"Curtain Call" part 1

Here is the first of two installments of the "Curtain Call" photo session that my son & I filmed. I had so much footage that I couldn't decide what cut and leave on the editing room floor. So the next installment will soon follow. Actually there is no film on the editing floor anymore, its in my computer somewhere. We all had lots of fun and it hardly seemed like work at all.

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"Curtain Call"

What a fun day I had working with my son Jordan, (he helped me film the photo shoot) Wedding Planner Jessica from Stella Event Design, Photographers: Ben from Ben Pancoast Photography, (these are his photos below) Leda from LVL Photography and Justin from JL Photography, and of course Jordan and I, the videographers. Erica Henninger from Salon 1341 in Stevensville did Lisa's hair and David from Veranda at the Whitcomb provided us with a lovely room to use for home base.

Leda had a great idea to give our local brides an opportunity to put on their wedding dress one more time to get some seriously, really cool pictures out and about in the St. Joseph and Benton Harbor area. I had a blast! What a privilege and opportunity I had to work with such a fun bunch of talented people.

Dale and I had just filmed Dan & Lisa's Wedding the week before, so they were fresh off the wedding whirlwind. They are both such fun people and so photogenic, don't cha think? What good sports they were about having 8 cameras in their faces, flashes go off, traipsing to numerous locations and still smiling! They were probably thinking to themselves what the heck are these people doing to us?

But take a look at the photos (the video of all the fun, will be up shortly) and I am sure they would do it again, in an instant! If you think this is something you might like to participate in you can contact Jessica at Stella Event Design and she will let you know when the next "Curtain Call" is going to be held. Wouldn't you like to put your wedding dress on just one more time?

Cool place in downtown Benton Harbor, complete with 2 green doors and an old shovel we found for props.

I think this is the old, abandoned House of David Fruit Market in Benton Harbor. How appropriate, we are were all a little fruity that day.


Of course, we had to go to our beautiful Lake Michigan!


Our Beautiful Bride, Lisa

The Happy Couple! Dan & Lisa


One Last Time

Wanna see more of the photo shoot? See ya!
Ben Pancoast
Leda
Justin

Here's is my son Michael's band participating in Battle of the Bands locally. They won 1st place. This is a song that they composed themselves. Mike is on the left, then Taso, then Adam. Good Job guys! Congratulations, Mike!

Love you...

Mom

Perfect Failure from All Star Productions on Vimeo.

We filmed this for a promo for Lory's Place in St. Joseph. They are a great organization and I know they help a lot of kids locally for grief counseling. It is nice to know we have a service like this available to us here in the Twin Cities.


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We filmed this for a promo for Lory's Place in St. Joseph. They are a great organization and I know they help a lot of kids locally for grief counseling. It is nice to know we have a service like this available to us here in the Twin Cities.

Mr. Coloma 2009 Overview

Each pageant has a theme which dictates the music used in the show. We then incorporate these songs into our videos. We edited this song for the show and it was faded out after the ladies were finished with their presentation.

This is the Mr Coloma Pageant so we used the entire song edit and mixed in a lot of footage of the guys and gals behind the scenes rehearsal along with the live event. Not necessarily in the same order as it happened that night.

This song called out for fast moving action, just like Elvis, so I hope you enjoy it. For those of us who remember the Ed Sullivan Show we will only show this video from the waist up.

It's a lot of work but we always have a blast and these fine contestants will have an action packed DVD of that fun filled night.

Dale


Mr. Coloma 2009 Overview from All Star Productions on Vimeo.

Miss Blossomtime 2009 Crowning

Here the crowning unedited... enjoy! If you want to see it in a larger screen, click on the "Vimeo Button."


Miss Blossomtime 2009 Crowning from All Star Productions on Vimeo.

Here's the crowning unedited. Enjoy!

Mr. Blossomtime 2009 Crowning

Here is the crowning section, no edits, live as it happened that night. If you want to see larger screen, click on the "Vimeo" button.


Mr. Blossomtime 2009 Crowning from All Star Productions on Vimeo.