Seth Schaeffer and Team Make Headlines

Seth Schaeffer and Team Make Headlines

Seth Schaeffer loves nothing more than telling stories in the videos his company creates. Whether they’re explaining what a business does or pitching its products or services, the videos also convey what Schaeffer describes as the humanity behind the brands.

- Phil Castle of The Business Times

Read the full article here on The Business Times' website.

Colorado Video Production Friends Collab on Doc Jones Video at NAB

Colorado Video Production Friends Collab on Doc Jones Video at NAB

The 2013 NAB Show gave us a different experience than most of what Las Vegas has to offer. While preparing to learn more about the now-old-news BlackMagic Pocket Camera, Sony’s 4k TV, and RED’s new Dragon sensors, a good friend of ours (Director of Photography, James Drake) told us about a Christian hip-hop artist in Las Vegas that had a new song he needed a video for and they asked me to direct it.

Almost Paperless

Almost Paperless

One of the first tasks assigned to me when I joined Hoptocopter was taking over organization and bookkeeping for the company. However, my wheels ground to a halt when Seth mentioned that he wanted ours to be “a paperless office.” “Wha, What?!?” I said. “You want me to do bookkeeping without paper? Bookkeeping has always been about paper and files and filing cabinets!”

Run.

Run.

The first thing I learned how to do on-set is run. Being new, I never stopped running for gear: running to the truck, running to the store, running back again. The faster I could get equipment set up and broken down, the sooner we could leave for the next location or back to the hotel to transfer footage and charge batteries for the next day…