You have found the clients and blog page. Our informal random musings, project updates, and completed projects for clients can be found here. Most of our work has been nonbroadcast titles but lately there has been small-scale broadcast work as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2005 Becoming involved in Sunnyvale Historical Society oral history project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 2004 This sure came together quickly. A 30-sec PSA for Palo Alto Airport Day 2004. It is airing on KICU 36 San Jose, went out in a press kit to KNTV 11 San Jose, and is running on Mountain View and Palo Alto community cable channels. I had some small-airport airshow footage still laying around which initially was the only thing that made me think I would even be able to do this, as Airport Day 2004 is the first airshow at Palo Alto in more than 10 years so there wasn't any recent footage. However, it turned out that it was fun to shoot most of the footage new for this piece anyway. Airshow announcer Larry Shapiro wrote and recorded a great auctioneer-style voiceover that grabs you and doesn't let go. Some After Effects work to make an animated version of the Airport Day poster, some graphics, some careful scene ordering, a little music under, and it was done. Quick projects with momentum always go well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 2004 I finally finished another 30-sec promo ID for Mountain View Community Television. It is the most cinematic and most complex thing I have ever done, with a lot of heavily produced scenes. This proved challenging because with 24(8)-bit color you can get contouring artifacts pretty quickly when you start to manipulate images. Good thing I'm getting 30(10)-bit capable equipment now. I learned a lot about lighting and color grading on this one. But in the end I'm a bit disappointed because this project lost momentum several times. Still, it's a nice horror piece with interesting sound. In it, we meet a couch potato living in a dreary big block apartment watching a lot of bad TV. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 2004 Video conversion and mastering for Monsters by Kristen, animated childrens' cartoon graphics.  See www.monsters.net. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 2003 This was a real estate commercial shoot for high school sports cablecast sponsorship. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 2000 Amazing results from a flea-sized camera attached to the footstep of a Cessna 172. The camera was just a $100 videoconferencing pickup connected to a decent VTR inside the plane. A little enhancement in After Effects made it look a bit sharper and more colorful. Even better images are readily and inexpensively possible with today's ubiquitous lipstick cameras. It's all about getting a cool point of view. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 2000 Domestic violence abatement training video Violencia Familiar in English and Spanish; produced by Ines Zapiola and distributed by Intermedia, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 1999 Fitness marketing video Azzi Training for WNBA athlete and San Francisco Bay Area celebrity Jennifer Azzi. See www.azzitraining.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 1999 Editing and encoding of humorous material for webcast for dot-com company MessageBay.  See www.messagebay.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 1998 PSAs for Mountain View Community Television, Mountain View, CA, featuring prominent community members, politicians; civic promotional documentary, news intro.  See www.kmvt15.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 1999 In-package instructional materials and broadcast TV spots for Print-N-Peel poster paper by Practical Musings, Inc.   See www.printnpeel.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 1996 General aviation and flight training promotion video You can fly West Valley Flying Club, Palo Alto, CA.  See www.wvfc.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ongoing Crew contract work for other production companies such as Magic Wave Productions, Inc.  See www.magicwave.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ongoing Event videography such as weddings, city events, corporate meetings, and industrials.  Clients include David Lyons, Michael Gardiner, Mike Abbott, John Valois, Greg Branche, Firepad, Inc., City of Sunnyvale (CA) Historical Society, and Ultratech Stepper, Inc. © 1999-2005 Ben Koning Productions. 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