What's new at In Shot Productions

-We take out an award in the 2010 Australian Video Producers Association Awards
-Baby number 2 is on it's way. It's a boy!
-Attention small to medium business owners
-City of Mandurah Promotional Video
-We almost made it to the Sundance Film Festival – well kind of
-Are tree crops the future of WA's Wheatbelt

We take out an award in the 2010 Australian Video Producers Association Awards

Although a lot more pressed for time these days, we still managed to get a few last minute entries off to the 2010 AVPA awards. Well it paid off as we are very excited to announce we took out the award for DVD presentation. A big thank you to the AVPA and the members of the association.

Baby number 2 is on it's way. It's a boy!

As some of you may already know we are expecting a new arrival shortly! We were pleasantly surprised to find out that it will be a boy this time. The baby is due March 17 (less than 3 weeks away!) so please excuse us if there are any delays in communication as we will be taking a little time off to settle the bub in at home. We will be sure to keep everyone up to date with the announcement of the birth when it does happen.

Also If you haven’t seen it through our blog and are interested feel free to check out our tribute video to the birth of our first child Jasmine here. Between a couple of versions of the clip online, her video has actually received over 50,000 views worldwide (now ahead of Craig's Top Gear video at 45,000 views) making it our most viewed online clip. To avoid sibling rivalry I guess we will be putting something together for the next baby too.

Attention small to medium business owners

After much planning we will soon be launching a number of set priced, website promotional video packages to help business owners grow their enterprise. Combining high quality production values with a results driven online video marketing strategy, these website video packages are designed to increase your customer conversion rates as well as generate new leads. Follow us on facebook and keep an eye out for our email with more information soon. Also feel free to contact us to express your interest in our preliminary special offers.

Did you know? “Relevant online videos are 53 times more likely to get a first page Google ranking than a conventioanl webpage” Forrester Research

City of Mandurah Promotional Video

As passionate West Australians we always jump at the opportunity to share on film any part of our beautiful state. Over the last month we had the opportunity to work with the City of Mandurah on producing a promotional video to highlight the well known and lesser known tourist attractions of the peel region. This video which is currently in post production, will soon be available online and will also be screened on a loop within the tourist centre as well as on Mandurah's inner city buses video system.

We almost made it to the Sundance Film Festival – well kind of

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in “Life in a Day”, a historic cinematic experiment to create a documentary film about a single day on earth. Always keen to share life experiences on video we took part and captured some of our day. Late last year we were excited to hear that our footage had been shortlisted into the top 100 hours of footage, for the 90 minute documentary, out of more than 4500 hours of footage received by the editors! Although we didn't make the final cut, the documentary by Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald, is well worth checking out and was recently screened at the Sundance Film Festival. It will be released officially later this year. www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday

Are tree crops the future of WA's Wheatbelt?

Covering an area larger than Tasmania, late last year we ventured into the far corners of the Western Australian whealtbelt, to film how WA farmers are benefiting from tree crops.

Produced for the Australian Sandalwood Network, the first video is a short documentary on Sandalwood production and its deep history in Western Australia's wheatbelt.

Did you know? Sandalwood was once Western Australia's biggest export commodity, also Sandalwood oil is a ingredient in some of the world’s favorite perfumes including “Obsession” by Calvin Klein and “Opium” by Yves St Laurent. Sandalwood – “The Golden Harvest” can be viewed here.

The second video is a series of Interviews of Farmers sharing their stories on the benefits of treecrops which was produced for Avongro Wheatbelt tree cropping. “Greener Horizons – 5 Western Australian farmers share their experience with tree crops. ” can be viewed here.

Thank you to all the families who put us up for the night during our travels through the wheat belt and for you assistance and contribution to the shoot.