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Runaway Pen Productions
- Weymouth, MA 02188 (map)
- (574) 309-4374
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Runaway Pen Productions • Weymouth, MA • $40-60 per hour
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Runaway Pen Productions provides freelance professional video production by Mikel J. Wisler, with experience in shooting and editing narrative and documentary projects, directing TV commercials, shooting company videos, editing high-impact content, and working on crews ranging from TV spots to feature films.
Mikel is an independent filmmaker himself, having directed several short films. Three of those films now have international distribution, and four have international film festival exposure, nominations, and awards.
With a passion for excellence and telling stories with a heart, Mikel brings to each production a dedicated approach to finding the best way to tell your story, and reach your audience.
Mikel provides full-production services for projects in the New England area, from shooting through editing. For a full listing of his gear and samples of his work, please visit the Runaway Pen Productions website!
For editing projects, Mikel works with Final Cut Pro Studio 3, and can do additional effects, graphics, and titling work with Adobe After Effects and Apple's Motion. Runaway Pen can handle a wide array of HD productions, including HDSLR shooting and editing.
Question and answer
Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A. While new technology continues to make video creation seem easier these days, the artistic sensibility and in-depth technical skills required to make truly polished and professional grade video products has never been more important than now in creating something that stands out from the crowded market of companies with videos on their websites or commercials on TV. It's no longer good enough to just have any-old-video on your website or running on TV. It needs to be unique and it needs to be definitively professional. My best advice: find someone who understands your goals and your target audience and can go about delivering a video project that is truly excellent and memorable.
Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?
A. Editing is a time-consuming process that is often very technical and very detail oriented. As a result, making a shorter video doesn't necessarily mean cutting down on editing time. In fact, short, concise, clear, and memorable videos are much more challenging and time consuming to edit than many longer videos. But often time, such videos have a much broader impact.
Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?
A. The more specific game plan you have for your video, the easier it is to determine a budget. So think though what you want to accomplish: how long the video should be, where you want it to be seen, who are the people that will be included in the video, will this video need graphics or music, where will shooting take place and when?
Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?
A. I have a passion for telling stories and for pushing myself to learn new skills and excel. I seek to master the technical in order to free the creative.
Q. What do you like most about your job?
A. I enjoy meeting people and collaborating in the creative process in the effort to make great work (both video and films) that reaches its intended audience.
Q. Tell us about a recent job you did that you are particularly proud of.
A. I am quite proud of the four videos I had the opportunity to create for The River Church. I was given great creative license and opted to shoot B-roll footage around the city of Quincy, Mass. I then applied some effects to that footage to give it an aged and scratched Super-8 film look and used rear projection against a sheet behind the interview subject while shooting with two cameras. We shot everything with Canon DSLR cameras in a wide aspect ratio (2.35:1) most often used for big action movies. Along with the use of film reel transitions and careful color correction, the final videos have a uniquely cinematic and polished look while also feeling gritty and real. To see all four videos, go to: http://theriversouth.org.
