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Things I Learned While Producing A Short Film.

Friday, July 9, 2010

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One of the things I enjoy most about producing is working on dramatic videos. Last month I had the opportunity to work on a short film for our Starting Point Department. Producing short films is not the norm for us here in North Point Media world, and as you can imagine we had to adapt [...]

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Iron Man 2 VFX

Friday, June 11, 2010

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The season of Summer blockbusters is upon us, and while it could be argued that many of these big budget movies may lack a little depth in story, they sure donʼt lack for amazing visual effects.  A great example of cutting edge visual effects is the newest Marvel Comics movie Iron Man 2.  When I [...]

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Strategic Partner Shoot In Pittsburgh

Friday, February 12, 2010

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Shooting on location can often be a little tricky.  Shooting on location 800 miles away in a town you donʼt know can feel almost impossible.  That is the challenge Matt Gibson and I were facing when we traveled to Pittsburgh earlier this year.  We had the opportunity to share the story of a family that [...]

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Cameras on “Velma’s Diner”

Friday, December 4, 2009

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I am a video guy at heart and I could talk about video cameras for hours.  When our creative team decided that “Velma’s Diner” should be a sitcom style shoot it brought up a unique opportunity to put our hands on some video gear that we don’t normally get a chance to use. Enter Steve Thomason [...]

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Evolution of our Christmas Video Set

Friday, November 20, 2009

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Christmas this year at North Point consists of five weeks’ worth of dramatic sketches.  Our media team was given the opportunity to head up that production and I thought it would be a lot of fun to share some of that process with you.  To begin with I wanted to show you the set build [...]

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Drive ‘09 Highlight Video

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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This year’s DRIVE conference was amazing.  If you missed it, here is a newly completed highlight video that encapsulates just a part of the fun. Thanks to Marc Shroyer (a good friend of the media team) for doing such a great job on this recap.  He drove the entire process from shooting, editing, to finalizing.  Enjoy!

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Global X Campaign

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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All right, it’s my first post so I’m feeling the pressure to make this a good one.  This past year I have had the pleasure to produce a series of promotional spots with our missions department Global X.  Our goal on this project was two fold, first of all we wanted to create a brand [...]

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