Actor’s Reel
Let’s meet and review any five television or film clips of your work. I will edit them into your professional three- to five-minute reel. Provide clips of your work on VHS or mini-DV tape and/or DVD. I will transform your scenes into a reel that could get you auditions and gigs! Call Robert at 917 ...
Read MoreUltimate sources
I spend a lot of time reviewing source material: hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of images. Much of the time, I’m looking for low or no cost stock footage and images, for use in a documentary, Internet short or video design. Images communicate wealths of information – place, people, emotion, event and evolution (or ...
Read MoreRevival
Social satirist, Brian Freeman, a founding member of the performance trio Pomo Afro Homos (1991-94), will remount their landmark performance piece, Fierce Love, in 2011. Brian hired Robert to develop three video elements for the revival. Brian mounted a showcase of the new production on December 10, 2010, complete with video. This montage accompanies an excerpt ...
Read MoreArt from Adversity – a short documentary
One of the many New York City community organizations that formed in response to the AIDS epidemic is a writers group for Black Gay Men. In honor of James Baldwin’s signature work, Another Country, the group selected the name Other Countries. It held its first writers workshop on June 14, 1986. Over the next year, ...
Read MorePocket HD video
Four of the video productions I’ve completed recently include footage that was shot with a FLIP UltraHD pocket-sized video camcorder! Yes, I said pocket HD. Properly shot and re-encoded 720p HD footage from a pocket camcorder is virtually indistinguishable from 720p HD footage shot on a professional HD camera. The “First Dance” clip below was shot in ...
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