The Stage 32 Videos: Corporate Identity

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I thought it was about time that I created a video to explain the corporate side of my AWL Media business. Wayne Jarman

This is the 'first-ever' Corporate Video that I produced. It goes back many, many years. The video goes longer than I would normally edit a video to ...but the client wanted it for a Business Expo and the timing suited their needs. I shot all of the video with a Sony HandyCam (except for the helicopter segment which belonged to another company, that you will see credited). It was just as well that I used a small camera. You will see the segment of Infrastructure work that was filmed in a busy Sydney street during a torrential downpour and 'almost' a gail-force wind. Filming alone, with all of my equipment strapped to my back while holding the umbrella and trying to stay upright is still a stark memory almost two decades later. :-) The last scene, where the camera zooms from the company logo on a shirt to a group personnel shot, was actually shot the other way around (ie group shot, zooming to the logo). When I showed the first draft of the video to my client, they were very happy but commented "I would have preferred that the other way around. Can you reverse it?" I said I wasn't sure but I would see what I could do and we set another appointment, to see the final version, for the next morning. The short answer was that the cheap video editing software that I was using couldn't reverse the scene. Instead, I sat at my computer all night and pulled the scene apart, frame by frame, and then reassembled the scene, frame by frame, in reverse order. I finished in time to take the final version to the meeting and my client reviewed it and said "Yeah, that's better." (Only a video editor knows the pain of a video editor.) I handed over my invoice and went home to bed. I used the money to buy better equipment and better software. :-)

Another Corporate Identity video from our vaults. I love doing these projects ...particularly if there is Engineering and machines involved. :-)

Just submitting a Corporate video that I created about a decade ago. Don't judge it too harshly. I was running my own Engineering / Training business and consulting in the Australian Mining Industry. I arrived home after a big day and a two hour drive. The house was empty because my wife, Lindi, was 'up north' caring for her parents who were both suffering with bone cancer. I had recognised that I, urgently, needed a video for the website of another business that I was starting. I decided that NOW was the right time and elected myself to be Director, Cinematographer and Actor. You will notice that I decided that those three roles were enough and I didn't elect myself to be a lighting expert. I decided that as long as I could see my face, under the safety helmet, then I was happy with that. This introductory video was the first of many, with the others being very detailed instructions on how to use the website to buy and sell. I'll only bore you with the first one. :-)