Harley Davidson buys our promo!

A few months back I found an awesome website called Poptent which hooks up filmmakers with brands that are looking for creative content.  Harley Davidson held an Open Call on Poptent for videos that promote the new Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.  Milwaukee’s only a 2 hour drive for me so I figured why not take a road trip and do a little mini-documentary about the museum?  Well, I just found out that Harley bought my video for a VERY nice amount!  The plan is that the video will be shown on the museum’s website and it will even run on the TVs in Harley Dealerships.

I’m really, really proud of the way this video turned out.  It might be the most challenging thing I ever edited.  As fate would have it, my Crapbot associate, Rodney Simale and I went to the museum right in the middle of Milwaukee’s annual motorcycle fest.  That meant the museum was full and lively and that was great….but outside there were hundreds of bikes revving all…day…long.  The grounds of the museum are really cool looking; there’s a huge area where riders park their bikes so everyone can look at them.  I thought we’d do a bunch of our interviews in that area.  But when we got there the noise was loud I figured we’d have to do most of our filming inside.

But guess what you hear inside the museum?  Audio recordings of revving motorcycles!  As Nelson Muntz would say, the ironing was delicious.  Still, we were able to find some spots that were quiet enough.  It took a lot of work but I think the final spot turned out really nicely.  If my work has a “style” this is definitely a perfect representation of it.  Check it out, won’t you?