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Mountain Top Youth Camp

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Mountain Top Youth Camp

MY HISTORY AT MTYC

I have spent at least one week of every summer of my life (except one) at Mountain Top Youth Camp. It’s a Christian camp on the mountain beside Pilot Mountain in Pinnacle, NC. I transitioned from camper to staffer in 2010. In 2016, I started creating recap videos of each camp week to show on the last day.

I have loved doing this the last several years, getting to know the campers and staff each week, figuring out how to weave together my footage of the different activities in an interesting way, experimenting with different ideas I wouldn’t be able to try in most projects, and starting to outline the videos more and more with highlights of the preached messages.

2021 CHANGES

With the addition of a beautiful little girl to our family, it became clear…

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Island School of Dance - How We Deliver Collections

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Island School of Dance - How We Deliver Collections

ISOD DANCE RECITALS

Two years ago, we did our first dance recital video project for Island School of Dance in Kill Devil Hills, NC. After they took 2020 off because of COVID, we were so excited for this year’s recital!

ONLINE VIDEO COLLECTION DELIVERY

Most of our projects are delivered through Dropbox or Google Drive, uploaded straight to a streaming site, or sent through the actual mail on a flash drive. However, we occasionally have projects that are delivered a little bit differently, through a site called MediaZilla. The projects we deliver this way are basically like an online, higher-quality version of a DVD. There are menus to click through and multiple videos set up in the same collection. It can be accessed and viewed on a computer, smartphone, or smart TV.

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Family Photo Shoot

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Family Photo Shoot

OPEN TO NEW PROJECTS

I always want to continue learning and improving. During these first years of growing our video business, I have wanted to stay open to taking on new types of projects. I'm sure we will eventually settle into just a few of our favorites (more on that in our next post), but for now, I am enjoying the variety.

FAMILY PHOTOS

My sister-in-law recently suggested we add family photos to our list of services. I had considered it in the past but wanted to focus strictly on video at the time. When I looked on our fridge, I noticed that I had taken most of the photos used in our different families' recent Christmas cards. I remembered how much I enjoyed taking each of those photos, finding spots with good light, and trying to make the kids laugh.

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Flour and Oil

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Flour and Oil

9TH CENTURY BC

There is a story in the Old Testament Scriptures (1 Kings) about a widow from a place called Zarephath. In the story, the woman and her son were about to eat the very last of their food before they would be faced with starvation. During her preparations, a man approached her and asked her for a meal. She explained her situation and then listened as the stranger told her words that he claimed were from God: “The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.” …

2018-2019

In the Spring of 2018, after spending a couple of years growing Shelley Video “on the side” while teaching in a public elementary school, I left my teaching position…

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Starting An Actual Blog

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New Web Platform

Shelley Video has officially existed now for about two and a half years. To move into our next phase of business growth, we are switching web platforms. This has been a long time coming… I am finally switching over to Squarespace, an all-in-one web design platform that will be much easier to keep up with and will hopefully help my website to come up when someone like a business owner or a bride in the area Googles “videographer near me.”