Phil Lucero Productions – Presenting One Business Connection Netskills ‘09
This is a short promotional video produced for One Business Connection’s 2009 Netskills event (www.onebusiness.com). We were originally asked to tape four speakers at this event to put together some informational/instructional videos of the presentations for the 1BC members. Greg Petri wanted to put these videos on the website and possibly sell them as DVDs. After the presentations, I moved through the room interviewing exhibitors about their memberships in the networking group. This is how the video turned out. Again, this was a no budget production, but we captured some great commentary and I believe that the people we put into the piece were genuinely happy about their effort and turnout at the affair. It is short, but complete!
We produced this video before we obtained our HD camera, so it was shot on broadcast BetaSP in 16×9 format using the Sony DXC-D30WS camera and posted on our Final Cut Pro 2 editing system. The files were exported using Quicktime’s export for web function and delivered via FTP to the One Business Connection website. The biggest challenges we faced were sound and lighting in this small venue at the Indian Tree Golf Course in Arvada, Colorado. For the speakers we used two Arri 1K Fresnel lights flooded out to fill the stage. The speakers had a handheld mic to work with and, although this was not their favorite option, it was the best choice since we couldn’t afford to bring in an audio tech and stage manager. For the promotional piece I used a Pag sungun camera light and hardwired Sennheiser K66 shotgun microphone to capture the best sound in a noisy environment. I really treated it like a news package, run and gun, so that we were mobile and could get the best possible pictures and sound in tight quarters.
