Michael Conti Productions

Category: Documentary

  • Empowers movement of Social Emotional Learning

    Empowers movement of Social Emotional Learning


    “I really enjoyed working with you on this video. You did a remarkable job of capturing, selecting and most of all understanding the heart of this story. I was very impressed. And now people know a little more about all the good that is going on in Atlanta–it gives us all hope.”


    – Gary Dixon, President of Random Acts of Kindness Foundation and Foundation for a Better Life.

    Video empowers audience with social emotional learning stories

    This video captures a movement occurring across America’s educational landscape. It almost didn’t happen in a timely manner.   Michael Conti Video Productions became contacted by Random Acts of Kindness Foundation.  The end-result of the 5 minute video came from 10 hours of video captured of both students, administrators, teachers and parents from the Atlanta Public Schools.  We visited over two shoots into inner city schools there.  Those videos were then transcribed professionally to help with narrowing the video editing process by the Boulder Video Editor, Michael Conti.

    The stories in the video were authentically captured in classrooms or wherever there was room for the 2-person crew to set up.  We had natural lighting and practical florescent lighting along with a well-placed mic for the majority of the interviews caught with Canon XF100.  B-roll was captured with a Canon 6D.

    Besides color correction and audio sweetening by our support contractors, the magic happened again when we went into Coupe Studios, a local Boulder award-winning recording studio, to do the final mix after receiving an original score by Los Angeles based composer Chris Piorkowski.

    Conclusion

    The end result is a video that moves people.  Let’s us know otherwise.

    Since the Atlanta Public Schools hadn’t yet complied all the data on the metrics of the one year test implementation of SEL into some of their schools.  What we captured on the video became the anecdotal research results.  They were impressed with what they heard and saw!

  • Filmmakers who aren’t afraid to break new ground

    Filmmakers who aren’t afraid to break new ground

    While our inspirational documentary film, The Unruly Mystic: John Muir, indie budget pales in comparison to a Hollywood film, Boulder Colorado based Michael Conti Productions decision to use an integrated Adobe workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro at the hub, was a given for this tech-savvy and budget conscious producer, director and editor, Michael M. Conti.

    Adobe Premiere Pro was used to edit 21 films that will appear at the Sundance Film Festival this year, up from only 9 in 2014. After pairing up with Adobe After Effects CC, Premiere’s capabilities and ease of use noticeably improved, attracting more and more devoted users.

    Case in point:

    Gone Girl is the first Hollywood feature-length film cut entirely in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

    This final tidbit of news was a welcome surprise to the independent film community.

    Much of the visual effects work was done in-house, which allowed the team to work iteratively, in parallel with the editing. For example, Michael Conti could edit in Adobe Premiere Pro while others worked on shots in After Effects. The saved compositions would automatically update in Conti’s timeline thanks to Adobe Dynamic Link. This integrated and interactive workflow kept shots looking cleaner and eliminated distracting back-and-forth discussions so the entire team could focus on the story as it took shape in the edit bay. This streamlined workflow was one of the main advantages for “The Unruly Mystic.”

    The process of editing this 105 minute movie with Premiere Pro from the ingest of assets (originally shot on two CANON XF100s), to individual scene editing (taking advantage of sub-clip and bin folders), to combining the multiple scenes in a single timeline (flatten) will be a subject of another post.

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  • Special Video Documentation Rate for Boulder Practitioners

    Special Video Documentation Rate for Boulder Practitioners

    A MICHAEL CONTI video production provides a Special Flat Rate* to Boulder-based alternative practitioners whom might benefit from having a healing, meditation, therapy, dance/yoga or gathering documented on video.

    For only $400 dollars which includes a rough cut with the all the footage,  MCP will attend your function for a minimum of 2 hours.  Additional time can be booked if necessary.  You can use the resulting footage to review for performance or create additional shorter videos for online marketing, instruction or social media.

    Post production costs are in addition to the production services fee.  Editing is much more open ended than videotaping which is why it is important to have a conversation with us prior to the video being shot.  Generally, expect to require 2 hours of editing time for each hour of content captured during a video shoot.   Depending upon what your needs are with the final video, your post production costs can be covered within an additional $500 dollars. Additional time can be booked if necessary.

    Production Services – MCP uses high definition and standard definition video formats to meet your production value needs; Lights – flat panel, soft boxes; Sound – Sony wired and wireless mics and boom.

    Post Production – Video Editing, DVD authoring, Web streaming and digital video encoding for all social media outlets.

    We are non-intrusive  with our video documentation and can forgo additional lighting and sound equipment if the situation warrants it.  Having worked with many alternative practitioners, we can bring an unique visual insight to documenting your own process.

    Please call 303-641-7228 or visit us online at www.michaelcontiproductions.com to learn more about our services.

    *Subject to Change.   Travel costs added to areas outside of Boulder County.