- June 10, 2010
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- Carousel, News & Updates
Pte. Kevin McKay Remembered
Kevin McKay gave his life for his country. McKay is the sixth member of the Canadian military to die in Afghanistan this year, and the 144th to die as part of the Afghan mission since it began in 2002.
A soldier’s soldier whose toughness and courage under fire embodied the very spirit of the Canadian military was killed Thursday when he touched off an improvised explosive device just days before he was scheduled to return home.
Pte. Kevin McKay, 24, of the Edmonton-based 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, was on an evening foot patrol when the blast occurred in Nakhonay, a village of about 2,000 people in the heart of the Panjwaii district, some 15 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city - Tara Brautigam, The Canadian Press.
The Canadian Hero Fund is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting Canadian military personnel and their families. As a national civilian charity, the Canadian Hero Fund raises money through community, grassroots efforts and acts as a conduit for all Canadians to show their support and care for military families and their sacrifice.
The initial project of the Canadian Hero Fund is to provide post-secondary scholarships to the children and spouses of fallen Canadian soldiers. Scholarships awarded by the Fund help finance post-secondary education at government-accredited universities, colleges and technical schools.
If you are able, please consider donating by clicking here
Music – “Highway of Heroes” by The Trews used with the permission of the band.
I’d like to especially thank Ryan and Erika from Rowell Photography for their cinematography help. Ryan and Erika are phenomenal wedding photographers from Barrie, but I think I may have just converted Erika to cinema on this project! We’d love to have you guys anytime!
- May 17, 2010
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- News & Updates
We now accept Visa and Mastercard
We have been asked by a number of people if we accept Credit Card. Well, after about 2 months of reading through pamphlets and filling out applications, we are now excited to annouce that we are able to accept Visa and Mastercard. We have an online ‘virtual terminal’ that allows us to process your payments. If you’d like to know more about this or anything else, email us at info@sorliearts.com
We look forward to being of service.
- March 29, 2010
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- News & Updates
Easter Fun for the Whole Family – Rounds Ranch Easter Egg Hunt!
If you have young kids and are looking for something to do with the whole family this Easter weekend – head out to Rounds Ranch! Located just 25 minutes north-west of Barrie, Rounds Ranch is an amazing Family Friendly place to spend an afternoon. Perfect for kids of all ages, make sure you check out this year’s Easter Egg Hunt! Watch the video below!
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- March 28, 2010
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Change is Good – New Logo & Website
We’re very excited to launch our new branding. We’ve been working on the idea of freshening up our image since late last year. In fact, we have a bunch of ideas in our minds about how to change Sorlie Arts for the better moving forward. When we started over a year ago now, designing a logo was a few sketches, a tweak here and there and then we were done. We ordered the business cards and went with it.
This time around, we opted to take a bit more time and with our friends at Thain Creative (amazing branding company for those interested), we came up with this logo…
We had a funny incident happen while this logo was in the works. We had a few concepts on the go so I decided to put my favourite (at the time) idea on Facebook. After 23 replies (thank you all by the way), we discovered that our ‘E’ in Sorlie had looked a bit too much like an ‘F’ and well – you can figure out what happened there – Sorlie Fa- well – you get the idea… Laugh all you want! I can take it!
This new branding along with our newly renovated website is part of our goal to be accessible and easily understood. We found that our old website was a bit too busy – hopefully this one will help those who are looking for our wedding films to find what they are looking for while those who are looking for our corporate video will also find what they are looking for.
We are actually working on a brand new company that will be the home to our wedding films while Sorlie Arts will focus on the business/corporate side of things. Stay tuned for more on that. We are pretty anxious to share our new company with you when it’s all ready. Thain Creative is helping us with that as well.
And as if that change was not enough! We have started filming with the Canon Eos 5D Mark II HD SLR camera. We still love our Canon XH-A1S video camera, but we found that we need to make the jump to this smaller, compact still camera that takes video to the next level. The fact that you can change lenses on the go gives us the opportunity to provide the stunning visual quality we aim for. You will start to see more and more clips in the next little while that feature the new camera including this house tour and this promo video.
Thanks for sticking with us. We are excited about all the amazing people we have the opportunity to work with this year both from a wedding standpoint and a corporate standpoint.
- March 27, 2010
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- News & Updates, Same Day Edits
Same Day Edit – Awaken Workshops
This is our first ever Same Day Edit. We’re very excited about the possibilities for Same Day Edits in the future. If you don’t know what a Same Day Edit is, you’re in for an amazing experience! This 3-4 minute short highlights style film is shot and edited at your event and prepared to be shown to your guests that night! The opportunities are seemingly limitless! We surprised the room when we showed them what we were working on all day! Have a look!
Because this was our first ever SDE, we opted not to include any natural audio from the speakers. We were nervous and feeling a bit overwhelmed as we were trying to get the first one done to show our new photographer friends. Future SDEs will have audio – can’t wait to show you the next one we do!
-Andrew