Ryan Freng

Update 12/12/12: We bought a 5d and equipment in July of 2011. We love it and have been shooting exclusively with it for a year and a half. Occasionally we’ll bring along a 7D or the XHA1. Check out our portfolio to see what the camera can do. The purpose of this guide is TO […]

In conversations with people we are often asked “Why have a video production company in Madison.” The follow up is usually something to the flavor of “Shouldn’t you be in California.”  It’s understandable since Madison isn’t known for its video production, but its liberal hippies, cute weasels, and cellular biology.  California, on the other hand […]

To make our posts more social media friendly we signed up for Bit.ly Pro service. This allows us to use shorter links in twitter, facebook, or wherever. These short url’s also keep our branding so it’s a cinch to know if the link is legit. Now we can easily link to our webpage like so: […]

No matter what you call it (and ‘website’ would the correct form), we recently rolled out a new website. After three and a half years, we knew it was time to update our website. The simple black and white design served us well over the years. Take a look in case you haven’t seen it […]

We recently took over the major graphic work for one of our clients.  This is a terrific step forward in terms of workflow.  Often times much of preproduction on a motion project is spent corralling digital assets.  This can quickly grow cumbersome as blowing up low resolution images, and stealing images from pdfs IS NOT a productive way […]

This music video is in remembrance of the earthquake in Haiti one year ago. To all the victims, ‘You are not alone.’

The video was shot on our canon XHA1 with a set of nikon prime lenses (35, 50 and 80). John directed/edited, Ryan was the cinematographer and Aaron pa’ed.

Aaron Thompson is a local Catholic artist who wrote this song shortly after the earthquake in Haiti. Check him out at: www.aaronthompsonmusic.com.

This video is also available on:

YouTube
Vimeo

Ryan created this video for the University of Wisconsin System. It is for a new library catalog system called Forward. Forward is a web software system that improves upon the UW library catalog. The video was done primarily in After Effects with SoundBooth for the audio recording.

Promotion for the city of Davenport, all digital effects.

Trailer for unmade movie with cars from 1934 and time-travelling.

We all know we shouldn’t be doing zoomed in handheld shots, but sometimes on a live shoot you break rules in the heat of the moment.  Whether it’s the only way to get a great (you think) shot, or you aren’t paying attention.  The end result is the same: shaky and unusable footage.  Luckily we […]