Ben Zobrist vs Toby Mac // Wiffle Ball Challenge from Ryan Bodie Films on Vimeo.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Ryan on location shooting with staff of Bayside Community Church
Bayside Community Church calls on Ryan to film and edit their video announcements ~
Monday, April 27, 2009
Studio 26 is part of WEVA's Stream Team!
San Francisco Bay Area, CA - In another "industry-first" WEVA International tonight will be streaming multi-camera coverage of the RICK BRAUN jazz concert LIVE from the Claremont Resort & Spa in the San Francisco Bay Area. The high-energy concert featuring trumpet sensation, composer, and producer Rick Braun and his Band starts at 8:00pm Pacific (11pm Eastern) time with a pre-show warm-up beginning after 7:30pm Pacific (10:30pm Eastern). The webcast will present a first-ever, dual-stream display enabling viewers to compare stream-rates and viewing formats, and will also feature live, interactive chat at: http://www.weva.com/rickbraun “WEVA’s LIVE-stream of tonight’s Rick Braun Concert at the Claremont is being achieved using new state-of-the-art video and internet technology that enables today’s videographer to webcast social and commercial events live using manageable and affordable turn-key solutions,” said Dan Argenas WEVA's Director of Association Communications and the Streamcast Communications Manager for tonight's live presentation. "Brand new technology now allows event videographers worldwide to effectively become their own TV stations, and do it with basically the equipment they already own," Argenas added. "As part of the all-new WEVA LIVE-Eventcasting Series WEVA members will be LIVE-streaming a number of special events starting with tonight’s concert, right up to WEVA EXPO 2009 in September where attendees will learn how all of this is accomplished in ‘behind-the-scenes’ educational sessions -- and most importantly, how to get more business and generate new revenue using LIVE-stream technology and techniques in today's hot new multi-media marketplace." For the Rick Braun Concert at the historic Claremont Resort, WEVA members from across the United States are working together to produce the LIVE-Streamcast, as well as a behind-the-scenes, "Making Of" documentary, and more! Directing LIVE-stream coverage of the concert will be WEVA member Ryan Bodie of Studio 26 who has already amassed quite a list of concert videography including, Jefferson Starship, Brian McKnight, Mindi Abair, Foreigner, and others. Concert shooters will include Studio 26 videographers Erin Bodie and Britton Foster shooting in tandem with videographers Rick Randall and Jameson Randall from Dynasty Video Productions, owned by WEVA member Lisa Randall. "Lisa Randall headed-up the very first WEVA STREAM TEAM in 2001 when WEVA introduced and pioneered streaming video education for event videographers at WEVA EXPO 2001," said WEVA founder and chairman Roy Chapman who is in the role of executive producer for tonight's streamcast and related productions. WEVA members filming, and also producing additional content and programming in conjunction with "Rick Braun Concert at the Claremont" streamcast include Sue Lawson and Bruce Himmelblau of Blue Sky Video Productions, who have achieved industrywide recognition for producing and pioneering the innovative WEVA NEWS MINUTE productions, which began with video coverage from the NAB show floor in 2005. The dynamic duo are creating a special "Making Of" documentary for tonight's streamcast showing the production preparations, and including interviews with Rick Braun, the WEVA Stream Crew, and others working behind the scenes. "All of the WEVA members participating in tonight's streamcast are seasoned videographers. They are working together to bring tonight's live concert to computer screens and mobile devices around the globe. And they will also be providing their experience and on-the-job insights on how it’s done in upcoming WEVA state-of-the-art education presentations to keep WEVA members worldwide on the very cutting-edge of new videography technology and techniques," said John Zale WEVA's Director of Educational Development and producer of tonight's streamcast. "If you haven’t been witnessing the new frontier of streaming your special events, including weddings LIVE, you are about to be introduced to the next generation of viewing and the 'next level' of production capabilities for our industry," Zale said. "With the advent of the new and affordable streaming platforms combined with modern social media like LIVE CHAT, it’s now possible for professional videographers to begin making LIVE-Streaming a regular part of their routine video operations and options." About Wedding & Event Videographers Association International (WEVA) Founded over a decade ago, WEVA International is the largest trade association for professional wedding and event videographers worldwide, and leads the field with education that's on the cutting-edge of industry developments. WEVA is dedicated to advancing the professional interests of wedding and event filmmakers globally through continuing education at events such as Wedding & Event Video Expo 2009, and professional development resources, including Wedding & Event Videography Resource Guide (now in a new digital edition), free LicenseStream access, plus business insurance benefits, WEVA NEWS MINUTE videos, WEVA On-The-Air Podcasts, and streaming video on WEVA-TV. You can Join WEVA online today and begin accessing valuable WEVA membership benefits now.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Studio 26 Shoots Paula Creamer for First Tee
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Studio 26 Launches Duplication Division
To further serve our customers, we are offering DVD duplication services. Now, in addition to our DVD authoring and precision label customization, we are now equipped to handle your next DVD order. Our goal is to be your one stop video production stop.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Studio 26 Selected in National ADDY Competition
The World's Largest Advertising Competition
With over 60,000 entries annually, the ADDY® Awards are the world's largest and arguably toughest advertising competition. The ADDY® Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world. The American Advertising Federation, a not-for-profit industry association conducts the ADDY® Awards through its 200 member advertising clubs and 15 districts. It is the only creative awards program administered by the advertising industry for the industry.
With over 60,000 entries annually, the ADDY® Awards are the world's largest and arguably toughest advertising competition. The ADDY® Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world. The American Advertising Federation, a not-for-profit industry association conducts the ADDY® Awards through its 200 member advertising clubs and 15 districts. It is the only creative awards program administered by the advertising industry for the industry.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Ryan and "Click Clack Jack" featured in Event DV Magazine
Studio Time: Studio 26 Productions-->
By Elizabeth Welsh - Posted Apr 22, 2008
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http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=48924
In Ryan Bodie’s Christian-themed indie film series Click Clack Jack, a 19th-century train engineer named Jack "helps unfortunate and lost souls through generosity, kindness, and selflessness." Through him they find faith and life purpose. Bodie strives to do the same thing through his filmmaking. "One of the biggest reasons for starting Studio 26 was to help with ministry videos and Christian entertainment. There is a real need for both. My dream is to use profit from Studio 26 to produce high-end productions for ministries around the world and to produce clean entertainment for all ages."
In March, Bodie and the film’s co-creator and co-producer Keith Thomas traveled to Nashville to pitch their children’s series to Christian television networks and churches attending the 2008 NRB (National Religious Broadcasters) exposition. They also entered it in the Sarasota International Film Festival and plan to do the same with other major festivals.
Once that’s wrapped up, he’ll focus on another pet project, Real Treasure, currently in postproduction. Real Treasure was actually his first stab at a feature-length film, but it’s been simmering on the backburner for 6 years. Now, with a fresh (all-volunteer) cast and crew shooting on the weekends, Bodie says, "We are just about finished. I have to finish it," he adds. "I started it."
Back StoryBodie has started and finished a lot of projects, including an average of 55 wedding videos a year, untold numbers of regional and national broadcast commercials, corporate videos, music videos, and live event videos. It’s a varied repertoire, but it’s tied together with a common thread: storytelling. "We take our filmmaking to each of these mediums to tell a story and entertain. I have a passion for storytelling. I love it." Whether it’s a 30-second commercial or a music video (like the one he shot for Christian rock/metal band Since October, which will air on MTV2 in May), he says, "We have one objective: story."
"We filmed the music video over the course of two nights at an abandoned theater near our studio. The owner gave us full rein over the interior so we built sets, aged the walls, spray-painted lyrics and various elements onto the walls, buried lights, built a swinging light bulb marionette for overhead, and filmed." (For a sneak peek, click here.)
Believe it or not, Studio 26 Productions isn’t named after the number of projects Bodie can be found working on at any given time. He was simply 26 years old when he started the company. By then he already had a solid background in production. At Manatee Community College in Florida, he auditioned for the speech debate and acting team with renowned director Lynette Jett and received one of six full rides—a godsend since, at that time, he was maxed out financially. "I joined for speech and debate and then, oddly, fell in love with acting," he says.
The following semester he took a film course "and was hooked," he remembers. He graduated with a 3-year degree in child developmental psychology but turned down an invitation to the master’s program in favor of immediately re-enrolling in the film program, for which he received a 2-year degree. His final exam was a silent, experimental short called Sugar, inspired by the eponymous Louis Armstrong tune. His film explored drug abuse, societal class conflicts, and "a volatile relationship between a couple madly in love." He explains, "The girl was from the ‘wrong’ side of the tracks and desperately trying to get away from her life of living on the streets, drugs, and her ex-boyfriend/major drug dealer. Her love interest was from a ‘respectable’ family. He grew up in a nice house, went to private school, and loved his girlfriend. His father made him choose his life of everything or the girl. He chose the girl. In a fight to keep her he lost her, as she ended her life so that he could have a better life … or did the drug dealer end her life?" Regardless, Sugar won the Canadian International Film Festival’s Best Experimental Entry and helped Bodie land spots at NYC Film and UCF (University of Central Florida) Film.
Enter Studio 26To offset tuition costs, Bodie accepted an internship with two-time Emmy Award-winning producer and director Bob Lorentzen. "He really took me under his wing and helped me to hone my chops for editing and directing. We would duplicate wedding videos for companies. Knowing my passion, Bob suggested that I start a company and bring my style of storytelling to wedding videos. This way, I could make money and use that equipment to make indie films when not working."
Bodie took Lorentzen’s advice and started Studio 26 Productions. "It was part time at first, doing a wedding video here and there for $200 mostly. Looking back I’m not even sure they were worth that. But people liked them." Back then, he jokes, "I would beg, borrow, and steal to get equipment. My first wedding was a three-camera ceremony only, and I used one VHS for the master wide shot, one Sony Digital 8mm handycam, and one Optima DV camera. The VHS was from a place I worked, the Sony Digital 8 was from my parents, and the DV camera was from school." Looking back, he wonders how he ever managed. "I shot three weddings that way before I borrowed money, with the help of my father-in-law, to purchase two Sony PD-150s and an Avid Editing Suite."
A Career-Making MoveWith the feeling that he still had a lot to learn, Bodie accepted a morning show editor position with ABC "to get my foot in the door." This was all while working two other jobs and completing yet another film internship through school. It was a career-making move for Bodie. "I began staying after my 3 a.m.-to-noon shift to shadow news photographers. I did this for months, learning about white balance and shooting on-the-fly or run-and-gun. I learned how to tell a story in a few shots. The chief photographer was John Nopper, and I learned a great deal from him. Four months later John gave me a chance to shoot a story. All the shooters were out and a body was found nearby. I just finished my editing shift and out I ran with a Beta SP Camera. That first story too was pretty poor, I’m sure," he says, but within weeks he was a full-time shooter. One year later he was offered a job at Time Warner producing and directing commercials.
Time Warner taught him how to tell another kind of story with tight time constraints: a TV ad. "You still have all the elements of any other medium, but you have just 30 seconds to tell the story and create a call to action." He won his first ADDY Awards during his tenure at Time Warner. Meanwhile he’d been growing his weekend wedding business, which he was pleased to discover was more profitable than 50-hour weeks directing commercials.
The Key and the TreasureSo he devoted all his attention to Studio 26. "Within two years, with the help of my wife Erin, we took our small business and built it up to several full-time employees and started bringing in over $300,000 a year." Though Studio 26 is a decidedly Christian company, Bodie says, "We don’t care what religion you are." Studio 26 shoots a lot of Christian, Jewish, Indian, and Persian traditional wedding ceremonies. Being in Florida, about 70% of his weddings take place outdoors. In all these years, he says, "We’ve never been rained out."
Three full-time employees are now devoted to wedding work (which comprises about two-thirds of his business). Still, Bodie says he wants to "pull a ‘Jerry Maguire’ and produce fewer weddings so we can spend more time on each one," he says, as well as leave more time for his indie film projects, which allow him to grow professionally and produce films that are close to his heart.
Two such films, which involved entirely different shooting approaches, made the top 250 in the Project Greenlight and Miramax Films competition. "The first project, The Key, was DP’d and lit by Keith Slade, who also worked on Alex Kendrick’s 2006 film Facing The Giants. I was more of an audio location guy than anything," Bodie recalls. "I was surrounded by a great director, Jason Sotolongo"—whose national TV credits include spots for Best Buy and Dupont and Aaron Carter music videos—locations scout Missy Malloy, and producer Lisa Sotolongo. "Working with great industry people makes the day so creative. We shot on Sony Cinealta F900 with a full 10-ton grip truck and HMI lighting." While Bodie admits that "having a professional crew allows for more creative freedom," he found a different kind of freedom working on Real Treasure, which he "shot with Sony PD150s, no budget, a bunch of volunteers, and a vision."
"Now," he says, "I needed the right project to work on." While Real Treasure may not have been that quintessential "right project," Bodie says it did teach him something profound that led him to the right one: "If you have a dream, don’t let money, crew, or equipment stop you. Just do it." Which is exactly what he did with the project he came up with next, Click Clack Jack. Like the film’s hero, for his own work Bodie is banking on hope: "Dream as though it were impossible to fail."
http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=48924
By Elizabeth Welsh - Posted Apr 22, 2008
Page 1of 1
http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=48924
In Ryan Bodie’s Christian-themed indie film series Click Clack Jack, a 19th-century train engineer named Jack "helps unfortunate and lost souls through generosity, kindness, and selflessness." Through him they find faith and life purpose. Bodie strives to do the same thing through his filmmaking. "One of the biggest reasons for starting Studio 26 was to help with ministry videos and Christian entertainment. There is a real need for both. My dream is to use profit from Studio 26 to produce high-end productions for ministries around the world and to produce clean entertainment for all ages."
In March, Bodie and the film’s co-creator and co-producer Keith Thomas traveled to Nashville to pitch their children’s series to Christian television networks and churches attending the 2008 NRB (National Religious Broadcasters) exposition. They also entered it in the Sarasota International Film Festival and plan to do the same with other major festivals.
Once that’s wrapped up, he’ll focus on another pet project, Real Treasure, currently in postproduction. Real Treasure was actually his first stab at a feature-length film, but it’s been simmering on the backburner for 6 years. Now, with a fresh (all-volunteer) cast and crew shooting on the weekends, Bodie says, "We are just about finished. I have to finish it," he adds. "I started it."
Back StoryBodie has started and finished a lot of projects, including an average of 55 wedding videos a year, untold numbers of regional and national broadcast commercials, corporate videos, music videos, and live event videos. It’s a varied repertoire, but it’s tied together with a common thread: storytelling. "We take our filmmaking to each of these mediums to tell a story and entertain. I have a passion for storytelling. I love it." Whether it’s a 30-second commercial or a music video (like the one he shot for Christian rock/metal band Since October, which will air on MTV2 in May), he says, "We have one objective: story."
"We filmed the music video over the course of two nights at an abandoned theater near our studio. The owner gave us full rein over the interior so we built sets, aged the walls, spray-painted lyrics and various elements onto the walls, buried lights, built a swinging light bulb marionette for overhead, and filmed." (For a sneak peek, click here.)
Believe it or not, Studio 26 Productions isn’t named after the number of projects Bodie can be found working on at any given time. He was simply 26 years old when he started the company. By then he already had a solid background in production. At Manatee Community College in Florida, he auditioned for the speech debate and acting team with renowned director Lynette Jett and received one of six full rides—a godsend since, at that time, he was maxed out financially. "I joined for speech and debate and then, oddly, fell in love with acting," he says.
The following semester he took a film course "and was hooked," he remembers. He graduated with a 3-year degree in child developmental psychology but turned down an invitation to the master’s program in favor of immediately re-enrolling in the film program, for which he received a 2-year degree. His final exam was a silent, experimental short called Sugar, inspired by the eponymous Louis Armstrong tune. His film explored drug abuse, societal class conflicts, and "a volatile relationship between a couple madly in love." He explains, "The girl was from the ‘wrong’ side of the tracks and desperately trying to get away from her life of living on the streets, drugs, and her ex-boyfriend/major drug dealer. Her love interest was from a ‘respectable’ family. He grew up in a nice house, went to private school, and loved his girlfriend. His father made him choose his life of everything or the girl. He chose the girl. In a fight to keep her he lost her, as she ended her life so that he could have a better life … or did the drug dealer end her life?" Regardless, Sugar won the Canadian International Film Festival’s Best Experimental Entry and helped Bodie land spots at NYC Film and UCF (University of Central Florida) Film.
Enter Studio 26To offset tuition costs, Bodie accepted an internship with two-time Emmy Award-winning producer and director Bob Lorentzen. "He really took me under his wing and helped me to hone my chops for editing and directing. We would duplicate wedding videos for companies. Knowing my passion, Bob suggested that I start a company and bring my style of storytelling to wedding videos. This way, I could make money and use that equipment to make indie films when not working."
Bodie took Lorentzen’s advice and started Studio 26 Productions. "It was part time at first, doing a wedding video here and there for $200 mostly. Looking back I’m not even sure they were worth that. But people liked them." Back then, he jokes, "I would beg, borrow, and steal to get equipment. My first wedding was a three-camera ceremony only, and I used one VHS for the master wide shot, one Sony Digital 8mm handycam, and one Optima DV camera. The VHS was from a place I worked, the Sony Digital 8 was from my parents, and the DV camera was from school." Looking back, he wonders how he ever managed. "I shot three weddings that way before I borrowed money, with the help of my father-in-law, to purchase two Sony PD-150s and an Avid Editing Suite."
A Career-Making MoveWith the feeling that he still had a lot to learn, Bodie accepted a morning show editor position with ABC "to get my foot in the door." This was all while working two other jobs and completing yet another film internship through school. It was a career-making move for Bodie. "I began staying after my 3 a.m.-to-noon shift to shadow news photographers. I did this for months, learning about white balance and shooting on-the-fly or run-and-gun. I learned how to tell a story in a few shots. The chief photographer was John Nopper, and I learned a great deal from him. Four months later John gave me a chance to shoot a story. All the shooters were out and a body was found nearby. I just finished my editing shift and out I ran with a Beta SP Camera. That first story too was pretty poor, I’m sure," he says, but within weeks he was a full-time shooter. One year later he was offered a job at Time Warner producing and directing commercials.
Time Warner taught him how to tell another kind of story with tight time constraints: a TV ad. "You still have all the elements of any other medium, but you have just 30 seconds to tell the story and create a call to action." He won his first ADDY Awards during his tenure at Time Warner. Meanwhile he’d been growing his weekend wedding business, which he was pleased to discover was more profitable than 50-hour weeks directing commercials.
The Key and the TreasureSo he devoted all his attention to Studio 26. "Within two years, with the help of my wife Erin, we took our small business and built it up to several full-time employees and started bringing in over $300,000 a year." Though Studio 26 is a decidedly Christian company, Bodie says, "We don’t care what religion you are." Studio 26 shoots a lot of Christian, Jewish, Indian, and Persian traditional wedding ceremonies. Being in Florida, about 70% of his weddings take place outdoors. In all these years, he says, "We’ve never been rained out."
Three full-time employees are now devoted to wedding work (which comprises about two-thirds of his business). Still, Bodie says he wants to "pull a ‘Jerry Maguire’ and produce fewer weddings so we can spend more time on each one," he says, as well as leave more time for his indie film projects, which allow him to grow professionally and produce films that are close to his heart.
Two such films, which involved entirely different shooting approaches, made the top 250 in the Project Greenlight and Miramax Films competition. "The first project, The Key, was DP’d and lit by Keith Slade, who also worked on Alex Kendrick’s 2006 film Facing The Giants. I was more of an audio location guy than anything," Bodie recalls. "I was surrounded by a great director, Jason Sotolongo"—whose national TV credits include spots for Best Buy and Dupont and Aaron Carter music videos—locations scout Missy Malloy, and producer Lisa Sotolongo. "Working with great industry people makes the day so creative. We shot on Sony Cinealta F900 with a full 10-ton grip truck and HMI lighting." While Bodie admits that "having a professional crew allows for more creative freedom," he found a different kind of freedom working on Real Treasure, which he "shot with Sony PD150s, no budget, a bunch of volunteers, and a vision."
"Now," he says, "I needed the right project to work on." While Real Treasure may not have been that quintessential "right project," Bodie says it did teach him something profound that led him to the right one: "If you have a dream, don’t let money, crew, or equipment stop you. Just do it." Which is exactly what he did with the project he came up with next, Click Clack Jack. Like the film’s hero, for his own work Bodie is banking on hope: "Dream as though it were impossible to fail."
http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=48924
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