In February I received an e-mail asking if my video production company in Olympia did “video biographies.” At that point, I hadn’t, but I was very excited by the opportunity to try something new. Wedding videos and web commercials are great, don’t get me wrong, but I’m always wanting to branch out and experience different things, broaden my range, expand my portfolio, and learn. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity. So I was candid, and replied that I had not done any, but would be eager to give it a shot. I recommended another company that I know specializes in such things if the client didn’t want to take a risk with a type of project I had not done before. I offered a fair price and waited.

She got back to me and had decided she’d like me to do the video biography for her mother, who was soon to be turning 80. The video biography would be shown at her birthday party, and copies given out to the guests. Here is about an 8 minute excerpt from the video.

I was very happy with the finished product. Quite pleased. The project in it’s entirety was a pleasure to work on. The shoot was fun, it was nice listening to Iona’s stories, and as usual, by the time I was done editing, I felt I knew Iona really well.
After everything was said and done, I found that Tammy, (Iona’s daughter) and Iona had left a great review on a vendor listing site I utilize.

“I hired Ken, at Kinetic Vision Media, to do a video biography of my mom for her 80th birthday. He was extremely patient with her, respectful throughtout the process, and we couldn’t be happier with our end product. I showed the DVD at her birthday party and I had 43 people agree with me that the DVD was amazing. I gave Ken some photos and my mom’s favorite music at our shooting and he implemented them and added so much richness in the creative way he put them and his own ideas all together. He allowed us to do some final editing to make it exactly to our liking and he met our deadline without a problem. I found Ken easy to work with and extremely flexible to our schedule. Prior to hiring Ken, I did much research within a reasonable distance to view the industry standards and try to decide how I wanted this to turn out. Ken offerred his own ideas and assisted us with coming up with a wonderful product and copies that we were able to distribute to our family members as a life-long momento. His pricing is extremely fair and lower than many other places around. Very good value all around. We would recommend Kinetic Vision Media without hesitation and hope many people read this and hire him so they can be as happy as we are with Ken’s work.”

Thanks Tammy and Iona!

So I’m hoping to launch a redesigned website soon, and plan on having a section featuring info and pricing on these types of videos, which I hope to be doing more of in the future. Thanks for reading!