Top Pup Media was recently hired by Embrace Home Loans to produce a series of customer testimonial videos from around the nation.

These videos were shot with the Canon 7D, and edited in Final Cut Pro.

Racine, Wisconsin

Aberdeen, Mississippi

Fayetteville, North Carolina

Embrace Home Loans - Racine, WI

Use the above link to watch the video in full 1080p High Definition.

Top Pup Media recently finished work on a promotional video for a new Fund Raising tool called “Swing 4 Charity”. Swing4Charity provides a variety of online tools and management resources that simplify the planning and production of your fundraising event.

Here’s the 60-second spot:

For the last couple of years, Frito Lay and reached out to “lay” producers to create commercials to promote Doritos, and not just any commercial — a Super Bowl commercial. And to incentivize filmmakers across the nation, the prize money is pretty amazing: $1 million.

This year, we jumped in and created our own 30 second spot for the contest. Here’s our entry into the Crash the Superbowl contest called “Where’s your Happy Place?”

Synopsis: Disillusioned with the family business, a young man is seduced by life’s pleasures only to find the costs far greater than he realized. Thus begins the “Long Journey Home”, a story about a father’s unconditional love for his son and a son’s quest for forgiveness.  

The short film was selected as a semi-finalist at The Doorpost. You can watch it at the Doorpost. Join us on our Long Journey Home Facebook Group!

Click here to go to the movie website.

We have two versions of “Long Journey Home”:

• Short Version (7 minutes)
• Full Version (18 minutes)

Top Pup Media recently finished work on a Flash-based, online training system for Surgical Notes.

The interactive, video-based system will be integrated into Surgical Notes’ VMR Express and used by Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) around the nation to help users understand the operation and function of VMR Express.

Here is a sample of the embedded video on the Flash Training system:

Surgical Notes is preeminent nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding and other related value-added information technology services for the Ambulatory Surgery Center market. Surgical Notes constantly strives to maintain cutting edge insights and services, like VMR Express, a cost-effective imaging process designed to assist clients in moving toward a “paperless” practice.

This is what happens after a long day of shooting:

The full-length feature film, Fissure, was released on DVD August 11, 2009. You can view webisodes from the movie online at Fissure.TV.

Fissure is available at Netflix, Amazon, Blockbuster Onilne, Hastings, and the Fissure.TV online store.

Synopsis: Still reeling from a personal tragedy, Detective Paul Grunning is sent on a routine call to a local professor’s home. When things turn deadly, he must navigate a fractured reality to solve the mystery before it’s too late.

This was a short transitional narrative video used at Gateway Church’s 2008 Christmas special. The young actor is Caleb Pond.

For fun, I took some of this footage and shot some more test footage in my parent’s backyard with my dad, Dick Pond, and his dog, Jerry. I call it “Pond Fun”. It’s set to Marc Broussard’s “Home”.

Surgical Notes provides a premiere transcription and dictation service to ASCs (Ambulatory Surgery Centers). Top Pup Media was hired to produce this fun, informative video that describes the benefits and features of their service.

In Match of 2008, Dallas-based Surgical Notes hired Top Pup Media to produce a promotional video for their new medical records software, VMR Express. They were looking specifically for a short scenario video that would demonstrate many of the surgery center frustrations of excessive paperwork, and how VMR Express can reduce or eliminate printed forms and paperwork.

This promotional video is used on their website, at tradeshows and other marketing materials.

VMR Express

As an interesting comparison, below was our first pass at the video. In the pre-production process, one small question wasn’t asked, “What should they be wearing?” We realized after the fact that it was supposed to be set in a surgery center and everyone would be in scurbs, not office attire. We ended up reshooting the piece with everyone in scrubs. But just in case VMR Express ever makes into the regular office, we’ll keep this one handy.

VMR Express, the Office Version

Nokia hired Top Pup Media to create a music video, but not just any music video. This entire video was shot using the Nokia 93i multimedia phone. The music video features local, Texas band Greyskull.