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What a rush! Sold-out screening raises $2K for educational programs

Erin Hayes August 23, 2023 Filmmaking, Creative Process Leave a Comment

Special Charity Screening of Hunting Whitey

Raised $2,000 for children's educational programs

On August 17th, the Chatham Orpheum hosted a special charity screening of Hunting White. MediaBoss, with our production partners, the talented playwrights and authors Casey Sherman and David Wedge, presented a special cinema version of the highly acclaimed Hunting Whitey theater experience. This screening raised $2,000 for children's educational programs.

This showing was the first and only opportunity for the cast, writers, and crew to view their live performances from the sold-out stage play at the Wilbur Theater this spring.

A Q&A with the writers Casey Sherman and David Wedge, Director Ian Barrett, and co-Producer Erin Hayes followed the presentation. Local press, dignitaries, and fans were on hand and the event generated a lof of buzz about this project. Stay tuned for more announcements around Hunting Whitey to come!

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Trending: "Come Together" Music Video

Erin Hayes February 28, 2017 Video, Filmmaking, Video production, music video, godsmack Leave a Comment

Five years ago we produced a music video for Godsmack’s cover of The Beatles "Come Together." At the time, they were in Boston recording their release, "Live and Inspired".

MEDIABOSS Creative Director Ian Barrett was tapped to direct the video. Ian has along history with the band, having worked with them from their early days in and around New England. Ian had the unique experience of watching the band record multiple times and felt strongly that Godsmack’s fans would enjoy an intimate look into this unique process. He pitched capturing the music video for Come Together while the band recorded the song, during the actual live album takes.

The style of the video was meant to emulate Ian's older style of capturing bands on film.

A lot of work into producing this video because every single frame of video is a genuine recording of the song. The final video showcases these takes and behind the scenes footage of the recording process, including playback, effects and overdubs.

Months later, the band decided to release “Rocky Mountain Way” as the first single and the “Come Together” was temporarily shelved and later on July 30, 2012 saw its debut on YouTube and Vevo . The video racked up about a million views shortly after.

Fast forward to this weekend - nearly 5 years after the video’s release date - and our iPhones were sounding off with alerts that our video was trending nationwide again. We were getting excited tweets as fans began to discover the music video for the first time. Ian and I were a little floored. How did this happen? Why now?

Well it turns out Society of Rock decided to write a nice article about the music video late last week and the blogger’s active followers promptly started to share it.

The video’s now seen 3.7 million views on Youtube (and 7K on our Vimeo page which we only use for client review).

Whether Godsmack’s style of music is your jam or not, we think you’ll enjoy watching the intimacy of their recording process. Let us know what you think of the video in the comments below!

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Video Production Explained in 14 instagram photos

Erin Hayes March 15, 2016 Instagram, Filmmaking Leave a Comment

A picture's worth a thousand words. So, rather than write 14,000 words about the filmmaking process (cause that'd be a bit boring, wouldn't it?), we pulled 14 photos from some talented people on Instagram to tell the story instead.

Luckily for us, pulling 14 photos that document the filmmaking process was no big deal. Because few people document their workflow as avidly - and beautifully - as filmmakers.

We hope you enjoy scrolling through the photos as much as we enjoyed scrolling through #Filmmaking search results!

The Storyboard

You should never shoot without a storyboard. A storyboard will help you save time on production day and during post-production. And, it sets clear expectations for the client and for your crew.

#OnSet vol. 5 #tv #commercial #storyboard #shootingboard #director #notes #work #ilovemyjob #filmset #shooting #behindthescenes #makingof #filmproduction #drawing #sketch #filmlife #instadaily #filmcrew #party

A photo posted by Filip Rudnicki (@phil.rudnicky) on Mar 5, 2016 at 10:13am PST

All the Gear

You need film gear to shoot a video. How much gear you need will depend on a few factors like budget, location size, time of day, etc. etc.

#setlife #newenglandstudios #filmmaking #filmgear #arrilighting #arri

A photo posted by NE Studios (@nestudios) on Mar 11, 2016 at 7:49am PST

#dslrgear #dslr #dslrfilmmaking #700D #canon #filmmaking #filmgear #justgettingstarted @mycamerabag

A photo posted by Rodrigo Senociaín Marzullo (@rsm_arch_films) on Mar 8, 2016 at 9:22pm PST

Take 1...or Take 101

What's more iconic of a filmmaking set than a production slate? Nearly nothing (well, maybe a director yelling 'Action'). A production slate helps the production crew stay on track on the day of the shoot. It also helps the post production team sync the footage from multiple cameras and audio sources.

A belated birthday present from my brother from another mother @brodier94 thanks cuz, should be using it in no time! #film #homemadefilm #clapboard #clapper #filmgear #filmequipment #movies #amatuerfilmmaker

A photo posted by Angus Strachan (@angoosemoose) on Mar 9, 2016 at 3:14am PST

The Crew

The crew is the most important part of filmmaking. You can have a killer script, all the latest and greatest in gear - but if you don't have a great crew you won't have a great product.

#OnSet vol. 6 #filmproduction #makingof #behindthescenes #dolly #RED #redepic #camera #actors #soundengineer #microphone #director #filmcrew #commercial #tv #igers #instadaily #work #filmlife #shop #shooting #filmmaking #filmmaker

A photo posted by Filip Rudnicki (@phil.rudnicky) on Mar 7, 2016 at 10:52am PST

@MoHeim and her trusty #Nepali assistants filming in #Kathmandu #onassignment for our upcoming #PBS series about citizen science. ---------------- #nepal #filmmaking #canon #edelkrone #redcross #openstreetmap @ilcp_photographers

A photo posted by Day's Edge Productions (@daysedge) on Mar 11, 2016 at 2:25pm PST

getTING the shots

Ready, set, Camera Speed! Now it's time for that incredible crew to come together and shoot the heck out of the project.

We shot a fun project with some extraordinarily talented people this week. Here's a shot of one of our final scenes. #setlife

A photo posted by MediaBoss Television (@mediaboss) on Nov 15, 2015 at 4:26am PST

#OnSet vol. 4 🎬 #behindthescenes #makingof #filmset #filmcrew #filmlife #tvcommercial #tv #commercial #director #DOP #gaffer #light #arri #redepic #actors #work #lovemyjob #night #filmproduction #shooting #grip #crane

A photo posted by Filip Rudnicki (@phil.rudnicky) on Mar 3, 2016 at 11:20am PST

Getting the Pickups

Now it's time to get those closeups and specialty shots.

Creative Director @i.barrett and Production Manager @paulsummerlong (photo credit) on set at @jacksabbybrewing last week! #latergram #setlife #production #JacksAbby #behindthescenes

A photo posted by MediaBoss Television (@mediaboss) on Jun 17, 2015 at 9:44am PDT

All of the Pickups...

And just when you think you've captured all the pickups, you realize that if you took this and shot it that way then your video would 1000% more awesome.

Getting the closeup during a recent shoot with client, @jacksabbybrewing #setlife #beer @paulsummerlong @i.barrett

A photo posted by MediaBoss Television (@mediaboss) on Jul 13, 2015 at 9:18am PDT

Going through the footage. ALL of THE FOOTAGE

You've come back to the studio. You've loaded all of the footage. Now it's time to go through all of that footage.

Getting lots of dailies out of resolve. From RED Dragon 6K raw to 1080p for editing. #featurefilm #davinciresolve #editsuite #filmediting

A photo posted by Jelle Helwig (@jellehelwig) on Mar 7, 2016 at 11:50am PST

Wide Cut

Ok, you've edited a wide cut. Good for you! You're about 20% done. Time to get into Version 1, Version 2, etc.

Amazing what gets left on the cutting room floor. 95% through a really fun video for really fun client. #timeline #editing #video #videoproduction #postproduction #food

A photo posted by MediaBoss Television (@mediaboss) on Jan 29, 2016 at 10:46am PST

Picture Lock!

A big satisfied sigh of relief. Your video is complete. Everyone loves it and has signed off on it.

That's a wrap- locked picture and sound on ep 109 of @vinyl! Two onlines and three audio mixes. ✂️🎞🔒 #timelinetuesday #avid #filmediting #editingroom #sountrackf/t @hbo

A photo posted by Kate Sanford (@sanfordkate) on Mar 8, 2016 at 5:22am PST

Cheers!

Get your team together, grab a beverage and clink those glasses, cans, what-have-you.

And then, on to the next production!

#Repost @paulsummerlong with @repostapp. ・・・ Farm to table? More like tank to table. #15minutesorless @jacksabbycraftlagers

A photo posted by @erinehayes on Jan 22, 2016 at 10:45am PST

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What a rush! Sold-out screening raises $2K for educational programs

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What a rush! Sold-out screening raises $2K for educational programs

Special Charity Screening of Hunting Whitey

Raised $2,000 for children's educational programs

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Trending: "Come Together" Music Video

Video Production Explained in 14 instagram photos

The Storyboard

All the Gear

Take 1...or Take 101

The Crew

getTING the shots

Getting the Pickups

All of the Pickups...

A photo posted by MediaBoss Television (@mediaboss) on Jul 13, 2015 at 9:18am PDT

Going through the footage. ALL of THE FOOTAGE

Wide Cut

Picture Lock!

Cheers!

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