Matt Berdan

This is my video that I created to hype up Toronto about the Jermaine Oneal trade to Toronto. This is also my submision for the conferance finals of the M2 mixmaking playoffs. The mix itself is about Bosh and Oneal teaming up in the front court. It shows when Jermaine Oneal was in his prime and how he had a very similar style to Chris Bosh. It shows a hypothetical situation in a Bosh and JO duo if Oneal had not had previous injuries throghout his career. Welcome to Toronto Jermaine!

This mix is about the Celtics and how they love war (Playoff basketball). I tried somthing new with alot of sound editing in the effects, the voiceovers and the commentaries. To go with the song I wanted it to go with a 300 theme. The intro was just basic and mostly to get the viewers hyped up but in that sense I think it was effective. The colour correct I tried to replicate somthing similar to that of 300 but also with my own touch to it too go with the Celtics. This was my second entry for the M2 Mixmaking Playoffs contest.

This mix is a sequal to an older mix I made called Kobe Bryant Legend. In Kobe Bryant legend it shows Kobe’s story to how he is one of the most dominant players in the world and picks up from when he was seperated with Shaq. The highlights include his 81 point game and amazing plays. The sequal starts off with kobe winning his first ever MVP award and adding on to his legacy by leading his team to first in the west and the NBA finals. This is were the mix ends. The final outcome would of been a mystery to anyone at the time but we all know how it ends now. The audio track was from a piece that Raptors TV had created but I love the music and couldent find it. I also added some of my own sound effects aswell. This was my first entry to the M2 mixmaking playoffs, which is what explains the intro.

A highlight video I did of my freind from some highlights he recorded of him playing. He already had the video edited but he wanted me to make a way to show him in each play. He originally wanted me to freeze the frame, have an arrow or marker point him out then the marker disapear’s and the video continues. I got an idea to creat a moving marker that follows him throughout the video so that the momentum does not keep stopping and the video plays more fluently. I also think the Marker is designed well and I added his name and number on it which changes when he is on the differant teams.

This is a website intro I created for the website tymd.tv. It only took me a few hours. He basically gave me a webstie that had hundreds of front pages from around the world and he wanted me to create a slideshow sort of thing. Of course I had to do somthing a little more complex then just a slideshow. This was a paying job but it seemed to good to be true as apparently the guy was scamming people and ran off owing over $5000 to people including $250 for this video. But hey its not about the money, its all about the passion involved in doing what I love to do and that to me you cant put a price on.

This is a project I had to do for my communications technology class. The concept was “my universe, my planet, my 21st century”. I decided to go with an idea relative to string theory were we as indiviuals, communities, cities, countries, our planet, our glaxy the univers are all part of one bigger thing. It relates to community because I tried to think outside the box and used examples of community from inside our body. Our bodies are made up of cells and tissue and bacteria that all work together in smaller communites to create bigger ones…ourselves. We then make communites in out towns then towns to cities and cities to provicnes/states and you get the idea. It also relates to planet because it shows our position in the universe and how insignifigant we really are. The video section I got a bunch of raw stock footage from the BBC website which I added time warps to make it faster and cut all the clips up to match the music. I just wanted to match those catchy uptempo commercial type videos with the song choice. The video section also shows my 21st century and how it relates to the world. The transition scenes with the cells and planets I rushed because I was running low on time to get my project in and my teacher knows that. I used those animations directly from a tutorial to get my idea across because I didnt have time to rebuild them and I still needed to get my message through. I did create the zoom out scene from Toronto from an after effects tutorial I found by Andrew Kramar. Overall I think this turned out ok, looks really rough in some areas and can use alot of work but the basic design is there.

This mix I made when the Raptors were facing a 2-0 defecit in the playoffs after falling 2 games in Orlando. The idea behind it was the Raptors put up a fight in Orlando and just came up short, but its a whole new game when the Raptors play at home with the sea of red on their side! I tried to relate it to dinosaurs somehow especially with the raptors clips I got from a VC commercial when he played for Toronto. I think the tittles were missing some animation and they were just still after the claw came in. Some of the cuts were from Raptors TV but I also added my own from the playoffs. This one was rushed aswell I finished it 1 hour before I had to leave to go see game 3 in Toronto.

Well im totally hyped for the playoffs. I had this song from a while ago I was gonna do a mix with and I always thought it would be great for a playoff mix. I never thought I would still be doing this stuff come the playoffs but now its right around the corner. I used alot of TNT cuts with little of my own but someone told me before you become a succesful editor by doing 2 things, using good cuts and also telling story with your editing which I think I most definitly did.

This was my first mix after a long break. To tell you the truth I am really satisfied with it. Brandon Roy had just become one of my favorite players as Lupe Fiasco was becoming one of my favorite artists, so I thought…why not mix the two? I really liked the editing style, would of been better if I had a bit more footage but im not complaining.

This was an older video I did which I used to introduce the Raptors and Nets first matchup since the playoffs. I used alot of Raptors TV cuts so credit to them.

Two quick intros I did for a armedwitharep.com which is a clothing company all about preventing youth violence that I am volunteering with.

I made this mix to show Kobes legacy after the Shaq trade. I got the audio from a piece put together by the Toronto Raptors, so credit them for the audio. Also be sure to check out my sequal.