Universe Creative

The setting sun cut through this overcast Dallas sky for all of 5 minutes on the evening we filmed this scene with . One of those serendipitous filmmaking moments that makes you feel fortunate to be doing the work. ☀️

Watch Technicolor and companion piece Twice As Good via the link in our bio, then vote for us in this year’s Webby Awards - today’s the last day to do so!
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We’ve been busy over the past two years, but a highlight of that time has been collaborating with the inspiring leaders featured in our series Black CEOs, In Their Own Words for The George and Fay Young Foundation.

Our conversation with was wide-ranging, from I Love Lucy to the fantasy novels of Brandon Sanderson. Check the link in our bio to watch Byron’s Webby-nominated story!

Our doc series - Black CEOs, In Their Own Words - is up for a Webby! We’re in competition with juggernauts like Google… it’s a real David v. Goliath situation!

Watch these powerful stories and cast your vote:

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting #/2023/video/video-series-channels/diversity-equity-inclusion
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We’re so excited to see these stories about Black leadership recognized by the Webby Awards! Now we need your help: please cast your vote for us by April 20th. You can find our Webby listing via the link in our bio, or copy/paste the following URL:

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting #/2023/video/video-series-channels/diversity-equity-inclusion

If nothing else, watch the films, also available via link in bio. We’re excited to share episode three this June! 🙏
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We don’t often have the opportunity to incorporate visual effects in our nonfiction work.

For our latest collaboration with Thrive Scholars, we fell in love with a specific image: our NASA-loving subject nurturing his passion for space under the soft glow of a star field. We found a suitable planetarium at El Camino College but discovered on the day of the shoot that the projected star map wasn’t bright enough to register with our light-hungry cameras. What were we to do?

With the help of El Camino’s clever and friendly staff, we had the idea to shoot the sequence with bright, white light bouncing into the planetarium’s dome. The brightness would both produce the desired glow on our subject’s face and (hopefully) allow us to use a luma key to extract the brightest parts of the frame and replace them with a field of stars (captured elsewhere using photographic equipment better suited for this purpose).

Swipe to compare before and after. How did we do? Are we ready to make Avatar 2? https://vimeo.com/607070131

In 2021, we partnered with Thrive Scholars to tell the origin stories of three of their stellar participants. Thrive helps high-achieving students of color from low-income communities access the opportunities they need to excel at top colleges and in meaningful careers.

It was no small task telling three complete stories in under four minutes, but it helped that they all shared the same theme: passion + opportunity = a vibrant future. How can we make sure this equation applies to ALL young people? 🤔

Watch here: https://vimeo.com/607070131
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