Craig Shortlisted for host of Top Gear Australia & our prize Top Gear Europe Trip.

Well this is news that has managed to evade our blog up until now as we were waiting to see how it panned out exactly. Craig was excited to recently have been short listed as a potential host of the motoring TV program “Top Gear Australia”
The SBS incarnation of the popular BBC motoring program ran an open casting call in a search to un-earth new talent to fill the Australian Equivalent roles of Clarkson, Hammond and May (hosts of the popular UK Top Gear) The nation wide call out resulted in over 4000 video applications Australia wide.

Although unsuccessful at making the final cut, Craig was honored to be one of the few shortlisted to meet with the shows producers and to been one of the youngest to be considered for the role.
The application consisted of written and video components and as some of you may know Craig and I were over the moon last year to win a business class trip to London for our Top Gear Competition video clip entry. Once the producers had reviewed this they contacted Craig early in the process and kept in regular contact to ensure he was applying.

Everything worked out for best in the end as shortly after Craig's interview we were delighted to find out that I was pregnant with a baby girl. The shows producers said if successful it would have required a lot of time away from home and a possibly a move to Sydney which would have have been very difficult with a baby on the way.

For those unfamiliar with our original top gear video and London trip I have posted the video below.
The previous competition called for viewers to discuss their own car in a “top gear” style manner so I filmed Craig taking a “tongue and cheek” look at our 1975 Chrysler Galant. This video won via a public vote! This laid the early foundation for what later became his audition video.

Our business class tickets to London last year represented a fantastic opportunity to see some of Europe so we ended up taking a few weeks off and with my sister and brother in law, we visited the UK (London, Greenwich and Bath) France (Paris), Italy (Rome, The Vatican City) and Greece (Athens, Larissa, Nei Pori and Platamonis) where we caught up with relations.
We had the time of our lives.

Winners!

The AVPA (Australian Video Producers Association) held their annual 2007 video awards on Wednesday 5^th September in Melbourne. We are thrilled to announce that we have been notified that we have dominated the wedding videography category coming first place in the following areas;

Wedding Short Form (Creative presentation, non traditional format, new vogue, arty etc. Under 50min Duration)

Wedding Traditional (Single or Multi camera coverage, covering all aspects of the occasion)

For those who are unfamiliar with these awards, this is the highest accolade that can be received for wedding videography in Australia. This is something that our business has been striving for since we started operation in 2001. However being self confessed perfectionist and so critical of our own work, we had not yet entered in past years. We are now so glad we made the last minute decision to enter these 2007 awards.

A big thank you and congratulations go out to the following couples whose wedding videos we submitted that won us the awards.

Jeremy and Rachel 7^th October 2006 – Wedding Traditional category

Noel and Rainda – 10^th June 2006 - Wedding Short Form category

Thank you very much to everyone including our fellow video producers for your constant support and inspiration, we cannot describe how absolutely elated we are feeling for winning these prestigious awards. With renewed inspiration with our many new ideas and techniques we cannot wait for the 07/08 wedding season.

The Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership Awards

Recently Craig and I attended The Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership Awards for Western Australia. We were nominated in conjunction with Extra Edge Services with whom we produced a video in 2006 on the pros and cons of running your own business, which we not only produced but starred in as well! We were finalists in the category of small business however we were unsuccessful in winning, this time!

It was very cool to see our name against some prestigious businesses such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.

It was a lovely awards luncheon as it was held at the Sheraton Hotel. We received a stunning fish main meal and a delectable chocolate cake dessert, yummo, we certainly left there a few kilos heavier!