Rick Teed, Napa Consultants and Red Canary

It seems like 2008 was a good year for collaborations, which actually makes me feel pretty good, as one of the aims of seven and eight is to be part of a community.

For our first project together, I was hired by Napa Consultants to make an extended series of video shorts for their client, Rick Teed. Rick is a dynamic and creative real estate agent and developer, based in San Francisco. As his focus is the luxury real estate market, I knew that the project would require high quality footage.

With this in mind, I turned to my friend and colleague Todd Peterson of Red Canary Productions. Todd and I have worked on a number of projects together over the last two years (including a half-hour documentary that we wrote and directed - more about that soon), so I knew he’d be able to deliver.

We traveled to San Francisco for the shoot and after filming at five locations were able to complete 28 short video clips with custom titles and a theme tune (written by another top collaborator, Darren Clarke of Modern Music Academy).

Here’s one of them.