McKenna Video and Photo Wedding Commercial

This video is a quick introduction to our wedding website that we put together last week. In it, we ask our visitors to explore the site and view the information and we encourage them to call us for more information.

For more information on our wedding services, please visit MVS Weddings. For more information on corporate video production, please visit McKenna Video.

Filmed with EX1R, with greenscreen.

Blessings,

Chris

Outtakes from a Recent Video Shoot

We had been planning to shoot our own promotional video for our wedding services for some time and I thought that Lynette would be great at it-a natural since she looks good on camera and since she is part of our business she knows it inside and out. Well, as I found out sometimes we "the professionals" are our own worst spokespersons.

So here are some outtakes from that shoot. Keep in mind that our goal was to get about a minute worth of content.

Enjoy the goofs. And thanks, Lynette, for being such a good sport! Complete video coming soon.

Blessings,

Chris.

Laurel Creek Manor Promotional Video

I know that I am a little bit late in posting this video here on my blog, but the holidays and a busy work schedule prevented me from posting it earlier. So today, we are presenting a promotional video that we put together for Laurel Creek Manor of Sumner, WA. This video is centered around the wedding of Rachel & Tony who were married last summer.

Laurel Creek Manor is a wonderful wedding venue and corporate event center nestled in the Puyallup Valley and they offer a wonderful place for any couple looking for a great place to tie the knot. I would encourage you to contact Kirsten at kcabodi@hotmail.com for more information about their wedding or corporate event services.

I shot this video in HD using a Sony PMW-EX1R camera.

If you have any questions about our wedding videos, please visit our MVS Weddings website or send me an email at info@mvsweddings.com.

Enjoy and blessings,

Chris.

American Pride 2010

I know, I know, way too long in between posts. Well, just because we don't blog as often as we like doesn't mean that we're not thinking about you. Quite the contrary, I think about you all the time! :-)

Anyway, posted here for your enjoyment is the latest creation from McKenna Video & Photo. This is a montage of photographs from the 2010 American Pride Soccer Club. The photographs span a number of games and highlights all the girls on the club (some of which didn't make it to the end of the season). The final portion of the video includes photographs of club supporters (parents, siblings, friends, etc.) and a portrait of each girl.

All photographs were taken by Lynette and myself.

Enjoy the video!

Blessings,

Chris

Tacoma Television Commercials

We've been busy editing video the last few weeks, and over the last couple of months have produced 2 television commercials. Maybe you've seen them.

Want to share them here.

Let us know what you think and be sure to support these businesses.

Blessings,

Chris.

Where have you been?

October 1. WOW. Where has the last couple of months gone?

I received a note from a follower the other day asking me "what's up...haven't heard from you in a while. Are you still alive?" Well, yes, I'm still alive and kicking, well more like hobbling. Yes, I'm still here and still producing video. And despite the slowdown in production and transfers, I have been busy with work and well, life, putting the blog and newsletters on the bottom of the "to do" list.

So my last post to this blog was on July 6, I believe. Since then, we have had 6 weddings (and we're now done for the year) mixed into our normal workload. I have decided to take back some of my life and spend less time at the office and more time with the kids and on the soccer field (I am now on 2 soccer teams-one in Seattle and the other in Tacoma-as well as helping out my daughters team), I have donated some time to a few political candidates, playing guitar in church and well, watching more and more soccer (Lynette thinks that we've become obsessed with soccer since the World Cup earlier this summer). On the business side, we launched High Note Video with our friend, Jan Decker of Crisis Management Consulting, and have been working on making changes to our MVS Weddings and Chris McKenna Photography sites. (If you are or know a good flash web programmer please have them give me a call).

So, today I thought that it was time to resurrect posting to the blogs. So, later on I will post a few videos that have been completed in the last couple of months.

And by the way, in regards to this blog, I am contemplating a move to embedding this blog into our McKenna Video website. So if you have any feelings, one way or another, please let me know. And stay tuned for more information regarding the move if we decide to do so.

Blessings,

Chris

The Eley Love Story

In honor of their first year as husband wife, we are posting an excerpt from a love story video that we put together last year for Jessica and Mark's wedding.

This video was shot on location at Pt. Defiance Park in Tacoma, WA in May of 2009 (what a different in weather we had this year-nothing like last year) and along the waterfront of Ruston, WA. We managed to complete it without too much interference from others, along a stray bird did "fowl" the scene a couple of times (no pun intended).

There entire video was approximately 20 minutes in length, about two times as long as this version. That their full-length video, we incorporated a lot of photographs from their growing up years and their years together as a couple.

We thought that we'd post the shorten version here with our congratulations on making it through year one.

Best wishes for many more happy years together.