2.  WWII American forces defeat and retreat Kasserine Pass
Description:    Looking for original archival footage (not reenactments) of American retreat/ defeat at Kasserine Pass WWII. Only interested in material showing the American retreat, shot by the German Army from the German perspective.

1. Courtroom Trial Scene - Immigrant Defendant (non-white)
2. François Mitterrand & Helmut Kohl at Verdun

(from www.fiatifta.org/cont/video_ina_02.aspx)

01:56 - 1984 - INA - France

On September 22, 1984 Helmut Kohl met the French president Fran?ois Mitterrand at Verdun, where the Battle of Verdun between France and Germany had taken place during World War I. Together, they commemorated the deaths of both World Wars.

3. Stock Footage of Gang Members / Handshake
Description:    Stock Footage, Royalty Free, Rights Approved… Members of a street gang who are giving each other a special handshake, showing obvious camaraderie and their protective bond. Needs to be contemporary, color, indoor/outdoor ok, HD preferred / SD ok.

1. Planets, moons, Earth from outerspace. Animation of travel through solar system, orbiting a planet.

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X-Men Origins.

The Hannah Montana Movie

Star Trek

Bruno

Angels and Demons

Terminator Salvation

Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian

Up

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Now, imagine for a moment that you just sat down with a potential client to discuss the potential video project of a lifetime and you realize that you are wearing black socks with sandals which leads you to question your abilities to dress in the dark.

But like the trooper that you are (or have to be so that you can land this gig and buy some light bulbs), you decide to take the emphasis off of your walking appendages and place it on your keen and almost supernatural ability to understand the client’s needs and offer priceless creative solutions to their pain.

So how can you display this “supernatural ability to understand the client’s needs and offer priceless creative solutions to their pain”? Keep reading.

First, you must be as a boy scout.  You must “be prepared.”  Before you get in the car to go to the meeting you must find out everything you can about the client.

• You went to visit their website.
• Talk to your friends that may have worked with the client in the past.
• Read reviews about the company (both good and bad).
• Familiarized yourself with their corporate look, feel, identity and brand.
• Educated yourself on their products and services.
• If possible find some examples of media they’ve developed for their company in the past.  If you can’t find anything then find some examples either of work you’ve done or other creative examples that can help get some ideas flowing.  The quicker you can get the client’s mind off of “Can I afford this?” “Do I want to hire this person?” and onto “What will my video accomplish?” “How will it look?” the quicker you will be able to see money.
• It is highly recommended to get some idea of what the clients current challenges and goals are so that you have some idea of what they need and you can push their hot buttons.  If it is not possible to discover the client’s pain before the meeting then make it possible.
• You may even want to make them cookies but then realize that you are getting a little carried away and eat them on the way to the meeting.

By taking the time to do your homework you accomplish three important goals.

• First, you demonstrate to the client that  you care. After all, who wants to hire someone that does not care when there are plenty of your competitors who do care, and they own a nicer camera.
• Second, you show the client that you value their time by not wasting it asking questions you could have easily found the answers to on your own.
• Third, and most important, you arm yourself with the insight necessary to paint a powerful picture that illustrates to the client that you are the solution to their pain.  You then become the epidural to their corporate labor.

Understand basic human psychology.

Everyone, makes decisions based on one of two things, a desire for pleasure or a desire to ease pain. In most cases, with corporate video, you are offering a solution to the client’s pain.  You are not simply making a video.  You are creating a solution to low sales volume or you are saving them money because their employees will now be better trained and more efficient. Once again, you then become the epidural to your client’s corporate labor.

To the client you are not “Joe’s Video House”.  You are either a solution to a problem or you are not.  If the client sees you as the solution to his or her problem you will be hired and the client will pay you fairly.

So what is that guaranteed 3 step secret to landing video production work.  (And yes, this will work during a recession.)

Here it is.  The guaranteed 3 step secret to landing video production work.

1. Learn the Client’s business, needs, dreams and pains.  (Especially focus on the pains this is the most important tool in the sales process.)

2. Paint a visual word picture for the client that shows him or her that you are not only the best, but the only solution to their problem.

3. Give them a bid and shut up.

If you will execute these 3 steps correctly, with the right client, you will always land the project.

Remember that clients DO NOT care about color pull down, aspect ratios and RED 4K.  All they want to know is “Are you the solution or not?”

Show the client that you are the solution and you will land the job.

Best of Luck,

Adam Nielson and Curt Clapier

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1.  Dive: camera underwater: male with short hair comes from above through the surface, 90 degrees angle straight down. Lots of bubbles. Do not need see details of face. Has to be shot on film, and HD quality. Many thanks.

2. Global warming such as the extreme weather conditions seen around the world.

Images of credit crunch such as US property foreclosures etc

Images around New York and Wall street from the 1980’s

Architectural details of city skyscrapers and office buildings

3. American Kestrel in flight.
Preferably against blue sky and flying away from camera.

Also needed  is footage of a honey buzzard in flight.

4. A ravenous crocodile chomping on a slab of meat - ideally the meat flys through the air into a swamp that the croc is in.

5. Executive ( womans only / woman group only/teenagers girls only ) . waters ocean not including , polution

6. Footage of Charles and Diana’s Royal Wedding

7. blind melon

8. Giant pacific octopus - swimming/fighting/eating/squirting ink.
Coconut crab - breaking a coconut and/or climbing a tree.
Giant mantis shrimp - attacking prey.
Glass catfish - just being glassy..?
Parrot fish - being bright and colourful, maybe feeding.

9. Betty Davis funk singer and fashion model 1960’s and 1970’s America and London performance footage, news footage and stills if available.

Kim is the Founder and Executive Producer of Creative Illusions Productions, a Georgia based video production house.  I took a look at some of there demo reals today and chose to feature their “Creative Business Solutions” video.  I thought that the interviews and b-roll were very well lit and I loved the use of stock footage.  We can always add value to our clients’ videos and often time save them money by using stock footage.

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According to IMDB.com Spider Man 4 is set to premeire summer of 2011.

We don’t know much about the movie.  The plot has not yet been revealed.  We do know that Sam Raimi will direct the movie, he plans on starting filming in 2010 and he may film in Michigan.

We also know that Steve Ditko, Stan Lee, David Lindsay-Abaire and James Vanderbilt are the writers.

And Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire will again star in the epic fourth addition to the Spider Man quadrilogy.

I thought that you might also find this interesting.  Here is a fan made preview for Spider Man 4.

What rumors have you heard about Spider Man 4?

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