Future Stars of Wrestling – TV Commercial – FSW

a 30 second TV spot I made for the Future Stars of Wrestling (FSW). My buddy Jack and his friends have put together a small local wrestling federation – and he asked me as a favor to bring my decade of video production & editing skills to help them get started. This piece is the latest offering… Overall, the subject matter is pretty fun to work with, and gives me opportunity to do some special effects (well beyond final cut) etc I would not normally do in my normal subject matter. Here is a list of some of the special effects:

1) Explosion with FSW logo, and blue/green bleed applied to the crowd in opening shot
2) Lots of sliding titles
3) Young Bucks, guy on right pulls down “Bucks” with his fingers, guy on left punches “Young” off screen with a dust impact behind the title.
4) Explosions for Kenny King
5) Fireworks & Title shakes for Mike Modest
6) about 20+ sliding effects for Disco Inferno, and a smoke wall background, and fire “inferno”. Had to make an old low resolution piece of !@#$ photo look great…
7) Mike Modest slams the final title off with a big slam!

The Voice Over was done by Jack. Every time I hear it, I laugh. He was right – he does kind of sound like the announcer for when the dastardly villain is tying up the lady on the railroad tracks. But it works!

These events are a truckload of work to cut, & edit. Ive easily put in 40-50 man-hours on all the capturing, video editing, audio editing, multiple DVD burning (of 2 cams footage), titling and special effects. And that does not even include the day of shooting the stuff! It is going to get worse next month if we use 2 HD cameras (to start running a weekly show on the air). That doubles the capture time & edit time. Now if we can agree on some compensation for me – I will be back July 12th!

If I shoot July 12th, you can bet its going to be off the hook, now that I have a plan, and know what I want, and what is needed.