• 60% of consumers say they are more likely to contact a business if an image or video shows up in search results.

• 67% of consumers say the quality of the image or video is very important when making purchasing decisions.

• Viewer engagement is 37% higher for images posted to Facebook versus text, and 31% higher with video.

• Websites with images and video get 94% more total views

(statistics courtesy of MDG Blog)

http://checkout.google.com/seller/npo/

Testimonial from Greg Sieglitz, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board

“Wahoo Films,

I reviewed the final videos that you produced for OWEB representing the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watershed accomplishments. They are really great!

We will be featuring these on the front page of our web site for the Oregon Plan report and a smart phone link on the Executive Summary.  This will be featured and provided to the Legislature, Governor’s Office, other agencies and the public.  Your efforts to pull this together under a very short time line and application of creative solutions to make this happen were awesome!

Thank you for your hard work on this project; it was a pleasure working with you and seeing such a fabulous product materialize so quickly.”

Greg

Check out Wahoo Films’ latest video for Oregon Natural Desert Association.

Wahoo Films produced this video to get the word out about Oregon Natural Desert Association and the amazing projects they are doing for  the Oregon Deserts and now, the Owyhee Canyonlands.

Gena Goodman-Campbell
Central Oregon Wilderness Coordinator, ONDA

“Thanks again for all of your hard work on our project. It was gratifying to see the crowd’s reaction on Friday, and I got lots of positive feedback from our members! ”

US Fish and Wildlife Service commissioned Wahoo Films to highlight 8 projects of restoration that are taking place with landowners in focus areas. These projects are in conjunction with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Partners Program.

Some of the partners on the project include Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, OWEB, USFWS, BPA, ODFW, and others.

Below is a photograph taken as part of these restorations (Conservation Property Channel Restoration) on the Oxbow property in the John Day focus area.

Restoration Project in John Day

Mosaic Medical wanted to develop a strong message that would help them become more memorable in the community.  Wahoo Films interviewed Mosaic Medical’s staff and patients to find their powerful stories and values of the clinic.  We then produced a 1-minute video for their home page website and 5-minute video for their events and YouTube channel.   With the video in hand, Mosaic Medical is ready to further their messaging to the community.

Wahoo Films just finished an exciting video for Redmond’s Aircraft Rubber’s product ProBarrel. It was a fun shoot. We had a helicopter come out and demonstrate the unique properties of the ProBarrel.

Here are comments from the owner and vice president of Aircraft Rubber / Fuel Safe.

Peter Regna (the owner of Aircraft Rubber / Fuel Safe) – WOW,  Knock my socks off !  Kudos to the Producer, Director, FS Staff and Camera Crew !  Now make it go viral !

Bill Hare (the vice president of Aircraft Rubber / Fuel Safe) – Thanks to you and your team for another well executed and highly polished video effort!

Check out the video here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_KFsi1JG9o&feature=plcp

Here are some real interesting statistics about video and how people learn or observe…

The effectiveness of audiovisual is a proven fact. Research shows that we learn:
• 1% by taste
• 1.5% by touch
• 3.5% by smell
• 7% by hearing
• 87% by sight

And, we know that audiovisual increase retention of information. People generally
remember:
• 20% of what they hear
• 30% of what they see
• 50% of what they see and hear

Wahoo Films headed to San Franscisco. Michelle will spend three days there covering Navis World’s big event at the Inter Conntinetal. Each day she will produce a video that will air to their social media community of clients and participants.

Here is the page link:
http://community.navis.com/

This spring, Bend Area Habitat for Humanity contracted Wahoo Films to film and produce a fun volunteer training video for those wonderful volunteers who help build homes for deserving families. After many rain delays, the AmeriCorps volunteers gave it their all and really preformed well for the video. We are so appreciative for all the volunteers that made the video production successful and fun.

Recently, Bend Area Habitat for Humanity Director, Mark Quinlan, previewed the video at the AmeriCorps graduation. Here’s what he had to say about it…

“I wanted to tell you last Thursday I spoke at the “graduation” ceremony for the AmeriCorps crew that we used as actors in the volunteer video and I showed the video.  There were about 100 folks in the room and there was a lot of laughter  while it was showing and afterwards I got a ton of good feedback …. I also had a couple of people ask me who produced it so I got to plug Wahoo as well.”

Check out the video!

Get Involved! Volunteer! Donate!

Wahoo Films completed 2 exciting videos for Fuel Safe (also known as Aircraft Rubber Manufacturing). They are a locally based company in Redmond, OR that development and deliver the world’s lightest, safest and most performance oriented racing fuel cells available. Their composite fuel containment systems can be found across the entire spectrum of racing from the Indianapolis 500 to the Dakar Rally. Their fuel cells are the champion’s choice!

Here’s what Bill Hare, Vice President of Operations, Fuel Safe, had to say about Wahoo Films…

“Regarding our experience with the Wahoo team, it has been fantastic!  Your team’s professionalism, performance and patience (the three P’s) was refreshing and fun!  We look forward to working with your crew on our next video project (we had a kickoff meeting with Michelle yesterday) and believe videos will be a key element of our future sales and marketing efforts.”

Check out Fuel Safe at www.fuelsafe.com

Or watch the video Wahoo Films produced at the link below…

Wahoo Films spent all last week filming an auto parts and paint store customer service training video for Excel Sales Consulting and Norm Rose, our client.

Everything from the actors, to the location, crew and food went smoothly. We had some great actors, Cameron, Holly, Stan, BJ, Richard, and Nate acting as upset clients, uncaring staff, satisfied customers and helpful staff. These guys really did a great job. Our crew was just as great. Byron (camera operator), Rick (lighting), and Dayne (sound) made the production smooth sailing. And the food from Mother’s Juice Cafe was awesome.

Thanks so much to everyone.

We can’t wait to see how the video turns out through the editing process. Say tuned for some photos of our great team.

The Wahoo Team

Michelle, Chuck, Jen, Warren

Ever notice the two large horse metal sculptures in Farewell Bend Park (Reed Market)?

I have, while at the playground or crossing the bridge, but I never had the chance to stop and take a closer look. Now that we have finished a couple videos for Greg Congleton, I stop and admire it whenever I’m down there.

Greg, the sculptor, entwines a story in each of his metal art pieces. By looking at his “Two Bits” sculptor in Farewell Bend Park, you can easily see one horse is definitely the boy and the other the girl by the interesting pieces he uses to construct the bodies. It’s amazing to think about how much thought went into the design and building of them. Each piece is put in a specific place fro a reason.

Next time you have a minute down by the river, stop and check it out.

Here is Greg Congleton’s newest piece, “Too Deep.” It’s a mare and her young.

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