Anyone can post a video online. The creation, edit and upload of a digital video is fast becoming a basic digital communications skill. If you want your video to be more than just online noise you have to know which options are at play. Here’s Miceli Productions down and dirty list of the top five video… Continue reading Top 5 Video Editing Basics for New Media
Daddy Long Legs: Working with Composer Paul Gordon
There are many compliments one can get in theatrical sound design, but few mean as much as being asked back to work with a great team. Tony-nominated Broadway musical composer Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre) and Music Director Laura Bergquist worked with Miceli Productions‘ Sound Designer Michael Miceli on the 2009 production of Emma and will… Continue reading Daddy Long Legs: Working with Composer Paul Gordon
Burn a DVD? Rip a DVD? Dupe a DVD? What’s the dif? Often it seems like people in the world of video speak a totally different language and have 3 different words for what appears to be the same concept. As media professionals we do in fact have a unique vocabulary to what we do. … Continue reading Video Vocab for Business Owners (Part 1 of 4)
Miceli Productions launches newly designed website March 2010. Built using Freeway Pro software by Michael Miceli, lead website architect, with creative input from Jennifer Blessing Miceli and marketing consultant Lisa Niedermeyer, the new website features: HD Inspired 16:9 Aspect Ratio (no scrolling!) Automation and Integration of Social Media Platforms Process Insights (your project’s journey from conception… Continue reading Sneak Peak: Miceli Productions Website ReDesign
Video Editing Discounts for Greater Southington CT Chamber Members
Connecticut’s Greater Southington Chamber of Commerce launches their online ‘Chamber Mall’ April 5, 2010. Under the leadership of Chamber President Art Secondo the new The ‘Chamber Mall’ creates a platform for members to offer business and service discounts to the community through an online network hosted at www.southingtoncoc.com. Since becoming Chamber Members in 2003 Miceli… Continue reading Video Editing Discounts for Greater Southington CT Chamber Members
Anatomy of 30 Seconds: Storyboarding TV Commercials
As Creative Director for Miceli Productions, Jennifer Blessing Miceli tackles script development, location visits, hiring talent, and managing a project’s time line. In collaboration with clients, Jennifer storyboards each moment to ensure your 30 seconds of video communicates a simple yet meaningful message connected to your business. “Storyboards keep clients and producers on the same… Continue reading Anatomy of 30 Seconds: Storyboarding TV Commercials
Day turns to night, flowers open then wither, a chrysalis morphs into a butterfly, all within a few moments on the screen. Time-lapse video can be a compelling tool to capture something otherwise deemed unable to capture. The first recorded use of the time-lapse technique was by cinematographer Georges Méliès‘ in his motion picture Carrefour… Continue reading TIME LAPSE VIDEO: Use for Impact
[youtube width=”620″ height=”355″ video_id=”tudzEskckZU”] Miceli Productions spent a week in VSI Media‘s MoCon (Motion Control Camera) Suite during production of our feature length corporate documentary film Amphenol: Connecting Through Time. MEET THE AMPHENOLIANS is a short video created as a DVD extra to celebrate company values among business managers. Amphenolians are 6 inches tall, made… Continue reading Motion Control: Meet The Amphenolians
Miceli Productions footage of Hartford Stage Company‘s current production “Gee’s Bend” will be broadcast on Channel 3’s morning show “Better Connecticut”, hosted by Scot Haney and Karen Sundlun, Wednesday February 3rd 2010. Communications Manager at Hartford Stage Company, Paul Marte, has worked with Miceli Productions for over 6 years and has come to rely on… Continue reading Broadcast Quality Event Coverage – 3 Key Ingredients
The Future of Audio and Video at Hartford Stage Company
As audio supervisor at Hartford Stage Company, Michael Miceli interfaces with guest designers for productions (occasionally designing himself) and oversees all audio and video system repairs and upgrades. With the $11 million renovation of Hartford Stage breaking ground (May 26, 2010) Michael breaks down what the renovation means for the future of audio and video… Continue reading The Future of Audio and Video at Hartford Stage Company
[jwplayer mediaid=”5945″] If a picture is worth a thousand words, then imagine what a 3D Animation Sequence video can do for your business. What is the Value of Video? 3D animation sequences have untapped potential when promoting your brand, logo, or business proposal. This type of animation allows your audience to visualize products and devices… Continue reading 3D Animation Sequences Bring Your Brand to Life
Relay For Life Documentary Film Screens in Southington CT
Documentary Film Screens in Southington Excerpts from the documentary film “Southington Relay For Life” aired January 20th in Southington Connecticut as a part of the local KICK OFF for The American Cancer Society’s worldwide fundraiser and awareness event, Relay For Life 2010. Mary DeCroce, one of the event’s three local chairs, came to Miceli Productions… Continue reading Relay For Life Documentary Film Screens in Southington CT
Multimedia Design for Romeo and Juliet by Michael Miceli
The Virginia Stage Company promised “a bold, new staging” of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet when it hired Michael Miceli as the multimedia designer to work in collaboration with director Patrick Mullins and set designer Samuel W. Flint on their modern vision, //romeo&juliet/. “The production uses Internet technology and audio and video devices to… Continue reading Multimedia Design for Romeo and Juliet by Michael Miceli
Roger Maycock interviews Michael Miceli for Live Design magazine about his A/V consultation with Middletown CT’s Mercy High School in preparation for their auditorium facilities upgrade. “We’re talking about an 800-seat auditorium with a proscenium stage. The space is used for school assemblies, concerts, plays, musicals, and countless other activities. The room needed to be… Continue reading Live Design Magazine Interviews Michael Miceli
Michael Miceli Nominated for Kevin Kline Award in Sound Design for ELLA
Michael Miceli‘s original sound design for ELLA, a musical play about the life and songs of Ella Fitzgerald, was nominated for a Kevin Kline Award in 2009. Recognizing outstanding achievement in Professional Theatre in the Greater St. Louis Area, The Kevin Kline Awards honor theatre artists and productions in over 20 categories. The awards are… Continue reading Michael Miceli Nominated for Kevin Kline Award in Sound Design for ELLA