December 20, 2006

Holiday Bash

November 21 2006

Elections for the 2007 & 2008 PVCJ Board and Video Competition Categories:Love story, Pre-ceremony, Corporate

October 18 2006

 Work shop 1: Bob Alfano of Hurricane Graphics, 862-571-1949

If you've never had a website, or if you've had one for many years, this interactive presentation will contain points of interest for everybody.  Through the use of electronic Audience Response Polling devices (like you've seen on "Who wants to be a millionaire?"), attendees will be able to participate in "real time" to instantly determine the group opinion on various web related issues of interest to us all.

Topics will include: Browser Compatibility, Technology Selection,

Screen Size Resolution, Bandwidth, Media Players, Streaming Video

Site Promotion, Keyword Selection, Search Engine Ranking

 Just to name a few ...

This presentation will give you tips and insight on creating a new website, or updating your existing site to conform with the ever changing web technology and standards.

Work Shop 2  Adam L. Goldstein of ATech Services, LLC and one of our members Jeffrey S Surofsky of youmakethememories.com

"Information Technology and The Small Business".

This workshop focuses on how small business owners, such as PVCJ members can maximize the efficiency of their business PCs. I will also address the fact that business networks are not as costly as many business owners think.

A little about Atech......"ATech Services is a premier provider of on-site IT services to small and medium businesses, as well as residential customers, throughout New Jersey."

September 20 2006

Workshop 1 Dave Hall will be presenting our first workshop

  Synopsis:  Dark shadows? Brighten the corner where you are? Light up your life? Corny catchphrases aside, lighting is one of the most important elements of a shoot. Even natural light often needs to be amplified and/or controlled to get everything just right.

Overwhelmingly, DVD is the presentation medium of choice of the 21st century. Our main speaker, Dave Hall of Davideo Multimedia LLC, will discuss lighting for DVD and other nuances of the art and craft of illumination. He will also demo a lighting kit and answer audience questions.  If you've ever been involved with lighting, wish to be - or have even just gotten lit! - this important and useful meeting will shed some light on a subtle but important part of our professional life.

Workshop 2 Craig Gonzales will be presenting our second workshop on Edius 4

August 9^th 2006

First Ever

 PVCJ Beach Bash is on!!!

 http://www.jenkinsons.com/  

12:00 to 4:00

Hello everyone, Members, Friends and Families.

 The PVCJ is having a Beach BASH!

 If you and you family and friends plan to attend you must send the payment to;

July 18, 2006

   Sol Comerchero, Product Manager Pro Video Products from

Anton/Bauer will speak about:

The revolutionary new ELIPZ™ system which offers professional power, light and support that actually compliments the handheld benefits of small cameras. 

The ELIPZ system is the first all-day handheld camera power solution (ElipZ 10k); unprecedented handheld camera stability (EgripZ™); and the first professional 6-volt on camera light powered directly from the camera battery (ElightZ™).

http://www.antonbauer.com/elipz_line.htm

June 21 2006

Competition,

May 17 2006

The DVD Experience Angela Trupiano

DVD allows us to take a "non linear" approach to our productions. It also allows us to bring interactivity to our clients. As an Event Videographer, you no longer need to edit and distribute productions in the traditional linear fashion. Changing that approach is what will separate YOU from YOUR competitors. Award- Winnng Editor Angela Trupiano will show you how to take full advantage of the DVD format. She will help you think outside of the box as she demonstrates new ideas for video segments that you already create and brand new features like the Trivia Game and DVD-Rom features.

Bring in your authored DVD

Bring along a DVD. Do you wonder which programs are best? What type of openings can various programs create? We will be comparing DVDs. Many members use different software. This is where you get to participate, bring in one you have authored. Remember learning from each other raises the standard of our industry thus creating a stronger industry and more work for all of us. So come and share what you use.

April 19 2006

Thanks to Jack Kondreck for his subsitute workshop on After Effects and Photo Shop CS. Jack showed how to take an image and layer it, then animate it into a 3D moving image! A well learned effect from Lance Gray's full day workshop. So spruce up those photo montages!

March 28, 2006

Special Meeting at The Hilton Garden Inn in Edison  Full Day Workshops

Creating Graphics; Creating Profits

Lance Gray, from Pixel Pops in Dallas, brings his easy-to-learn approach to graphics creation to New Jersey on Tuesday, March 28.  This special presentation is being hosted by The 4EVER Group, in cooperation with the North Jersey Videographers Association and the Professional Videographers of Central Jersey.

The Pixel Pops team is widely respected as the leaders in graphics and Internet training.  Lance Gray’s full-day workshop will cover the following topics:

*Overview of the PhotoshopCS2 interface
*Working with layers, masks, smart objects, and more!
*DVD Menu creation with Photoshop/Encore
*How to add motion to your Photoshop/Encore graphics with After Effects
*Quick solutions for DVD Case Insert design and DVD Menu creation!
*Graphic creation with lesser known, but cool filters
*Basic motion graphics with Photoshop & After Effects
*3D Photo techniques with Photoshop & After Effects
…and much more!

The 4EVER Group has worked closely with the leadership of both the North Jersey Videographers Association (NJVA) and the Professional Videographers of Central Jersey (PVCJ) to bring an outstanding day of education and networking on March 28, 2006.     

 In one workshop, The 4EVER Group will host a full-day of Final Cut Pro training with Ben Balser, FCP Version 5 certified from New Orleans.  In the second full-day workshop, Lance Gray, from Pixel Pops in Dallas, will show how to create graphics that add value to your productions, and strengthen your profits.

 Each program will begin at 9:00am, and end at 4:00pm, and will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, in Edison NJ.  Members of any local videographers association can register in advance for either workshop for only $95.00.  Registration is available on-line right now at www.4EVERGroup.org.

 Following the daytime workshops, there will be a special NJVA-PVCJ networking event at the same hotel.  Both Balser and Gray will have brief presentations during this program that will be different from their daytime subject matter.

“Our associations have been discussing a combined meeting for some time now,” said Robert Allen, President of the NJVA.  “We’re pleased to be able to do this in conjunction with The 4EVER Group.”  Anyone may attend the daytime workshops, or the evening program, so long as they register.

March 15, 2006

No meeting, the date is moved to March 28, 2006 special evening meeting. See above

February 15, 2006

Workshop 1:

"The Art of the Sale" - Sales Techniques for the Videographer!

Louis Piscione from Avanti Media Group will be presenting a
very relaxed and open environment seminar designed for and
focused on the Wedding Event Industry!

You will learn…
- How to do a professional sales presentation,
- How to read your client, and overcome objections
- Learn what never to say to a client
- How to make more money and close the sale!

Implement what you learn in your very next sales presentation.

This is one meeting you
        DO NOT WANT TO MISS !!!

The seminar consists of a 40-minute open discussion sales presentation & concludes with a Q&A session that you will find very rewarding and entertaining.

We will be playing "Stump The Videographer" where you play the role of the client (i.e. Bride & Groom)
and ask Louis the kind of questions (objections) that you have been asked at one time or another and simply were unsure of how best to respond.

For example;
Why are your prices so expensive?
Why should I book your company instead of Mr. X down
the street?

So, come prepared with your questions or scenarios and see if you can Stump Louis.

Testimonials -
     "I went to see Louis at the LIVA meeting back in January and simply put I was very impressed!  I've never seen a presentation so perfectly focused on the wedding videography market"

-Steve Lockhart

DO NOT TO MISS THIS OPPORTUNE TO SEE
Louis Piscione

Dennis from Armatos www.armatosvideo.com will be showing their new light as well as some of their other custom products. If there is anything that you need please @ 1.718.628.6800call him and he will bring it to the meeting.

January 18 2006

Work Shop 1: Are you Ready to Make 2006 Your Best Year Ever!?

Eric Taylor's Empowerment Group. Energy, Passion, Focus. Eric Taylor will be speaking on the topics he is most passionate about:   sales, leadership, customer service, presentation skills and personal development.  Eric is frequently called upon by some of the most respected companies in the country -  like UBS Paine Webber, State Farm Insurance, American Express, Tiffany & Company, Met-Life, Aflac, Verizon and Bank of America - for sales training, motivational speaking,  and consulting. His energy as a speaker is contagious. He takes his passion for life and wraps it around his audience. In the end you are pumped and ready to take on the world. Just what we all need for the start of 2006!!!  Energy, Passion, Focus

www.EmpowermentGroup.com

Workshop 2: Introducing Photography to your Video Business... Thinking of introducing photography to your already successfull video business? We will have a panel discussion including  video companies that have been successfully coupling photography with thier video business and others who have newly introduced photography to thier bussiness. The pros and cons to this.  We will have an open discussion and questions may be directed to our panel. The vice president of the NJ Photography Association will be joining us.

Year 2005

February 16 2005 
Work Shop 1: Steve Wernick from The 4EVER Group with his workshop "Do the Math”
Work Shop 2: Jesse Gonzales Photoshop tips and DVD covers Video: Grab bag Show us your stuff

March 16 2005
 
Work Shop1: Just in time for tax season!! Barbara Weltman will be speaking to us about, " A Better Bottom Line" Barbara is an attorney, a nationally recognized  expert in taxation for small businesses. She has written extensively on tax, finance, and estate planning. See how your actions today can affect your bottom line from the tax perspective tomarrow. Please bring any questions you may have. Barbara will be happy to answer them. Vist her site at www.bwideas.com.

Work Shop 2: Tim Ryan, from The 4Ever Group "The Real Value of    Wedding Video" In this two-stage HIGHLY interactive discussion, Tim Ryan will show very high-quality Creative Excellence Award-winning wedding demo videos.  Along with those in attendance, Tim will analyze what makes them particularly great wedding video demos. The conclusions drawn lead Tim and the attendees into conversation about “what really makes wedding video so valuable?” not only to brides and grooms, but also to society at large. 

Tim will dig deep into pricing, shopping habits, and business philosophy… this is where the conversation will often get pretty intense.  Tim invites the attendees to “challenge” his position and philosophy.  Invariably someone does, which will lead to great debate.  Attendees can’t help but go home scratching their heads wondering if I’m right/wrong or if I even belong in this business…

Video: TBA
Topic: Contracts, forms and work sheets. Perhaps you have a form that helps to make a part of your business easier, well bring it along. Have a question about contracts? Sub contracts? We will be discussing things to include on them. We will have a copy machine set up, so bring something to share and take home something new.   

April 20
Work Shop1 Premiere Pro 1.5  by Emilio Rodriguez Ruby Video
Work Shop 2 Craig Gonzales in and out of the new Ulead DVD
Video: TBA
Topic: TBA

May 18 2005 
Work Shop2: Steve Wernick, The Video Critique: Artistic Achievement Preparations

Every year, many organizations offer video awards programs.  In addition, many local associations also have video competitions.  Rarely, however, is an expert critique available.  Steve Wernick, a Creative Excellence judge (1998) and moderator for the final round of Creative Excellence judging (2001-2003) has developed an entertaining presentation designed to help every videographer understand how to produce outstanding videos. 

One or two (anonymous) submissions from your local association members are welcomed.  Deconstructing tapes from your area helps your meeting attendees directly relate to the lessons.  If there are no volunteers, Steve does have a number of tapes that he can bring. 

Videographers often work in isolation, and do not always have the opportunity to understand exactly what goes into producing excellent videos.  This program is designed to let videographers understand the “nuts and bolts” of wedding video productions.

Work Shop 1

Mark E. Green

President of http://www.performance-dynamics.net/pages/6/index.htm

Mark is an active speaker at the local, regional, and national levels.  His audiences include businesses, industry associations, trade groups, and clubs, and he's been interviewed on both New Jersey and nationally-syndicated radio focus on behavior -- how it prevents us from getting what / where we want and how we have to learn how to change it to get better results for ourselves and/or our businesses. 

That said, his topics vary -- including Business Planning, Management, Leadership, Effective Selling, Attitude Development, Motivating Others, Customer Service Excellence, and more….  

His style is highly interactive, fun, and engaging.  Those who hear Mark speak typically find themselves armed with new ideas to help them realize their personal potential, their professional objectives, and their vision of success. Consistent success in sales requires careful planning, an understanding of the buying / selling process, and an awareness of each prospect’s attitudes, emotions, and motivations as well as your own. 

Video: Brown Bag
Topic: Open

June 15 2005

Video Competition

Wedding Recap, Wedding Photo Session and Social Events

Each entry fee is $25.

More Details on Members only page.

July 20 2005

Kathy and Al Ritondo will be speaking to us about Podcasting 

Podcasting comes from two words: iPod and broadcasting, combined.

You don’t need an iPod to listen to the audio program. Any MP3 player do ok. You can also listen to the audio program on your computer, which is how we suspect most of our audience will listen.

You need an internet connection (preferably broadband), and speakers or headphones. If you have a dial-up connection, you may experience horrific download time.

A podcast is an MP3 audio file that you can download from the Internet. Once the MP3 audio file has been downloaded, you can either listen to it from your computer or you can transfer it to your MP3 player - which is great because you decide when an where you want to listen to it. It comes to you automatically in your computer as it is uploaded on our end to the internet.

Show us your stuff, Bring in any video you would like to share...

Open disscussion...Many members said they get the most out of the open disscusions, so if you have a question or something to share this is your chance. The second half will be video clips and open discussion.

August 172005

WEVA Expo August 8-11 Las Vegas Hilton Las Vegas Nevada

http://www.weva.com/expo2005/index.shtml

the 4 Ever Group New York Video Summit

August 16-17 Hotel Pennsylvina,401 7th Avenue New York City

http://www.4evergroup.org/nycvideosummit.html

September 21 2005

Work Shop 1: Tim Ryan, from The 4Ever Group "The Secrets to Successful Sales Presentations"

There is fierce competition for every dollar in the wedding industry these days.  Having an outstanding video is but one part of the sales process; you have to be able to “touch” the client.  If you can sell successfully, you’re more likely to achieve both your artistic and financial goals.  Knowing the right strategies will give you an advantage over your competition. 

Tim Ryan, a co-founder of The 4EVER Group, and a videographer with nearly twenty years of experience, will share many of the factors that, when utilized correctly, can help transform appointments into bookings. 

Be prepared to learn how to properly qualify a prospect, how to build rapport and trust, and why so many prospects seem afraid to ask questions during the appointment.  Tim will explain what an “up-front contract” is, and why it can be one of your best sales tools. 

Within the sales call itself, Tim will guide you through the normal stalling tactics and objections that a couple might throw at you, and then take you to the money shot: how to close the sale.Tim Ryan, of Massapequa, NY, operates Treasured Memories Video with his wife, Lee Ann.  Being a videographer and an educator means, Tim is able to detail the process in a way that most members of a local association can quickly grasp.

Work Shop 2 

Sol Comerchero, Sr. Account Manager Pro Video from Anton/Bauer

Will speak about:

Getting The Best Out Of Your Batteries

What is the Best Power Solution for your Camera?

Understand what the latest Technologies are all about when

choosing a power system.

For small camera users, see a demonstration of the Stasis which

can dramatically improve your camera work.

Sol will bring everyone a Battery Handbook, a gift, plus he will

give away an Ultralight 2 on camera light, and a Softbox which can be attached to the Ultralight.
 

October 19 2005
Work Shop1: Marc Smiler http://www.thevideoartist.com

Designed as a motivational and informational seminar, Marc will cover all topics, from advertising and networking, to finding high-end clients, how to appeal to them, book them, and keep them coming back for more. Understand the true value of your services, and what others are charging. Learn what they can and can't afford and what pricing they expect. Learn the value of your work and how touch is more important than tech.   

Video: Open

Topic: Open

November 16 2005
 
Video Competition

December 21 2005
 
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