBCO. We wrap up the week’s work and prepare other videos to run over the weekend.

Steve Lackmeyer uploaded his video interview overnight Thursday for us to edit Friday for a Sunday publication. I think all Oklahomans expected bad weather, so that meant getting other work done and out of the way. Priorities, people. Usually that would mean picking out a few bites and calling it good enough due to time constraints.

But I had an idea for this video – to make it more documentary than a simple standup followed by soundbite video. I encoded Lackmeyer’s interview into DVC Pro-720p60 (rendering while editing takes too much time) and watched the 18 minute conversation. Then I learned he had an additional 60 minutes of provided clips from Michael Dillard’s journey in Indonesia.

Yikes.

I laid down the video Friday afternoon, picked out some music and had a decent idea of how the video should go. Then storms rolled into town and it was time to shelve the video.

Saturday morning, and along with three Nespressos (which are outstanding and totally addictive), I carved the video into 18 minutes of somewhat watchable storytelling. With a little more time and polish it could have been better, but we had some Saturday storms to deal with too.

A dream to the top of the Devon Energy Center comes true

davemorris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:26:38 +0000

Puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?

Good storytelling and visuals. It’s what we strive for in our multimedia efforts on NewsOK.com: text, video, photos and documents. We attempt to gather as much material as possible to tell the story and relay information.

Read Steve Lackmeyer’s story here.

Promoting the historic Route 66

davemorris — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:54:16 +0000

State Senator David Holt talks about why he wanted to add Route 66 signs along the stretch of NW 23 just north of downtown.

It’s nice to have archival footage

davemorris — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:54:26 +0000

We started our video efforts in earnest about four years ago. We don’t have a lot of footage before that. But we do have some 1999 Bricktown Canal opening ceremony footage. And it just so happens Steve Lackmeyer was working on a story about the canal and recent developments. Time to dust off the old Mary Fallin footage!

Festival of the Arts: Where do I park?

davemorris — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:35:30 +0000

Steve Lackmeyer brought me the info, guided me through our archives for the appropriate photos and helped produce the above video. Should be helpful this week during the Festival of the Arts. There is a ton of construction downtown, it’s really not easy to navigate.

Devon Energy Center from the inside

davemorris — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:44:49 +0000

Tim Money shot the above footage. He accompanied Steve Lackmeyer on an exclusive tour inside, around, up, down and out of the Devon Energy Center earlier this month. Money shot extensive footage. I’ll put together more of it soon.

Myriad Gardens with the Fremont Experience

davemorris — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:25:52 +0000

Steve Lackmeyer from The Oklahoman’s business desk gave me the above footage to compile into a video. Good stuff. It includes footage of the Myriad Gardens lit up, it’s like the Fremont Experience in Vegas.

OKC downtown building demolition

davemorris — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:46:47 +0000

CLICK HERE FOR MOBILE VERSION OF VIDEO

Ran downtown Monday evening to deliver a DVD to Good Egg Dining Group. We produce some of their multimedia campaigns. Saw the below skyline view from the AGE office on 5th Street. Snapped the pic via iPhone. Then drove down to Kerr to shoot the above video.

Also saw downtown business stringing up Christmas lights. It’s that time of year.