Friday, January 21, 2011

Local Celebrities in Studio

Fun shoot today with some local Scottsdale celebrities: Rick Kidder, the CEO of the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce, and Don Matheson, whose team is the #1 real estate group in Arizona, and the #4 in the country.

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These two well-known men are a pleasure to shoot, because in addition to being extremely soft-spoken and down-to-earth, they are also very comfortable being interviewed and captured on camera.

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Put them both together in studio, and the conversation flows with an easy and well-tempered flow that comes across very naturally, just like you were sitting with them in person. There's a lot of mutual respect and admiration in the room, and the camera picks that up with all the nuances and subtleties intact.

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Having just shot an exercise video the day before, the studio is in a little disarray, which is slightly embarrassing when in the presence of such highly regarding company, but such is the life of a busy production shop.

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Still these guys are pros, and it's an easy shoot. On top of that, the video we're capturing will help folks who are presented with real estate difficulties (and that's a significant chunk of the populace right now). All in all, a worthwile shoot with a couple of great guys.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Shooting for Health and Wellness

The one thing that stays the same in the production business is that every day is different. Today, we were lucky enough to be in the studio with Pamela Cohn, shooting a series of 60 (yes, 60!) short videos of various exercises for a new health website to be launched shortly.

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You'd think that Pamela would be exhausted after such a day, but believe it or not, she had not one but two classes to teach at her 'day job' directly after the 6 hour shoot today. I wish I was in that kind of shape.

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This was a fairly standard 2-camera shoot, although one camera was mounted on a dolly to add some motion to the video. Pamela ended up doing two to three times the recommended number of reps for each exercise as we captured wide, close, and dolly shots. It would have left me in tears! :-)

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The best part of it all was the wonderful attitudes of everyone involved, from Pamela and Scott (our camera operator and producer) to our patient clients, and the infectious high spirits of our make-up and hair artist, Meleah.

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All in all, a great shoot, and a great bunch of people. We're looking forward to shooting more with these guys as their website ramps up. We'll be sure to keep you posted when it goes live.

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