Introduction

Welcome to Wilson Bros. Video! Here you will find videos of our sons Cassady and Nicholas. We've had some good reactions from friends and family over the past year or so to the videos we've made and posted to Vimeo and Facebook. I'm putting them on this blog in an attempt to archive them, provide some commentary, and sort of chronicle the boys' childhood. I have no delusions that any of these are anything more than very amateurish shaky cam videos set to copyrighted music. They are meant to be a little cheesy. Hopefully you will occasionally find something here that you find enjoyable though. We've certainly had a lot of fun recording our kids and being amateur music video producers!

I want to give some insight into the technical side of this little operation. We are rather low budget (and I'm sure it shows). Up until July 2010 most of the footage was recorded with a Canon Powershot digital camera. Thanks to our new Kodak Playsport pocket camcorder, we are now in high definition at least. Most of the editing is done on an iMac using iMovie. For relatively simple editing it's hard to beat that setup, mostly because clip management is seamless. I do play around with Adobe Premiere and After Effects when I have time and have incorporated work from those tools in a few videos. They are a pleasure to work with and I hope to do more with them as time goes on. Because there just isn't nearly enough time to do what I want to do, I usually go the quick and dirty route and use iMovie.

My plans with this site are to post each video we've made so far in chronological order providing some insight into what was going on with the kids at that time, what we tried to do, or what we learned from the process. Going forward, as new videos are made, I'll upload them to Vimeo then update this site with the embedded video. We would love to hear your comments, suggestions, or flames! Please keep in touch!

Cheers,
Brad