September Meeting

September 8, 2010

“Light & Sound”
Improve the Quality of Your Audio & Lighting

September’s meeting will feature elements of a small corporate production recently completed by some of our members. If you normally shoot mostly weddings you might not give much thought to lighting and audio beyond lav mics and reception lights. But what do you do if you are hired to produce a small corporate video? We will demonstrate different types of microphones, explain camera settings for audio, audio monitoring, signal to noise ratios, environmental conditions, softbox lighting, backdrop & hair lighting as well as exposure & white balance.

Is the equipment expensive? Not necessarily. We’ll talk about lights and audio at different price points.

We’ll even show software to turn your Mac or PC into a functioning teleprompter – and give it away to all attendees who bring a thumb drive. All in one meeting!

Are you a member of HPVA? You should be! Guests are welcome to attend for $20. Food will be served.

Doors Open at 6:00pm

Meeting Begins at 6:30pm

Location:
Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224

August Meeting

August 11, 2010

“Dance, Dance, Dance”

The theme for August’s meeting is Show Your Stuff – Dance Footage.

Wedding reception’s usually have 2+ hours of general dancing. How do you cover this? How much do you shoot, how do you edit it, and how much do you include in the final deliverables?

There are multiple answers to these questions and we invite all HPVA members to bring a DVD showcasing 3 – 5 minutes of general dance footage and be prepared to talk a little about it.  While we often see samples from studios featuring elegant and emotional highlights or trailer clips, we rarely see anything related to general dancing – yet these segments are present on most of the wedding videos we deliver.

So, c’mon out and prepare to Show Your Stuff. This will be an opportunity to learn from each other.

Doors Open at 6:00pm

Meeting Begins at 6:30pm

Location:
Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224

July Meeting

July 14, 2010

“Swap Your Stuff”

No, we won’t be trading out our equipment, though for some of us that might be an exciting thought, but rather our “educational materials”.  If you have any training videos, books or anything that you would like to lend to a fellow member in exchange for a different item, bring your item(s) with you.  Once swapped, just bring it back to the next meeting, and hopefully you learned something new.  If you have any snippet you’d like to share with the group, we’ll have A/V on hand to give a prospective swapper an idea about what’s on the DVD.

Doors Open at 6:00pm

Meeting Begins at 6:30pm

Location:
Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224

June Meeting

June 9, 2010

“Debt Control”

We will have a group discussion on debt control.  We welcome you to discuss what works and doesn’t work for you.  We will also have members that closely follow Dave Ramsey and will share what they have learned…and I’m sure there will be people who despise Dave Ramsey, should be a good discussion.

Doors Open at 6:00pm

Meeting Begins at 6:30pm

Location:
Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224

May Meeting

May 12, 2010

Alternative Delivery Methods

We will have a group discussion on alternative client delivery methods.  Whether for consumer clients or corporate, what are some of the ways you are delivering, special requests from clients, or please share the latest gizmos and gadgets you have knowledge of.  If you have any interesting peripherals  you’d like share on this topic, please bring it along.

Show ‘n Tell
If anyone has any interesting or recent projects they’d like to give a quick insight on, please bring a DVD to share.

Doors Open at 6:00pm

Meeting Begins at 6:30pm

Location:
Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224

April Meeting

April 14, 2010

“Listen up!”

Join us in April for a discussion on Audio for event video. David McKnight will be your host and will walk through topics such as:

1. How to obtain quality audio at an event

2. Different types of microphones for event video

3. Discuss a selection of digital audio recording devices

4. Interfacing with church, DJ, and band mixers

5. Developing backup plans

6. How to process the audio in the editing suite for normalization, noise reduction, compression, and equalization

7. Mixing music, natural audio, and voiceover during an edit I will show and talk about the specific pieces of equipment that we use at McKnight Video Services, but we also want to know what you use. Please bring with you any mics, recorders, and other audio gadgets and hookups that you want to talk about.

Doors Open at 6:00pm

Meeting Begins at 6:30pm

Location:
Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224

March Meeting

March 10, 2010

“Getting Legal”

Fellow wedding/event videographer Barry Pett with Artista Media Productions will share with us how he has been able to supplement his wedding/event income with legal videography.

Topics will include:

-Why event videographers make great legal videographers

-Why filming depositions isn’t as boring or unchallenging as you probably think!

-Why legal video can server as a excellent complement to your wedding/event business

-Types of legal video services (Legal video can be much more than filming depositions)

-Training and equipment necessary to add legal video to your event business

-Marketing tips for getting started in the legal video field

Doors Open at 6:00pm

Meeting Begins at 6:30pm

Location:
Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224

February Meeting

February 10, 2010

“Takin’ Care of Business”

This is going to be an exciting two part meeting about running our businesses.  It’s not too late to get yourself organized for the year.

Part I
We’re going to take a look at how ShootQ works, what it does, and how it can help you manage your clients, invoicing and referrals among other things.  Our friends at ShootQ are also providing a great door prize up for grabs for all attendees.

Part II
Christopher O’Connor of O’Connor & Zuniaga Associates, Inc. is going to give us some tips & tricks and the do’s and don’ts  for keeping your books tidy.

Doors Open at 6:00pm

Meeting Begins at 6:30pm

Location:

Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224

January 2010 Meeting

January 13, 2010

Doors Open at 6:00pm
Discussion Begins at 6:30pm

“Show us Your Stuff”
This will be our first General Meeting of the year.  Become a member this evening for $100 per person.  At this meeting, we’re asking members to get involved and share a project that is in progress or one that you have recently completed.  It doesn’t have to be polished if it’s not finished, but share your pre-production, production, and post-production insights.  A 5 – 10 minute presentation is plenty.

As an added bonus, there will be a door prize for all attendees that enroll their 2010 membership with HPVA. We’d like to thank our friends at Animoto for donating this fantastic door prize!

Location:
Saltgrass Steakhouse
1803 Shepherd Drive
Houston, TX 77007-224