There were stacks and stacks of applications, wowza. Competition is good of course, makes us work harder to make a better product. If we don’t make it in this time we will refine our submission and try again next year.

NSI is a great organization that I’ve done work for once in a while, mainly for helping them prepare videos for their on-line short film festival.

The biggest challenge I had in preparing this application was nailing down the vision for the creative; the show pitch is part live-action and part animation.  We put together synopsis’s for 3 episodes which turned out to be one of the most interesting parts of the process to me; the story is the meat of the application.

The decisions will be made by the end of June, here’s hoping.

We shot the video for this project a few months ago, and I was interested to see how it would be edited together. Usually I end up cutting footage myself that I shoot, but in this case another editor worked on it. Editing is such a craft, and a storytelling medium, that seeing how another storyteller interprets the footage I shot is not an experience I often have, and it can be a bit uneasy of a feeling, hoping that they do the footage justice.

As you can see below, the results are fantastic! The pacing is great, the music very fitting and the emotion conveyed through the edit fits perfectly what they were working to achieve. Great job all around, I’m glad that I was able to contribute to the final product. I don’t know if the footage from my Sony Z1U camera has ever looked so good!

Here are all 6 videos.

Suicide Affects Us All: You Can Help from Manitoba Suicide Line on Vimeo.

Suicide Affects Us All: A Story of Hope from Manitoba Suicide Line on Vimeo.

Suicide Affects Us All: John’s Story from Manitoba Suicide Line on Vimeo.

Suicide Affects Us All: Pearl’s Story from Manitoba Suicide Line on Vimeo.

Suicide Affects Us All: First Peoples Perspectives from Manitoba Suicide Line on Vimeo.

Suicide Affects Us All: Carson’s Story from Manitoba Suicide Line on Vimeo.

I was impressed with the creativity of many of the short films, which showed originality in concepts and execution. The “Last Dance” video, which was lens on a RED One camera, was beautifully shot and well done. I am still amazed that this was put together by high school students, great job! Below is the video preview for the Short Film Night, including an excerpt from “Last Dance”.

They were a lot of work to produce and I’m proud of the team at the OHC and MediaCircus.TV for putting together such unique videos.

Manitoba Workplace Health and Safety – Eritrean Community from George Harrison on Vimeo.

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Manitoba Workplace Health and Safety – Punjabi Community from George Harrison on Vimeo.

The Johnald Slow Show is a humourous take on radio talk shows performed by Winnipeg actor/comedian Dean Harder. MediaCircus.TV is assiting with the video production for this years performaces of the Johnald Slow Show at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. 

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The team at MediaCircus.TV are proud to have been a part of this project and look forward to the reaction from the Punjabi community at this great event.