Salt Lake City’s HD video production editing company
23
Nov
2009
Lone Peak Productions has released their newest graphics demo reel. This fast paced two minute reel shows a variety of, compositing, logo treatments, color correction and motion graphics work and demonstrates Lone Peak’s ability to solve client and production problems. Posted on CreativeCow.net, it has already received praise from around the world. Check out Lone Peak’s graphics reel to see what every one is talking about.
22
Nov
2009
PPBH Advertising selected Lone Peak Productions to help them create another TV spot for Relay Utah. At the time of the shooting, the screen that would typically appear on the new specialized Relay Utah telephone, had yet to be released. Lone Peak was tasked to insert the new screen on the telephone as it was being used by the actors during the shoot. Using a number of masking, Motion, and rotoscoping techniques, the end result was a seamless match.
18
Nov
2009
Lone Peak Productions is working on an hour-long evacuation training video for Oak Ridge National Laboratories and FEMA. To set the stage for what ultimately becomes an area evacuation, the video starts with an accident scenario where a citizen discovers a chemical leak at an industrial facility. Soon, the accident is being reported on the news by three local TV stations.
Later, in the Emergency Operations Center, emergency personnel are monitoring the news coverage on large wall monitors. In order to achieve this, Lone Peak had to make distinctive branding packages for each station, which included logos, anchor coverage, intros, lower thirds and bumps. The client was taken aback by the authentic look of the graphics and the fact that they were turned around in one day.
15
Jun
2009
Non-Stop Music, who creates world class music for film trailers such as the blockbuster hits Narnia, Transformers and the Simpson’s movie, as well as station IDs and TV show themes has come to Lone Peak Productions for some killer logo animations. Lone Peak created six eye-popping logo treatments that match the caliber of Non-Stop’s music. These animations were mixed between movie trailers and other big name projects that Non-Stop composed music for. “It was important to have a logo treatment that felt as big as the content it was being juxtaposed with, and we achieved that”, said Stephen Smith, who created the logo animations.
11
Mar
2009
Lone Peak Productions is in the process of assembling 13 episodes of the new TV show, “1000cc Raw Thrill” thanks to visionary Executive Producer, James Brown of Salt Lake Studios. “1000cc Raw Thrill” shows off the sportbike lifestyle in a way never seen before. It has the perfect blend of interviews from top industry experts and riders, tech tips and spotlights on the latest gear.
The show is co-hosted by two big names in the industry, Greg White and Erin Bates both of whom have gained fame for their work on the Speed channel. Special guests, like world champs Max Biaggi and Ben Spies, are two big shot motorcycle road racers that appeared on the show, amongst others. The studio portion, directed by Lone Peak, was shot over a week long period in a custom designed set at Salt Lake Studios. Using three Sony XDCAM cameras recording to memory cards has allowed Lone Peak to quickly assemble the episodes in full high-definition.
Once the video acquisition was complete, Lone Peak assembled the footage, sometimes using all three HD equipped edit bays simultaneously. Lone Peak had to manage over 200 hours worth of footage, assemble it into multiple episodes, create unique show graphics and do it all in record time. “We had a limited timeframe to cut each episode and still wanted to maintain a high standard of quality, which is not an easy task. The efficient television work flow that we honed during five years of producing Hot Homes of Utah really compressed our production schedule while maintaining great quality. Its a great show, check it out, it speaks for itself,” said Paul Furner, the main editor on 1000cc Raw Thrill. 1000 cc Raw Thrill is currently available on a number of cable channels serving 60 million households nationally.
09
Mar
2009
Lone Peak, in conjunction with Cultivate Ideas, a local advertising agency, created a stunning video for WeXL. WeXL is an innovative financial services company that helps people create wealth while eliminating debt. With little source footage and a very tight deadline, using Motion and AfterEffects, Lone Peak cleverly combined stock images, graphics, and video into a quick-moving piece that maintains graphic continuity with other WeXL marketing materials.
05
Mar
2009
Lone Peak was hired by Executive Producer James Brown from Salt Lake Studios to create a stunning show open and graphics package for the new High Definition (HD) television show, 1000cc Raw Thrill. The show opens with great sportbike footage, killer graphics and high-energy music that grabs the viewer’s attention. It has a cutting edge look and feel with all sorts of gages and high impact footage.
“The challenge was to incorporate SD footage with HD footage in the same open, SD being a lot smaller in size than HD. Because of that, I came up with the idea to show off lots of footage at the same time. This not only solved the challenge Lone Peak was given, but also created a truly unique look and feel,” said Stephen Smith, who created the graphics for the show.
The result is an open worthy of the two hosts (Greg White and Erin Bates from the Speed Channel) and the numerous top sportbike riders who join them each episode. To decide for yourself check out the motion graphics in the 1000cc Raw Thrill show open.
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05
Mar
2009
The Aurora Awards announced that Lone Peak Productions has won three awards for excellent video production work. Sinclair’s Utah Oil Benefits Orientation video won a gold award in the Employee Benefits/Orientations category. This video was designed to help Sinclair employees gain a grater understanding of what benefits they have available and how they can be utilized. As part of a series tailored to each of Sincilair’s divisions, the project was shot in the Lone Peak studio on green screen and, in post, modified to fit each division’s policies. The net effect was Sinclair realizing considerable savings overall at a considerably compressed production schedule.
Lone Peak was also excited to find out that two recent videos they produced for Oakridge National Laboratories and FEMA/Homeland Security, brought home gold awards as well. The Operations Level Training: A Refresher video was created to help firefighters nationwide supplement mandatory recurrent training requirements as it relates to handling of hazardous materials. As part of the project, Lone Peak staged an oil tanker – propane tanker accident and, with the help of the Salt Lake County Unified Fire Authority and Salt Lake County Sheriff’s office, staged an accurate HazMat emergency response. This response was woven into a classroom style training exercise where, through chroma-key techniques, live video, animation and graphics were presented on the classroom “eraser board.”
The third gold award was in recognition of an Animals In Emergencies video. After Katrina, animal issues gained national prominence and congress responded with passing PETS legislation requiring every state, county, and city adopt animal issues into their emergency response master plan. This video was designed to help emergency planners and animal owners gain a greater understanding of what animal related issues may arise in an emergency and what they can do to mitigate them. This video not only won an award for outstanding production, but was listed as one of FEMA’s significant annual accomplishments, and distributed to congress and state and county governments nationally, and aired on several local TV stations and government websites.
10
Feb
2009
Teleperformance, an in-bound contact center business based in Paris and industry leader, raised 1.5 million dollars last year to help the needy children of the world and once again turned to Lone Peak Productions to help create a video to jump-start this year’s fund raising campaign.
Danny Lasko, Marketing Communications Director for Teleperformance commented that, “Lone Peak Productions is a small group of photo shooting, video editing, blow-your-mind media creating professionals that have proven you don’t have to be monstrous to matter. They’ve produced more than a dozen projects for us, each one better than the last. I am convinced it’s due to their rich expertise, personal attention to their clients, and their simple desire to make cool stuff. I could not ask for a better partner.”
One of the elements Lone Peak employed to catch viewers’ attention was to create a slick graphic package that helped showcase what different subsidiaries did throughout the world as shown below.
11
Nov
2008
Lone Peak Productions handled color correction (amongst other things) for the new feature film Horse Crazy 2. The film takes place in a gorgeous part of rural America and needed the visuals to show it. Due to scheduling conflicts, bad weather and other things out of the control of the filming crew, some shots needed help.
“The movie was shot in a beautiful, green, rural area of Michigan during the summer but, supplemental mountain shots for the open couldn’t be shot until fall in Utah. I utilized some of Color’s advanced features to alter the footage so it looked like it was all shot in the summer. When I was finished, it even looked better then it did in real life,” said Stephen Smith, editor and colorist on the film.
Dead plants came to life, sunsets glowed with radiant color and day was turned into night once Lone Peak worked it’s magic. The before and after versions of the film are literally a “night and day difference” that speaks for itself.
