The Fresh Show is Wrapping Up !

   I just wanted to write a little about my experience with the North Texas Fresh and The Fresh Show. For one I cannot believe that its almost over, its seems like just yesterday we started it but its been in production since July. Unlike my co-creator Erik this is by far the largest production that I have been apart of in terms of length and scope of work. Its been a incredible amount of fun but also a ton of work. Its taken some serious dedication to follow this through and many things have happen in me and Erik's personal life's since then but we wanted to see it through. 
   If you do not know a lot about filmmaking or video production you should know that me and my co-producer essentially did the work what half a dozen or so people would normally be responsible for. So I would also like to pat ourselves and Jason Hampton,who did the camera work on episode 3, on the back. Looking back at the episodes I feel like the production values do not show how few people worked on it. But the real hero is my co-producer Erik Clapp who edited all the episodes and sifted to though nearly 3 hours worth of footage to compress into 10 minutes every episode. Not only did he follow through every time but he also found a way around any technical problem that we may run into even after the shoot. 
     I would also like to thank The North Texas Fresh and Jay Bowdy for being so awesome. Very rarely would you get full access to a professional team like we did and Jay was nothing but cool about the entire thing. 
    I was going to go through some of the process and things that happened episode by episode. 

Episode 1
I cant make this shoot but Erik goes to the first tryout in Benbrook Tx. Shoots on his own.


Episode 2
This is were I think the overall story and tone starts to develop. The characters in the story become more defined. I would like to think you start to understand the crew on a more personal basis from this episode. The player roster isn't defined yet but you see some of the soon to be players. 


Episode 3
I wasn't apart of this one. Jason Hampton and Erik both shoot. Its at this time you get to meet the players and JR Rider. I think this is probably the most recent video of him playing basketball. If you don't know who JR Rider is you should google him, 


Episode 4
I am the proudest of this one. I filmed this one entirely on my own. This is the first home game of the North Texas Fresh and JR Rider. Erik said go get drama and I captured it and the very beginning in the famous training room speech that Jay gives the team. From this point on the overall feel of the series is defined. We also used more black and white effects, especially at the end when Jay is giving the post game talk. I think I might have captured the only interview that JR had in a Fresh uniform and it was icing on the cake for the story that he only played one game. 


Episode 5
This is the "Empire Strikes Back" of the Fresh Show. Its easily the darkest, it shows how the players reacted to Jay Bowdy (CEO/Head Coach) putting a uniform on and getting out there with them. To be honest, we didn't really know what we had until Erik was half-way done with editing. I would say that because of the overall tone its the least like out of the bunch. I do like it because you start to know the players a little better and get an attachment to them. Maurice "Snoop" Willams starts to run away with the show, while AD becomes frustrated with the situation. 


Episode 6
My second favorite. To be honest we were expecting a team from Houston to come in but the Arlington Bulldogs came instead. On one hand it wasn't that interesting because the Bulldogs had nothing on the Fresh. But since the Bulldogs were made up of X-Fresh players it was kinda interesting. This episode was intentionally more light, the last 2 episode were very serious and we also wanted to have a little fun. Snoop was built up to be the all-American basketball player type and then it just hits you in the face that he got let go because he was playing for the Arlington Bulldogs on the side after the game we shot. I also loved the "Dunk Montage" that mellow music combined with the slow motion dunks in sepia was great. 


Episode 7
In Post Production


That's it folks, check out the Vimeo widget below to cycle through the videos and see for yourself. We should be getting close to wrapping up the last episode soon and after that a short behind the scenes feature. If you have any questions or comments about the production drop me a line HERE.
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FRESH 5 and 6

Posted below is episode 5 and 6 of my minor-league masterpiece "The Fresh Show". If you like basketball,documentaries,or just someone trying to accomplish their dreams check it out. This was created by me and Erik Clapp and it's been more fun,hard work, and rewarding than we ever thought. Thanks for the support and to help your North Texas Fresh CLICK HERE !.

The Fresh Show Episode 5 from Immotion Studios on Vimeo.

The Fresh Show Episode 6 from Immotion Studios on Vimeo.

The Fresh Show !

Sorry about the lack of posts lately but I have really been busy. I have been working on a web-series about the North Texas Fresh, a start up ABA team in Fort Worth, that you can go see at theFreshShow.com. Its been a great experience being the co-creator/cameraman/producer/assistant editor and its also a lot of work for me and my partner Erik Clapp. Check out all of them including Episode 4 below, which is the freshest episode yet !!! Dont forget to support your North Texas Fresh by clicking HERE !

The Fresh Show Episode 4 from Immotion Studios on Vimeo.

The Hurt Locker Review

I think its ridiculous that to see a great movie like The Hurt Locker you have to check every movie theater in a 50 mile area and hope you find one theater thats playing, while crap like G-Force a movie about secret government operative hamsters is showing on every screen every hour. Its not fair.
Besides that I can honestly say that The Hurt Locker is probably the best movie that I have seen all summer, I can honestly say that it held my attention the entire time. Being that is about a team of US bomb technicians it really makes things suspenseful in a disarm a bomb-race against the clock kinda way. Jeremy Renner plays the rebel bomb tech well as well as the other cast, its all very believable I would imagine in real life it probably play out the same way. If you can find it playing near you its defiantly worth checking out

5 of the Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 90's

90's pop music always makes me laugh when you look back at it now. Thats why I decided to remind everyone in their 20s how stupid some of the music we listened to was back then .

Chumbawamba "Tubthumping"
I really despise this song for not making any sense. I dont care how popular they are in England its still dumb but everyone had that CD.

Chumbawamba - New Music - More Music Videos

Len " Steal My Sunshine"
Again it makes little since and the girl and guy in this music video are brother and sister....creepy.

Len - New Music - More Music Videos

OMC " How Bizzare"
You should know that "OMC" stands for One-Time Millionaires club.


Savage Garden "Cherry Cola"
I dont really know what to say about this one other than its catchy and you all know it.


Jimmy Ray "Are You Jimmy Ray ?"
The music video is almost as funny as the name implies

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

I'm normally not a big fan of the midnight showings of new movies but I have seen 2 already in this month ,Transformers 2 and now the newest Harry Potter. Of course I didnt learn my lesson from Transformers about getting there before an hour before showtime so I got stuck at the very bottom...again.
Just to note this review isnt coming from someone who is a very big Potter fan or has seen all the movies in the series ( I haven't seen the first one) but I found out that it takes you about 15 minutes into anyone of the movies to make sense of it all because most of the other stories from the ones before dont really matter anyways. What annoys me the most about the movie is that when it starts going somewhere I like it changes and forgets what is was trying to establish. Is it a action movie..kinda, is it a love story...kinda, or maybe a kids movie.....this one not as much. Obviously the kids are a little older and with that the story goes a little darker which is good for the series but it just kinda dances around the true nature of what it really is about. The dark lord Voldemort is supposed to fight the chosen one Harry Potter in some kinda bad ass wizard battle royal or something. At least thats what I get from 12 hours worth of Harry Potter movie that I have seen . Its not like my review is going to stop anyone from going to see it that hasn't already and I dont want to stop you because your probably going to like it anyways. But for a non-Potter movie goer its probably not going to be worth sitting 3 feet in front of the screen in a crowded theater at midnight. I can say the only reason why I can still remember seeing this movie is because I am reminded everytime my neck starts hurting from staring straight up for 3 hours straight.

5 Movies That Holdup to Repeat Viewing

Everyone has those handful of movies that they immediately turn to when you dont have anything new to watch.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
This is a John Hughes classic of a high school senior skipping class. The way he breaks the fourth wall makes the movie light hearted and always fun to watch.

Naploean Dynomite
I want a Uncle Rico spin-off


Any Transporter movie
My theory on movies that get watched over and over again is that they are never to serious or long. Transporter movies for the most part make no sense and are over in about 90 minutes so it satisfies both categories.


Office Space
A comedy classic. Probably the only thing that I can think of with Ron Livingston in it besides Band of Brothers.

Mean Girls
Maybe because I used to like Lindsay Lohan alot or maybe because its the only good Lindsay Lohan movie or maybe both.