What's New
Out With The Old - In With The New, March 2007
Beginning March 1st, Action Video will be ushering in new personel. Sr. Editor/Producer Joe Selnekovic will be leaving the company to persue opportunities in the mid-west effective March 1st. Associate Chris Osman will also be relocating to Hollywood to persue his script writting. Good luck to them both! Senior Edito/Producer Stephen King will be taking on any existing and new production projects (stephen@actionvid.com). New to the team assisting Stephen is Adam Gay. Adam has experience in filming, editing and web design, and is sure to provide the same outstanding service Action Video is known for.
AVP Changes for the new year, January, 2008
We've got a few changes to note for the new year. Our new office hours are 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday. We will be closed on Saturday and Sundays. Chris Osmon, associate at our Roswell location will be moving to our Marietta/Atlanta location. Richard Stansell, Owner of Action Video will now base his operations at our Roswell store and can be reached by phone there.
T-Mobile Invitational, November 2007
We teamed up with USA Today Live and T-Mobile to produce a segment highlighting Centennial High Schools dominating Varsity boys basketball team. The peice aired live on VERSUS during the T-Mobile National High School Basketball Invitational on December 28, 2007. We produced the spot from the ground up, writing the script, filming on location at the school and editing the final piece.
KCB Exotic Car Rental, October 2007
KCB Exotic Car Rentals come to Action Video in conjunction with Spear iT Tribal Group to produce their concept for a new 30 second commercial ad which will be airing locally and regionally. Part two of the campaign will involve filming another commercial which is in the development and pre-production stages now. Look for the second KCB commercial coming soon. This spot was filmed in standard definition and edited in our Avid Mojo suite. A few compositing shots were designed in Adobe After Effects including the License plate on the Lamborghini, removing some stray crew from refections, and beefing up the closing shot by adding a few more cars to the scene. The spot was Directed by Erica Crabb-Moon, and sound design was completed by Michael Wynne of White Dog Studios Thanks to everyone for their hard work!
Legondary Director James Ivory, October 2007
Action Video was selected by WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION ATLANTA, WIFTA, to produce a tribute video for award winning director James Ivory. Mr. Ivory was presented the WIFTA Lifetime Achievement Award for his lustrous directing career and the opportunities he made available to women in his films. Directed by Erica Crabb-Moon, the piece highlights famous clips from his many films as well as interviews, timed with musical scores from his films. Click HERE to view the video.
American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, March 2007
Action Video completed this video highlighting The American Cancer Society's Hope Lodge at Emory University for a Benefit luncheon held during this years SEPC conference in Atlanta. Over 1200 members of the Southeastern Panhellenic Conference were in attendance. We filmed a visit by a few of the members toward the end of January, and spent about half a day compiling the final version, with no input from the client. Upon review, there were no changes, and the video was shown from the preview disc. This project was part of the entire SEPC 2007 conference, which AVP filmed and edited 3 day's worth of footage into a 13 minute presentation used to close the conference. Look for samples of the Hope Lodge documentary as well as the SEPC 2007 closing video on our Portfolio page.
WE"VE MOVED!!, October 2006
Our ROSWELL location has moved into a new, upgraded facility! We're right around the corner from our previous location, behind Seasonal Concepts furniture See our contact page for the new address
Our Newest Employee!, September 2006
Stephen, our Sr. Avid Editor at the Marietta location and Stacy, our film technician (husband & wife) welcome their first child to the world. Alaina was born five weeks early. Despite being a preemie, she was in absolutely perfect health. She only required 3 days in the hospital. She weighed in at 4 pounds 9 ounces and was 17.5 inches long.
NEW AVIDS!, October 2005
Completion of the installation of the Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD editing system at the Marietta location and the Avid Xpress Pro HD With Mojo system at the Roswell location. These industry standard systems offer us realtime editing & finishing capabilities in a variety of High Definition and Standard Definition codecs as well as support for media originating from film.
Action Takes honors at this years 48 Hour Film Competition!!, June 2006
Sr. Editor & Producer, JOE SELNEKOVIC co-lead his team with director ERICA CRABB-MOON to a winning year. The competition put 40 teams to the test to concept, script, shoot, edit, and deliver a short film in only 48 hours! Here's the results:
2nd Place overall in the Best Film category
Best Directing (1st place)
Best Music Score (1st place) congrats to MICHAEL WYNNE of White Dog Studios!
2nd place for Best Acting
3rd place for Best Editing
3rd for Best Writing
3rd for Best use of the Character (the palm reader - Vanessa Topaz)
Congratulations to the entire crew! The film consisted of 2 cameras running simutaniously, then split-screened in post to create one 8 minute live-action long take. There were no cuts in this film once the camera began rolling. Visit our portfolio page to see the award winning film "Give Us This Day".
Tips of the Day
- Handle your camera more minutely