The Great Bridal Expo of Dallas, and my late new years resolution.

Hello Everyone,
Before I go into this blog post, I want to say that I have been incredibly lazy with this blog thus far. For that, I apologize. We have been pretty slammed with various projects and random things going on. For a while I had completely forgotten about it. But, I decided to make a new years resolution a month late to actually put the time into this that it deserves. So, I want all of you who read this to hold me accountable :-). I just usually put more of my mental real estate towards getting client projects done and keeping them satisfied, sometimes I slack on the social media side of things. BUT NO LONGER!

Anywho,
Last weekend, NewSpeak Media had the wonderful pleasure of running a booth at The Great Bridal Expo of Dallas. It really was a great day. We got to meet a lot of great people and prospective clients, which was really useful, but we also got a better feel for the industry. It was our first time at one of those things. Previously, we had been working in the background taking gigs from word of mouth (as far as weddings go). But we decided that this year we would work more on the wedding side of things. Don't get me wrong, music videos are fun, but we've had a few unpleasant encounters when it comes to payment. Not to mention, weddings yield a much more rewarding and enjoyable experience most times. We love the prospect of providing couples with the ability to rewatch and relive the most important day of their lives. Anywho, enough of the mushy stuff. Haha.

 

This is Todd right after we finished setting up the booth

He's texting on his droid. If you don't know what that is, 

then ask him about it... he'll be more than willing to talk

for way too long about it.

Set up went sooo fast. We got there wayy to early. I'm pretty sure we were the first booth to completely set up. I think Todd had misread the itenerary a bit, because from where the rest of us were sitting, there was definitely the potential for at-least another hour of sleep. 

 

Todd and Caleb at the booth. 

For this being our first booth, we were really proud of the design. We thought it had a very classy and minimalist yet homey kind of look. Professional, but not intimidating. 

 

Here's the whole crew. From left to right it's Lauren,

Todd, Caleb, then Austin. 

We decided on four people to run the booth. Which admittedly was probably too much. But we won't lie, it was nice to be able to rotate and send someone out to get lunch when we all got hungry. So it definitely worked out. 

This was around when people started coming in. Very

pleased with the attendance at the event.

It was really cool, the company next to us didn't show. So we got to steal half of their booth. They also paid for power, so we were able to plug in one of our big lights to brighten up our booth a bit. So that was just a nice bit of luck.

All in all, it was a very good day. We hope to do many of these in the future. Hopefully we'll see some of you there!

Something BIG? EX1-R?

Well folks,
There is something looming. Something big. For the past couple of weeks i've been reading little tid bits of information stating that something big from sony is in the works. I've read things from rumors that the ex1/3 would be discontinued soon. Also, that there might be a new better version in the works called the EX1-R. Who knows what it may be. Maybe it's a new camera with a sensor more along the lines of what the new DSLR's are coming out with. Maybe an EX-1 style camera with interchangeable lenses? Who knows. But everyone says it's going to be big. Sony has an e-mail list that you can sign for to recieve the big news as soon as it's released. You can sign up HERE . The only thing i can assure you of, is that it's coming out the 20th of this month (the information, not the product). All of Sony's promotional materials state "YOU SPOKE! WE LISTENED!". It really sounds promising. I just want a bigger chip, and interchangeable lenses. Basically, something along the lines of the 7d's sensor size for the better latitude, but the ability to do everything a traditional camera can do (ie. good audio, etc). Well, lets just wait and see.

As soon as we know, we'll post everything we've got for you here.




AMENDMENT: This announcement came out long ago. It wasn't that big of a deal. Just wanted to clear that up.

Adobe Story - Pre-Pro for the Creative Suite

Adobe Story - Adobe's New Screenwriting Software (BETA)

The preview version of this software can be accessed  Here

Today I tried the "preview" version of Adobe Story. This is a new screenwriting software developed to be included in the Adobe Creative Suite. It's pretty basic. However, the version i tried is noted as being the "preview" version, and it's browser based at this point. I'm pretty pleased that Adobe has decided to take a step into the "pre-production" part of the film-making and video process. However, so far it seems a little bit... thin. Initially, i found it a bit hard to navigate. While this may be part of the preview version (which discounts any real serious thoughts about this review as a means of decision making, rendering it only useful as a preview as well), I kept wanting to switch back over to my usual program Celtx (which can be downloaded for free here: http://celtx.com/ ). Celtx just seems a bit more user friendly. The scripting process in story so far doesn't seem as quick. Or as quick to learn at least. I'm sure there are a lot of shortcuts that i haven't picked up on yet. Either way, it's a cool addition to the creative suite. However, i still feel like Celtx is the better tool. With all of it's shortcuts and compatibility. I'm still interested to see how other people like it when the final version comes out.

 This is another view of story's GUI. The all projects view shows you all of your scripts as well as character bios, and other info.

This is  the script editor view. With quick access to other scripts, as well as options to import other types of files etc.

Show Reel

This is our new show reel. Be sure to watch it full screen. Sorry, i'm a stickler for that. It's the only way to watch something.

 

It doesn't quite encompass everything we do. I would like to keep weddings seperate as well. However, we felt it was a good start. We're already hard at work with a new concept. We want to add more of our client work. We have done a few more projects worth showing off since when we created this reel. Also, on the next time around, we're going to keep the wedding stuff seperate. That way people interested in weddings know what we're about and people who want our other more varied client work (music videos, commercials) can see that seperately. Either way, let us know what you think.

First Post - Exciting things to come!

Hey everyone,
This is NewSpeak's first blog post. We're very excited to start this new leg of our career and get a lot of new things started. We will try to update this as often as possible, however we stay pretty busy and might forget from time to time.

This will be a blog for new clients, past clients, and prospective clients. As well as anyone who just wants to read it. We try our very best to stay on top of the film making community and we'll be posting our findings here. Eventually, we will start posting video updates and vlogs about what we're currently up to. This could be anything from behind the scenes videos, to product and movie reviews. We have a lot of opinions that we feel very strongly about (perhaps too strongly about) when it comes to media production. We hope you will come by every once in a while to see what we're all about.