Orange St Films has created a #new web-series called 'A Week with Mark'. It's about Mark Darby Robinson, an actor who lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. We've worked with Mark on many, many projects over the years and felt like his life and his story needed to be told. He is very unique, odd, goofy......well we could use a thousand different verbs to describe him. That's one of the main reasons we wanted to do the series. We wanted to preserve his unique life and to show how talented he really is. I've had numerous people say to me that they thought he was just some bum walking the streets of Wilmington and little do they know what he's accomplished over the years. With that being said our goal with 'A Week with Mark' is to open the world's eyes to show who Mark Darby Robinson truly is. So we will release the first episode tonight on www.aweekwithmark.com and also on the youtube channel we created for the web series youtube.com/aweekwwithmark Below is an old trailer we cut several months back. We will post the series in a blog tomorrow
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The weather is changing, well depending on where you live, the leaves are changing colors and its getting darker a little earlier each day. That's right people....welcome to fall. One of our favorite times of the year. We're not called Orange LEAF Films for nothing......wait, we are #OrangeStFilms not Orange Leaf Films. Got a little carried away with excitement at first. We do love this time of year here at the company, probably most of our team's favorite time of the year. Random blog post, we know but oh well, what ya going to do? So sit back, grab a pumpkin spice latte and enjoy some football.....or whatever it is that tickles your fancy.
So how many people out there upgraded their #iPhone's to the new #iOS7 operating system? We did it yesterday afternoon and are really digging the layout and smarts that Apple has put into this upgrade. From iPads to iPhones it is very cool and change is good in our eyes. A lot of people are scared of change but if you want to move forward in life you have to embrace change because well you know.....change is inevitable. We at Orange St Films are still very big advocates of #Apple and are not giving up on them (although they've given up on the Final Cut Pro studio software, haha). So anyways this #blogpost is going nowhere fast so we are going to go ahead and get on out of here. By the way if you are on Instagram find our company and give us a follow if you'd like.....if not that's okay too. Have a great day.......here's a link in case you change your mind.
http://instagram.com/orangestfilms Let us preface this by saying that having a full crew on shoots is a very good thing. But with that being said we feel like every aspiring filmmaker should learn how to do almost every aspect of producing a video, commercial, movie, etc. It's all relative. We've preached this for years and feel like you are doing yourself and your craft an injustice by at least not trying to learn the different fields of #production. You don't have to be great at all the different jobs in #videoproduction but you are much more of a threat if you gain a little knowledge of #writing, #directing, doing #camera, #lighting, #sound, #editing, #colorcorrection, #music, #exporting, etc. It's taken us years to learn the different aspects and we still have a long way to go but learning to do the different jobs have helped us cut down on costs leading to keeping our clients budgets lower.....which is a very good thing when you are making a living out of video production. It may seem overwhelming but it's really not, if you are just willing to learn. Plus it allows you to see the entire production in your head from start to finish and when you get to that point in your filmmaking career that's a very good feeling. So by learning the different jobs on sets it allows you to be more reliable and credible when you are on a bigger budget set and you are able to know a little something about others jobs on that particular production. Stay humble, work hard, learn, always be hungry, and be ready when those bigger jobs come your way.
We said a week or so ago that we were going to post some old #videos on our blog to show off some of our work that never really got seen.......still may not if no one reads this blog, haha. Anyways every year, over the last few years, Doritos puts on a commercial contest for a 30 second ad for the SuperBowl and the winner gets their commercial shown during the big game. A couple years ago we decided to produce a few spots and really did them on a whim. We didn't give them much thought and really just did the #commercials for fun in our spare time. So we used the talents of the great #MarkRobinson to be our main actor in the 3 spots and we had a really good time shooting and editing these. They are not much and are out there but take a minute to look at them and please share any feedback. We'd really love to hear it. Video is more powerful than you may think. About a year ago Orange St Films was lucky enough to work with an amazing organization out of Virginia Beach, VA called Wounded Wear. The founder, Jason Redman, is a true American hero in every sense of the word. He's a former Navy Seal who was severely injured in a firefight in Iraq in 2007. He made a remarkable recovery and is a inspiration to all those he comes in contact with. Orange St FIlms has been fortunate enough to work with Jason and his lovely wife Erica on several different video projects but today we wanted to post a video we did about a year ago telling the story of Jason and Wounded Wear and another amazing American hero named Tyler Southern. It was a true honor of ours to be in these mens' presence and we are extremely humbled and blessed for the opportunity to work with them and more so for the sacrifice they've made for our country. So please take a minute to view the Wounded Wear video and feel free to comment and like. #Youtube or #Vimeo? We ask a lot of our clients if they've heard of the #video sharing site vimeo and surprisingly a lot of people still haven't heard of vimeo. It's been around for a few years now but we look at as a higher end/more #professional version of youtube. We love youtube and build many of our clients #youtube pages but there are so many pluses to using #vimeo over youtube. First, if you choose, you can automatically have your videos play in #HighDefinition in vimeo but in youtube you have to change the grind gear at the bottom right corner to play in HighDef and I'd dare to say that 80% of people watching youtube don't know to do that or don't bother to change the quality. For a professional video company it is very important that our work be viewed in the highest quality possible. Second, if you watch the same video on your smart phone on youtube and then watch it on vimeo it's night and day. The #video on youtube is grainy and digitized and the video on vimeo is crystal clear. Third, if you are a vimeo Pro member, you can customize the elements around your video and even take the Vimeo logo off if you want. That way #clients and #businesses can embed the video on their site and it look like it's a part of their website and not hosted by a third party site. Don't get me wrong #YouTube is the king and I'm a big advocate of youtube but I'm also a huge fan of #Vimeo and I love what they are doing and the way they do business. I guess it's a personal preference but I advise using both sites to host your videos.
September has creeped up on us once again and you know what that means? That's right, it's football season. I'm just going to assume that if you're into film or movies that you are also a football fan. Not sure why I'd make that assumption because I normally don't make assumptions at all but film and sports have always gone hand in hand. Think about it, all the sports movies ever made, the ESPY's, professional athletes trying to be actors, haha, you get my point. It's a great time of year when the leaves change, the weather gets a little colder, depending on where you live, and another Fast and Furious is in pre-production. Okay this blog doesn't make much sense but it's okay, we just want to keep writing. Thanks for reading.
People are lazy. There is no denying that. We at Orange St Films are lazy......sometimes, okay when a good football or basketball game comes on we are extremely lazy but that's not the point here so stop yelling at us, haha. Anyways through the years we have learned a lot about producing videos and have found that the average, everyday person will 8 times out of 10 rather hit the play button on a video than sit there and read a 2 to 3 paragraph text on a website (this is not scientific but it sounds good, so we'll just roll with it, maybe 7.5 out of 10). We have done thousands of web business profiles for clients leading to millions of dollars worth of business for our clients. We have proven that video works. It may not work for every business and if your business is flourishing without video being a part of your marketing plan then continue to do what you're doing. But if you've been on the fence about whether or not you should produce a video highlighting what your company does please feel free to take a drive down Orange St, you won't be disappointed. We are one of the happiest streets in the world. Plus we are pretty good filmmakers too.
'The Creek' is the newest professional music video produced by #OrangeStFilms. Shot in Bladen Co., North Carolina in the cornfields in the heat of summer in the middle of July. There is a lot of 'in the's' in that last sentence, huh? We had fun making this music video for this catchy song by singer/songwriter Bear Wisconsin. Music by Tommy Brothers. We would like to thank Zach Boylston, Wes Evans, Mark Robinson, Marty Siu, Logan Siu and a host of others for helping us out the with video. Directed and edited by Billy Lewis this video is quite different and quirky but certainly entertaining. Take a minute to sit back and enjoy the music video and be certain to contact Orange St Films for all your TV/Film/Video needs. You won't find a finer street in the world than Orange St. |
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