PDAC 2011 - Awards videos

For the past 5 winters, from December to March there has been an abundance of energy in our office. Only one acronym can truly describe it... PDAC!

This year has been no different in that we’ve created 7 awards bumpers and 7 awards videos for the PDAC Awards Gala – whilst producing another 3 videos and 5 animations for clients who attended PDAC.

Those of you who are unfamiliar: The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is a national association representing the mineral exploration and development industry. 

The logo animation we created for PDAC in 2007 in which they still use to this day

For half a decade we’ve had the privilege to work with PDAC to create the awards presentations which showcases at PDAC’s prestigious Awards Dinner. Historically, PDAC had been showing slide shows of each of the award winners while having the presenters narrating live from a script. Let’s face it, public speaking is EXTREMELY nerve racking, and at times, so was the anticipation of some of the presentations.

The remedy was to make it more polished, informative and entertaining. We gladly took the challenge and produced videos using selected images from each award winner and included a pre-narrative by Brian D. Paul, recorded at The Vault Studios. 

Here is the video we produced for the PDAC in 2008

This year, however, was the first year where we were appointed to film each of the 7 award winners! We traveled near and far, equipped with our trusted Canon 5d Mark II & Canon 7d cameras, and complimented with our Kessler Crane Philip Bloom slider. The result  – a HUGE success and another industry standard is set in the mining industry. Right after the event ended I was asked by some familiar faces in the audience how Silverpoint is going to top this years’ production as they said it was absolutely outstanding! The PDAC planning committee were delighted with the feedback from the award winners who stated the videos were truly engaging and captured the essence of each of them. The highest praise we could receive!

This is the Distinguished Award of Patricia Dillon produced in 2011

Between 2006 – 2011: the evolutions, improvements and expectations continue to grow not only with PDAC, but within Silverpoint Media as well.

We would also like to thank the PDAC team that we’ve worked with over the past years - With a special Thank You to - Saley Lawton, PDAC Director, Communications & Memberships.

“Your insight and knowledge is uncanny. Happy retirement and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours!”

Cheers,
Victor Chew