March 29th, 2007 by edit1media

March 29, 2007

The past two weeks have been crazy…filled with last minute travels and a sad story too.

One of our recent groom’s found out that his father is dying. Their wedding wasn’t quite on our radar to be completed yet, but his dad has less than two months to live. So naturally they are now top priority and are working feverishly to get a great movie out for them as soon as possible. I really want the bride and groom to experience sharing their video with his dad before he passes away. This is so close to our hearts because his dad is dying from cancer and we knew the groom back when our own son was battling cancer. It’s just so sad. I hate cancer.

One the positive side to this story, all of our other clients who are so patiently waiting for their videos have been wonderful about this. They’ve said “Of course you have to do their’s first…no problem!”. We are so grateful to have such wonderful clients!

Then in the midst of all that, we get a call to travel to several cities to record some testimonial videos for a coporate client. Chris and I spent 5 nights in 5 different hotels! We visited San Francisco, San Jose, Vacaville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Dayton. My brain was so fried when we got back home two days ago! And now in just a few more days we will head out to Tampa, Florida for another shoot.

I can’t complain because business is good and we seem to have some high demand. But it does put a crimp on my editing! I wish I could clone myself! But this does lead me to realize that we will probably need to bring on another editor in the near future. Or fast-forward that human cloning thing!

Thanks for stopping by to read our blog and I hope you take a few minutes to watch some of the videos we have and leave some comments too. It’s really cool for us to see who is visiting! And just for incentive, here is another video we are working on. It’s the opening to this couple’s wedding movie. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I have enjoyed putting it together!

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February 6th, 2007 by edit1media

February 5, 2007

By popular demand, here is the concept video we did for Aegis Living’s Annual Leadership Meeting. The theme of the meeting was Overcoming Extreme Adversity and after several days of emotional speakers and activities, this was a welcome humor break. It’s a tad bit campy, but it fit the people and the meeting well! We had so much fun filming and editing this piece! I hope you love it!

Corporate, Seattle, Video Clips

February 2nd, 2007 by edit1media

February 2, 2007

On Thursday and Friday (25th & 26th) we filmed at three locations for a short concept video for the Aegis Living Annual Leadership Meeting. Then we had a wedding with a Same Day Edit on Saturday (more about that below!).

Then Sunday through Wednesday the Edit 1 Media team went to work at the meeting! Chris and Brian shot tons of video and I wound up creating a total of 7 videos for the conference. That’s right…SEVEN videos in 3-1/2 days! There was about 50 hours worth of footage from two cameras, not including the “Amazing Race” where 7 teams of people each had a video camera and I had to edit their footage. I didn’t sleep much and hardly ever left the hotel room, but the execs were thrilled with the results.

This is truly a remarkable company and we love working with them. They are creative, loving, loyal people and they really understand the impact of good videography. We are truly honored to be working with them so much! As a major side bonus we get to see some amazing speakers and be inspired by great people.

Here is the video from the Amazing Race. All this footage was shot on tiny little Panasonic 320 3CCD cameras by a team member. The teams didn’t know about the race and some people had never met each other before, so it was a cool experience for them! They had several areas throughout Seattle that they needed to go to and take a group video. Then the last stop was a place called FareStart which helps the homeless learn skills to work in the restaurant industry. The teams had to help scrub the place (and it was a real mess!) as a sort of community service. Even the CEO got in there and mopped floors! Like I said, they are an amazing group of people!

Now this is the highlight video that we put together for the very end of the Awards Banquet. It has footage of speakers, the Amazing Race, cleaning at FareStart, and when they went to a totally cool private theater called The Big Picture and saw the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. But the coolest part is at the end of the movie Christoper Gardner himself came out onto the stage! Everyone was blown away!

KOMO4 News was also there to capture the moment and you can see their video here.

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Corporate, Crazy Schedule, Seattle, Video Clips

January 18th, 2007 by edit1media

January 18, 2007

In addition to working on all of our weddings for our super patient couples, we have two really cool corporate projects we are working on right now. The first is for LCT Magazine’s annual trade show in Las Vegas. We are putting together a photo montage that will loop on a HUGE screen during their awards banquet cocktail hour. We are mixing photos of the nominees along with some fun photos from various events they’ve held over the last year. While this will be playig there will be Cirque du Soleil performers doing acrobats from the ceiling. I wish we could be there to see it, and while we were invited, we have another project….

The Aegis Assisted Living’s annual Executive Director meeting. This is an awe-inspiring company and we will be creating a Concept Video, two Same Day Edits and filming a ton of speakers over several days. This meeting is unbelievably inspirational for the ED’s who learn new concepts to take back to their communities and we are really proud to be a part of it. Two super fun things that will take place are the Aegis Prom in which we are creating a Photo Montage of employee’s high school photos, and two days of an Amazing Race through Seattle. We are supplying 7 cameras for each team to use and then we’ll put together a presentation of the teams to be shown the following day. That should be an interesting, fun (and a bit stressful) video to create!

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Corporate, Same Day Edit, Seattle

January 15th, 2007 by edit1media

December 7, 2006

Words cannot describe today. We are in Honolulu for the 65th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Grand Opening of the Pacific Aviation Museum.

We were commissioned to create a total of 5 videos for the museum. One is about two survivors telling their story of December 7th and their return to Ford Island. This plays in a full 200-seat theater every 20 minutes 7 days a week. It’s a very powerful movie and people leave in stunned silence. The first time it was shown today both gentlemen, Herb and Ernie, were there. They had no idea the movie was going to be a permanent part of the museum and they were in tears when we told them. They also got a standing ovation at the end of the first play when they were introduced. These are two amazing American heroes and I’m so proud to call them my friends now too. Herb told me that this movie touched him deeper than any of the hundreds of other movies, videos, books, or photos that he has seen about Pearl Harbor over the last 65 years. Talk about a compliment!!!

The other thing we did was create ‘kiosk videos’ that play on large plasma screens in 4 of the exhibits. One is about the “Battle of Niihau” which most people know nothing about and is a fascinating story! Another is about a small airplane whose pilot and his son found themselves in a swarm of Japanese Zeros on that fateful morning and lived to tell about it. Their airplane is also on display. Again, another story that many people don’t know about. The third video talks about the Doolittle Raid and has a mini-theater that looks like a ‘ready-room’ to host it in. The fourth video is about Guadalcanal. This museum is truly cool and I’m not saying that just because our videos are there (well, maybe! LOL!!).

The Grand Opening ceremony was really cool. There were about 2,000 people there, most of which had to come over to Ford Island via a trolley since it is still a military base. Chuck Yeager (aviation God), Wally Schirra (astronaut), Tom Brokaw, 5 Medal of Honor Recipients, and many more honored guests were there. But the most important guests were the Pearl Harbor survivors who made the trip from all different parts of the country. I got chills when they were all asked to stand and were given a standing ovation. After a bunch of speeches the museum was blessed by a Hawaiian Kahuna and officially opened. People raved about our videos which was a really cool experience!

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Corporate, Hawaii, Travel, Video Clips

January 15th, 2007 by edit1media

September 30, 2006

That’s right…no weddings to shoot this weekend. It’s always a strange feeling when the wedding season starts to wind down a bit. Our wedding season is busiest from late June until mid-September. Of course some years it seems to start a bit early and other years it ends later. But that first weekend after so many months of having no weddings, is hard to describe. The kids are home and it’s almost like we aren’t sure what to do! So we cleaned…what fun.

While the shooting season for 2006 winding down, the booking season for 2007 and 2008 is really heating up. So far we have more weddings booked for 2007 and 2008 at this time of the year than we did at the same time last year. And we have three couples coming over in the next three days. So 2007 is definitely going to be a busy year for us!

I LOVE meeting with new clients and getting to know them. I love the excitement in their voice as they describe their wedding. I love how they cry when they watch our videos…it’s just so much fun! But that definitely requires taking time out to CLEAN!

Chris shot a last-minute corporate video yesterday and I was able to get it out to DVD in between cleaning (it was very basic). I also got a lot of stuff cleaned off the hard drives, so all-in-all it was a busy but productive day of housekeeping! Not much else to write about today!

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Corporate, Weddings