Find us on Facebook!
January 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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An interesting question….
January 4, 2010 · 1 Comment
As a media outlet, we’ve become part of a lot of different social networks. One in particular, Merchant Circle, has a neat feature that lines up user questions with businesses that it feels are qualified to answer. Here’s one that was sent to us. Now, the question didn’t pertain to us directly, but our line of work deals with the reason she had to ask it to begin with, so we felt obliged to answer… Keep reading →
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Tagged: cel phone, converter, digital, question, youtube
The future is now!
January 4, 2010 · 1 Comment
We recently finished filming a training seminar for a prosthetic limb developer. Now, I know what you’re thinking, but this wasn’t your typical ‘fake hand’. far from it. Remember that scene in Terminator 2 when they found the arm from the original? (The arm was all that was left from the terminator which was crushed in the first film.) Well, these prosthetics were more like that. Attaching to muscles via sensors, people with no hands or fingers were able to-with a thought and a flex of the arm-open individual fingers and perform tasks previously unheard of in this field. (Think: play piano or pick up skittles off of a table.) It made me think that all current prosthetics had met their match, and I wondered what the future held for our own industry.
In the past few years I’ve been privileged to work here, I’ve seen a few Keep reading →
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On camera talent: off high street
October 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Tatiana represented by Heyman
We’ve worked with Heyman several times over the last couple of years on various projects ranging from casting extras for a music video production to TV spots, and have even auditioned ourselves once or twice.
If you think you have what it takes, or need talent for your next gig, check them out on the web: www.HeymanTalent.com.
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Tagged: casting, Columbus Ohio, On Camera talent, television commercial, video production
Videographer Wanted: Says Craig’s list
October 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment
You shouldn’t type an ad requesting a videographer or professional cameraman when all you really want is the camera. I mean, do you really care if the camera meets NTSC/SMPTE standards or the cameraman
Videographer Joshua Porter
An average full-day rate for a videographer/camera package is $600 to $1600 and depends on experience and type of camera. Price normally includes Keep reading →
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Behind the Wings
October 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Ever been up close and personal with a chicken wing? Check out our behind the scenes footage of a regional television commercial campaign for Wings Over.
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Tagged: chicken, Columbus Ohio, film, fun, I AMedia, TV commercial production, video production, youtube
“Sounds like a deal”: building a sound room.
July 15, 2009 · 1 Comment
We originally had a sound booth in a hallway. Then we thought, ‘why not make the hallway the soundbooth?’ It took approximately four weeks to finish, with several skilled hands. Come to think of it, that was the last time any of us posted to the blog or worked on any project… The hardest part was moving an industrial restroom door, while the easiest was putting on the decorative records. How good it was to be finally finished.
We bought 20 sheets of QuiteRock (5/8″ sound proof drywall). This stuff normally goes for around $74 bucks a sheet. We picked it up for about $4 per sheet. Add the foam, wood and the truck to get it back here, and our total was around $1200 for our 8×5 room (double sided drywall).
Another triumph came in finding a custom glass cutter for the perfect size window. It took a couple of visits before we got it right. We choose a 3-1/2 x 2′ foot window.
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Big ideas keep getting bigger
June 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Basements and living rooms can only contain creativity for so long. Not only are they dirty, but one needs a professional headquarters.
Like a plant in a flat that gets transplanted, so came the first office: a one window back room that too quickly outlived it’s usefulness. A-ha! A prime downtown location-perfect! It welcomes us, melds to fit our needs. Our clients love it. Then one day the greenscreen went up: just a few guys talking, ‘wouldn’t that be nice?’, and there it was. Done and done. Hey, lets add a sound booth as well. We have the material from previous events. Whew! Looks good, doesn’t it? (see picture)
picture our first sound booth
But a fish will only grow as big as it’s bowl. If we want to move from Blue-gill to Grouper, we’ll need more. Soundbooth, it’s time for you to graduate. Soon we shall have ourselves a full fledged recording room, allowing not one but three people simultaneously. Oh, you brought your guitar? That’s fine. Plenty of room. Go on in.
A few construction details: Move the bathroom door, drywall the hallway leading to bathroom, add QuietRock, some sound dampeners, throw up a ceiling and sound proof it all-as well as outlets, A/C and a window to boot. A few guys talking: ‘wouldn’t that be nice?’ We have to be careful though, lest our project spiral out of control. We see it in projects, where something seems simple from the start, and suddenly demands more. More graphics. More filming days. More meetings about items already decided on. The only ‘less’ we ever seem to come across is when invoices are involved.
An idea that keeps growing. Kinda like this blog. It now has two authors and a few extra paragraphs.
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Christian Retail and the Mixed Multitudes
June 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Thursday of last week, mixed within the usual jumble of magazines and intern resume’s that make up everyday mail, was a postcard for the 2009 International Christian Retail Show. Holding it for a moment, I let my mind drift. 
Last year at this time we were blissfully unaware of the sweeping poverty that would soon descend. Our summer interns were learning the fine art of LiveType, our website had a fresh new look and we had just finished wrapping up production on V-translations, a video bible study of sorts which included street interviews, conversations with inmates, and a skit, all showing the destructive nature of lying. “The Truth About Lies”, it was called, and it was a culmination of two years of filming and editing, all out of pocket.
Boy caught in lie
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internet TV vs. The Big Four
June 11, 2009 · 1 Comment
With a fear of spending firmly instilled, advertising pocket books have gone from being lined to being stitched closed. As a company that rides in the wake of advertising decisions, we here at I’AMedia see trends and patterns that those too close to the problem are blind to.
We’ve recently coined the phrase iTV, a low cost, highly effective method of advertising. In olden times, broadcast television (ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS) were the only home for your infomercial or pilot episode.
Snuggie infomercial image
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