St. Lawrence Hockey: Playoffs 2024
I shoot and edit a lot of projects for St. Lawrence University. Especially a lot of sports! In March of 2024, the Men’s Hockey team made an incredible run. They got into the ECAC Championship tournament in Lake Placid, NY. I shot the game and all the excitement. Luckily I’ve shot hockey for decades in that arena for CanAm hockey and have learned quite a few tricks. The main thing is you have to tell a story visually. With just shots and no narration. Show the setting, the crowd arriving, the team about to come out, then action and celebration. Don’t stay in any one spot for long. If you get a shot you know is good, move somewhere else! That way it looks like 5-6 people are filming all over the place. The big risk is you miss a goal while getting all these angles. Just moving from place to place takes some time. You need to time it when the game play is paused for whatever reason. The Saints ended up upsetting the #1 seed that night and it was fun to be a part of it!
St Lawrence University-Capital Campaign
St Lawrence University launched their capital campaign with a gala weekend of events in October 2018. I had the pleasure of working along Tara Freeman, the Director of Visual Communications in crafting a video to highlight the weekends events but also promote the message of the capital campaign launch. We shot this in a 2.5 days and edited it in a couple more days for a quick turn time. The audio content is from the University President’s speech at the formal dinner.
Due to the run and gun situation of trying to cover many events around campus I shot most of it with a gimbal carrying my Sony A6500. I also had my SONY A7III with a 28-75MM lens for getting closer shots handheld as needed. The drone shots were with my new Mavic 2 Pro drone. The image quality is much improved from the original Mavic Pro. It has a new Hasselblad lens and an improved camera system. Shoots 10bit 4k HLG video in H.265 format which vastly reduces the mosquito noise in the image.
The video has been widely received by both alumni and staff at St Lawrence University!
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