In 2011 Lone Peak Production expanded and hired three new outstanding employees. Lone Peak Productions is very excited to have them on board. To learn more about Dennis Powers, Dennis “Leno” Rowley and Jeremy Penzien check out their bios below:
Dennis Powers – Writer / Producer / Director
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Dennis graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He then moved to Chicago where he spent 5 years at the largest agency in the world at the time, J. Walter Thompson, working on Gillette, Sears, Ford, Jovan and 7Up the UnCola, followed by two years at DDB Needham working on General Foods, Morton and McDonalds. After accumulating huge amounts of experience and training he decided to move to the mountains of Salt Lake City to escape the big city. After a couple of years at Fotheringham, he spent the next twenty as the Powers of Penna Powers Brian Haynes. The last spots he was the creative director, producer and also directed for the agency won an Emmy. He produced them with Lone Peak Productions. It was a good combination then and we thought it might be once again. He’s best know for being a nice guy and making low budget look high budget.
Dennis “Leno” Rowley – Sales / Writer / Producer / Director
When KSL Television hired a struggling college student to work in their mail room on April 1, 1975 it began a love story and a career that has spanned five decades. The love story begins with a young man who once he began to tinker with lights realized that he loved how he could “paint” a piece of video to be whatever he wanted to create. His creative vision expanded to include writing, producing and directing. All told Dennis Rowley has used his creative skills to oversee over 3000 projects in 36 years. 1000 projects per decade, 100 projects per year – an average of 2 completed videos per week over a single life span is a feat a select few can hang on their lodge pole. If there remains any doubt that Dennis can do anything put in front of him a brief summary of the customers served should clear up any of those: Questar, Utah Power, The Yellowstone Club, ESPN, Fox Sports, ABC, NBC and CBS, ZCMI, Utah State Department of Continuing Education, IOMEGA, Apple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Franklin Covey, The Covey Institute, Dan’s Foods, Associated Grocers, Albertson’s, First Security Bank, VA Hospitals, Bonneville International, KOIT Radio , KSL Radio and Television and hundred more. When it comes to programming Dennis has produced, directed, written or acted as project manager on over 200 live or live-to-tape shows.
Jeremy Penzien – Producer / Videographer
This guy just walked in off the streets and wouldn’t leave…so we decided to give him a job. Turns out he has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Digital Video and makes abstract video art in his spare time. As a huge nerd, he enjoys Dr. Who, Classical Number Theory, and the methodical experimentation of toppings on homemade pizzas. Don’t you think he kinda looks like Jim Carrey?
Lone Peak has added an additional high-definition video edit bay, edit C, to our studios. The new bay is connected with optic fiber through our server to our other two HD edit bays, our graphics station, and audio booth. With increasing requests for sweetening and surround sound, this new bay has been designed to handle both with capabilities up to Dolby 7:1. Many clients have commented on it’s comfortable look and feel. During construction of the new bay, we added additional sound isolation and lighting to the adjacent insert stage as well.
Lone Peak Productions, owner of the largest stock footage library of Utah scenes, has expanded its HD library to include more footage of Arches National Park, Monument Valley, Goblin Valley, Dead Horse Point and more.
Business is booming and we’re running out of room so Lone Peak is adding a new edit bay (edit C) which will be tied, through our server, to our other two HD edit bays as well as our graphics station and audio booth. With increasing requests for sweetening and 5:1 surround mixing, this new bay is designed to handle that as well. In addition to the creation of the new edit bay, we are adding additional sound isolation and lighting to the insert stage as well. Completion is scheduled for mid June.
Lone Peak Productions created a high impact open for a project for Catholic Community Services of Utah. The up-beat open for the project uses type to help inspire viewers to help make a difference with Catholic Community Services. To see for yourself check out the video below.
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.
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.
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.
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.
