I see on social media that Elephant Productions has been in business for 30 years thisyear.I know the date and I know that it’s true, but I still have a hard time believing it. If not for the social posts I wouldn’t be giving it much thought. In lots of ways these are just more days of another year.
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Elephant Productions is proud to announce their 30th year in business. They are a testament to the success of the video production industry. The secret to success? They value their relationships with their clients, with creative partners and with each other.
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If you conduct a simple Google search about video production, Wikipedia will tell you: Video production is the process of creating video content for television, home video or the internet. That sounds simple enough, right? But being a media production company is so much morethan that.
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Like pre-production, many of the remote tools our video production house uses in post-production have been a part of our process for years.
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Part 3 of this series will focus on the production aspect of remote video production.
I have already shared one of the techniques we used last summer to socially distance our crew and client. Elephant Productions did a live stream from the output of the camera and used Zoom to communicate with our client.
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In part 1 of this series, I wrote about our experience with a remote video production service in 2020, what we're learning now, and how different solutions or combinations of solutions work with different projects and different budgets. Remote video production seems to be an all-encompassing term and I’ll get into the actual production part of the process later, but first let’s talk remote pre-production.
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Last year I shared with you how Elephant Productions, a video production house in Austin, TX, successfully performed a safe, socially distanced video production on a studio just outside Austin while our clients stayed in their homes hundreds of miles away. Through the combination of a video encoder, a cloud-based review tool, and Zoom, our corporate clients were able to follow along and provide feedback almost as well as being there, and in some sense, it was better than being there.
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A few years ago, we were awarded a project from a large educational textbook publisher and the road to production was fast and furious. We got the call on December 26th about a drastic change in plans regarding the production and whether we could help pull it off. Just a few weeks later, we went into production on January 13th to create 683 math videos. In addition to a quick prep, our ability to manage content and provide some financial and contracting resources became a key factor in making the production work.
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What are some of the location challenges you’ve had? How do you prepare for filming in a rugged environment?
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Our offices at 3404 Guadalupe Street sit in a really cool Edwardian house built in 1907, when Guadalupe was still a dirt road. It was constructed to be the home for a UT professor and his new bride.
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When the shutdown started, we got to work on creating set procedures. It's a combination of our own ideas, the CDC and Texas Health and Human Services guidelines. Have a look at our guidelines and photos from a recent shoot.
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You’ve probably heard of 4k and 1080p. Maybe even 5k, 8k, Red, Go Pro, Black Magic, DSLR, etc., etc. When preparing for your next video project, what is the right choice?
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Challenging times. Interesting times. Trying times. Many personal lives have been transformed, and businesses are affected on many fronts.
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