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“Dusk till Dawn” promo (:60)

By • February 24, 2010 • Houston, KPRC, Promos

It’s actually called the “10PM to AM” promo internally at the station, but somehow “Dusk till Dawn” stuck with me. (Unfortunately, the anchors don’t turn into vampires halfway through the promo)

KPRC – 10PM to AM News (#3 :60 version) from JL Watkins on Vimeo.

It’s like 99% shot with my 5D, except for like three shots. I’m not terribly happy with the encoding I did for this Vimeo upload, as it’s choppy and contrasty. But it’s a decent example of what I’ve been working on – the standard, thirty-second version of this spot is crazy fast compared to this extended promo.

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News at the Speed of Life (:30)

By • February 15, 2010 • Houston, Photography, Promos

Here’s the first spot in our new promo campaign that began Friday night during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. I shot about 95% of it with my 5D2, except for a few HD stock shots of people that I needed (so that it wasn’t all news people looking rad).

KPRC – 2010 Image Spot (#1 :30 version) from JL Watkins on Vimeo.

There’s an alternate (longer) version on our promo department’s YouTube channel, in case you want to see the same spot, but twice as long.

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hanging in my office

By • January 20, 2010 • KPRC

hanging in my office


Hanging above the door in my office is my photo mural of NBC managers: Ron Swanson, Michael Scott, Jack Donaghy, and my boss Gary Wann.

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Even more weather promos!

By • November 5, 2009 • Houston, KPRC, Promos

KPRC – Frank Weather Promos #2 from JL Watkins on Vimeo.

Here’s another round of spots in the latest weather campaign, all shot with the 5D2.

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Jay Leno is coming to Houston! (sorta)

By • September 4, 2009 • KPRC, Promos

Here’s one of Local 2’s new countdown promos for The Jay Leno Show, premiering in just over a week on KPRC. For my part, I was the producer who video’d and edited the spot.

KPRC Leno preview promo from JL Watkins on Vimeo.

Our CSD, Gary Wann (aka: TVPromoGuy) worked out the Leno stuff (shot in Burbank), and came up with the concept. Fun fact: He also plays the part of “guy who answers the phone”. I had this sprawling, epic sequence with him, but it had to be cut down in order to hit the :30 mark. (I’m still pusing for :32 second promos, but it hasn’t happened yet).

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That’s how I roll now.

By • April 22, 2009 • geekery

Gary Wann, promo jedi master

I snapped this photo of my boss, Gary our our way to lunch this afternoon. As you can see, we’re out on the streets, keeping it real. Last year I would have captioned this photo with something about how “moments later we challenged a local street gang to a breakdance battle”, but now that I’m 35 years-old, I realize that me and members of my crew are more like the “businessmen who threaten to shut down Breakdance Summer Camp unless they raise $25,000 by the end of the month”.

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