Last month, my mother, sister, and I traveled to Madison, WI, for a celebration of life for a dear family friend. Wende was the daughter of my grandmother’s best friend, Sue. They grew up next door to each other and remained friends through love (she introduced my grandparents), divorce, kids, and grandkids. Though they were not blood, […]
Entrepreneur Training Program This spring Amanda participated in the Entrepreneur Training Program through the Small Business Development Center at UW-River Falls. The Program is 10 weeks and is designed to help prospective and current business owners write a business plan. It was a good way to work on the business and plan for post COVID growth. The best part […]
I received an email from a company telling me they had created over 10,000 videos and wanted to talk to me about working with them. First, umm, know your audience (though I wonder if it was spam). The other thing that hit me was the number 10,000. That seems crazy. Maybe they have a huge staff or have […]
Dancing in the Kitchen We were recently hired by a family to capture their parent’s love story. During the interview, a story was told about a time they went to a dance at the White House. We asked about the kind of dances popular at the time. The couple said, “would you like us to show you?” […]
Capture Life You may have seen me wearing this cute, little camera necklace, especially on filming days. It’s great to have a piece of jewelry that relates to what you do. It’s more than that for me though. I purchased it from, Bryan Anthonys, a company that makes a variety of great pieces; each comes with a story. […]
In the field of video production the director of photography does a variety of things from envisioning the framing in the shot to the movement to the camera work. Sometimes they are responsible for choosing how the shot in the camera looks but then you have an entire camera crew to actually do the setup […]
When I started attending networking events it surprised me [Amanda] that people would introduce me as a videographer. Coming from the film and television industry, that term was never used. We had APs, ADs, DPs, PAs, A-cam, B-cam, and sound. But no videographers. To me, that term refers to a wedding photographer who can also shoot videos. I don’t video weddings […]
To be completely honest… a year ago I didn’t know if we would still be around today. Like so many business we shut down completely for most of 2020. But 2021 gave us so many opportunities to capture amazing stories! We started the year off with St. Croix Valley Opera’s New Year’s Eve concert, which allowed […]
This quote showed up in my Facebook memories last week… I thought it was clever, back when I also thought the “new normal” would last a month or two. One year later, it means so much more to me—2018 and 2019 were hard years for me personally, so I started 2020 burnt out. When the […]
Video {can be} scary! In a recent Facebook live video (Follow us on Facebook), I mentioned that another business owner told me that “video is scary.” And it can be. Everyone is nervous! Yes, even me. But like anything else, the more you do it, the better you will be and the less scary it […]