Student Affairs Christmas Party, '07

 

These are some of my colleagues and friends who serve as directors in the Division of Student Affairs. Check out the slide show. It's a mighty handsome and talented bunch.

Banks Of Oxford

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"DownTown" Jimmy Brown's 60th, Oxford, Miss., November 16, 2007

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Braseth Square Dance

Starring Shelly and Gary Lebert and Sue and Mark Braseth

Strut Your Mutt, Oxford, Miss. November 10, 2007

Some mighty impressive beasts in this pack. Make sure you stay until the end of the video to see the most feared dog in all of the land.

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Fall Leaves at First Presbyterian, Oxford, Miss.

Take a few moments. Watch. Listen.

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Ty

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!

Jour 101 Hooray for us

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News Flash

 

Bailey got his first real (paid) job for Oxford FilmWorks. He did a home inventory via video. Great idea actually. Insurance companies can be a bear to deal with after a major loss like a fire. A video home inventory offers a lot of protection. Just show 'em the video and say, hell yes I owned five nice paintings. Hard to argue with good evidence. He's excited and I'm excited for him. Not glamorous work, but it will pay his bills so he can pursue his films dreams. The kids got guts and ambition.

My New Oxford Skate Trailer

ESPN Friday Night Grove, raw video for Mary B.

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Bailey's first TV story

Outstanding job, Bailey. Watch out for those typos in the title. Thanks to Paul Lago for his time, interest and patience.

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My Jour 101 Class, Fall '07

 

Happy Birthday SHAY!

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Ralph and Bailey's Radio Spot

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One of Bailey's Shorts

Bailey started his film career with a $350 Canon Elura mini DV camera. By spring of '07, he was hooked. Here is a short film Bailey made with his friend, David. Be patient as it sometimes is slow to load. Without further ado, here's Bailey's debut in visual storytelling. "Choices"

Bailey's Edit Skills

I'm not one to toss around compliments willy nilly, but dang, Bailey is getting good on final cut. Here he shows some fundamentally sound editing skills. Not a bad little story, either.

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Flip side

Should have made this post first. The colors are off for some reason. The logo is a light blue as is the print on the black backgound. Should have mentioned that we also had our letterhead and envelopes printed. We have made an effort to maintain some continuity in our promtional efforts and overall image. Ha....we've yet to make our first dime. We also have a web site for Oxford FilmWorks that needs some serious updating. All in due time.

So why blog about a dinky start-up business? Well, maybe we'll be a Fortune 500 company someday and this will serve as a decent little history. Actually, I'm trying to get Bailey thinking about everything we do and forcing him to make posts on a regular basis might sharpen his writing skills.

Note to all readers, especially those with a business background. We are open to all suggestions and recommendations.

Oh yeah, another reason for the blog (using Google's Blogger tool), is the fact we may move up a slot or two on a Google search of Oxford and video or photo production.
We should probably begin to focus on developing a real business plan.

Anyone interested in investing in Oxford FilmWorks? Or perhaps someone will buy us out for a cool $million or two.

Big Step

Spent $471 dollars designing and printing 2,500 4X9 rack-size cards (18 cents per card) for publicity. We will put these under wiper blades, on front porches, give them to strangers on the street and "paper" out little Oxford hamlet. We don't really know, but the design and message looks good to us. The bio info on the backside may be a waste of space, but in a small town like ours, people will want to know who we are. That this is a father/son project may make it more appealing. Be interesting to see what the result is.

Dad's Post

 

So here's the question. How long will this last? Will Bailey have the ability to sustain the energy to actually get this thing off the ground. If so, the little dude can write his own ticket. I think the key will be to focus on the low-end work to start with. Legal video and insurance work. The art and movies come later.

Day Two

 

This is our second day with the business and i just got an email from my dad saying that we just ordered 2,500 brochure and im really stoked on that. I just got back from school and i can't wait for the brochures to come in because im ready to get this thing started. We came up with the idea just last week for this and we have already started on it witch is very suprising to me i am going to learn from my dad but mostly the experience of doing it myself. I have enjoyed shooting and watching video for years but only recently becoming to take it seriously and to take it as a passion and what i want to do for a living. I am also getting into using video editing i just got an editing system called "Final Cut Express HD" which is really awsome and comes with LiveType 1.5 & Soundtrack 2 and i really love using those and learning them... thats about all i have to say today.

-Blogged by Bailey B.

Day 1 with Ralph and Bailey Braseth

 

This is the day we kicked off our little business. We will see where it goes from here. Today we also designed our first brochure that we hope to have 2,500 copies of printed in the next 10 days.