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Full Service Custom Video Production
Academic Media Network produces interpretive videos,
interactive CD-ROMS & DVDs, and WEB movies for a variety of clients, as well as curriculum-oriented videos for classroom use and distance
learning. Our GlobeScope Division develops promotional documentaries, WEB movies, and other media for the travel industry.
Types of Video Productions
Because the power of moving images can serve many purposes, our videos vary greatly in length
and complexity. Several of our educational and travel productions have a running time of 30 minutes or longer, whereas others, especially
those produced to enhance WEB sites, convey their message in only 30 seconds. Some of our productions depend primarily on video footage.
Others are multimedia creations that combine video footage with maps, animated graphics, and stills.
Concept Development, Research and Scripting
We work closely with you to determine your media needs and develop the best
strategies for obtaining your objectives. Our experienced staff can provide the research and writing skills needed for script development.
If you already have a script, we can review it and offer suggestions that will make it more effective for a video presentation.
Images
Depending on your needs, we can shoot your video to script using professional three-chip digital cameras, or we
can create a program for you from our extensive image library. This library currently contains approximately 60,000 color transparencies
and more than 1,600 hours of SVHS and digital video footage from many parts of the world. We can combine images from our files with footage
you already have on hand. If you are interested in having all or part of your program shot to script on location, we can provide the
necessary equipment and personnel.
Editing
We use Media 100 and Pinnacle non-linear digital editing systems that allow us to efficiently combine video, still images,
maps, animated graphics, titles and visual effects with narration, sound effects, and music from our music library.
Delivery
When your program is completed, it can be duplicated in multiple copies on standard VSH tape, sent to television
stations in a format suitable for broadcast, or compressed for use on CD-ROMs, DVDs' and the Internet. You can have your video delivered in
as many different ways as you choose. We maintain storage media files on all programs we produce, so your program can be revised or
formatted for different delivery systems as your needs change.
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Interactive CD-ROMs and DVD's
We provide
scripts, encoded videos, low and high res still images, maps, animated graphics, narrations, sound effects and background music to create
CD-ROMs and DVDs.
Web Sites
If you envision a WEB site rich in imagery, contact us and we will work with our WEB site developer, or with
yours, to provide you with an outstanding presence on the Internet.
Stock Footage
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Visualizing Journeys through Media
The GlobeScope division of Academic Media Network, Inc. specializes in custom-crafted videos, web movies, and CD-ROMs for specialty travel
companies, tour operators, and destination venues.
Sidney and Mary Lee Nolan bring an unusual amount of expertise on travel and tourism to AMN's GlobeScope division, established in 1998. Sidney Nolan holds a Ph.D. in Recreation Resource Development with a specialty in tourists' use of information sources. In addition to university teaching experience in the fields of recreation and tourism, he has done consulting work for the state of Texas and has worked for the state of Oregon as an Outdoor Recreation Planner. Mary Lee Nolan has a Ph.D. in Geography with a minor in Recreation Resource Development. She has extensive university teaching and research experience in the Geography of Travel and Tourism and is on the editorial board of the Pacific Tourism Review. The Nolans have published numerous articles on various aspects of travel and tourism, and have presented invited papers at professional meetings in the United States and abroad. The Nolans have also produced six travel videos as part of an on-going GlobeScope Expeditions series, available through Karen Brown Guides. On request, they offer consulting services as well as media production services.
The following GlobeScope clients offer fascinating travel experiences in many parts of the world. They include:
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AIRBORNE SCIENTIFIC:
Airborne adventures out of Homer, Alaska, led by geologist, bush pilot, naturalist, Cliff Gill.
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CROSS COUNTRY INTERNATIONAL:
Equestrian and Walking Vacations in Europe and Costa Rica. |
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ECO VOYAGER:
Packaged and personalized tours to ecologically significant sites in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru.
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MIR CORPORATION:
Small group, special interest, and individual trips to Russia, new countries formerly part of the USSR,
Eastern Europe, and China. Promotional documentaries on Russia and on the TransCaucasus countries of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
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NATURAL HABITAT ADVENTURES:
Professionally led small group tours to wildlife destinations in many parts of the world.
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NATURE TRAVEL HOLIDAYS:
Ecologically oriented trips to many parts of the world. |
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RAVEN'S FIRE, Inc.:
Custom voyages on Raven's Fire, a 60 foot vessel skippered by Barbara Bingham, exploring Southeast
Alaskan waters out of Sitka for wildlife viewing, photography, environmental education, sea kayaking, and fishing.
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WEST AFRICA JOURNEY:
Culturally-oriented small group and individual trips to West Africa, principally Senegal, Mali and
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We have developed web movies for inns, Bed and Breakfast establishments and ecotourism lodges
in the United States, Ireland, Fiji and Venezuela. See our "Destinations Bed and Breakfast"
page for samples. |
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