Emedia Studios is proud to be the Amherst Chamber of Commerce November/December Member Showcase.  If you are a member, please look for it in the mail this week, if you are not a member, you can see it below.  Katherine Lucas tells the story of Emedia Studios and what we can do when we partner with your business to help you grow! 

If you were a fan of "American Bandstand" then you know what I'm talking about.  Here at Emedia Studios, we want you to check out Joe "Trigger" Lepsch's new "green screen" video of  Apocolyptica's cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman.  The entire video was shot in our studio using a green chroma key wall with Trigger playing all three parts.  Click here to see "Trigger"s Enter Sandman"!  Then let us know if you found that it had a good beat and was easy to dance to!  Plus, if you need a great looking chroma key video let Emedia Studios get it done for you!

We all know that Barbie is the Ultimate Shopper, so when Emedia Studios worked on a concept for an Amazon.com contest, we figured let's use Barbie.  So we created this commercial and we put it on our Facebook page for you to see.  Tell us what you think, click here for the link, Barbie Goes Shopping Video   Even though we didn't win the contest, we had fun doing this.  If you are looking for a creative team to do great work like this for your company, just give us a call.

Emedia Studios is proud to announce that our President, Katherine Lucas has been nominated for the 2009 Athena Award.  The 20th Annual ATHENA Award will be presented on November 4, 2009 to an individual in Buffalo Niagara who demonstrates support for the goals of women professionals, and provides significant and selfless assistance on their behalf.  Twelve women were nominated for the prestigious award this year, presented by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. 

Please join us in congratulating Katherine on her nomination along with the other nominees.  Good luck and we hope you bring home the Athena Award.  Here's a link to the Buffalo Niagara Partnership's announcement of the nominees. 

For the past several years, Emedia Studios and Stahlka Marketing and Event Management have teamed up with Upstate New York Transplant Services (UNYTS) to create awareness about organ and tissue donations and community blood donations.  The "You've Been Given The Gift of Life.  Give It Back!" campaign was created in 2006 and since then we have created over 40 testimonials and various corporate DVD's to encourage participation. Through these stories, many lives have been saved and UNYTS has seen over 30,000 donors.  Many groups have come together to show their support like St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute and Lockport High School (You can see their videos if you click on the links on their names) In the summer of 2007, Upstate New York Transplant Services added community blood banking services – bringing both a significant savings to area hospitals and assurance to Western New York donors that their blood donations remain local.

Coming up on Sunday, August 23 from 9am-5pm, you can join the Buffalo Sabres for a Community Blood Drive at 1 Seymour Knox III Plaza.  Show your support and give blood, knowing it stays in WNY.  

We have also created some new vignettes featuring donors, recipients and their families. These new commercials are running on local tv stations in Western New York, we hope you are touched by these stories as much as we have been and that you will think about organ, tissue and blood donation, to help save someone's life.  Because you've been given the gift of life, give it back!  Visit Upstate New York Transplant Services at www.unyts.org for more information or become a fan on their Facebook page. 

When Ken and Kim Hansen lost their 16 year old daughter, Amanda to carbon monoxide poisoning, they wanted their daughter's story to prevent a similar tragedy from happening to another family. Emedia Studios produced a video for Roy's Plumbing to help the Hansens tell Amanda's story.  Ken talked about losing his daughter and that he hopes it never happens to anyone else.  Roy's Plumbing offered free furnace checks to the first 500 callers.  All the Hansens wanted was something positive to result from what happened to Amanda.  NYS Assemblyman Mark J. Schroeder introduced the bill requiring all homes in New York State to have a carbon monoxide detector.  The NYS Assembly passed "Amanda's Law" before convening for the summer, now it is in the Senate's hands to approve the measure.  Please encourage your Senator to approve this, so the Hansens can know that Amanda’s tragic death made a difference!  You can see Amanda's Story in our gallery section.  Just click on gallery in the main menu or you can use this link http://www.emediastudios.tv/gallery.html

Emedia is very excited about new technologies in video production. Tell us what new video technologies excite you.