I edited this music video for Remedy Drive featuring their new Coldplay-esque single “Rescue”.  In fact I edited this one several weeks ago, but the group’s record label just gave permission to post it last week on Ransom.tv.  Gotta love record labels!  So, now it’s live and 1060 Creative is VERY excited to post it on our site as well.

This one had more of a story than the Skillet “Awake and Alive” video.  It took a solid week to put together NINE cameras’ worth of footage! And I believe I made something special.  It was fun to bump it up a few levels with some lens flares and color correction.  No one will notice, and I guess that’s the point, eh?

Enjoy!

The other night we sat down with Dr. Vincent Voci of the Voci Center to talk about how and why he brought Boston’s St. Anthony’s Festival to the Queen City. Five years later, the festival is still going strong and is showing no signs of slowing down. The festival is this Sunday, May 16, from 1:00PM-5:00PM at Camden Grandview, 209 East Morehead St. in Charlotte.

The ticket price includes unlimited food and wine from the city’s best Italian restaurants. Proceeds from the festival benefit the Nevins Center.

For more information and to buy tickets in advance, go to www.stanthonycharlotte.org. Hope to see you there!

NOTE: For those who might wander in and see this post, we’re seeing some difficulties with Vimeo (the video hosting site) today; for some reason, the video’s not coming up like it should. We’re not sure what’s going on, but we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience! Keep checking back to see the video…

Scott Health & Safety is an international Monroe, NC based fire safety equipment company. You would likely know them best from the “SCOTT” logo on a firefighter’s breathing apparatus. Scott needed a video to address their distributors during the FDIC conference (the world’s largest firefighter training and exhibition) in Indianapolis. We knew they needed to get a lot of information across to the audience, and we didn’t have a lot of time to produce it.

After a round or two of meetings we came up with 3 areas in which to focus the video – Innovation, Technology, and Distribution.  The video served the purpose of rolling out a couple of new products, providing an update of a couple of recently introduced products, and solidifying the relationship between Scott and their distribution partners. Further, instead of making one long video (which would be difficult to keep “lively” for the audience), we decided to break it up into 3 separate videos , each separated by a live presenter.

1060 completed the project – a grand total of over 20 finished minutes of video, including shooting in both St. Louis and Monroe – in a little over a week! Scott was very happy with the end result, and 1060 Creative gained a new client.

The video above is the short piece produced to introduce the live presentation as well as a small part of one of the sections (featuring a product demo).

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Here’s an update on the post about the video that 1060 Creative edited for the band Skillet. We hinted that the band was going to use this video as the official video for the song “Awake and Alive” from the Billboard Top 10 album “Awake”.

Well, it’s official. The video was released today at www.Ransom.tv. Check it out! As of April 28th, there are over 42,000 views!  It’s good to be noticed.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association recently rolled out a new web-based project called Ransom.tv. They called on 1060 Creative to edit and create graphics for two interviews, one with Brian “Head” Welch (formerly of Korn), and The Almost frontman and Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie, in which the musicians talk about their life stories and their faith.

Check ‘em out here!

Brian Head Welch

Aaron Gillespie

Leo Dowell, a Charlotte-area interior designer specializing in French and Italian design, recently called on 1060 Creative to help put together a PowerPoint presentation for a lecture at Treyburne Country Club in Raleigh. It effectively ended up as a “PowerPoint in Two Acts”. Act 1 was an introduction to Leo and his small-town roots (he’s from Mount Airy, or “Mayberry” to all ya’ll who are Andy Griffith fans). Act 2 highlighted Leo’s brilliant interior design work.

Leo has always had a penchant for theatrical presentations, and this was no different. Although it was merely a PowerPoint slide show, 1060 helped bring it to life by using video elements (produced here at 1060), photo restoration (via Photoshop), and even by creating sound cues to be rolled in at certain parts of the presentation.

Video Elements

1060 inserted the following video in the presentation. This video, featuring Leo’s work at Charlotte’s own Courance community, was produced by 1060 Creative last year. And yes, that’s Anthony as “The Movie Guy Voice”.

Photo Restoration

Below is a photo of Leo’s father working in his grocery store. The year is unknown, but the original photo is washed out and lacks a lot of detail. Using some simple Photoshop techniques, 1060 quickly brought this photo (and others) back to life.

Sound Design

To help punctuate things, we created a number of sound cues to roll at certain parts of the presentation. Here are a couple of examples. And yes, once again, that’s Anthony as the voice talent.

“Once Upon A Time” was used to introduce the show and set the stage.

“Hello, it’s Oliver” accompanied the final slide (a picture of Leo’s dog, Oliver, below). The final song, “Young At Heart”, is truncated here for purposes of brevity.

Sometimes when a client gives you very little direction, you come up with a lot. Darcy Grimes, AAA Carolinas’ Manager of Travel Marketing, hired 1060 Creative to create a series of :15 “bookend” commercials for the “Time To Travel Collection” promotion. The opening stayed the same for all destinations, and we created a total of 3 end spots that promoted different cities (Las Vegas shown here).

The only direction she gave me was to hand me the brochure below.  The spots turned out to be some of my best work!

Here are a couple spots we recently did for a local law firm, The Law Office of Paul Goodson. Both of these spots were produced for less than you would think.

In the first spot, we used a look you’ve probably seen in other spots (Ford trucks comes immediately to mind), something known in the industry as Kinetic Typography. It’s a way to cost-effectively yet stylishly get your message across.

For the second spot, we employed a couple of very talented actors for a live action shoot. This shoot features our recently acquired Letus 35mm adapter. Basically, it allows us to use 35mm film lenses on our DV camera, giving us amazing depth of field in a limited shooting space. Notice how the actors are in focus, but the background is nice and soft (out of focus).

Broadcast video is still a powerful means of communicating your message. Give us a call to find out how you can take advantage of these effective methods of advertising for your company.