Furman Pictures News

Furman Pictures is handling production and post production services on a project for Adidas. Nikia Furman is working with Harald Graham of Meaty Design and Tim Silvis from Systom to complete a three part project introducing a special line of Adidas clothing and athletic gear. A portion of Adidas’ proceeds from the product line will go to benefit AKTIV, a non profit organization dedicated to fight and prevent cancer through healthy lifestyle and physical fitness.

The first segment reviews world famous distant runner Grete Waitz career. If you don’t know who Waitz is, check her out. Her feats are amazing and include breaking 11 world records and winning the New York City Marathon 9 Times. The second segment highlights AKTIV, the non-profit Grete co-founded. The final segment introduces a special line of M10 marathon clothing and shoes. A portion of proceeds, up to $500,000, from the AKTIV line will be donated to AKTIV.

Production on the project centers on the new line of M10 clothing and shoes in action. Post production includes editing together archived footage, photos and sound bites along with footage of the new product into fast paced segments that grab the viewers attention and tell the stories effectively. The projects will be distributed via the internet.

A screening of “Butterflies”, a short film produced by Charles Gould and Nikia Furman, will be accompanied by a live film score Saturday, June 5 at 4:00 PM in Kramer Hall Room 453 on the Portland State University Campus. The score, which may be used in the final film edit, was written by student Matthew Steele, and is being performed for his senior recital.

Wrapping up color and sound on a short film today. Transitioning into a commercial piece for a shoe company followed by a documentary on a climbing expedition in Nepal.

OMPA Directory Release Party

Had a chance to visit with colleague from the other side of the river at the Oregon Media Production Association annual directory release party, hosted by Koerner Camera. Good times. Ran into several people I hadn’t seen in a while. It’s really fun to hear the great productions that are underway here in the Northwest. The free tacos were a nice too.

Next week will see post production start on a new project at Furman Pictures- writing a script and editing “The Nepal Documentary”- a working title. It’s the story of Mountain Leadership Institutes recent journey to Nepal and the unexpected connections they made there. The finished project will be about 45 to 60 minutes long.

Oh yes! I also attend Creative Connect on Tuesday in Portland, which is organized by Scott N. Trimble, an outstanding photographer and D.P. It was a pleasant networking event. There were really interesting people that I enjoyed talking with, including storyboard artist Dan Schaefer who storyboarded for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series- a fact my wife very much enjoyed.

This week at Furman Pictures was spent working on post for “Buttterflies”, shooting interviews for Camas Video Magazine with Dawn at iQ Credit Union and Mark at American Union Insurance as well as working on development for other projects. iQ also has a branch in the Camas high school. I went out there to shoot a couple shots. Neat program, they have students manning branch. Thanks Shelby and Mike for the extra help there.

It’s great to be working with the Humane Society for Southwest Washington again this year on an appeal video for their annual auction. We met yesterday to begin planning the project which will be due this fall. It’s an honer to work with such a great group of people who provide such a humane resource to our community. There are so many animals that need homes. If you have room in your home, I encourage you consider adopting one of the many loving critters that need someone to love them. I know my wife and I hope to join the cause by making a couple adoptions this year- a cat patrol our barn and another dog to keep Jack, our Border Collie/Blue Heeler mix, company.

It’s paper work Friday, here at Furman Pictures. All the paper work is finally off to the accountant. I evidently really believe in tax cutting since I labeled the 2009 tax folder “Taxex”. In any case, I’m glad to move on to other things… like paying bills and filing papers.

I’ve also been working lining up the next edition of Camas Video Magagazine- for some time now, actually. Today, we finally got everyone’s schedules coordinated and were able to lock down a production day. That was nice.

Other things that are making Paper Work Friday enjoyable are- its Friday - and I rode the motorcycle to work today and on to my accountant in Vancouver, so, it’s a good Friday.

The Furman Pictures website is new and improved. It has slimmed down a bit, loosing a number of unnecessary pages, while adding more visual content- especially on the “story” page witch features video clips from Furman Pictures productions. Video clips and information about more recent projects have also been added.

Spent some time this morning meeting with Charles Gould, Director of “Butterflies”. Looks like we’ve got it got the film about locked- just a couple screen tests. Then it’s on to color correction and audio- a cool relationship developing there.  More info to come.

A friend mentioned the other day that I haven’t given an update recently. The short of it is, I’ve taken some time off as my wife and I moved into our new house. While there are plenty of projects to keep me entertained there, it’s time to get back to the good stuff here- like finishing up sound on “Butterflies.”