Bombastic LOGO

It's official...
After many years of thought I've finally decided on a production name for my work. Back in high school my production name was Movie Crew, this only stuck with me for a few years. I then tried out a few others, not finding anything serious until I got into college. I was trying for the longest time to run with the production name Ponder St. Productions when I was living at the yellow house on Ponder st, but that fell through (I even registered for a domain name). It's taken me time to decide on something and I think I've picked a winner. I spent alot of time thinking back to songs, movies and ideas that have followed me throughout the years and then it dawned on me. I don't know what it is, but this music video struck a chord with me in middle school and I believe is an understatement for the quality and direction I want to take my material...



Alright all jokes aside, I just dig that style. So much that I've decided to call my production company after it. In the following months I will be creating music video's, television shows, short films and radio broadcast. Each with a Bombastic Production tag line (A Bombastic music video prod., A Bombastic tv show, etc). Below are some prototype logos I've cooked up...

I really like the sound effects from the old asteroids game so I went ahead and added those in and tweaked a lazer that changes sizes in reference to the sound...

I then took this and changed it up a bit more and added a little guitar riff at the end...

More to come...

CLEAR logo progress

Updatin'...
Made a few changes to the logo. Trying to speed things up a bit, while at the same time letting the viewer see more of what is happening on the faces of the cube. It's looking alot smoother, what do you think?

Which video is better?

Attention!!!
I'm trying to figure out which of these video's looks better for my blog. I've uploaded both of these logo video's on blogger and vimeo, and am trying to see which one encoded better. When I watched the video on blogger it was really choppy, but on vimeo it appeared a bit clearer. I don't know if it's my computer or if I should re-encode these video's. Let me know what you think...


CLEAR logo from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.


Clear Logo with Drop Zones from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.

Clear LOGO

I'm breathing now...
It's taken me about a month to adjust myself to this hectic work schedule, but I suppose I'm pretty well acclimated to it now. I'm still working M-F 6am-5pm and the money is pretty good. It's nice to wake up early everyday and watch the sunrise from the comfort of my school bus as I drive the kids to and from school every morning. Yet, the return in the afternoon to finish my shift is always a trial. My elementary kids and high school students are pretty laid back and chill. Middle school kids, like in the past, are sometimes a test of my patience. When I drove before the kids used to drive me banana's. Now I just think that they are kind of entertaining. I just hope I have the patience that I do now to deal with a middle school teenager of my own someday.

A few recent developments:

• I've finally splurged and bought myself a Blue-Ray burner so that I can start burning my own Blue-Ray discs for my portfolio. I figured that when I finally put together my reel, which should be towards the end of this summer, that I'm going to have tons and tons of video files that I'd like to send to potential business opportunities. I know that I'd like to send them a quality product, with quality video files and I know they won't fit on a DVD (and look good). I know some businesses wont have Blue-Ray capabilities, but I hope that that helps me stand out.

• I've also purchased my own SLR camera. This has been a long time coming, but I'm glad that I finally have one of my own. I will definitely put it to good use this coming weekend, for Denton's Arts and Jazzfest. I hope I can do a few light paintings there in the crowds! Check back next week for some photo's

• I've also uploaded some of the graphics that I've been working on for my job here at UNT. They have been training me how to use Motion and I've gotten quite good at it. I've been working on their logo, which is a cube. I found out through a bit of research that you can't import 3D objects into Motion. Which would be really cool because I've just started becoming a fan of animation in a 3D space. It's very difficult to work with, but fun at the same time. After a little trouble shooting I was able to create a cube and animate it:
  

It took me awhile to get the background right and the text to fly through the cube, but after alot of trial and error I was able to get a clean video. I then took my cube and added a bunch of drop zones. Now with the click of a mouse, I can put whatever video clip I want onto any face of the cube:

I showed these video's to my head boss today and they are very excited about what it's turning into. I went ahead and flipped the video's over so that they face the camera, right side up, and I'm working on making the video's fly together to form the cube (kind of like a tornado). This graphic could get very interesting in the next few months.