Archive for ‘Features’

A little Chi-Lites on the Street Corner!

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Picture if you will a time and a place where you run with your dream and the band, team and vision come together. Maybe not perfectly, but you are in production, your ideas are coming to life, and your pictures, music inspirations, heroes, and words hit the planet. Enjoy the snapshot of this montage and look back with Arthel Neville, in this funky Christmas special called "A Street Carol". Here is segment featuring Chicago's "Chi-Lites" with Henry Farag telling the story with his storied pipes and vocal group Stormy Weather! Enjoy~   This is a Chicago Dash into the past for the "envoy" taking a LOOK BACK> Vimeo on Left Youtube HD on the Right

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Moments NOT lost in time…

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What delivers in STORY and what this is NOT> Here are 3 short montage moments all totaling 4:11 which will be well worth anyones time.  1st- Thomas Edison, the inventor of modern Life.  2nd-A relationship montage of key connection where you tell your stories of Love. And 3rd, a couple of movie makers reveal a glimpse of their courtship. Cut to a "Christmas Wish"> A Song we producedin the 90's with Johnny Colla of Huey Lewis & The News Fame. It is on the Holiday Heroes Collection. Enjoy the place where you know that life is about the curious happening that delivers laughter and joy to your step. Music, story and mystery... The ENVOYS are coming to a city near"  U"I>>>>> WEB, TV, Social. No money, no controls, just stories , guides and songs smiths coming together to deliver life! Check it out!  This is the Chicago Wheel of story...

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What Could HE be thinking…

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Could  one possibly reflect on what was going through the mind of Jesus Christ during the passion sequence? Here is an attempt through montage to gather a glimpse of that moment with a future forward feel... 2000 and some years ago, the planet still remembers. And the meaning of the event is up to each individuals context of how one looks at life through the prism of their journey.  

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The Poet with a Story and Salute

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Entertaining encounter with Bobby Womack. We worked with him in the mid '90's on a few projects after the Street Gold specials hit  TV syndication. A one of a kind songwriter with a big heart. This short story will give you a glimpse at his path and his salute to Ruffin & Kendrick is memorable called "Forever Love". . This feature was shot in the Charlie Chaplin Studios, also known as A & M Records. Rolling Stones fans may know that Bobby wrote one of their early hits " It's All Over Now".

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Stories with the beat of Life

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New Orleans. It does not take much to think about how that culture, music and food has crossed my path these last 20 years. If I try to read the signs and at least look for them..... quite a few markers are there. The Year was 1991, my third son Steven was just born on the 10th of January and I was gathering a dream team of production people, television concepts and marketing team to launch the third week of January at NATPE in New Orleans as Street Gold Entertainment. Heady stuff and it was a thrill ride to watch dreams coming to fruition. Our host Arthel Neville had created an excellent pilot with segments in Chicagoland,  and our talent was coming into place for the story ( Motown's Original Leads of the Temptations... Ruffin, Kendrick & Edwards).  I could sense that New Orleans was a great place to do...

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A Wheel of a Story for the New Year

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IPHONE FUN! Gazing into the pool of reality present and hope. Here is an assignment of taking what you have, and creating something for the planet or your family, or just me to ponder. Here is the recipe... try it out for the 2012 season of dreams. > We took 2 cuts we produced in the 90's from Graham Parker and Jerry Butler. >You have 10 min. on your Apple Library to view what you captured this fall for research or document. Then you have 5 min. to put together a series of shots against the sound track. 5 min to polish. 10 min. to get ready to publish. 2 min. to decide weather or not to post. > Can you risk 32 minutes of time to post a sample? We found that when you try and get momentum... the heavens open up and smile. Let's see if we can...

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Arthur Christmas -Chris Juen

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This Christmas season you may just want to put this on your list of pictures to see with the family. We caught up with co-producer Chris Juen from Sony Imageworks for this film and some of his fascinating credits include working on Polar Express, The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, Stuart Little 2 ... all after he got out of the Navy! Arthur Christmas trailer Chris: The best part of animation is when the story comes to life. When all the hard work by the script writers and character development comes together to form something new that can have an impact on an audience. That is what I love. I have been gravitating toward family films. I have been in the animation film world for 15 years since getting out of the Navy and it is a close community where people love to help and get new people involved...

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A Little Music Television

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Songwriter Bethany Dillion performs at Live from Studio B, Kelly Morgan and Debra Maffett introduce the World Pulse Festival with tobymac. 

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Nashville

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Preparations are being made Gathering stories in the great region of Nashville, Tennessee! The team is filling out and key  people are gathering to share story, research and become  part of this exciting launch.  Music, History, Mystery and more. We are coming to your city and there is no looking back now! Check out the Parable cards... we will teach you a fun game with them next session... it is the KEY to the campus and where the story begins for each city region. Which key songwriters will be the guides and what will they discover?

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