Carolwood Productions
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Visit with artist Angela Anderson who takes us on a unique, creative journey from her formative early years, through a European and New York experience, and finally to her exciting career in Mid-Coast Maine and beyond.
St. George Stories brings you inside the fascinating vocations and avocations of your neighbors in and around the beautiful St. George peninsula, Maine.
Visit with Tom Schwamb as he takes us up to a bell tower, and into his wonderful world of model railroading. St. George Stories brings you inside the fascinating vocations and avocations of your neighbors in and around the beautiful St. George peninsula, Maine.
You never know what you might pull out when you reach into the world of Carolwood Productions!
This time ‘round, we’ve decided to highlight a project that has been almost a year in the making. Specifically, the complete, ground-up rebuilding of our local lighthouse and museum website.
Some of you may know we have been volunteering for a few years with the Marshall Point Lighthouse & Museum. Last year, the discussion began within the MPLH (Marshall Point Light House) Board about doing a complete re-vamp of the website.
In order to do a great job of the actual site build, we engaged the services of the very talented Matt O’Brien for the job, and he soon began creating a fantastic new website, while we were hard at work creating beautiful new images, content, as well as writing and updating articles. As work progressed, the president of the board asked that we look into integrating a webcam. Little did we know that this simple request would turn into quite the task.
We soon began researching the latest hardware and software, as well as the IT aspects of getting an online, IP camera into operation. It turned out that the hardware bit was the simplest part of the project.
We looked into camera systems that could withstand the full-scale, head on attack that our icy winter’s blast would throw at it every year; not to mention a steady dousing of salty sea spray.
Here is where the camera was ultimately mounted onto the Keeper’s House, looking out seaward towards the light and surrounding islands:
However, most of the heartburn was generated in deciding how to serve-up a stable, LIVE video stream that could be viewed by potentially hundreds of viewers simultaneously.
The breakthrough came when we decided to investigate streaming services that could take that single feed from the webcam, and serve it up to many separate viewers at a time; sort of a Vimeo or YouTube for webcam video. We investigated an outfit located in New Mexico called BrownRice Internet, and after solving some configuration issues, the webcam flickered to life, and began transmitting the lovely Marshall Point Light and it’s idyllic setting to the world late last week.
Here is a still screen capture of the view just after sunset:
Finally, here we are at the Exciting Moment you have all been waiting for; a direct link to the live webcam feed that will transport you Auto-Magically to the rugged Maine coast. HINT – after navigating to the link below, click on the “Fullscreen” icon on the lower right. Better yet, view the feed via the “big screen” on your laptop. You’ll experience much more live goodness that way…
https://www.marshallpoint.org/webcam
While you’re on the Marshall Point Lighthouse & Museum website, spend a few minutes exploring the rest of the wonderful new site in detail.
It’s great when towns and cities place a high degree of importance on their historic roots. Maintaining strong links to the people that worked hard to build the physical town, as well as lend their character to the makeup of the landscape can make for fascinating stories.
Our latest partnership with The City of Diamond Bar has resulted in an intriguing story that illuminates the history of this Southern California town; focusing on two of the pioneering founding fathers.
History of The Diamond Bar Ranch from Carolwood Productions on Vimeo.
Carolwood Productions recently wrapped up an exciting highlight video that was designed to give the viewer a glimpse into the many services that Maine Coast Petroleum offers to it’s customers. Because these products extend to both homeowners, as well as commercial accounts, we necessarily had to provide an expansive viewpoint for the viewer in order to convey those services.
So that we could best capture these services, production dates were scheduled across a six-month period. The filming locations ranged from the Port Clyde village, Route 131, a residential Martinsville location, the MCP business office (interiors as well as exteriors), on-board an oil truck, the Port Clyde co-op area, and finally, the far end of the Rockland Breakwater!
In essence; this is a look at the people served, and the products provided, by Maine Coast Petroleum.
Maine Coast Petroleum from Carolwood Productions on Vimeo.
When The City of Diamond Bar decided to update and codify it’s graphical “look and feel”, they decided that a simple overview of the concepts and structure were necessary to most efficiently get those ideas across to it’s team members. They felt that the utilization of a “whiteboard” explainer-type video would best fit the bill, and in the process, we created an animated spokesperson to act as the primary source to convey those important concepts.
Carolwood Productions worked closely with the City as we developed the script; then we launched into an aggressive production schedule. We created all the animations and motion graphics for the training piece, as well as providing the voice-over content, music, and incidental imagery.
City of Diamond Bar – “Communication, Marketing and Branding Initiative.” from Carolwood Productions on Vimeo.
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