This entry was posted on 9/1/2010 12:00 AM and is filed under education.
Hello WedVidTalk listeners,
Al and I are just back from WEVA EXPO 2010 the 20th Annual WEVA Expo. As always it is an enlightening, invigorating and exhausting experience.
We go because we have made so many friends each and every year and look forward to seeing them again. We meet new people each year and it is exciting exchanging information with them. We learn new ways of doing things from people all over the country, scratch that, the WORLD.
This year I was the chairperson of the 20th Annual Committee. It was wonderful working with the volunteers who want to make the Expo experience exciting and fun for the attendees. Committee work is very rewarding and watching people work their special skills on behalf of the industry never fails to give me goosebumps. I feel it is the way it is just supposed to be.
My thanks to Dan Krieger and Fred Tims who volunteered their skills as professional photographers to be our Opening Night Paparazzi for our red carpet walk into the reception. Thanks also to Neil Enterprises who donated the paper, printing and customized folders for the photographs that were given to the attendees! Those pictures were terrific and I'm sure they sold quite a few printers as the prints were amazing and many many videographers are offering day of photography among the services they offer clients.
Also on the committee was Chicago Videographer, Barb Scheman who also received the Pam Andelora Ambassador Award and boy if ever there was a person who deserves this it is Barbara! She is a joy to work with and a spirited colleague who keeps things on track with a ton of enthusiasm. Natalie Neal of Philadelphia spent a great deal of time on decor as well as being chairperson of the Ambassador Committee our fearless diva took on every thing that was thorough at her and she did, as always, an amazing job at everything she touched. Ken Kurita, Chairperson of the Special Awards spent time getting info on photography and lighting, Sarah Pendergraft worked the Social Networking, and Sue Lawson, a crackerjack reporter and Producer of the WEVA NewsMinutes, was hot on the idea trail and we used many of them! We were also fortunate to have WEVA Hall of Fame Inductees Joyce Bertolami (also on the Special Awards Committee) and Kris Malandruccolo(Chairperson of the Public Relations Committee) working on the committee, many many thanks to all the time and attention to detail for so many months. I would particularly like to thank and recommend Linda Elland the meeting planner of A2Z meetings, Tampa, Florida, that WEVA hired with less than a month out to help pull all the details together! Linda Elland ROCKS. If you ever need a meeting planner, hook up with her and just hold on while she makes the magic happen!
Al spent weekly conference calls since January working on the Tools and Technologies exhibit with Scott Scheman, Fred Tims, Lauri Batwin and Scot Sheely. They not only met weekly to discuss the history of the industry but they produced several videos on the state of the art and the contributions of several pieces of equipment to the development of the wedding video industry. Look for the videos on You Tube soon. Many thanks to the committee for their devotion and skills. They are very much appreciated. and a great big hit at WEVA EXPO. So many interesting conversation were struck up around the use of the equipment. Industry veterans and newbies alike enjoyed it.
At WEVA 2010, John Zale, Director of Education pulled together an excellent array of speakers and panelists. There were many first time speakers and it was great to hear that they also want to give back to the industry that they have learned so much from. It is a wonderful circle. We also enjoyed the returning speakers who have educated us before and expanded their knowledge and shared it with us. Of course special thanks to Roy and Linda Chapman who make WEVA what it is.
As we walked around it made us so happy that many listeners stopped us to say hi and let us know that they learned so much from wedvidtalk and encouraged us to start up again. Speakers told us they were new to the business when the podcast started and now they were speaking! So cool!
As most of you know, we were recording the WEVA On The Air podcasts and it had become too hard to do both. Since the WEVA On the Air podcasts have been put on hiatus, we decided to take our listeners advice and jump start WedVidTalk. We recorded our presentation on Receptions at the NYPV meeting and that two part podcast will be up first. We follow up with a podcast with Al's first video assistant (back in the 80's) and catch up with his relocation and new line of video work.
Of course, Al and I recorded new podcasts at the EXPO that I am in the process of editing and all will be posted on at www.wedvidtalk.com before the end of the month.
Hope you enjoy and give us your feedback with ideas for new show and topics!
