We'll be at NAB in Las Vegas this year, and we will be having an informal Meet-Up on at Sully's inside Bally's at 6pm Tuesday Night, April 12th. It's a great opportunity to meet key members of our team and learn the latest on what's going at StudioNow!
If any of you are planning on being in Vegas and can make it by Sully's, give us a shout and let us know at:
twitter.com/jwallace or twitter.com/studionow
We have just posted job descriptions for 2 interns for this summer. Both positions will be paid (!) and will be approximately 20 hours a week. You must be enrolled in school and you can receive college credit for the internship. If you know of anyone who is interested, please send them our way:
http://www.studionow.com/about/internship/
Summertimes at StudioNow are really exciting times and this summer will be no exception. We have a lot of great projects and partnerships lining up — interns will learn a tremendous amount about our business and have heaps of fun in the process.
So you're preparing for your shoot, and you're wondering "how do I make sure that I get everything that the client partner (Citysearch, CBS Radio, Clear Channel, etc...) wants while at the same time making sure that I get what each individual customer wants and get in and out in no time flat."
The answer has always been found in the 5-10 minutes that you spend going over the On-Site Production Checklist with your customer immediately when you get on site. We call it the Pre-Shoot Consult. It is your opportunity to sit down with each customer and put them at ease with everything that is going to go on during the shoot and to get their direct input on what exactly they want the video to portray.
To help make the Pre-Shoot Consult more valuable and to help you elicit more information from your customer, we recently implemented a revised On-Site Production Checklist. In addition to the shot list, the speaker log, and the customer's primary messages, we have provided an area for the customer to outline key differentiators that set them apart from their competition as well as an area to note special requests that may fall outside the norm of a standard video shoot.
Again, we hope that this will help all of us in our quest to better serve the members of our network, our customers, and in the end, create the best possible videos.
Make sure that you are using the latest production pack for all of our clients including our revised On-Site Production Checklist. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please look it over, and let us know your thoughts.
StudioNow has a large contingent out here at the NAB for an announcement that we are very excited about:
StudioNow and Sony Creative Software's Vegas Pro have formed a partnership that we think is a tremendous win for both sides. Sony Creative Software will be promoting StudioNow as a service through which their Vegas Pro users can access video projects for on-demand work and in turn, Vegas Pro users will have a customized, branded profile and interface that will allow them to access projects and showcase their work.
We are currently accepting registrations through the a co-branded StudioNow-Sony Vegas page at vegas.studionow.com. We expect to launch the customized, co-branded experience for Vegas Pro members within the next 21-30 days.
If you are at NAB and would like to learn more about what we're doing, feel free to email me at john at studionow dot com. I would welcome the opportunity to meet up with you.
