Expectations Video Productions (EVPro)

Light and Dark

2008-06-09T10:49:00.000-07:00

Well, just set up the self timer and took this self portrait. I am not so sure what the dark face signifies but I love the curtain pattern. Just exploring light and dark. I am uploading Victoria and Derek's wedding into my editing system and just killing time until I can start the editing fun!

swingin

2008-06-06T09:18:00.000-07:00

I've started a series of Willa swinging. The photos are so whimsical and flowing. Reminds me to just play more in life...

Lovin' the love story

2008-06-04T11:38:00.000-07:00

About to show Erin and Chris their love story film. Can't wait! I have been editing and crying the last few days, its so sweet. I am a total romantic. We shot alot of it in on around Chris' baby blue Ford truck. So pretty.
Wedding season is in full swing starting this Saturday. Doing alot more wedding documentaries and I am super psyched! They are going to be so meaningful and fun too! I'll post as soon as I have the first one done.
Tah,
Kara

springtime=snow??

2008-03-27T14:08:00.000-07:00

Wow, we have 2 inches of snow on the ground here. I am trying to remind myself of the beauty of white but so ready for other colors!
My sister, Bridget and I just co-produced a 5 minute documentary for the International Documentary Challenge (5 days to do it all!) Turned out cool, I think. Its about storage units! Was a big fun challenge.

Beauty

2008-01-09T13:53:00.000-08:00

What is art? Guess that is up to each person to decide. For me right now it means exploring what I am drawn too. I am interested in human nature, the way we humans interact with each other. I find these interactions beautiful and a challenge to show in film. Everyday normalness is intriguing to me.
Kara

Snow and water

2008-01-01T21:41:00.001-08:00

The new year has begun and it is crazy already. We stayed in a cabin in the mountains and it was so amazingly beautiful! So much snow and shoveling and sledding and skiing and friends and laughter and now sore muscles and much dirty laundry. But so worth it!
We began production on our next Documentary which involved underwater shooting. It was a first for me shooting video underwater and it was so fun. I absolutely loved it and want to do more... The shoot went really well and we will begin shooting the interviews next week. Should be a really interesting process.
Happy new year!

Alaska

2007-12-04T21:25:00.000-08:00

Wow. Just returned from the great state of Alaska. Our film was selected to show for the Anchorage International Film Festival. We met some amazing people and saw so many wonderful films. I am so exhausted and my whole body is tired including my head. So much stimulus. Mental, physical, emotional everything. Its all good! Wow.

Ideas

2007-10-16T15:36:00.000-07:00

Bendfilm fest just finished and we watched so many films my head is reeling. The best thing about the whole fest was all the inspiration that came out of it. Meeting other film makers and feeling all the passion that they have really made me want to make another Documentary. My sister and I are in the process right now of finding the next theme/ story we want to film. I am so psyched! Any ideas???
Kara

Wedding Bliss

2007-09-28T09:31:00.000-07:00

What a great wedding season. So many gorgeous weddings this year. I am in the midst of editing two right now and both amazing people and beauty everywhere. Not hard to be inspired with these kind of things all around.
I am contemplating a behind the scenes movie from the perspective of every vendor. Wouldn't that be awesome? The next reality show? Speaking of movies, a short documentary film my sister Bridget and I co-produced titled "Finn and the $20 bill" was excepted into the Bend Film Festival. We are so thrilled and honored. It is really going to be a fun festival. I can't wait to make another film!
Back to editing...
Kara

Intentions

2007-08-15T11:04:00.000-07:00

My computer is defraging. ugh, I hate when the computer is sick. Can't
get anything done. Guess it helps me to take time to really think my
intentions through.

I have been busy with a few great fun projects the last few months. All of them creative and challenging. It has been a blast. Began and finished production on the first of the Bend Parks and Recreation TV show, Recreation Connection. It was so
much fun and we are now in production on the Sept. episode. We have
gotten to go rock climbing, white water rafting, hiking, and mt. biking
already. I cant wait to experience more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkRI9xhudQw

I just finished production on the Sisters Folk Festival commercial and highlight and now I am excited about going to the shows again in late September. Great music!

Weddings this season have been so amazing. Beautiful couples and fun too. I love that the new thing around here is to have a candy table. Yummy.
More later, defraging has stopped...
Kara

2007-05-18T08:32:00.000-07:00

Here's the new Bella Brides Commercial. I love the way it turned out! Thank you Dennis McGregor for the beautiful music.

ideas challenge

2007-05-11T22:11:00.000-07:00

isn't it one of the major challenges in life to find the balance between work and family? Lately I am being inspired by all the other amazing creatives out in the world. I am even enjoying commercials. Its nice to have images and ideas challenge you a bit.

Unstoppable

2007-05-09T07:01:00.000-07:00

This is an underwater picture of my prego belly a year and a half ago. (Thank you Brent McGregor) I love this image. I have been thinking about how it came about and think it was a life changing moment. You know when you have this great idea but you aren't sure how to make it happen? Well, this was one. But then I read an article about Brent and his underwater photography of high elevation mountain lakes. I gave him a call and told him I was looking for underwater pictures of my belly. He said let's give it a try. We had one fun and crazy day in a friends pool and this photo is just one of the results. I love it when people who are creative come together to make a beautiful thing! That is my newest realization, working with other people can be one of the most amazing ways to produce and the pieces you come up with, combining everyone's vision, is inspirational and unstoppable.

This is how it is

2007-05-07T13:27:00.000-07:00

Fun shoot last night in downtown Bend. Myself, my sister, a beautiful bride in a beautiful dress from Bella brides, Nicole and her baby girl. We were looking for great artsy night shots with lights and high contrast. We were getting honks and one woman cried because "the bride and dress were so beautiful!" It was a blast. Hope to have the commercial up by next week so you will see the results for yourselves.