05
Mar
2009
Lone Peak honored with three Aurora Awards
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.