I love making documentaries, and I'm grateful for the enjoyment that people seem to get out of them.
But I also have to pay the bills!
Luckily, most of my documentaries are sponsored by supplement companies. That means that they pay for the expense of shooting and editing, in return for me helping them sell their products.
In order to save money, the commercials I make are cobbled together from the documentary footage. We don't have formal "commercial shoots"...at least not yet!
So here are a few of my recent commercials. I keep it fairly simple, no complex motion graphics, just a few clips from my documentary footage, some descriptive voice over, the product shots and music.
Now that my business is growing and I've relocated near New York, I hope to soon be creating more planned out and scripted commercials for some of these products.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Where are all the new Mike Pulcinella videos??
For those of you who are wondering why you have not been seeing many new videos from me...here's what's going on.
1. When you make videos at this level of the sport there are many people that have to approve each video before it can be posted.
In the old days I would just shoot something and post it on Youtube when it was done. Now there is the sponsoring supplement company, the sponsoring magazine, the athlete and sometimes the athlete's representation to go through. Very often the magazine website wants exclusive rights to show the video for a time. When we later post on Youtube the video must be reconfigured and re-exported for that venue, logos and commercials added or subtracted, etc. All of this slows the process down from me to you.
2. I have been very fortunate to have many projects that I am working on for a variety of clients.
However, still being a one man operation, this often means that they don't all get done as quickly as we'd like. I am producing videos all the time but some are more specialized and not as high profile as the bodybuilding documentaries. Some of this work you may never see.
3. I am working on serial projects for the future.
In other words, like a TV series, I have to have many episodes "in the can", as they say, before we begin posting so that we aren't scrambling week to week to make the deadline.
4. A lot of the work I am doing is non-documentary work.
Commericals take time to produce...a lot of time. A 90 second commerical can take as long to perfect as a 12 minute documentary clip.
5. I am moving in two weeks!
In order to be where the action is I am moving closer to NYC! But I am also a single man and so the entire moving process, from start to finish, including packing all of my stuff these past few weeks is mostly on my shoulders. Imagine doing that and editing documentary videos AND taking care of the paperwork, invoicing, taxes, etc, for a small business and cooking and cleaning and doing laundry etc etc! I'm not complaining, it's what I asked for and I enjoy the work, but there are only so many hours in a day.
6. The hurricane disrupted normal operations for MHP and MuscleMeds.
Fairfield has been flooded all week. They have been unable to get to their offices and so the videos that I have done have not been able to be approved and passed on to the other people necessary to approve them. I am hoping we will be able to resume normal operation this coming week. Please note that if you've oereded any supplements from either of these companies your shipments may be delayed.
Once again, I am grateful for your enthusiam for my work and thankful for your understanding. I assure you this is a transition period for me. Once I get settled in my new apartment and establish my editing studio MIke Pulcinella Video Productions will be going full speed ahead like never before!!
Thanks,
Mike Pulcinella
9/3/11
1. When you make videos at this level of the sport there are many people that have to approve each video before it can be posted.
In the old days I would just shoot something and post it on Youtube when it was done. Now there is the sponsoring supplement company, the sponsoring magazine, the athlete and sometimes the athlete's representation to go through. Very often the magazine website wants exclusive rights to show the video for a time. When we later post on Youtube the video must be reconfigured and re-exported for that venue, logos and commercials added or subtracted, etc. All of this slows the process down from me to you.
2. I have been very fortunate to have many projects that I am working on for a variety of clients.
However, still being a one man operation, this often means that they don't all get done as quickly as we'd like. I am producing videos all the time but some are more specialized and not as high profile as the bodybuilding documentaries. Some of this work you may never see.
3. I am working on serial projects for the future.
In other words, like a TV series, I have to have many episodes "in the can", as they say, before we begin posting so that we aren't scrambling week to week to make the deadline.
4. A lot of the work I am doing is non-documentary work.
Commericals take time to produce...a lot of time. A 90 second commerical can take as long to perfect as a 12 minute documentary clip.
5. I am moving in two weeks!
In order to be where the action is I am moving closer to NYC! But I am also a single man and so the entire moving process, from start to finish, including packing all of my stuff these past few weeks is mostly on my shoulders. Imagine doing that and editing documentary videos AND taking care of the paperwork, invoicing, taxes, etc, for a small business and cooking and cleaning and doing laundry etc etc! I'm not complaining, it's what I asked for and I enjoy the work, but there are only so many hours in a day.
6. The hurricane disrupted normal operations for MHP and MuscleMeds.
Fairfield has been flooded all week. They have been unable to get to their offices and so the videos that I have done have not been able to be approved and passed on to the other people necessary to approve them. I am hoping we will be able to resume normal operation this coming week. Please note that if you've oereded any supplements from either of these companies your shipments may be delayed.
Once again, I am grateful for your enthusiam for my work and thankful for your understanding. I assure you this is a transition period for me. Once I get settled in my new apartment and establish my editing studio MIke Pulcinella Video Productions will be going full speed ahead like never before!!
Thanks,
Mike Pulcinella
9/3/11
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Jon Delarosa and Victor Martinez
From working inside a 100 degree elevator shaft to a tough shoulder workout with Victor Martinez, we condense up-and-coming young bodybuilder Jon Delarosa’s day down to 5 1/2 minutes as he counts down to the USAs.
In this MHP QUICKSHOT Jon, 10 days out from the NPC USA Championships, talks about the support system that has brought him to the brink of professional bodybuilding.
Click HERE to view a longer version of this video with the full shoulder training session.
In this MHP QUICKSHOT Jon, 10 days out from the NPC USA Championships, talks about the support system that has brought him to the brink of professional bodybuilding.
Click HERE to view a longer version of this video with the full shoulder training session.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Unsung Hero: Craig Richardson
Here is a recent online series I did for MHP about little known but fantastic bodybuilder Craig Richardson.
You may not be aware of Craig but he’s an Olympia competitor, has been in the sport for 18 years and has an awesome, classic physique!
You may not be aware of Craig but he’s an Olympia competitor, has been in the sport for 18 years and has an awesome, classic physique!
Big News!
I'm getting tired of the 2.5 to 3+ hr commute from the suburbs of Philadelphia to North Jersey, NYC, Brooklyn and Long Island for my video shoots.
So I found an apartment and I'm moving to Cedar Grove, NJ to be closer to where the action is! 30 minutes from NYC. 10 minutes from MHP!
By mid September I should be all settled in and ready to concentrate on producing more and better documentary and training videos! And who knows what else! I'm very excited about this new stage of my life and career!
Until then, please bear with me. It's going to be tough to produce videos quickly while packing up and moving so I may fall behind. There's lots to be done!
So I found an apartment and I'm moving to Cedar Grove, NJ to be closer to where the action is! 30 minutes from NYC. 10 minutes from MHP!
By mid September I should be all settled in and ready to concentrate on producing more and better documentary and training videos! And who knows what else! I'm very excited about this new stage of my life and career!
Until then, please bear with me. It's going to be tough to produce videos quickly while packing up and moving so I may fall behind. There's lots to be done!
Monday, April 25, 2011
Is Kai Greene REALLY working with George Farah?!? Mike Pulcinella Interview with MassMuscleTV
My very first Skype interview!
Caleb from Mass Muscle TV did a great job with this, cutting in shots from my documentaries and generally keeping things moving. I hope you all like it!
Blogger cuts off some of the video image so click on the name at the top of the video to watch it on Youtube.
Caleb from Mass Muscle TV did a great job with this, cutting in shots from my documentaries and generally keeping things moving. I hope you all like it!
Blogger cuts off some of the video image so click on the name at the top of the video to watch it on Youtube.
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