My days at working for an Orlando production company has its perks. :)
We had a great
opportunity to work with the Gaylord Palms Hotel on their new
in-house corporate video that would be played throughout their lobby
and in all the rooms. This was going to be a big corporate video production and we were tasked with everything, and I mean everything.
Plus, I had never been to the resort so I was excited.
We started with casting. We held two
separate castings at our studio in Longwood (Central Florida) and
ended up booking a total of 15 different actors. Once we had the
look then it was on to the feel. We got to play with some toys for
this shoot. We rented a huge crane, some lights, lenses and cameras
(to supplement our own of course). After pre-production was all done,
we had to wait to showtime.
It's amazing to see how many people come together for one project, even just a little old "Orlando Video Production". On the shoot days, we brought in a wardrobe stylist, make-up artist and hair-stylist to make our actors even more beautiful. We had the director, audio guys, crane operators, 2nd camera operators, lighting grips, 2nd ADS, 1st ADS, some more grips, and me (the do whatever is needed when it is needed project coordinator/office manager). The 12-hour shoot days go by surprisingly fast! Even when on two of the days the cast and crew call time was 3 A.M. (yes you read that right!)
We did get hotel rooms for two of the
nights so we got to explore the fancy hotel (see, great perk!) The
hotel is amazing and if you ever get a chance, even if you are a
local Orlandoian, then go and stay there! The Wreckers bar (which,
yes, we did shoot the opening) is a great place to watch sports, eat
great nachos and/or hang out at the firepit right outside and enjoy a
glass of wine. Coincidentally, I did all of the above!
We only put together a “sizzle reel”
for our website that you can see here:
http://blackburstentertainment.com/gaylord-palms/
If you want to see the entire corporate video production, then go to Gaylord! :)
Orlando video production shoot stills
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