Home Video Studio March Specials

Greetings and Happy St. Patrick's Day Home Video Studio friends and customers!  This month's special truly includes a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Gold DVDs and CDs that is!  Our Gold Archival Grade DVDs and CDs preserve your family photos, home movies, and critical corporate data and offer additional protection from scratches and corrosion.

March is photo archival month and all photo orders today through March 31 are offered at an additional 20% off. Have boxes of unorganized photos, slides, or negatives?  Give 'em a makeover with our digital archival service.  Revitalize those memories onto premium grade archival gold discs.

Our digital archive service is exactly as it sounds, archival.  Your discs containing your images are 100% as good as their original format...in many cases better due to our natural color-correction and enhancement process.  Play them on your DVD or Blu-Ray player, view them on your computer, print them, share them, email them, post them to Facebook or Flickr, or create your own custom slideshows.  They're so much more functional than they once were!

We had a client who recently experienced a devastating house fire.  No one was hurt as the family was at work and at school when the fire happened; however, they lost the entire contents of their home.  All their precious memories (photo albums, videos, etc.) were lost in the embers.  Fortunately, we created an entire digital archive of their memories nearly a year ago and, at their request, maintained copies here in the studio.  Their memories were completely restored.

Don't take risk...put it on disc!  Be proactive and backup your critical content.  Give us a call today.  In Lee's Summit (816) 246-8888 or Toll-Free (888) 636-8885.  We're ready to create some memorable experiences.

Happy Valentine's Day from Home Video Studio. Nine Ways to Save this February.

Greetings Home Video Studio friends and customers!  It's cold and blustery in Lee's Summit, but preserving your precious photo and video memories to DVD will keep you warm and fuzzy all winter long.

In celebration of Valentine's Day, we're offering Nine Ways to Save this February:

1. Film (8mm, Super-8mm, and 16mm to DVD): 10% Off

2. Video Editing: 10% Off

3. Video Production: 10% Off

4. Video Tape Transfers to DVD: 10% Off

5. Photos and Slides to DVD: 10% Off

6. CD and DVD Duplication: 15% Off

7. Receive a $15 Gift Card by subscribing as a follower to this blog

8. Receive a second $15 Gift Card by posting a personal testimonial of our services on our website (click "Testimonials" on www.godfreyvideo.com)

9. Take an additional 5% OFF your entire order when placed by February 14th

Where are your treasured memories?  We'd venture to say they're in boxes in the attic, basement, or closet somewhere.  Give us a call today.  816.246.8888.  We're ready to create some memorable experiences.

Chad Godfrey and The Crew at Home Video Studio Lee's Summit 

Editor on Board

I'm pleased to announce Matt Terwilliger, our new Director of Editing and Post-Production.  Matt completed a summer internship with us in 2008 and has recently finished a degree in Interactive Digital Media from Northwest Missouri State University.  I'm excited to have Matt aboard.  He brings a lot of experience in photography, design, and motion graphics to the table and will offer a fresh perspective on the "look and feel" of all projects that come through our doors.  Welcome Matt!

Here's to a New Year!

Now that it's nearly the 6th of January, it may sound cliché to offer you a "Happy New Year," but I truly feel one is in order.  I hope you feel renewed in this new year, ready to take on the experiences and change it will bring.

I don't know about you, but I've created a lot of goals for 2009:  family goals, health goals, business goals, and the list continues (how about just keeping up with this blog?).  The number one goal, however, is not to treat my goals like typical "resolutions" but to see them through to actual achievement this year.  This, of course, requires the break-down of each goal into action steps that are measurable.  

My aim in telling you this is accountability.  It is my hope that by broadcasting this to the world, or to the few beings that actually read this (thank you, by the way), I may keep my goals in check this year.  By the same token, I hope you find people and methods to keep your goals in check this year too.

Here's to a really great year.  May you be blessed with abundance and achievement like never before!

Creating Memorable Experiences

Can you believe it's November already?  Fall has seemed to blaze by so quickly this year!  With October behind us, we have entered our Christmas season at Home Video Studio and it's in full force.  You might ask, "What service offerings are popular at Christmas time?"  Thanks for asking!

First, let's talk about who our services are for.  Well, they're for everyone of course, but during Christmas they happen to be great for those who either have everything or for those you just don't know what to buy for like your mom or dad, your brother(s) and/or sister(s), grandparents, kids, boss, employees, etc.  Give them the gift of their memories!  As the graphic says, "It's time to go digital!  Transfer your photos, slides, videos, and film to DVD!"  

At Home Video Studio, we are creators and changers of content.  We shoot, edit, transfer, and duplicate video each and every day.  Daily, people bring in a myriad of obsolete formats as well as new and up-to-date media.  Customers bring in boxes and bags of old photos and home movies from 50 years ago.  Others bring in memory cards, tapes, and discs containing digital pictures and video they just shot yesterday.  We take this "content" in whatever format it may be, edit it, duplicate it, or simply update it to today's latest-greatest technology.  A perfect example is the migration of your family's old VHS videotapes to DVD or the conversion of your audio cassettes or LPs to compact disc (or to your iPod Touch or other MP3 player, for that matter).  We have equipment to handle any format.  Betamax?  Yep.  Super-8mm or 16mm with sound?  Absolutely!  Broadcast audio and video formats?  Those too.  We like to say, "If you can see it or hear it, we can produce (or reproduce) it!"    

Do you have old tapes of your kids (or when you were a kid) that no one watches because you no longer have a player that works?  Perhaps you and your siblings can go in together on a gift for your parents that includes a DVD of old photos or slides and their favorite music from the good ol' days.

One of the greatest parts of our job is seeing and hearing the impact our work has on the lives of others.  We like hearing about the kids that watch the DVDs of their parents and grandparents from long ago ("Wow grandma, you really did look like mom back then!").  How joyful (and tearful) one of our customers was who stumbled upon an old 78 record of her father speaking to her mother while he was stationed overseas during WWII.  Her father died in the war when our customer was very young.  While she'd seen pictures of him, she had never really heard his voice.  

Stories like this happen quite often in our studio.  Where are your treasured memories?   I'd venture to say they're in boxes in the attic, basement, or closet somewhere.  As you're thinking about what to give and who to give to this year, why not make it memorable?  Give me a call.  I'm ready to create another memorable experience.

Some Recent PR

I just wanted to share some PR we received in recognition for winning six recent Hanley Awards.  Check out our article in the Lee's Summit Journal October 17, 2008.

The 2008 Hanley Awards Ceremony for Excellence in Video Production was held in Orlando, FL on August 2, 2008 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort.  Hundreds of entries competed for the 34 award categories including Best Video Production, Best Documentary, and the Cut & Paste Award for Best Editing.

This year we were nominated for 12 of 34 categories (meaning we were among the top three in each award category).  Out of the 12 nominations, we received awards for Best Video Production, Best Company Promo, Best High Concept Video, Best Use of Titles, Best Lifetime Video, and Best Memorial Video.

We've been competing in the Hanleys since 2005 and have received a total of 25 of their awards.  What does this mean for you?  It means that we're qualified for any project you send our way, large or small.  Whether it be a corporate video production; a promotion for a church, school, or non-profit organization; a small audio or video editing project; a transfer of your family's videotapes, films, or slides; or a photo keepsake on DVD; we're ready for your business.  More importantly, we're ready to "WOW" you with our quality and exceptional service.

Give us a call today to see how we can help you.  (816) 246-8888 or Toll-Free at (888) 636-8885.

Hit the Ground Running

Hello and greetings to all.

Welcome to my blog and my first post.  Thank you for reading and for your support.

In November 2004, I decided to make a significant life and career change.  Having been an audio/video producer and director for other companies, it was a long-time dream of mine to go into business on my own.  It was a scary move and an inopportune time to take the plunge into self-employment.  I walked away from a decent job with decent benefits.  Our only child at the time was 20 months old.  A few months prior in August 2004, my wife Suzie and I had decided there was more value in her staying home for half of the week with little Madeline than in working full-time.  So, that school year Suzie entered a "job share" where she shares teaching a 2nd-grade classroom with another teacher.  This meant cutting her salary in half and relinquishing all her benefits.  

What a risk!  Our only financial guarantee was half a teacher's salary each month.  What's more, we went into debt to buy our business, a franchise of Home Video Studio (more on that later), and to get our business up and running.  Why did we do it?  It all falls back on that long-time dream to own and operate my own business.  That dream defied all logic and all reason in our lives.  However, my desire to be creative and to serve others was at a very primordial level.  I was determined to make this career work for me and for my family.  I was bound to be unstoppable.

Now, almost four years of self-employment later, I still stand.  I am forever grateful for the love and support of Suzie; our two wonderful children, Madeline (5) and Ethan (2); the friends, family, and many clients I have served; and the many blessings that have been bestowed on us.  I still have many of the same desires as when I began in business, to be rooted in creativity and technology and to serve clients in unique ways.  

In the time that lies ahead, I will share with you ways in which we creatively serve others.  I'll discuss projects that create joy and restore peace of mind through the preservation of family memories, whether it be with your photos, slides, family videos, or old home movies from yesteryear.  We'll talk business and our unique methods of creating market share for companies large and small through powerful audio and video experiences and communication with impact.

I'll look forward to spending more time with you.  Again, thank you for your support.  All comments are welcomed (and encouraged).  Please stay subscribed.