True View Films : Video Production and Photography for Central Florida

Autumn 2011 has been a busy time. My apologies for not updating the news for so long.

True View had a number of recent shoots in the Orlando area. The first was for the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. The Diocese had a special convention at Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park to elect the Fourth Bishop of Central Florida in November. True View was selected to document the convention with video. In addition, True View  produced the short video recordings of each of the seven candidates several weeks prior to the convention. These were shot in the chapel located at the Diocesan Offices, located in downtown Orlando.

For more information on the convention, visit the web site of the Diocese of Central Florida. Videos can be viewed on the You Tube Channel for the Diocese of Central Florida.

Another client, this time from out of state, hired True View to do a shoot at the Stanton Generating Station on the east side of Orlando near the University of Central Florida. Having experience dealing with OHSA, Roger was prepared with his hard hat, safety glasses, and steel toed work boots.

Behar Fingal, a marketing and design firm out of Pittsburgh, had Roger do a shoot of their client’s demonstration project at the plant. The demonstration was of advanced emission control technologies provided by Breen Energy Solutions

True View has been busy since January filming a major construction project going on at All Saints’ Episcopal Church adjacent to the Lakeland City Hall. Several videos including a timelapse, have been posted to the All Saints You Tube Channel.

The 4th Annual running of the Lakeland Derby was held Friday April 29, 2011 on beautiful Lake Mirror. The Derby is a special community event to benefit Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine.

LVIM has been providing free health care to the working uninsured of Polk County for 10 years.

True View is pleased to have been one of the sponsors of this year’s Derby. The video is on the Screning Room Page. Photos from the event can be viewed by clicking the icon in the side bar of this site. Participants can email roger@trueviewfilms.com for a full size digital proof of your photo. Thank you for supporting LVIM.

Spring is here, and with the change of seasons True View has seen a big change in bookings. Whereas the fall and winter months Roger was mostly covering sporting events, late March and April have been filled with business seminars in Orlando.

This led to a need to record long form events efficiently, so True View has added a hard drive recorder to the main camera.

This device is very similar to the DVR from your cable company. It records in High Definition and allows recording both to tape and to the internal hard drive of the device simultaneously.

Plus, the device continues recording while tapes are being changed so there is no break in the action. The tapes are just used for backup. This also adds efficiency to the post-production process. The files are easily transcoded for loading into either Avid Liquid or Avid Media Composer.

The most recent two day seminar had well over 100 GB of data for delivery. Since this would take more than twenty DVDs to hold it all, True View shipped this massive amount of footage on an external USB hard drive to the client.

Sorry, but there will be no highlights from the seminars posted on the True View web site, since the  clients’ footage is considered proprietary and confidential by us. If you have a seminar you need recorded, Roger will keep your information safe too. Non-disclosure agreements are available upon request.

True View recently provided video coverage of the Detroit Tigers Diamond Gala, celebrating the Tigers 75th Anniversary of Spring Training in Lakeland Florida. Several hundred members of the community, along with Baseball Hall of Fame Members, players and coaches from the Tigers organization, civic leaders, philanthropists, and special guests were in attendance.

Jeanette Lee, the former #1 billiards player in the world, was the star performer. Lee, who goes by The Black Widow, put on a stunning show. It was easy to see why she’d won more than thirty national and international titles. A highlight video is on our Vimeo site. There is a link in the sidebar if you’d like to check it out.

Eventrics hosted the Diamond Gala at the beautiful Lake Mirror Center in Lakeland as a fundraiser to benefit the Boy’s and Girls Clubs of Lakeland and Mulberry, Polk Sheriff’s Charities, the Sunflower Preschool Playground, and The First Tee Lakeland.

True View feels privileged to work again with Sherrin and John of Eventrics.

True View provided coverage of the 42nd Diocesan Convention of The Episcopal Church in Central Florida on January 28-29, 2011. The convention was held at La Hacienda Recreation Center at The Villages, Florida.  A video of Bishop Howe’s address can be found on our Vimeo Site.

True View partnered with Professional Video Imaging in covering the most recent Outback Bowl Parade this past New Year’s Eve. The parade was held in the Ybor City section of Tampa Bay. We recorded numerous interviews of members of various high school bands from around the country who won invitations to be in the parade, half time show, and other special events connected to the game.

It was a pleasure to shoot the parade from the Judge’s Balcony overlooking the parade route. We enjoyed the opportunity to video record the bands we had interviewed marching in the parade. The University of Florida Fighting Gators Band, and the Penn State Nittany Lions Band put on a fantastic performance as well. For information on ordering a DVD from PVI, click the Outback Bowl thumbnail in the sidebar.

The busy season is here. In addition to all the recent high school sporting events we’ve been covering, we’ve also been booked for a couple of concerts and a couple of seminars.

Now that the weather has cooled and we are out of the rainy season here in Florida, weddings have picked up too, especially outdoor weddings. Check out our WEDDINGS page for recent highlights.

If you are considering booking True View for your event, don’t wait too long to contact us. Our schedule is filling up fast. There are more than a dozen on location shoots scheduled  for True View in the next six weeks! Check out the new OUR SCHEDULE page.

True View is pleased to announce that football isn’t the only sport we film for college scouts. Last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we covered a large soccer tournament at four locations in the Tampa Bay area. Roger from True View, and Cornell from Cornell Young Video Production based in Orlando were contracted by Captain U.

Based in California,  “CaptainU is a team of former college athletes and college coaches and technology experts dedicated to making recruiting easy for high school athletes.” Roger filmed a total of seven games in three days. True View is grateful for the opportunity to work with Captain U and Cornell Young Video Productions.

Tuesday August 10, 2010

Lakeland, Florida

True View LLC is pleased to announce our new affiliation with XOS Digital. We are providing high quality digital video recordings of area high school football games for XOS Digital’s new PlayerOnDemand service. This internet video portal is an exciting and efficient 21st Century digital scouting and recruiting service for collegiate athletic departments. After video footage is ingested, XOS adds metadata to each file so that every relevant piece of information will be embedded with the highlight or game footage.

True View is proud to be a contributing member of this nationwide network of film crews and professional videographers currently representing 15,000 high schools and junior colleges in 43 states. Look for us at your school’s games.