A solo project for The Racer's Group / Aston Martin Racing, I covered the 24 Hours of Daytona for this prestigious racing team.
All camerawork, editing and graphics by Skylar Smith.
Yep. I was part of a Harlem Shake video. I even danced in it.
But that aside, this was some behind the scenes footage I got from the shoot. My footage of a beautiful Mazda RX-7 in the docks of San Pedro, CA edited to Common's "Sweet".
Enjoy!
The direction:
Shoot f#%ked up.
Capture the energy and madness that is Chris Rado, in composition, editing, music and pacing.
My role here was camera op, editor, motion designer and colorist.
A collaboration of three directors, Andy Laputka, Will Roegge and Skylar Smith, this project for K&N Engineering was a viral success. Formula Drift champion Vaughn Gittin Jr. chases an HPi R/C Car version of himself around the manufacturing and distribution facilities of K&N Engineering, a high-performance air filter company.
My responsibilities for this production were co-directing, shooting, editng and providing motion graphics and animations for the final piece.
My first project as Skylar Smith Media, Insight Racing hired me to cover their efforts at a Grand-Am Rolex race in Mid-Ohio. The team featured a familiar face, Tyler McQuarrie, a driver for Falken Tire's Formula Drift team.
This job was performed solo by Skylar Smith, all camerawork, motion graphics, editing and color were done by him.
Falken Tire began racing in ALMS while I was their Multimedia Specialist. Their first year was a constant struggle, but they reinvested in the program for their sophomore run and wanted to document their race for a win in 2011. Here, I directed a piece on their testing in Sebring, Florida of their new Porsche GT3 RSR.
We had a closed course for some car-to-car filming and I was in charge of a second camera operator for this shoot. All motion graphics (including the opening 8-bit intro) editing and color were done by Skylar Smith.
As part of my role of Multimedia Specialist at Falken Tires, I was in charge of directing the first full-length real-time on board camera video of an Unlimited Class car competing in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Monster Tajima is a name synonymous with Pikes Peak and was chasing the ever so elusive ten-minute record for Pikes Peak.
With a partnership from GoPro Camera, we covered as many angles as possible on Tajima's insane Suzuki and let the world really see what it was like to race up America's Mountain.
This video quickly became viral, and has reached millions of views on Youtube. The most popular Pikes Peak video since "Climb Dance"
Direction, editing, color-grading and motion graphics by Skylar Smith.