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NXP - GreenChip Smart Lighting

Internet-enabled Smart Lighting signals a fundamental shift in how we interact with lights - helping individuals, businesses and governments save energy. This video, partly filmed in a San Jose, Calif. home with a 70-node smart lighting network, explores the universe of possibilities enabled in a world where every light bulb has an IP address. 

 

Woodside Vineyards/Auto Vino

Bob Mullen and Buff Giurlani show us the new Woodside Vineyard and Auto Vino establishment, combining fine wines and fine automobiles in Menlo Park, California.

Mambo Tropical

Mambo Tropical- Aunque Tu No Quieras

This elaborate production was shot over several months on beaches in Capitola and Rio Del Mar, California, as well as the Fox Theatre in Salinas.

Mambo Tropical is a salsa group from the west coast that is on the verge of breaking out onto the world stage. More and more people are falling in love with their music and the fascinating personalities that make up Mambo Tropical. From five-time BMI award winner Orlando Castro to Yvette Watts's luxurious voice to Ric "Mightybone" Feliciano's entrancing melodies and arrangements--each and every member has had a part in this band's steady rise in popularity over the years. Yet Mambo Tropical has not yet reached their zenith. When you watch and listen to their body of work, one gets a sense that this group is poised to take the next step on their road to relevance within the latin music world.

NAMM stories...

The 26th annual Technical Excellence & Creativity  (TEC) Awards was held at the NAMM Convention this past January for the first time. The show was well attended by the world's top music producers, engineers and musical artists.  

Video 4 was pivotal in designing and creating the video and graphics for the entire show production, which was displayed on five large screens at the Hilton Hotel with three simultaneous multiple streams of video on the five screens.  The videos included the opening 25 year history of the TEC awards, a collage of five years of The Technology Hall of Fame, and all the awards show nominee and winner graphics.

The featured video highlight of the show was a mini-documentary on Lindsey Buckingham who was presented this year's Les Paul award which was produced by Video 4 with Jeff Scheftel of Oliver Entertainment

Video 4 also created a You Tube channel for the TEC Foundation which contains all the highlights of this year's award ceremony.

Also for the NAMM show, Video 4 created five presentation and web videos for Keith McMillen's new Soft Step product with partners, mcreative, and shot interviews of Keith McMillen and demo artists at the KMI NAMM trade show booth.

The following video is one of five videos presently on the KMI web site, produced by Video 4 and mcreative:

 

View more of our video work, creating music, dance, theater, live performance presentations. 

2011 TEC Awards and recent stories.

In collaboration with producer, Jeff Scheftel of Oliver Entertainment, Video 4 produced the T-Bone Burnett mini-documentary shown at the 2010 Lone Star Film Festival on November 12, 2010.

The original video was created for the 2008 AES TEC Award Show, shown at the gala awards ceremony as T-Bone was inducted into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss introduced T Bone at the award ceremony, which was later made into a DVD produced for the TEC Awards by Video 4.

 
T-Bone hall of fame info.

This new revision of the T-Bone mini documentary features T-Bone's latest achievements producing music for Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp, Ryan Bingham, and with Elton John and Leon Russell on "The Union" album, just released in stores in October 2010. The documentary also includes his music production on the Beatle movie soundtrack, "Across the Universe" and his Oscar and Global Globe winning sound track for Crazy Heart, including the Oscar winning song, "The Weary Kind."

Video 4 is producing media for the TEC Awards for the 5th consecutive year, producing the live graphic presentation for both the TEC Awards gala night, and the TECnology Hall of Fame ceremony highlighting the most influential audio products in the history of audio. This year's 26th award show has moved from the AES show to the NAMM show as the primary award show event of this music conference.

In collaboration with Jeff Scheftel we created the mini-documentary for this year's Les Paul award winner, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, and the show's TEC Award DVD product and web cast will again be produced by Video 4. Previously, Video 4 has also created mini-documentaries for TEC Hall of Fame Inductee, Ed Greene and Les Paul Award WInners, Ray Benson and Al Kooper.

Allison Krause and Robert Plant at the 2008 TEC Awards show introducing T-Bone to the Hall of Fame — Edited and second camera by Denise Gallant of Video 4.

 

Our partners at montara creative, collaborated with us to create our ad for this year's TEC Award brochure, highlighting new work for this year's TEC Award show and work with Universal Audio and Muse Research.

– Looking forward to seeing everyone at NAMM this year!

team

video4creative

Award-winning audio and video artists with over 35 years experience in audio recording, mixing, sound design, video editing, live video production, and graphic design.

CONTACT

831.768.8727

denise@video4dvd.com

kevin@video4dvd.com

 

MAIL

Video 4
PO Box 1384
Aptos, CA
95001-1384

team

DENISE GALLANT

• Editing with NBC, LA, CBS NY and LA
• Graphic design with ABC, NY
• Billboard Music Award - Best Independent Video
• American Film Institute Grant Award
• UCLA Film School - BA/Cum Laude
• UCSC - Communications - BA

Product Manager and Product Specialist for over 15 years — Chyron/CMX, Autodesk’s Discreet Logic, Electro-GIG and XAOS Tools. Created many specs and software-hardware specs including “Spruce Up” with the DVD company, Spruce, which was later sold to Apple. Spruce Up is now known as iDVD. Denise was product manager for the CMX OMNI systems, Liberty Paint on the SGI platform, XAOS Tools N’Title and Pandemonium on SGI, Lightwave 3D on SGI, and product specialist with Discreet’s Frost real time 3D and Virtual Set system and Discreet’s Smoke and Fire editing systems. Denise also worked directly with the SGI trade show group, creating graphics and video for shows such as NAB in Las Vegas. As product manager, Denise has trained hundreds of editors and graphic artists at major TV stations all over the country, as well as for the Olympics in Barcelona, film studios in Kuala Lumpur, GloboTV in Rio, and television stations in San Paulo, as well as television stations in Toronto, Canada.

First VJ in San Francisco and LA — Co-Creator of the innovative Synopsis Video Synthesizer, which produced live audio-video effects at music concerts, raves and clubs.

Synopsis Video — Denise owned and operated this small independent effects studio in LA, partly based on the famous Sunset Blvd. Strip. Created over 100 music videos, including work with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, Tangerine Dream and Supertramp. Video effects and work on several films, including Doug Trumbull’s “Brainstorm” and John Dykstra’s “Lifeforce”.

Animator / Editor at Image West — The first special effects and 3D video studio in LA — created national commercials, TV logo packages, and television openings

Presently a Board Member of the Santa Cruz Film Festival, a Board member with the Community Television of Santa Cruz County, and Digital Media Factory in Santa Cruz. Denise also teaches video editing at Cabrillo College in Aptos.

One of the three first founders of Visual Music Alliance: The Visual Music Alliance (VMA) was founded in 1980 by a group of professional film and video artists and musicians to promote the visual/audio media as an art form and to fill the information void on the cutting-edge technological developments that were altering the face of the moving-image arts.

Denise is presently producing television shows for The Coastal Network in Monterey, Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento and San Luis Obispo. She won two WAVE Awards in2009 with her work with Santa Rosa Community TV on Lisa Fredenthal-Lee’s children’s TV spot “Don’t Throw That Away, and the “One Year Anniversary” Station Promo — and the “One Year Anniversary” Station Promo for CreaTV — one of many station logos and TV spots for this San Jose Television Channel.

KEVIN MONAHAN

• Three time honorary Emmy Award Winner for Audio
• Live sound effects with Peter Gabriel's Secret World Tour
• Album Credits with Yes, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Toto and Herbie Hancock
• Three US patents for Sound Design - Data Compression and Sound Looping

Sound Effects Designer and Product Manager for over 20 years and one of the original employees with E-MU Systems. At E-MU Kevin developed the first digital effects sound library in existence — for the first Emulator I. Kevin was one of the first musicians in this sound company and as a result was the liaison between E-MU and many of the top musicians in the world from the early 1980s-2001. Just a few of these artists were Genesis, Peter Gabriel, U2, The Cure, Yes,  Jerry Harrison and Talking Heads and many more.  

Kevin was also involved with Disneyland, creating digital sound boxes for their theme parks, updating them from the antiquated analog sound loops that they used in the past. 

Kevin and his band FX, with Doug Morton, produced and mastered the first independent CD in existence, “In Motion” that was not the product of a record label. 

Kevin has been operating with Denise Gallant as Video 4 since 2001 and continues to have close ties to the audio industry. Kevin and Denise produce the yearly graphics for the award show, TEC Awards at the AES show as well as the DVD of the show, which is handed out to thousands of people in the audio industry. They also produce graphics, video and DVDs for The TEC Award’s Hall of Fame award show. Video 4 has produced over 150 DVD web movies for Universal Audio for over six years. Also videos with Analog Devices, Antares, and Muse Research. 

Kevin is also a DVD, web movie, and compression specialist, and works with many other studios in the Santa Cruz and Watsonville areas.

 

portfolio site launch

our portfolio site

We're excited to present this new site. Selected work has been gathered together here in one place to make it easy for anyone to quickly access videos and projects we've been a part of. Most were shot, directed, edited and produced completed by our team — others were done in collaboration with key partners. And, our clients always are a big part of the success of our work.

We'll also expose back-stories about the creative process and how video has evolved. We're fortunate to have begun our work quite literally, at the dawn of contemporary video, DVDs and television technology. We've kept pace with the latest evolutions that have led us all to HD digital production and the web as a primary way we experience video and film.

We welcome comments and feedback on our site. Please note the categories on the right will be used progressively to make it easy to find specific work you are interested in.

– Denise and Kevin