So I’ve been a little busy, and I haven’t made the time to attend to my blog. One of the major distractions was my being a part of the Iron Videographer competition that we (The 4EVER Group) hosted.
The Iron Videographer is a send-up of the Iron Chef TV show. We’re doing this bracket-style, featuring eight combatants in four regional competitions in the opening round. I was the host of the program, and our events were in Detroit (June 6), Dallas (June 7), Long Island (June 12), and Orange County, CA (June 13). That meant three different airlines (USAirways, Northwest, and Jet Blue), and four different hotels (Wyndham Garden Hotel, LaQuinta Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, and Fairfield Marriott). Airline service was barely average, although they got us to each destination safely, and the hotels all pretty much seemed the same.
Each combatant in the Iron Videographer competition used the same footage to create a wedding highlights clip. I provided the footage, from a wedding recorded in June 2006. One of the winning clips is posted here: http://blog.elysiumproductions.com/.
Once I’ve collected all of them, the bride will receive all of the clips on a DVD. In addition, they’ll be posted on The 4EVER Group web site, http://www.4evergroup.org/.
In the end, the competition was great fun. In three cities, the crowd averaged about 50, and we had about 100 at the Long Island event. Each competitor was given as much as four hours to edit the footage, and no one took less than 3 hours and 15 minutes. We interviewed each competitor during the session, and then again at the close. There was a panel of three judges in each city as well, but they were other wedding professional, not videographers. As we’ve seen in our Artistic Achievement Awards competitions, videographers and other wedding professionals can see things differently. The judges included wedding coordinators, photographers, and even recent brides.
The over-the-shoulder picture is of Julie Hill, from Elysium Productions in Irvine, CA. She was the winner of the West competition. The other picture shows me interviewing Terry Taravella, from Studio Vieux Carre in New Orleans, the winner of the South competition.
The next bracket in the competition will be the semi-finals, which we’ll host in late September or early October. I’ll blog more promptly then.
The Iron Videographer is a send-up of the Iron Chef TV show. We’re doing this bracket-style, featuring eight combatants in four regional competitions in the opening round. I was the host of the program, and our events were in Detroit (June 6), Dallas (June 7), Long Island (June 12), and Orange County, CA (June 13). That meant three different airlines (USAirways, Northwest, and Jet Blue), and four different hotels (Wyndham Garden Hotel, LaQuinta Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, and Fairfield Marriott). Airline service was barely average, although they got us to each destination safely, and the hotels all pretty much seemed the same.
Each combatant in the Iron Videographer competition used the same footage to create a wedding highlights clip. I provided the footage, from a wedding recorded in June 2006. One of the winning clips is posted here: http://blog.elysiumproductions.com/.
Once I’ve collected all of them, the bride will receive all of the clips on a DVD. In addition, they’ll be posted on The 4EVER Group web site, http://www.4evergroup.org/.
In the end, the competition was great fun. In three cities, the crowd averaged about 50, and we had about 100 at the Long Island event. Each competitor was given as much as four hours to edit the footage, and no one took less than 3 hours and 15 minutes. We interviewed each competitor during the session, and then again at the close. There was a panel of three judges in each city as well, but they were other wedding professional, not videographers. As we’ve seen in our Artistic Achievement Awards competitions, videographers and other wedding professionals can see things differently. The judges included wedding coordinators, photographers, and even recent brides.
The over-the-shoulder picture is of Julie Hill, from Elysium Productions in Irvine, CA. She was the winner of the West competition. The other picture shows me interviewing Terry Taravella, from Studio Vieux Carre in New Orleans, the winner of the South competition.
The next bracket in the competition will be the semi-finals, which we’ll host in late September or early October. I’ll blog more promptly then.
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