As digital production moves away from video tape, post production work-flow and backup procedures become more important than ever. It seems like it happened in the blink of an eye. Tape is gone. Gone with it is a “hold it in your hand” assurance that all the work that went into planning, lighting, directing and…
Principal and Producer Jennifer Isenhart is a fourth generation entrepreneur. She also happens to be the great grand daughter of one of the first cinematographers in the Pacific Northwest. Media mogul Ted Turner says an entrepreneur is what you call yourself when you don’t have a job. By that definition, I come from a long…
What’s cool is when a client, in this case our friend Sue Nass with the Idaho Department of Fish & Game, comes to us with an idea for a great campaign that encourages kids to get outside and play. To put away their Xboxes, turn off the television and shutdown their computers to get out…
Over the last year, I’ve been transcribing tape for an independently-produced documentary film. I’ve played, rewound, and fast-forwarded through more than 5,000 minutes of HD video footage–upwards of 87 hours–describing every shot and noting each word spoken while the camera rolled. Lingo-laden professional interviews and lively conversations among family members, footage of sleepy suburban neighborhoods…
I’m not a military man, but I got to drive my first tank in 1980. I crashed it. The only bruise was to my ego, and the only loss was 100 feet of film. Had they survived, the images would have been beautiful. I took it pretty hard. I don’t like losing beautiful images. 30…
One of the first things I appreciated when I entered the motion picture business 20 years ago was the diversity of projects I was allowed to work on, from Pillsbury Dough Boy commercials, to Grateful Dead videos. The small but hip production company I worked for in San Francisco, Colossal (Pictures), had a great variety…
April 20th, 2009 The Idaho Advertising Federation held its annual Rocky Awards this weekend and Wide Eye Productions popped up several times. In the Complete Campaign category our productions for the Avimor 2008 campaign, executed by Stoltz Marketing Group, contributed to a Silver Rocky. Wide Eye Productions produced, shot and edited two long-form pieces for…
Principal and Director of Photography Tom Hadzor gets a little misty on this nostalgic step back in time to the beginnings of Wide Eye Productions. My wife, Jennifer and I started Wide Eye Productions in 1996. The worldwide headquarters were housed in our small, handmade office in the middle of our goat pasture in Northwest…
Photographer Bill Krumm’s behind-the-scenes look at shooting for NBC’s hit series, The Biggest Loser.
Rarely does a day pass when I donʼt learn something new at work. My bag of Wide Eye tricks grows ever larger, filling with lessons on winding cables, collapsing C-stands, and packing up a Chimera.