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We offer professional video production and photography at competitive prices. Photographs are great. Being able to watch and hear your wonderful day forever in pristine quality is even better. Whether it's your wedding day, anniversary, birthday, business gathering, or any other special event Celebration Video will capture the memories. Want to really make the event special? We will make an outstanding video presentation for your guests. Have some photos you want to bring to life in a dramatic way? Celebration Video will take your ideas to the next level so everyone can see and hear them.
Celebration Video uses state of the art technology to produce images above and beyond broadcast quality. Our non-linear digital editing allows us to add in professional graphics and effects. We offer several different packages to fit your needs. Production packages come with color photographs and titles on the videos or DVDs.
Emmy® Award Winning Videography
Celebration Video videographer Jeremy Salo accepted an Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Michigan Chapter at the 29th Annual Emmy Awards on June 16th, 2007. The award is for the documentary "The Life and Times of Pablo Davis". It features an interview with artist, humanitarian, and historian Pablo Davis. He is the last living artist who helped the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera paint the famous Detroit Industry murals. The Louvre in Paris houses Pablo Davis's art. The video took over three years to complete with efforts from many individuals and Madonna University students. The award is being presented to Adam Guth, Christina Warren and Jeremy Salo.
Here are a few questions from an interview for a press release conducted by Natalie Settimo interviewing Jeremy Salo:
What role did you play in producing the film?
Jeremy Salo:
When I became president of the Madonna University Broadcast Club, this was one of the projects that was left undone previously by the group. The project was at a standstill. I took it upon myself to get the new students excited about the project and bring it back to life. Toward the last few years of this project I acted as the Producer. At meetings I decided what needed to happen to get this video done. Then I got volunteers assigned to specific tasks, and made sure everyone knew what they were doing, added more guidelines so that everyone used the same type of methods, and that they completed what they were assigned to in a timely manner. I watched through old footage and logged some, then assigned others to log the rest. Once we went through all the old footage I decided that footage could possibly be used for some B-roll, but that we need to shoot some more interviews with Pablo Davis to replace the old ones. This time we need to use better microphones, lighting, and high definition cameras shooting with more of a studio style configuration. We shot about two hours of an interview with Pablo at the Pablo Davis Living Center. I helped set up the lighting, cameras, and wireless microphones, as well as operated one of the cameras during the interview. This interview ended up as the base for the final video. There were many additional shots that were need for B-roll. I went out a couple of times to various locations in Detroit and recorded most of those shots with a Sony HD camera. Adam Guth and Christina Warren both graduated before I attended Madonna, so they weren't around during the production or planning of the video the last two years. They came in and edited everything together for the final video.
How did you feel when you found out that you won an Emmy®? Were you surprised?
Jeremy Salo:
I was very excited and surprised when I heard we won an Emmy®. I didn't even know my professor Charles Derry had entered the piece. It was a lot of work organizing all the old footage and picking up the producing of the project. The close to a dozen production shoots I was involved with were also quite challenging. One of those shoots involved an interview with Pablo Davis outside of a building with a Mural he painted. During the interview it started pouring rain. Pablo was un-affected by the rain and continued talking. We were on a tight schedule to get to another location to record a ceremony Pablo was speaking. So we continued taping in the rain. Working with so many people of different backgrounds and experience levels was definitely a challenge but was an invigorating and enriching one.
What advice would you give to new students enrolling in Television and Video Communications to help them succeed?
Jeremy Salo:
My advice to new students enrolling in Television and Video Communications programs is to spend as much time as possible outside of the classroom in the field getting hands on experience using the technology. You may learn the concepts and even get a chance to try them out at school, but you wont really encounter many of the crucial aspects of production or post production until you work in an environment outside of the carefully engineered and adjusted student setting. The past ten years in this business has taught me that you will always be learning new things trying to keep up with the new technology. Don't ever forget that and think you know everything because that is when problems occur.