Wahoo Films is creating photographic slide shows with increased interest through motion.  Using a combination of layering in Adobe Photoshop and animation in Adobe After Effects motion can be achieve within a once static image.  The added effect will definitely jazz up your photographic presentation.  This example of the technique was produced using a combination of photos from the Bend Environmental Center and photographer Christian Heeb.

Wahoo Films is shooting a training video for Bend Habitat for Humanities while they are building a home in Bend.  Here are some shoots of the video shoot.

Wahoo Films is looking for non-union actors for several short training videos.

Specifics:

1. Main Character – male, mid 30s, slim to medium build, average looking
2. Co-worker Character – female, any adult age, not overly professional looking, well groomed, small to medium build, must come across as a friendly person
3. Counter Person Character – male or female, early 20s, good attitude
4. Retail Customer Character – female, mid 40-50s, looking for product
5. Retail Customer Character – male, early 20s, looking for product, character doesn’t look like he has much money, drives an older car
6. Store Manager Character – male, mid to late 40s or early 50s, character shouldn’t be real fit (may also double as an additional counter person)
7. Delivery Driver Character – male, mid 60s, couple short scenes
8. 2-3 Extras – people walking around store or waiting in line for service

Filming is tentatively scheduled for the week of May 14.

Please send headshots, resumes, and preferred pay* to Wahoo Films at info@wahoofilms.com and indicate which characters you are interested in.

*Please provide Wahoo Films with your preferred pay by half day, full day, and full week.

Wahoo Films will only respond once we have made our selections.

Warren Shultz has recently joined the Wahoo Team as our editor. He’s been with us for a couple months now and has settled into the groove of the office and has been busy editing all our current projects. He is fast, precise, and has a great creative eye.

Warren not only is new to Wahoo Films, but also to Bend. After excepting the position he relocated here from Portland in the middle of the winter. And what a wonderful winter season for a former Portland resident to move to Bend. He is still amazed about how much sun he’s seeing here and excited to not have to deal with as much rainy weather. But he has had his bouts getting used to Bend’s random winter storms… After only a couple weeks here in his very Portland appropriate car, we got hit with one of our bigger snow storms. Still commuting to town from Redmond, he experienced winter driving and sliding to work. Warren soon realized his “all weather tires” were not cutting it during our winters and moved to a “traction tire” more suitable for Bend. Now residing in Bend, he loves that he can head out on nature hikes only a couple minutes away from the office or his house.

Warren, like many of us, did not realize his passion until later in life, after his initial schooling. He first started his career as a physical therapist. But by the end of PT school, he was already helping friends develop their photos in a make shift black room he created. Slowly, as technology improved his interested migrated into film and media. His film and editing knowledge was originally all self-taught, followed by on the job training and personally chosen classes.

Warren says that being in this type of industry is amazing because he gets to be a mini-expert on many different things learning new tricks and trades and working with many different clients.

He owns a “Red Epic Camera.” This is pretty exciting because this type of camera is meant to film things that should be shown on a big theater screen. Right now this type of camera is being used to film current movies such as, The Amazing Spiderman, The Hobbit, and previous movies like Pirates of the Caribbean. Being that Warren works for Wahoo Films now, we have that availability to have Warren film our clients with his camera. This high resolution camera makes our clients’ videos outstanding.

Throughout Warren’s filming and editing career he has had the opportunity to travel and work with some exciting people. His favorite personal filming/editing moment is when Pat Boone was flying into town to do a PSA for a child with leukemia. Warren got the call and had to be on location to film in 40 minutes. He jumped in the car with no script or anything, just a brief idea of what it should look like and what to film. On his way to the hospital to film, he wrote the script and shot list on a napkin at red lights while driving. When he and Pat Boone arrived, Pat read the “napkin script,” and was impressed. It was typed into the telepromter as is and Mr.Boone used it for the PSA. Amazing!

As you can see, we are excited to have added Warren to our team at Wahoo Films.

Wahoo Films’ director, Michelle, has been hard at work traveling across the country to shoot a video for Traeger Wood Pellet Grills. She shot their mill in Georgia and here in Oregon last month. The video for Traeger Grills will show how they make their wood pellets and how they are used to make terrific smoked barbeque food.

It’s amazing that super small pieces of wood can be naturally compressed into pellets and used to smoke food and give it different flavors depending on what type of tree the wood came from.

Wahoo Films also hosted friends for a barbeque to experience and film the Traeger Grill in action. Boy was it tasty! At the barbeque the shots were filmed using a Red Epic camera. What quality!

Check back in the future to see a clip of the finished video.

Traeger Grill and Red Epic Camera

After traveling all over Oregon this fall filming eleven of Avamere’s Independent Living Facilities – we are excited to share that we have just completed the edits and they are now online! Michelle had a wonderful time seeing the sights of Oregon, while filming 11 of Avamere’s facilities. She was mainly in greater Portland area, but also got out to the coast, in Seaside, as far North as St. Helens, and as far South as Keizer (near Salem).

And a big thank you to all the wonderful Avamere employees, camera operators, and actors who made the filming go as smoothly as it did.

Check out 2 of the videos here:

Promotional style with Avamere at Hillsboro

 http://www.youtube.com/embed/__eJLBBr05A

Storytelling with The Stafford

http://www.youtube.com/embed/yvx0ozU0E5M

Benefit for the Environmental Center

We just wrapped up the photography for our upcoming video for the Environmental Center.  A big thanks to Cascade Center of Photography and Jill Rosell Photography for letting us use your amazing nature images.   The video will debut at the  Mountainfilm Tour to benefit the environmental center.  If you want to go, sign up for tickets now as they sell out!  We hope to see you at the event in Bend, Oregon!

February 24 – 25

Mountainfilm Tickets:
http://envirocenter.org/news/mountainfilm-on-tour-tickets-on-sale

Here’s the letter Wahoo Films received from Sustainability Television…

Hi Wahoo Films!

I am writing to you on behalf of Sustainability Television (www.sustainabilitytelevision.com) in Vancouver, Canada.  We a web-based social enterprise organization dedicated to sharing inspiring ideas and information about healthier, more resilient and sustainable living.  Along with producing our own original content, we aggregate noteworthy external content as well as accepting submissions from our members (membership is free).

I am wondering if you are interested in having us embed a link to your Vimeo video titled “River Restoration, Central Oregon” to our STV website?  One of our aims is to share interesting, informative, and/or solutions-oriented stories such as yours with our visitors.

Check it out through the link below!

https://www.sustainabilitytelevision.com/content/river-restoration-central-oregon

Live Office has been a wonderful client of Wahoo Films for the past 4 years, producing many videos. These videos promote, train and demonstrate the Live Office software. Located in Torrence, CA, LiveOffice is developing a cloud-based email archiving software that works with Microsoft and Salesforce.

The LiveOffice videos produced by Wahoo Films are featured online via You Tube and the LiveOffice website. A variety of these films have been screened at trade shows booths and during special events.

This month, Wahoo Films has just completed the 11^th video for LiveOffice. Wahoo Films has received the big news that LiveOffice has been acquired by Symantec.

Dean Nicolls, Vice President of LiveOffice emailed Wahoo Films the following link and stated…

“Thanks for ALL of your help getting us to this important juncture.”

Symantec Acquires LiveOffice Cloudbased Archiving Company
Symantec has acquired LiveOffice, a provider of cloud-based data archiving and storage, for US$115 million [m], the companies announced Monday.
www.pcworld.com/…/symantec_acquires_liveoffice_cloudbas…

Congratulations to LiveOffice and Thank you!

Have you or someone you know ever been housebound from illness, or a new baby, etc.? If so, wouldn’t a home cooked meal, delivered to you been a nice and pleasant treat? I know how much it has meant to friends when I have delivered a meal to them after returning home from the hospital. It’s so nice to know that you won’t have to worry about cooking dinner for the family when you’re down and out.

Wahoo Films and Suzanne Schlosberg have recently completed production of the Good Neighbor Cooking Stories video to promote Suzanne’s Good Neighborhood Cookbook and to encourage people to cook for friends who could use the extra help.

We’re eager to hear about your good-neighbor cooking stories, share our recipes and introduce you to some inspiring Grateful Neighbors and Good Neighbor Cooks.  Add comments here:

Exhibitor Showcase
Tuesday, November 8 –  Thursday, November 10, 2011

A quote from Ryan Houston, Executive Director of the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, about Wahoo Films having a vendor’s booth at the current conference…

“I just want to give you a heads up about a vendor that will be at the conference next week that may be of interest to you.
We’ve been working with Wahoo Films over the past few years to do documentary/outreach films for some of our projects.  They have done an outstanding job and worked very well with our staff and partners to develop some really nice products at a reasonable cost.
So, if you’re interested in learning more about how to use this type of work in your area, I’d encourage you to check out the Wahoo Films booth at the conference next week.
And….no, I’m not on commission and I don’t have a stake in the company…..I just see the power of film in helping to communicate conservation messages and I want to encourage others use it as well – it’s not as expensive or unattainable as I had previously thought.”

Some of the films produced for the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council can be seen here

http://www.restorethedeschutes.org/Publications/Videos/default.aspx

The art of online video
Bend-based Wahoo Films helps clients reach a broad audience

By Ed Merriman The Bulletin

October 25, 2011 4:00 am
With more than 3 billion online videos watched on YouTube alone every day, businesses, nonprofits, consultants and entertainers should be aware that they can make money with film, according to Michelle Alvarado, owner of Wahoo Films in….

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Thank you to Good Morning America for selecting Wahoo Films to provide their video production and a producer for their story in Bend, Oregon on Christopher

This week, the Wahoo Films video crew is filming with MSN (Microsoft) on the show “News on Main” with Chris Cashman. Check it out:

http://businessonmain.msn.com/videos/newsonmain.aspx?cp-documentid=29184382&source=URLCOPY

http://businessonmain.msn.com/videos/newsonmain.aspx?cp-documentid=29331714&source=URLCOPY

After producing several video for Greg Bell, I connected him with OPB because I thought his stories were incredibly funny and inspiring.  Well, he made it on the air this fall.  Please check him out on Thursday.

Wahoo Films recently produced a new promotional video introducing their new product working with Microsoft Office 365.

You can now put your videos on your twitter account.  Check out this article on http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/02/6771060-twitter-searches-now-include-photos-and-videos which describes the new technology.

Wahoo Films has just uploaded a new video production animation for Cascade Worms and Compost promoting their new worm bag composting system.

Visit the Alt Blue blog to view

“Small Business Success: Wahoo Films”.

Thanks to Alt Blue for the nice profile of Wahoo Films

Sage School of Massage has just launched their new web site. They demonstrate the excellent use of video to tell the story of their business.  Working with Wahoo Films, Sage has combined testimonials, staff interview, and short feature videos describing their important features of their business.  Check it out. http://sageschoolofmassage.com/

Stay tuned for the video showing soon at one of our local theaters.