About Our Company

 

About Us

 

We are a company that is determined to produce great videos for our customers. We produce professional videos for client's websites, YouTube pages, TV/Cable commercials and more. Additionally, we also produce music videos, feature films, and the like. We have been producing videos for 5 years and have a very experienced crew. We cover all aspects of production from start to finish. We have many connections with the marketing world to follow up on the backend as well. We also host major events for the entertainment industry, from concerts to film festivals.  We are presently hosting a business networking event/concert at Dave & Busters on June 22^nd. Our next major event will be a film festival this fall.

 

Philanthropy 

 

* We pride ourselves on giving college students the opportunity to work right out of school. Most companies want students to have 3-4 yrs experience when they graduate before they would consider hiring them. This is nearly impossible. We have set up a program to remedy that. We hire students straight out of college and give them the training they need in the areas they are most passionate about. We give them the stability of a job, allowing them time to get themselves on their feet and into the big world. With the opportunities we present them with, they are able to better establish themselves so that they don’t become one of the many graduates in this field that end up working at a pizza parlor for the rest of their lives.

 

* Our heavy involvement with our community makes us a name people recognize and trust. Lees Productions LLC sponsors and contributes to events that help better the community, promote commerce, and encourages the collaboration of businesses. We support events and foundations dealing with animal care, adoption, and education about animal abuse. As a company we believe in the idea of spreading opportunities to everyone and promoting the well being of a strong economy.

 

* Our company is a part of Rotary International and we are involved with a lot of charity work in our community. We are helping with scholarships for high school students and Sandy Relief for people at the shore. We are always looking for ways to be more involved.

Creating a Great Film: Shooting

When you finally get to the shooting part of the film it is important to remain organized and flexible. You need to be able to keep moving while not sacrificing quality. And you need to roll with the punches should something go wrong.

Always make sure that everyone, even the PA's have heard what the shoot schedule and plan are before the shoot dates. Make sure each head, Director, DP, and AD, all know who is on their team. This helps avoid confusion and stress on the set. Avoiding as many problems as you can by planning early helps when the inevitable problems begin. Have back up plans and procedures in place before the shoot so everyone knows what's going to happen if a certain problem ensues.

Another thing to remember is to know your job and do just your job. Don't try to tell other crew members how they should do their job. Concentrate on what your position is so everyone can run together like a well oiled machine. This will help avoid crew members being out of position when their needed because someone told the person to do something they weren't supposed to.

Many mishaps can't happen on set, but being well prepared and at the ready will help you overcome anything.

Creating a Great Film: Producing

After the story has been written it's time for a producer to come in. There are many things for a producer to consider but if they have no budget, then these tips will help.

First figure out the hardest part of your script, a big location, a certain actor, a certain prop. This will help you see where any money you do have needs to go. Simple, but just sitting down and figuring out where what money you have needs to go Is very important.

Next they need to come up with a grand plan of what to do with the film after it is finished, this will help when convincing people to help out with the film for free. It's always a hard thing to get people to work for free. Some tactics you can take are to have a great post production plan so crew and cast could get paid later. Or you can convince a person with lots of experience to help out so that you can sell the experience of working with this guy as the pay for helping on the film. There are lots of people out there looking for help moving forward in their career so they are willing to help out for free.

The next thing to consider as a producer is to be very creative. A producer must be able to come up with ways to save money everywhere without killing a film. A major way to do this is with location. Remember that the viewers can only see what's in the frame, nothing else. If you need to be in a bunker, put your actor in front of a piece of Sheetrock and play the rest off with lighting and sound affects. The mood can be created without grand sets. Be willing to for go grand cover shots so you can shoot a island woods scene in the backyard of someone's house. Be willing to concentrate on sounds and acting to pull off the feel of being at a club when really your in someone's dark basement. Don't forget that creative lighting, sound, and camera angels can save you tons of money in the location department.

Creating a film with no budget as a producer can be stressful, but it will help you see things in a new way. It will make you have to be creative and new and look at things like you never have before!