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Voices.com – McElroy Films

McElroy Films featured on Voices.com

http://blogs.voices.com/buzz/2009/07/before_voicescom_we_would_shop_our_project.html

Benjamin J. McElroy of McElroy Films agreed to answer a few questions about their experience at Voices.com and how they’ve used the service to find, select and hire talent.

Recently Ben completed a project at Voices.com and hired Jay Johnson. Read more on the hiring experience of McElroy Films.

Edit Suite

Photos of the new Final Cut Studio at McElroy Films
Photos by David H. Brow

Voices.com

If you were a production company you’d know the difficulty of finding good voiceover talent for your projects. You’d probably call talent you’ve worked with in the past or shop your script around to local talent.

With the introduction of Voice.com, the process of finding good talent is easier than ever. Just post your job into the database, specify the details, leave a sample of your script and within an hour you have 10-15 responses from professional talent biding on your job. The responses are easy to navigate. A list is populated with their name, sample and price. Once you’ve selected the right person for the job, just click on “Award Job”, make a deposit and they’ll record your entire project. It’s that simple.

Earlier this year we had a client come to us and ask us for a promotional video with a two-week deadline. We needed to hire professional VO talent quickly and efficiently.

Voices.com help our company achieve our goals by giving us quality samples we could review and pass to the client. Once approved, Voices.com handled our transaction for the payment and delivery of the files.

We’ve enjoyed working with voices.com so much that we’ve recommended them to many of our business contacts and other production firms.

BMW Boston Video – Update

We had a great shoot this weekend in boston with Evan Collier. We’re currently producing a mini documentary for Biblical Ministries Worldwide on church planting in the Boston area.

We shot two interviews, one with Evan infront of MIT overlooking the Charles River and the Boston skyline.

The other interview was with Ken Levit, a foot surgeon at the New England Baptist Hospital. He talked about the need for strong believers in the medical field.

We also shot 16 “man on the street” interviews with various people discussing their religious beliefs on camera.

Summer Special

Summer specials from McElroy Films.

From now until September 30, 2009 you can take 10% off your entire quote.

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Another Quiet Day at Apple?

The buzz around the post-production world is the release of the latest version of Final Cut Studio. How come Apple waited 4 weeks after their grand world wide developers conference to announce this? You would think after 2 whole years from their last version of FCS they would try to make a bigger smash?

Final Cut Studio 2009

Well, that’s some of the questions people have been asking all day. Why is Apple quietly releasing the latest version of Final Cut Studio? If you check their home page: www.apple.com you’ll see they still have a big advertisement for the iPhone 3GS. (Which I’m a proud owner of.) Why not showcase Final Cut? It makes people wonder if Apple rushed this release to satisfy users that were predicting it’s release at WWD 2009. Another good question is, why aren’t they calling it final cut studio 3?

One final question is: Why in the world does the new compressor have blu-ray burning capabilities? Did someone at Apple mess up the specs and accidentaly forget to put that under DVD studio?

On another note, McElroy Films will be a proud owner of a copy as soon as it comes in.

Online Video

We are all living in exciting times, the Internet has exploded into a vast resource of information for everyone big and small. The old days when everyone would get together and watch their favorite TV show on thursday night is in the past. Now most people have DVR or TIVO. Consumers are no longer constrained by schedules of TV networks. The viewer now sets his own schedule for when the content is viewed. Moreover, with the introduction of Hulu viewers can now watch their favorite TV shows online defeating the purpose of the TV all together.

Internet videos

Internet video is on the rise and has been for some time. With the introduction of faster connection speeds such as cable, T1 and FIOS we can now enjoy streaming video lightning fast right to our personal computers and portable devices.  Online videos are a great way to put your product or entity in front of your viewers. Online videos can take down the walls and mystique of an individual or organization and puts it in a convenient and informative package the viewer can watch.  Company profiles give the viewer a first hand look at your business. They’ll feel like they already know you when they contact you for business.

Here are some interesting facts about online video

134 million people in the US went online to watch an astounding average of 81 videos for a total of 11 billion videos in April 2008

71% the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video

The average online viewer watched 228 minutes of video

The average online video duration was 2.8 minutes

Source: ComScore

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