Photoshoot With Pro Event DJs

Matt Rothlein of Provocative Productions approached Pixel1080 to design his CD cover of his soon to be released CD project he has been working on for over 5 years. We decided to start the project with some photography. Do some amazing and different techniques and a few locations to get the creative juices flowing.

Our first location was at Kraft Azalea Garden in Winter Park at sunset. The technique is to "paint with light". Using our  Canon 5D M2 with a couple of wide angle lenses, 5-8 second exposures and high f-stop settings for maximum open shutter time.  We had some of our crew and Matt's crew run around the trees with flashlights waving their arms around while we did a dodge and burn with one of the lights on Matt as he stood very still. Here are a few shots of the outdoor garden session.

Second location was the alleyway between the Studios of Pixel1080, downtown Orlando (corner of Wall St. and Orange Ave).  Smoke machines, lasers and flashlights were used to achieve the effects.
With an occasional wandering street person in and out of some of the shots we pulled it off without too much attention and our improperly parked cars.

Back home to the studio

Shooting in south Orlando for the final 3 careers of the year. We had the privilege to interview an NBC/Universal HR rep, A Career Counselor at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA., and a Designer for Ralph Lauren Hollywood this last week. Now we are back to do the studio shoot and wrap these great interviews up wit our talented hosts Michael Sapp and Janette DeChamps.

LA for 3 career shoots

Pixel1080 is off to LA today to shoot the remaining 3 careers
of it's final wave of production. a Designer for Ralph Lauren, an HR Manager, and a Career Manager
More to come later.

11 awards brought home last night for Best Educational Series

Best in Editing, Directing, Graphics, Lighting  and Director of Photography for an Educational Series

The Gala, presented by the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association (FMPTA), was held November 5-7, 2010 at the Hilton Orlando/Altamonte Springs. The three day event is held annually to honor and highlight outstanding achievements in motion picture, television, audio recording and digital media productions created in Florida over the past year. FMPTA is the oldest trade organization in Florida, founded in 1973.

CaerusPoint’s series, called Major Decision, swept all 11 categories that it entered. Judging is done by Emmy, Grammy, Oscar nominated and/or awarded professionals across the country. Scoring forms are tallied by an independent CPA.

The company won the following categories within the production type of Education:

• Best Education Program
• Leading Actor
• Leading Actress
• Script (Short) – Produced
• Director
• Director of Photography
• Lighting Design
• Sound
• Editing
• Production Design / Art Direction
• Graphic Design

“Major Decision is a series that we are very proud of, and the FMPTA awards are a great complement to all the hard work our team has put in over the last year,” said CaerusPoint CEO Kobie Pieterse.

“To be awarded in every category we entered by such a prestigious organization is a true testament to our product and we hope for this to ultimately help us reach more students across the country,” added CaerusPoint President Chris Botha.

Major Decision is an education-based series of entertaining videos (appealing to a diverse audience) that dissect each highlighted career in less than a half hour in the form of an up-beat hosted show, and feature an informal in-depth interview of a professional in that specific field. This offers a high school senior or first-year college student an accurate “day-in-the-life” depiction of a career in an exciting and positive platform. The series provides present-day, real world guidance from an expert within his or her area of expertise. The Major Decision career guidance video library spans twelve popular industries and showcases up to five careers within each industry.

The unique informal in-person interview style, comprehensive career coverage and proprietary career ranking system set this series apart from other career guidance programs. The series helps boost post-secondary education and helps reduce dropout rates by educating America’s youth about the array of careers that are available today.

Production and Post Production by Pixel1080. For more information on Pixel1080's services contact Douglas Howard, email Douglas@pixel1080.com or cell 321-277-5279.

New Demo Reel Completed

It was finally time to get the demo reel done. Here are a few of soooo many clips that made it in the demo.
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