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VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
Budget range for this kind of production: [$3,000-$4,000]
Date: 2010
Length: 2:20 min
100% directed, partially shot, 100% edited by Vanessa Workman.
Video Production Process:
The client defined 15 core messages. These served to set the structure of the script and define the logical sequence of titles, visuals, and voice-over. We added an interview of the author so that the audience could identify with the protagonist. Finally we carefully color-corrected every shot. As the client, the publishing company was guaranteed an opening with its logo.
1- Advancing Conservation through Book & Idea Promotion
International Union of Conservation of Nature
Budget range for this kind of production: [$2,000-$3,000]
Water and Nature Initiative, Nigeria
Type: Scientific documentary
Edited and narrated by V. Workman.
Showed: International Conference on Biodiversity, Barcelona
Date: 2008
Content: This short shows how the Water and Nature Initiative translates change management in the field through community empowerment of life's most vital resource. This case study covers the Yobe River Basin in Nigeria.
Video Production Process:
The client came in with some very shaky material shot in Nigeria, but the story was compelling enough to make it work. This was used as promotional material to showcase a success story to enable more south-south cooperation.
Clients: Narrative Magazine and the California Academy of Sciences
Budget range for this kind of production: [$4,000-$5,000]
The Wild - Seminar/Panel discussion
Directing, Videography & Editing by Vanessa Workman.
Date: 2009
Video Production Process:
This video was shot with three cameras providing three angles of the same footage (multicam production). The room was dark with no stage, we therefore used 4 lights to brighten up the subjects and create depth of vision. The introduction of the video was done in After Effects. The footage and the photos were provided by the authors.
2- Advancing Conservation with Replicable Success Stories
3- Advancing Conservation with Panel Discussions
Client: LifeLegacy Studios
Budget range for this kind of commercial: [$8,000-$10,000]
What is a Biopic?
Type: Commercial
Directed, shot and edited by Vanessa Workman. Date: 2007
Video Production Process:
Although this video isn’t related to any environmental issue, its technology is applicable to conservation advancement. With green screen you can present an interview of Sir. David Attenborough shot in London, as if he was in the Galapagos Islands. So green screen enables you to key out backgrounds. This particular video was edited with After Effects to add the extra touch the client was seeking, giving it the "apple feel".
5- Commercial creation with green screen technology
By combining my ecological training with the video production skills acquired at San Francisco State University, I can present conservation-oriented ideas, projects, people, campaigns and organizations with the added advantage that I grasp the content and deliver great formats to reveal what matters most.
Over the last four years of freelancing, I not only took video productions from their conception through execution but also secured their promotion, on online via YouTube.
Pre-production:
Half the excitement for clients like you lies in the pre-production phase. That’s when we consult the experts and seek stories within your team to distill the essence of what may be the most complex natural resource conflicts of our time, and illuminate them through a compelling story.
Production:
With great lighting and sound techniques, plain office interviews take on a National Geographic look, portraying a subject at his or her best. Sound takes are crisp and clean, ready to podcast. Equipped with the latest technology and portable green studio sets, I can present an interviewee talking about the Arctic with polar bear footage in the background.
Post-Production:
I edit all my productions myself, thus securing the consistency my clients deserve. Effects are limitless when highlighting the stakes with historical footage or documents. Thanks to After Effects software, animated letters of a title can come raining in when talking about acid rain, or a visual can melt if we are talking about Climate Change. Finally your pick in my library of royalty-paid soundtracks and my network of voice-over talent add the humor, drama, or urgency you wish to deliver to your target audience.
Deliverables:
All formats of video and audio can be available to you, whether your production will be aired on Internet, Broadcast or DVD. Please feel free to call me at anytime at 415 702 9962 to explore your nature multimedia project. Together I’m sure we can make it a success.
Samples
4- Advancing Conservation by Fundraising at Christmas
Client: PERC Property and Environment Research University
Budget range for this kind of production: [$1,000-$1,500]
PERC Holiday Fundraising
Directed by Linda Platts.
Videography & Editing by V. Workman.
Date: December 2009
Video Production Process:
A tightly woven short piece presented by the Director including short interviews, some effects and outdoor footage of fly-fishing, elk, and hiking mountains. This was put together within two weeks, was on target increasing donations up to 40%.
"Family Mystique"
Budget range for a 23 minute production [$5,500-$6,000]
Type: Preview/trailer of a 23 min documentary
Directed, shot and edited by Vanessa Workman.
Client: Anonymous
Date: 2008
Length of preview: 1 min
Although this story is not related to any environmental cause, it was poignant. Similar to most successful documentaries, it got the audience to care through an attaching protagonist. Even when preparing a natural history documentary, it is key to have attaching people in your video and a story arc. Your audience gets to feel, discover and live the experience through a leading character.
Born in Sacramento, Nancy heads out to seek her birth parents and discovers a mystery....
A breathtaking story of separation and reunion.
6- Advancing Conservation with good story-telling
