- March 31, 2010
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- Real Estate Video Ideas
Real Estate Video Opportunities to help grow your business.
HD Video online is a reality. Sorlie Arts is able to help you market not only your listings, but also YOURSELVES to your potential and existing clients.
With virtually every home in North America now having multiple computers with high-speed internet, it isn’t difficult at all to incorporate a video onto your website or MLS listing. Sorlie Arts will visit your listing, take about an hour to film the house or property, and then provide you with either a Quicktime video or a Flash file that you can then add to your website until the property sells.
Another great marketing tool is a brief promotional video about yourself and perhaps your firm explaining what it’s like to work with you and perhaps including some video testimonials from your happy clients.
One of our customers asked us to create a memento video of the new house they bought after they sold their old house using a Sorlie Arts video!
Real Estate Videos can be built into your existing webpage, or you can request a custom micro-site built by Sorlie Arts with the listing address as the domain name
- June 20, 2010
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- Same Day Edits, Wedding Films
Surprise Same Day Edit – Kylee and Tom
We had the opportunity to surprise Kylee & Tom with a Same Day Edit tonight. Since we’re just getting our feet wet, we’ve been doing these Same Day Edits as an extra bonus for our couples – without letting them know until just before it’s ready to watch!
Kylee and Tom were such an honour to film, its great to be around a couple when you can see how much they cherish one another, you can see in Tom’s face how much he adores Kylee. Kylee and her girls were truly stunning! Thanks to Kylee and Tom and their families for hosting us on their wedding day.
Tonights’ wedding was at Maclaren Art Centre which is where Emily and I had our wedding reception. It was so great to be back in the same room where we had our amazing wedding.
Music by April Smith and the Great Picture Show – Buy it here
- 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!
- April 26, 2010
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- Wedding Films
Oana & Travis Cook – Wedding Film Sneak Peak
Oana & Travis Cook got married on Sunday, February 7th, 2010. These guys really love each other and they are the best of friends! The venue for their wedding and reception was the amazing ‘At The Five’ restaurant.
We loved spending the day with Oana & Travis as well as their fantastic photographers from down in the US of A. Diana Lupu DLUphotography.com and Lauren Gabrielle laurengabrielle.com. We love working with photographers with such passion for their work and for their couples.
Music – Your Love is a Song – Switchfoot - switchfoot.com/
This was our first ever wedding filmed with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. For lenses, we used a 50 mm 1.8 lens, as well as a 24-70 mm 2.8L.
- March 28, 2010
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- News & Updates
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.