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New Marketing Summit wraps at the Razor.

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Brilliant Video Productions just wrapped up work with Cross Tech Media and work on the New Marketing Summit out at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro.(Oct 14 & 15 2008) We were hired to assist Chris Brogan, Mike Lewis, Bill Sell and company with a show featuring the latest in Marketing trends.

Personally, I am still digesting what I learned and heard which was tons. The term “Millennial” is now branded in my head . This refers to those born in the Y generation or after 1980 and before 2005.

“Millennials” are very social, tech savy and can help make or break your company depending on the way you approach marketing to them. Apparently listening to where they are and aren’t (face book, blogger, twitter, and my space) helps in assessing where to invest your time as a company and as a marketing entity. Obviously the conference gave me lots of ideas and information much through osmosis purely.

We recorded all the main presentation sessions and also did informal satellite interviews with Mike Lewis from the Fidelity Club at Patriots place. All in all the Cross Tech event was very well received with attendees, and clients all happy with the outcome.

Back to work..

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Business is back with a vengeance in Boston area and We have been very busy since mid September. Clients have included work with the Harvard School of Medicine, Raytheon and work with Merk EMD- Astro.  We are also working closely with a sports writer at the Boston Herald putting together a killer Reel for her. Remember the name Lauren Malone for she will be known pretty well shortly. We just finished shooting in 3 locations for her including location shooting at Fenway Park Boston.  

The Boston Redsox also just clinched a playoff spot, and We are hopeful they will be playing into October again.  Go Sox.

Where did the summer go?

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Wow, time is fleeting. We feel like Adam Sandler in click and  have just fast forwarded through the rest of summer.  Brilliant Video Productions was busy most of the summer shooting weddings on the weekends.  Corporate business was down this summer, a sign of the times perhaps.  

Fall is upon us now and the kids are all back to school so make sure you keep your eyes open out there. Business is slowly creeping back up to speed, and we look forward to what is ahead.
Do not forget to vote this year. Never in our nations history does your vote mean more. For more on the elections and news see http://www.pbs.org/vote2008/.
Please also take time out a moment today and remember the families and victims of 9/11. 

Passing of Good men.

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Last week Tim Russert of NBC died of a Heart Attack, and this week George Carlin passed away from heart problems.

Tim Russert was host of Meet the Press after Marvin Kalb was host and that dates me. I met Mr Russert at a luncheon in RI at the convention center. I wanted to shake his hand because he reminded me of what a real newsman was like. He was part Walter Cronkite and part Charles Kuralt. He told it like it was or is, in a non condescending way and it was straight no tabloid stuff.

He also wrote a great book also about his dad and it became a best seller. He just seemed like a really good news man, a great father and good husband. Perhaps the last of the real good news men. Bob Sheaffer at CBS may be the last one now. For more on Mr. Russert please see http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/13/tim.russert/index.html

George Carlin was one of my heroes. He was counter culture I used to play his albums in my house in New Rochelle growing up. He was from Brooklyn I think and swore like a sailor. He was irreverent, bold and funny as hell. His take on baseball vs football, 10 commandments, and stuff all come to mind as I write this. He was very profound and I agree with many of his thoughts about organized religion.

When my mom passed I read from his brain droppings book at her funeral. She loved Carlin also and I knew she was laughing at me from above having the nerve to do so. I suspect George approved of it however and I hope my mom gets to meet him in Heaven, that is if she can break away long enough from Johnny Carson to do so. For more on George Carlin please see

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24carlin.html

George Carlin will be sadly missed.

Helping TJX Real Estate Out of a pickle…

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TJX Real Estate asked us to help fix a booth video for their upcoming trade show in of all places Las Vegas. They had some very nice Hi rez pictures and some DVD video but were having trouble making it all work. We shrank the pictures for video and fixed the video and audio portions. The Booth video will hopefully be a big hit for them and perhaps word will spread internally at TJX Corporation that Brilliant Video Productions is a good resource for local video outsourcing. You can also see the finnished booth video at

http://www.brilliantvideoproductions.com/video/demo.php

Travelling with Twisted Pair…

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Brilliant Video Productions just wrapped it’s week long shoot with Twisted Pair on Network World. We shot 30 plus interviews over a three day period utilizing the Newtek Tricaster Pro FX with some bugs we had to iron out on the fly. I am sure Keith Shaw of Cool Tools fame will ask Newtek to borrow one of these bad boys to review it so I will leave that review to the professional but for the most part everything went rather smoothly.

There was the usual trade show snags with electric, carpet and show management not talking to anyone but itself. The dynamic duo persevered however and the show was a success according to both members. They were able to get their interviews up faster then ever before. All of the interviews are now visible on the Network World site at www.networkworld.tv

Their wrap up podcast can also be seen at http://www.brilliantvideoproductions.com/video/demo.php

Hanging with these two techie dudes was great fun, and Brilliant Video Productions hopes to do an encore with them soon. Both guys Keith and Jason know their subject matter very well and they enjoy what they do. The bonus is they get to test out new software and gadgets and report about it. How cool is that?

Anyway, I think Interop 2008 was a great experience and success for Brilliant Video Productions and we hope to have more opportunities in 2008 to showcase just what we can do as a player in the live 2 camera video streaming arena.


P.S. My thanks to Glenn at DD Video productions in Las vegas for the local rentals. He was flexible, professional, and responded when no other Weva contacts in Vegas would. Thanks again Glenn. Also thanks to Sam Avellone at NPI AV Cleveland for sending out the Tricaster to a virtual stranger. You Rock Sam. Sam sells Tricaster’s like Pez so he is the man to see about them.

Moving and shaking…

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Brilliant Video Productions has returned to it’s original city of origin in Natick Massachusetts. The new company address is 92 West Central Street Suite #4 Natick, MA 01760. While we enjoyed our digs in Saxonville and our affiliation with Heath Robbins Photography and the great loft space it was time to move back home. We are now located near Natick Center and right on route 135.

Mimosa vs Bloody Mary’s

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When I attended Northeastern University and graduated, we had a graduation BBQ. The faculty and staff of the Communications Department and the Late Great Communications Chairman Pete Eastman gave it a theme. His question to us all was, what is the proper breakfast cocktail Mimosa or Bloody Mary. We settled it on the softball field in Waltham, MA with Mimosa victorious.

Several years later, Mimosa Systems, Santa Clara CA found Brilliant Video Productions online and asked that we shoot a few presentation sessions for them here is MA. The trick was then taking the audio portion of a customer that used Mimosa Systems products and then uploading it to their FTP for podcast all in same day.

We were able to shoot and edit the audio out on site at the Microsoft Center in Waltham and then upload the .wav file in just a few hours.

Mimosa Systems is the leader in Email archiving, eDiscovery, Recovery and Storage Management.

Las Vegas Here we Come…

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Brilliant Video Productions will be going to Networld + Interop in April 2008. We will be doing a Live 2 Camera Shoot for web cast. We will be utilizing the Newtek Tricaster FX that will allow us to switch live and encode for our client day of. People will be able to see the interviews same day live on the web.

Utilizing the TriCaster PRO FX provides Brilliant Video Productions with a complete portable studio which includes network style virtual sets, an integrated character generator and the ability to encode the video for web same day. For More information on this newly acquired technology see http://www.newtek.com/tricaster/tricaster_profx.php


It should be a very exciting opportunity for Brilliant Video Productions and we are dusting off our Elvis Impersonators outfits chomping at the Bit to go. This Years Networld + Interop show is hosted at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. If you are going we will see you there. http://www.interop.com/