Blog Entries http://www.4120design.com Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:02:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.4120design.com/blog/NAB-IN-FOCUS-.html Yes, it's 1AM and we just got back from the IN[FOCUS] party at the Aria Hotel. After a full day roaming the floor of NAB, this party was an amazing way to end the day. It's not often that we get to be in the same room as so many industry-leading filmmakers (Patrick Moreau, Ray Roman, Kevin Shahinian, etc) and actually talk to all of them personally! Definitely a treat. Special thanks to Jason Taylor and Patrick Moreau for actually getting us into the party. By the way, if you're one of those fil [...] mjensen@fortyonetwenty.com Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:48:01 +0100 http://www.4120design.com/blog/Our-First-Wedding-.html <p><img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/PoCandis.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> </p><p>Wedding?&nbsp; Yup, you heard me right.&nbsp; FortyOneTwenty is now shooting wedding videos.&nbsp; This was our first crack at it.&nbsp; It was a real challenge working with our new Canon 7D cameras...lots of kinks we still need to work out, but I'm really happy with the result.&nbsp; If you have a minute, check out a trailer we put together...CLICK HERE.&nbsp; Congratulation Po and Candis!</p><p>&nbsp;Also, [...] matt@fortyonetwenty.com Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Weddings Video Work Video Production Canon7D http://www.4120design.com/blog/Our-New-7D-Cameras-.html <p><img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/Canon7D.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p>&nbsp;This week has felt like Christmas for us here at FortyOneTwenty.&nbsp; On Tuesday I&nbsp; got a call letting us know that our pre-ordered Canon 7D cameras were finally in and ready to be picked up.&nbsp; We've been playing with them and really getting a feel for using a photo camera to capture HD video.&nbsp; It's really different, but the images you can capture are beautiful!</p><p>We are selling our cur [...] matt@fortyonetwenty.com Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Weddings Video Production Photography Canon7D http://www.4120design.com/blog/We-Love-Typography-.html <p>As a design team we are always fascinated by Typography and we admire the creators of type faces.&nbsp; Its one thing for people to design a font and use it for typical day to day things, but to use fonts in creative atmospheres/environments just interests us even more.&nbsp; Here is a video of a group creating letters out of the screeching of car tires linked with computers.&nbsp; Pretty crazy!!!</p><p>&nbsp;[video:http://vimeo.com/5233789 400x300]</p> steve@fortyonetwenty.com Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Typography Inspiration http://www.4120design.com/blog/Behind-The-Scenes-Pics.html <p>Below are some pics taken that show a little of the behind the scenes action at the &quot;Light Up The Dark&quot; shoot.&nbsp;&nbsp; We used a Panasonic HVX200 with a Letus 35mm adapter.&nbsp; Makes the camera really heavy, but the shots are beautiful! </p><p><img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/WP_production1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/WP_production2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/WP_production3 [...] matt@fortyonetwenty.com Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Video Work Video Production Music Videos http://www.4120design.com/blog/Have-a-website-You-need-to-watch-this..html Colin Slade of How2Trainer recently asked me to be a guest speaker on his 10 week webinar series that ambitiously spans a huge array of online marketing topics. I was invited to speak on the episode that covered search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click advertising (PPC), and web analytics. These are areas near and dear to my heart...especially web analytics :)<br /><br />Oh, you have a website but you've never heard of these?&nbsp; That's a problem... <br /> [...] mjensen@fortyonetwenty.com Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Web Analytics SEO SEM PPC Google Analytics http://www.4120design.com/blog/Light-Up-The-Dark.html <p><img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/WP_LightUpTheDark.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p> We were very blessed to be able to shoot another music video for the Washington Project's new single &quot;Light Up The Dark&quot;.&nbsp; Both filming and editing are done (for the most part).&nbsp; It took us a full night from 10pm - 6am to get all the shots we needed, but the band and crew worked really well together and I think it came out great. Above are some screen-shots we grabbed from the vid [...] matt@fortyonetwenty.com Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Video Work Music Videos http://www.4120design.com/blog/Cool-Stop-Motion.html <p>Stop motion is becoming bigger and bigger nowadays and is leaving its mark in video.&nbsp; The concept of stop motion is actually pretty simple, but it's the creative ideas you do with this technique that sets you apart from everyone else.&nbsp; We've been flirting with ideas ourseleves and it is definitely on the docket of things to do in the future. Here's a cool one the fellas and I stumbled on a couple months ago...</p><p>[video:http://vimeo.com/4276749 400x300]</p> steve@fortyonetwenty.com Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Stop Motion Photography Creative Media http://www.4120design.com/blog/Life-After-Nicaragua.html <p><img src="/images/nic2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p>Hey all just wanted to give a quick update of what was accomplished by the team I went with to Nicaragua and what I got back as result of just an amazing trip of serving and being served back.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s a list of the major projects completed and renovated at the orphanage: built a new roof for the start of a garage, tiled a whole room where church takes place for the children, paint several images/murals throughout the whole orph [...] steve@fortyonetwenty.com Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Travel Existence http://www.4120design.com/blog/Nicaragua-09-Trip-31.html <img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/blog_nic.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> Here at FortyOneTwenty, a big part of what we do is focused on ministry and the church.&nbsp; This week, we are really excited to be able to support Steve in going on a missions trip to Nicaragua.&nbsp; It's a 10 day trip where he will work with a group of 19 other people from Existence Church to help renovate facilities for an orphanage and a church.&nbsp; This is something he has been looking forward to, and I'm happ [...] matt@fortyonetwenty.com Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Travel Existence http://www.4120design.com/blog/Cool-Pop-Up-Style-Commercial.html <p>This is a really cool commercial created by BIF and The Mill for Ford's newst line of cars.&nbsp; It's a brilliant use of motion graphics that creates a unique style.&nbsp; I love the pop-up concept.&nbsp; Check it out!</p><p>[video:http://www.vimeo.com/5172299 400x225]<br /></p> matt@fortyonetwenty.com Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Motion Graphics Creative Media http://www.4120design.com/blog/Summer-Media-.html <p>We're getting ready to release some Summer media for our FortyOneTwenty media site.&nbsp; Here are a couple that I've come up with!</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/../images/blog.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="566" height="291" /></p><p>check out www.fortyonetwenty.com to see more!!! </p> steve@fortyonetwenty.com Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0100 New Church Media http://www.4120design.com/blog/The-site-is-live-.html <p>We've been hard at work trying to get all the content ready to go live with this site. &nbsp;It took us some time to fill in all the descriptions and get testimonials from our clients, but we finally got it finished. &nbsp;</p><p>Take some time to look around the site. &nbsp;Check out the &quot;Our Work&quot; section to see some nice examples of our websites, video projects and print materials. &nbsp;To see what we can offer you or someone you know, go to the &quot;Services&quot; section. &nb [...] matt@fortyonetwenty.com Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0100 New http://www.4120design.com/blog/New-Business-Cards-.html <p>Hey guys! Wanted to share with you all our new 4120Design business cards we just got printed.&nbsp; We haven't had a chance to take good photos of them yet to add to our portfolio but here is a sneak peek of them. </p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.4120design.com/images/photo2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> </p> steve@fortyonetwenty.com Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Print Work New http://www.4120design.com/blog/New-Things.html <br/>Lots of new things happening here at FortyOneTwenty. The first is pretty obvious, our new website! We've been working hard to re-design this site, taking pictures of all our print materials, creating thumbnails and previews, and then adding descriptions to everything. I really think we've come up with a great way to show clients and those interested in our services exactly what we can do in web, print and video.<br /><br />The next and more exciting "new thing" is that our Business Develope [...] matt@fortyonetwenty.com Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0100 Web Work New