Cruise Night in Jackson, MI

I set out to make the not so usual boring 50's classic music based cruise night video...I think I succeeded. Whaddaya think?


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Love hot cars! For me a couple of the dark shots were too dark, one was made even darker with applied vignette. A couple of the early effects including the TV static & jitter went on too long by about 2/3. Enjoyed the Dutch angle on the chromed engine. No car interiors?

Would loved to have seen that jet motor fire up. We had lots of engines, wheels & chassis, how about a babe or two cruising by & smiling out the passenger window? Hot cars & hot mamas, there's your smoke show.

Thanks. It's a pretty conservative crowd that goes to hess. They have them once a month through the Summer here. Pretty much family time rated G. We missed the jet engine fire up the two times he did it. The whole of downtown Michigan Ave is closed off for this on the nights it happens, and we couldn't run down to the jet fast enough. He can only run it for so long because of the noise and power obviously. He has had that up over 100 MPH with plenty of room to go....wouldn't say just how fast. Otherwise it's mostly for the fire show it makes.

Which shots do you think were to dark. I know the vignette can really darken things up if not careful. I'm working on a wedding right now and have it applied here and there and have to bring up the exposure in the shots.

Hey Don, I get the whole conservative thing. Your girls don't have to be strippers, just up the appeal level with some smiling faces. Girls & cars have always been a magic combo, all the magazines & car ads can't be wrong.

For the dark shots, well I'm surprised you're asking. If you watch it again, every time we have a closeup of a dark or black car, that car is sucking up all the available light. I think there are about 3 or 4 of those shots. Also an exterior with some people, surrounded by a very gloomy vignette. I think for your pitch here, shiny cars, lots of chrome, it's fun, it's fast, vroom vroom, bling bling, brighter fits the genre better.