Dinner in the Dark Video Projects

Homeward Pikes Peak (HPP) is a non-profit organization in Colorado Springs,  CO who gives dignity to our neighbors in need by providing services to individuals seeking to achieve sobriety, providing housing assistance to our chronically homeless community and veterans, and specifically providing support to women and mothers in either or both situations.

I personally volunteered with the Homeward Pikes Peak team to produce four unique videos to be used at their first and second annual Dinner in the Dark (DITD) Fundraisers in June 2019. I volunteered again in 2020 to produce two additional videos for their Virtual DITD fundraiser.

The Dinner in the Dark event sheds light on the impact HPP has on the Colorado Springs community. The videos included client success stories featuring their Veterans First Housing, Harbor House Residential, and Project Detour programs. The fourth video in 2019 was a call-to-action, featuring an interview with prominent member of the Colorado Springs Community, Jim Johnson of GE Johnson Construction.

The 2019 Dinner In the Dark event raised more than $68,000!

The 2020 virtual event raised $10,000!

Commercials

In 2017, I was afforded an opportunity to produce a Colorado Springs & Southern Colorado distributed commercials, as part of a branded campaign. The goal of the campaign was initially to introduce the brand to the audience, focusing on the value of veteran employee & employment opportunities, and demonstrate initial capabilities. The goal of the campaign grew over time, changing the overall messaging to focus in on more specific capabilities. 

Leveraging existing customer content, open-source, and other stock video, this production effort included the coordination of the production team and headquarters staff for filming on-site, ensuring project schedules were met, and ensuring filming did not interfere with daily activity of the business.

The commercials ran for approximately 9-months in total, and provided valuable reach to a local audience and aired during a home-team Super Bowl game!

Special Projects

In addition to corporate advertising, special holiday or project videos are a favorite offering of mine.

These videos demonstrate two different production techniques, each with a different value proposition and purpose. The 2019 Veteran's Day Message is a memorial-esque video intended to demonstrate the dedication and breadth of the Veteran workforce at STS, while honoring and celebrating Veterans Day.

The Internship video is an interview-based message, aimed at demonstrating the value and benefit of the internship program at STS, and learn from past and present interns about their experience, goals, and overall impression of the Internship program. The videos were both released on Social Media platforms, and used as digital collateral across the company website and intranet.