Showing posts with label Wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wedding. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Sunday, April 8, 2018

RLV Productions in the latest Wedding Ideas Oklahoma Magazine!

Our friends at Wedding Ideas Oklahoma put together a nice article about RLV Productions!  Check it out by clicking on the image:


Monday, March 19, 2018

RLV Productions Graphic Design Timelapse

As a small business owner, you tend to wear many hats. One of those hats is having to design your own marketing materials as we really can't outsource so that means more time working on other projects besides video production. Here is a timelapse of designing a brochure to hand out at next weekend's bridal show at okBride at the Embassay Suites in Norman. This is over the course of 8 plus hours. If you look off to the right at the curtain, you can see it going from daylight to dark as a little bit of light creeped in between the curtains.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Moving To Tulsa, Oklahoma and KOTV




To all my friends, collegues, co-workers and most importantly family:

Well after much soul searching, discussions with my wife, family, fellow co-workers and friends,  I have decided to make a jump in the Television Market to Tulsa, Oklahoma by becoming the new Weekend Director at the News on 6 - KOTV!  I received the offer Wednesday Night February 23rd and I could not turn it down.

This is a new chapter in our lives.  I've been with KOAM-TV/FOX-14 since 2001 with only a 6 month hiatus in 2004 by moving up north to Des Moines, IA to KCCI-TV, but family illnesses drew us back to 4-State area.  Plus the economy really hit us hard.  Our business took a hit in 2010 and we only have 3 weddings booked this year.  When former co-workers Stephanie Marsh (KOAM Alumni) and Kia Hartweg (KCCI Alumni) notified me of the position at the first of January, I decided to put my name in the hat.

Everyone but me (even my boss Steve Holinsworth) knew they would offer the position to me.  I guess I'm humble and didn't want to get my hopes up just in case I didn't get the position.  But now it's really happening.

So everyone is asking me what about our business?  Well right now we've put bookings on hold for the rest of this year.  Working weekends will prevent me from booking very many jobs.  So probably when I get vacation time, I'll most likely use that time to take off to shoot weddings since I love doing that.  But KOTV will now be my priority.  I need to give it my 110%.  The 3 weddings booked will be shot and edited and delivered as promised.  One of them I won't be able to go shoot, so my wife and a couple of shooters I'll hire will assist Tracie for that day.  I have complete confidence they can do this without me and I'll just edit it together.  So I'll limit my weddings to probably 5 or 10 a year for now. Plus I have fellow wedding videographers and filmmakers in the Tulsa area that if they needed help, I could assist them if my schedule doesn't conflict.

What about our house?  For now we're going to get it fixed up and get it ready to put on the market. .  (Although right now I can't contribute much because of my foot),  I will be staying with my high school friend of nearly 25 years Kevin Song for now until we can at least get it ready.  Tracie is still attending PSU along with my brother who's been staying with us during the week.  Once either the house is ready or when Tracie is ready to make her move to Tulsa, we'll find a place to either rent or buy.  I feel horrible because Tracie has a great job with WATCO companies.  She's really happy for the first time in a long time after leaving Names and Numbers.  But the move for us will put her within an hour and a half from family instead of 4 hours as it is now.  The distance and time is the still the same for me since most of my family lives in Northeast Oklahoma as well as the Coffeyville, KS area.

I went to school for broadcasting, I have a bachelor's in the field.  So it's time to move on, use that degree and give someone else the experience KOAM/FOX-14 can provide to move them up the ladder in the Television Industry.

This was a difficult decision for me to make.  I have loved every minute of KOAM-TV/FOX-14. I've had the perfect position where I've worked in all aspects of every department.  So I feel I know just about every person here and at the bureau, from news, production, promotions, admin, and sales.  I've had some hand in each of those departments. I've had my battles, disagreements, laughters, even some tears.  It has been a rewarding experience.  I will miss it.  I've made a lot of friends, hopefully no enemies! :) Because hey I can get cranky too! ;) I've seen a lot of changes in technology, faces and so much more, but the goal has always been the same to be the Dominant Number One Station in the market.

Thanks to everyone I've worked with over the years at KOAM-TV/FOX-14.  It's been one hell of a ride!

My last day at KOAM: Friday March 18th


First Day at KOTV: Monday March 21


Raymond Vail
Senior Director/Production Videographer - KOAM-TV/KFJX-TV
Business Owner - RLV Productions, LLC

Monday, December 27, 2010

Happy Holidays from RLV Productions, LLC

Hi all,
Here's what we've been up to for the last year. Thought we do this by producing a video slide show of key highlights of over the last year.

We'll admit it was a trying time for our business as things did slow down this year but still had plenty of things to do over the year.

What's not on here is that Tracie left Names and Numbers to pursue a job at Watco Companies out of Pittsburg working in Data Entry

To see what else we've done this year, watch the video!!




We hope everyone had a great year and that everyone has a blessed 2011. Merry Christmas!


Love to all,

Ray & Tracie

http://www.rlvproductions.com

http://www.facebook.com/raymondvailjr

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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Kansas City Perfect Wedding Guide Bridal Booth Contest: WE WON!!

 Hi Everyone!

For the last couple of weeks, we've been posting on our blog and our Facebook Fan Page of a upcoming bridal show in Overland Park, Kansas put on by Perfect Wedding Guide.  Well they were putting on a contest where you post on your Facebook Fan Page and tag the KC PWG Facebook Page, the more you post, the more chances of winning.  So I did it twice a day for about 10 days or so.

Well it paid off as we were the winners of a FREE booth for the upcoming Spring Bridal Show.  We are so excited!  We've been wanting to branch out to others areas of the region and this will help us out big time!

Here's the post on facebook:

 So we're very excited to be part of the show!  We hope it works out for us and to be able to make new connections with clients as well as vendors in the Kansas City Area!

Raymond

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Chance & Nedra: Complete Wedding Video 07-31-10

 
Hot Summer day in St. Paul, Kansas. Also some hoops with the Wedding Party!  We had a lot of fun with this wedding.  Our 3rd wedding at this church in less than a year.  Video works like a DVD so you can navigate around.  Enjoy!

Depending on your connection speed, you may have to wait for video to completely load.



 
Wedding Location: St. Francis Catholic Church, St. Paul, KS
 Reception Site: St. Francis Parish Hall, St. Paul KS

Photographer: G.W. Photography, Parsons KS and Darrin Hackney Photography, Wichita, KS;
Videographers: RLV Productions, LLC, Pittsburg, KS;
Photobooth: Hollywood Photobooth



Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

Everyone here at RLV Productions, LLC wish all of our friends, clients, families and everyone else a Happy & Safe Thanksgiving!

Ray & Tracie
RLV Productions, LLC

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Kansas City Perfect Wedding Guide

Save-the-Date! Sunday, February 13th, 2011 from 10 to 5 at the Overland Park Convention Center is Kansas City's #1 Bridal Show! Kansas City Perfect Wedding Guide produces the largest and most popular bridal shows and if you're a bride, you won't want to miss it! Go to http://kansas-city.perfectweddingguide.com/ for more information and to purchase your tickets today.

There is a possibility that RLV Productions, LLC will be part of the event but at this time this is still pending.


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Friday, November 12, 2010

Love A Local Business Contest Sponsored by Intuit

Okay we've tried this before and it's tough but help us out!

RLV Productions, LLC is Ranked 565 this month, okay so we're WAAAAAAAAAAAAY behind! Click on the link and help us win a grant! It would help us expand as well and get some much needed upgrades as well as (hopefully) some office space too!



Click on the link below to nominate us!


http://lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com/pages/fan?b_id=19964&format=html

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Parisa & Farhad July 10, 2010 Full Length

We had such a fun time with this wedding.  Here is Parisa & Fahad full length for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.rlvproductions.com/Saljooghi071010.html

Note, you will need Adobe Flash Player in order to view video.

About Me

Since 1997, I have been working as a videographer, primarily focusing on wedding and event shoots. Additionally, I am currently employed as a Client Services Producer at the local television station in Oklahoma City. In my spare time, I freelance as a camera operator for CNS Productions, Cory's Audio Visual, and the Oklahoma City Dodgers.