Please join us for our March CoPVA Meetup:

Adding Production Value with Special Effects and Working Effects Professionals

Jim Milligan, a 17 year special effects veteran, will take the time to share with us various special effects applications that can be incorporated into your production. We will get the opportunity to see production footage from his years in the industry with behind the scenes insight on what it took to accomplish the effect. Don’t for a moment think you need a Hollywood budget to incorporate special effects in to your project. Jim will share with us some common and scalable effects that will fit into many clients budgets, taking the production value of your project to a whole new level.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be entertained and educated with Jim’s years of experience in Hollywood and local productions.

Jim Milligan has over 17 years of experience providing great stunts and special effects in Hollywood as well as local markets. His specialties are, pyro, gun effects, rain, snow, smoke. Also he has extensive mechanical, fabrication and welding backgrounds which allow him to create custom fixtures and machines to accomplish various effects. He has received many film credits to include Eyebrows, Ink, The Five, Throttle, Skills Like This, Juncture, Silver City, Willy Bogner Films, Girls Guide to Wilderness, Ichabod,

Three Ninjas, High Noon at Mega Mountain and Moosie. His Television credits include, Americas Most Wanted, Manhunt, X-Games, Action Channel, TLC, Starz, ESPN. Discovery Channel, HGTV and KMGH Channel 7.

At this March meeting will also discuss the election and Board Electives.

Your first meeting is free!  Single meeting cost is $20.  Ask us about annual membership rates!

RSVP HERE

Shawn Montano| President

Colorado Professional Videographers Association 

Cell – 720-299-7989 | President@CoPVA.org

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Interactive Video and its practical use in the marketplace

Please join us for our February Meetup. Our topic is –

Interactive Video and its Practical use in the Marketplace

Staying ahead of the competition is important to booking those next project opportunities. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about new technologies that take the internet video experience to the next level.
Mr. Steve Stone will show us cutting edge technology that is being used to convert video into interactive media. He will discuss its application and how this can benefit a business or organization. Additionally he will demonstrate the how simple the tools are to use in the VidMGR.net site, to convert any video into an interactive tool to create engagement with your clients target audience.
Steves BioSteve Stone, Internet Multi Media Expert and Innovator is the developer of VidMgr.net and state of the art internet video marketing tool and has been featured on the cover and in feature articles of advertising and marketing magazine  “The Review” www.dpub.us/AMr/OM-2.html

We’ll begin the meeting with you!  Please bring a video to share.  Here are the rules before showing your video;

1.  It must be less than 3 minutes long

2. It must have a teachable moment

3. It must be a project and not a demo reel.  Must be an actual project you’ve completed

Your first meeting is free!  Single meeting cost is $20.  Ask us about annual membership rates!

See you then,

Shawn Montano| President

Colorado Professional Videographers Association 

Cell – 720-299-7989 | President@CoPVA.org

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CoPVA Meetup members,

Happy New Year.  I hope everyone’s excited for a new year and new presentations.  CoPVA has an exciting year lining up.  We are going to start the new year at VER.  Mike and Matt from Canon Professional will show their ME-20F multi-purpose camera.  In addition VER will have the Canon XF105, XF305, C300 Mk II, Canon Cine-servo zoom 17-120mm T2.95 and other gear.  We hope you’ll join us for this great Canon demo.

This demo is earlier that our normal meetups.  Don’t forget to show up at 5pm at VER Video Equipment Rentals.

Please RSVP.

Thank you

Shawn Montano| President

Colorado Professional Videographers Association 

Cell – 720-299-7989 | President@CoPVA.org

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CoPVA members,

We’re putting together a panel on Understanding the differences between a professional and an amateur. This panel will feature several professionals.  Our 1st panel member I’m happy to announce is Juliana Broste.  Juliana runs TravelingJules Productions, LLC.

She’s Talented on both sides of the camera. She is an experienced producer, writer, shooter, editor, and on-camera host. Her work has been featured on national networks and web series for Travel Channel, Lonely Planet, Food Network, Cooking Channel, MTV, USA TODAY, Viator.com, DIRECTV, VISIT DENVER, Colorado Ski Country and various tourism boards.

Our 2nd panelist is Daniel Montano.

Daniel is President of ElevationCreation.com. He leads the firm’s team of professionals which include branding professionals, marketing experts, digital designers,  computer specialists and e-Commerce professionals. Daniel’s expertise lies in print, website branding, conceptual development of eMarketing & eStrategies along with eCommerce solutions. He has a B.F.A. Degree from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and studied design at the Institute of European Studies, Vienna, Austria. Daniel also is a film producer for Elevation Creation’s HD film projects.

Please join us this November 28th for a highly information night.  More panelist will be announced as we move closer to our meeting.

We’ll begin the meeting with you!  Please bring a video to share.  Here are the rules before showing your video;

1.  It must be less than 3 minutes long

2. It must have a teachable moment

3. It must be a project and not a demo reel.  Must be an actual project you’ve completed

Your first meeting is free!  Single meeting cost is $20.  Ask us about annual membership rates!

See you then,

Shawn Montano| President

Colorado Professional Videographers Association 

Cell – 720-299-7989 | President@CoPVA.org

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This Monday we’ll hold our October meeting at the Colorado Media School.  We’ll have two speakers.

Jerry Delgado from the Sennheiser will speak about microphones and the coming changes in wireless spectrum and what it means for using your wireless microphones.

Chris Nicholson, Sales Engineer, Burst Communications will discuss  “The Future of TV is nearer than you think.”  The roadmap to ATSC 3.0 new over-the-air TV standards and what this means for TV broadcasters, Internet Video, and TV and Video Production Companies.

We’ll begin the meeting with you!  Please bring a video to share.  Here are the rules before showing your video;

1.  It must be less than 3 minutes long

2. It must have a teachable moment

3. It must be a project and not a demo reel.  Must be an actual project you’ve completed

Your first meeting is free!  Single meeting cost is $20.  Ask us about annual membership rates!

See you then,

Shawn Montano| President

Colorado Professional Videographers Association 

Cell – 720-299-7989 | President@CoPVA.org

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