March Get Together - Gathering this April!

[JohnKleban]

Hi All,

Been a while since I have been on the forum, but want to forward info about our March Get Together Reunion, that is happening April 15th and 16th, in Zion, IL. Cost, just $20 to attend, hotel rooms are around $75 per night. It is a beautiful location.

Here is a link to the resort:
http://ilresorts.com/

If you are on Facebook, we have a seperate group page for this Reunion that has tons of information, it can be found at "March Get Together Group - Reunion Page" - I will open this page up to public viewing for the next couple days, then it will be back to private.

Here is the facebook link to the page...which features the daily schedule of events and lectures.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/600702663331406/

And, just to cover bases, here is some specific info about the event! (But, for daily updates, please visit and join the Facebook page)

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Tuesday ~ April 15th - 2PM to 3:30PM
Guest Speaker: Mike Madden & Masatoshi Inui ("Max"), President of JVC
Topics: Video Archiving Options & JVC's "New Concept"

Here's where it gets exciting: accompanying Mike will be Masatoshi Inui ("Max"),
President of JVC Advanced Media! We will give a co-presentation.

As you know, JVC is the new brand name for Taiyo-Yuden, manufacturer of quality optical discs, based in Japan. They will speak about JVC's "New Concept" archival disc solution, which includes ISO Certified DVDs, Blu-ray, and writers and error checking equipment.

Show research and explain how discs have been tested in the past: how claims of 100 year life, 300 year life and even 1000 year life are based on a single condition test that doesn't necessarily translate into real world results. The new discs had to pass multiple condition testing.

Including disc longevity, the differences between discs, and particularly the latest research on disc longevity. Confusion and misinformation abounds on this subject.

Many people are aware of Gold Discs, Hybrid Discs, the M disc, etc. but real world users find that discs are failing after just a few years.
And people are asking what is the best archival solution? The cloud? Flash drives? Etc. The new JVC/Taiyo Yuden Archival disc is an exciting development.It is exciting stuff and very pertinent to our industry.

Max and I look forward to it,
Best Regards,
Mike Madden

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Tuesday ~ April 15th - 4PM to 5PM
Guest Speaker: Lowell Brockway
Topics: Legal Video & Wedding Marketing/Networking

In addition to running a very busy and successful wedding business, Lowell also does legal video. Lowell will cover this topic and discuss rules of the court, the preparation that goes into each legal video shoot (who you have to mic and how you have to record these), through playback in the courtroom and having to respond to objections raised and other concerns in the court. This seminar will be around 30 minutes in length, plus questions at the end.

Lowell will also give a seminar on Wedding Marketing. Lowell’s calendar year is always booked up with wedding work and he will discuss everything he does to attract and book clients. He will also go over his post-production work flow and share some tips and routines that have worked well for him.

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Wednesday ~ April 16th 10AM to 12PM
Guest Speaker: Darrell Boeck
Topics: Corporate/Promo Videos

Darrell Boeck, past WEVA speaker and Award Winning Filmmaker and expert in corporate and promotional video production, owner of Creative Images, will be spending two hours with us covering a HUGE range of material. From moving into the corporate area (how to do this and get jobs), to coordinating with others you may need to bring in on the project, to conducting and shooting effective interviews (how to properly shoot and light these will be covered as well), to capturing great b-roll and ALL the other steps involved in producing a great promotional clip that will exceed your client’s expectations.

Here is a quick overview of what his company does…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkzof5HoqUc#t=43

And, here is a link to his portfolio he has online, please take a moment and watch a couple of these, I think you’ll quickly agree, his work is outstanding. This is one lecture you will not want to miss!
http://civideo.com/portfolio/portfolio.html

Darrell has allocated half the day for our event, so following his seminar, he will be available to answer additional questions from anyone, offer any personal business advice and he’ll be joining us for lunch.

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Wednesday ~ April 16th 2PM to 3PM
Guest Speaker: Joe Connell
Topic: Expand Your Services with Photo Booths

Video productions is not the only business Joe Connell is involved in (besides Web Site Design)... In the past few years, Photo Booths have become a regular event at Weddings, Parties, Special Events and adding this service to your business can help pay the bills.

Joe will give a presentation on what you need to get into Photo Boothing... What you need in equiptment (hardware), what software and even show you a Photo Booth in action.

You already have most of the equiptment and all you need now is the Best Software (Sparkbooth) and the know how from their #1 International Technical Support person
(Joe Connell) who has been helping people around the world using Sparkbooth photo booth software.

Check out A1 Photo Booths web site and see what this business is all about

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Wednesday ~ April 16th 7PM to 8PM
Guest Speaker: Chet Davis - Casablanca Expert (live streaming)
Topic: All Things Casablanca

Chet Davis was employed by MacroSystem US, the Casablanca distributor in North America, for nine years. As their Vice-President of Marketing & Sales Chet had the good fortune to draw on his experience as an professional educator and his familiarity with Casablanca editors when presenting seminars and classes in more than 41 U.S. states, 3 Canadian provinces, and in Europe!