Now you can enjoy higher quality videos and fewer distractions from camera-happy parents.
These are the events we want to remember forever:
- School Plays
- Musicals
- Concerts
- Awards Banquets
- Graduations
Star 2 Productions can professionally videotape these events with professional video cameras. Your school receives two edited copies free of charge for your archives. In exchange, Star 2 Productions asks to sell additional copies to parents of your students.
Your school benefits in three ways from using Star 2 Productions...
- Professional Quality. Visually, these videos are clear. Colors are vibrant because our three chip cameras are more adaptable to the challenging lighting situations presented at a performance. In addition, our sound quality is excellent. You can actually hear what people are saying! In addition, music sounds wonderful. You will see and hear the difference when Star 2 Productions records your school events.
- Less Distractions. There is no need for parents to jostle for the best positions to record the event. There is no need for people to have their view obstructed by overzealous camera bugs intent on capturing every single second. We'll be there with state-of-the-art cameras to capture everything. Close-ups of every child are edited right into the finished video. Parents are delighted when they see the results because it is far superior to what they could do themselves.
- Streamline Ordering System. Our no-hassle ordering system is easy. There is no work to you. Parents that need to order can click on our On-Line Shop to make their orders today.
The Importance of the Day
- The Ceremony
A Bar/Bat Mitzvah is a memory to cherish forever. This special day can never be duplicated. The accomplishment and honor of reading from Torah, before family and friends, is filled with emotion and excitement.
The Party
So often, so much attention is paid to the selection of a caterer, finding the appropriate entertainment, picking a theme and decorating the room; and in a few hours, all those things are gone. You will remember less than 25% of what happened. And, as the host, you'll likely not participate in much of the happenings. You'll be busy talking with your guests ... as it should be.
The Memories
How would you like your memories of this event preserved? Photos are a nice freeze frame of various moments of the day; but video is the only complete representation of the sights, sounds and emotions of this once-in-a-lifetime event.
If you had the choice, would you look at your Grandpa's Bar Mitzvah photos or video?
Understanding Tradition
- Star 2 Productions has become the premier videographer for Bar/Bat Mitzvahs in Chicago land area for a variety of reasons. Besides our multi-award-winning coverage, camera work, editing and service we provide, we understand the traditions of this very symbolic event to capture the true meaning of the day.
The focus of the Mitzvah video is on the traditions and emotions expressed on this very special day. Hours are spent on the editing process to make sure each detail is not overlooked ... the twinkle in Grandpa's eye as he recites the motzee over the challah ... Grandma hugging her grandchild as she gets to light her candle ... Mom and Dad as they toast their child's accomplishment ... and the total joy on the Bar/Bat Mitzvah's face as he/she is being raised to the ceiling on a chair during the Hora.
Your Mitzvah video will not only be the most honest record of this important event; but it will also be an entertaining story which your friends and family will want to watch repeatedly.
Now there's an easy way to get first communions and confirmations videotaped without disrupting the service and distracting the congregation...
Communions and confirmations are sacred moments in a child's life. Needless to say, most parents want to videotape the proceedings. Nevertheless, with dozens of parents trying for position to get the perfect angle to shoot the perfect video, well, you know what happens: then! We can help.
Let parents enjoy the service, leave the video to us.
Star 2 Productions specializes in videotaping sacred, religious events such as first communions and confirmations. We do it in such a low-key way that you barely know we're there. Parents who want a copy can order directly from our On-Line Shop.
Here are the advantages to you and parents for using Star 2 Productions...
- Higher quality. We use professional cameras for every event. Sound, color, and visual clarity are dramatically better than the typical camcorder can produce.
- Better camera angles. Every child's face is captured because we set up in discreet, unobstructed locations. We edit the event together to create a more interesting, compelling video of the ceremony. Close-ups are woven in so parents can clearly see the expression of their child.
- No distractions. Now there's no need for anyone to walk in front of the congregation again! Our camera captures it all. In fact, almost all of the churches we work with now ban cameras for these events. In addition, there's not a complaint! Parents can sit back, relax and enjoy this milestone in the life of their child knowing they can get a better video than they could ever take themselves.
Dance recitals are magical. Watching budding artists find their dancing legs is thrilling. What parents isn’t proud to see their child perform in public!
You can preserve the magic of this watershed event in your child’s life through the magic of video. Professional videography, that is. There is a difference. Star 2 Productions mixes must shows live with 2 to 4 cameras, that what makes us different. We offer brighter pictures … sound that is crisp and clear, not mushy. Well-lit images even when the stage isn’t so well lit.
"This dance recital was even better than I remembered!"
Here's how it happens every time...
Parents sit expectantly at their child's dance recital. They anxiously wait the moment their child dances onto stage. They nervously finger their camera waiting for the moment, THE PRECISE MOMENT, their child moves to the front of the stage. Then the tall guy in front stands up and blocks their view! All the video picks up is little Sally's right arm and a quick glimpse of the smile they love so much. Well maybe next year.
Let Star 2 Productions handle the video for better results and fewer distractions...
We specialize in dance recitals. With your blessing, we can strategically position two cameramen to capture your program in its entirety without distraction. We digitally edit the finished video together into a professional, compelling production parents will enjoy for a lifetime.
All of your efforts, the choreography, the costumes, come alive in a magical, polished dance video almost as good as being there. In fact, some say its even better, because the view is better than the one they had sitting behind the tall guy!
You'll love the sound, too. Our microphones eliminate unwanted background noises. Music comes through clearly. And visually, our videos are a feast for the eyes! There is no comparison between Uncle Charlie's camcorder and our 3 chip professional cameras.
The cost of college tuition rises significantly every year and scholarships become even harder to achieve. Will your student athlete make the cut?
Star 2 Productions VideoScout CD is a nationally standardized program that can reduce or eradicate tuition costs. With the Star 2 Productions method, an athlete increases the chance of gaining a scholarship by putting their skills directly in front of college recruiters. This is done via a personalized interactive marketing CD specially developed for them. The CD includes:
- Game Footage
- Game Highlights
- A Personal Message From the Athlete
- A Personal Message From the Athlete’s Coach(es)
- Statistics and Important Academic Information
The above information is invaluable to college recruiters because they are bound by NCAA regulations that limit the amount of interaction they can have with a perspective recruit. Star 2 Productions discovered what recruiters want to know and packaged it all on one CD. Not only do coaches find the CDs informational, they also find them easy to operate and entertaining at the same time. These are just some of the reasons why coaches receiving Star 2 Productions CDs are 10 times more likely to contact an athlete about scholarships.
Along with the interactive Star 2 Productions CD, a personalized website is also created to showcase the athlete. The site displays all current game schedules, game stats, updated academic records, photos, etc. This allows a recruiter to keep up to date with their potential scholarship recipient at all times.
With educational costs constantly on the rise, any help paying for them would be a bonus. Star 2 Productions VideoScout CD is a comprehensive marketing tool that costs a fraction of a four-year degree. You could gain up to 200 times your return on investment with a VideoScout CD!
Belief in a child’s abilities and a small investment can lead to unimaginable outcomes. Star 2 Productions VideoScout CD can make the unimaginable a reality.
Below are a few more event ideas that Star Video covers:
- Sporting Events
- Family Reunions
- Retirements
- Baby Events
- Tributes
- Retirements
- Roasts
- Birthdays
- more...
Faces are smiling … and laughing … and crying Hearts are pounding. The room is united. Good feeling abound. This is life at its best. Your photographs have never been more spectacular. Let us take those photographs stuffed in a drawer or old scrapbook some-where. Organize them into a theme and we’ll put them onto video. We’ll add music of your choice and add dynamic effects to dissolves one picture into another … or “swoosh” across the screen. This is more than a slide show. It’s an emotion-packed work of art staring you, your family, and friends
The Perfect Gift
Here are the most popular ways the Photo-Video Montage is used:
- At Weddings showing how you grew up and times you had together dating
- Christmas/Holiday gift. Families gather around the holidays. Your family will love to sit down and watch this video together.
- Valentines Day gift. Plan your photos around a courtship theme. Many newlyweds pull together photos from their first year of marriage and have us create a Photo-Video Montage. They present it to their husbands on Valentines Day. It makes a fun, romantic gift.
- Mother's Day/Father's Day gift. What parent wouldn't thrill to a gift this special!
- Anniversaries. The longer a couple has been married, the more impact the Photo-Video Montage has on them and their children. This video becomes an important historical archive for your family as well as a treasured, beloved heirloom.
- Family Reunions. Every reunion should have their own Photo-Video Montage to make it complete!
- A Loving Farewell … The loss of loved ones is never easy. More and more families are turning to the Photo-Video Montages as a meaningful way to pay tribute to their loved ones. (They show them at the Wake)
A Video Biography … The perfect way to pay tribute to someone special! A video biography slightly differs from the standard Photo-Video Montage. In addition to still photos and music, we add interviews from family, friends and co-workers sharing stories from the past. You’ve seen biographies about famous people on television programs. Now they are available to everyone! Great for any occasion!
We will transform your dusty old photos in the attic into a living, breathing masterpiece! This gift is a guaranteed hit!
How to Create a Photo Montage
- Gather up your photographs. Organize them around a theme. Group them together by person … or chronologically … or in some way that makes sense to you.
- Select music with special meaning to you or the person receiving the Photo Montage.
- Bring or mail them to Star 2 Productions. We’ll transform them into a family heirloom by creating a Photo Montage you’ll cherish down through the ages.
The DVD-R format has an estimated life span of 100 years, therefore making DVD-R the best format for preserving your event. Star 2 Productions can create DVDs with up to 120 minutes of MPEG-2 video in either straight transfers or with custom chapter points. All DVD'S include a disc label and custom case.
We supply the following conversion services:
Star 2 Productions provides high quality duplications. Whether you need 1 or 1000 copies, Star 2 Productions will duplicate you order at an affordable price with a quick turnaround. No job is to big or to small. We handle all formats of video, VHS, SVHS, Beta, DV, and Mini-DV.