Rocking the High Seas with Rick Springfield
Music, Video Production October 22nd, 2008When Grammy award winner, 80’s rocker, and General Hospital heartthrob Rick Springfield embarks on a 5-day Caribbean cruise November 13th out of Miami, David and Christie will be in tow – but not as cruise guests. Rick has hired McKnight Video to document the concerts taking place during his Carnival cruise in support of his latest CD Venus in Overdrive. Rick and his band will play host to 1,200 fans (the Rick Springfield and Friends Cruise sold out just weeks after it was announced).
Our friends Traci and Jill; Christie, Rick Springfield, and David
We were chosen specifically for our ability to film, edit, and deliver the finished DVD to hundreds of fans while still on board the ship. Though we have provided editing and pre-production support to Rick’s team in the past, we had no idea it would lead to this!
Here’s the scoop: we often produce InstantView productions at wedding receptions in the Houston and Galveston area. An InstantView, also known as a Same Day Edit, is where guests view a cinematic video highlight of the wedding that took place only hours before. In the course of working on the other videos, Rick and his team saw some of these that we’ve done and it started snowballing from there. We’re slated to produce a DVD of the three concerts and other fan events taking place during the cruise. We will be working around the clock to make this happen. We’ll pretty much have our whole stuido on board.
The limited edition DVD is expected to be close to two hours long and 600 – 1000 DVD’s will be delivered to Rick’s merchandising team on the final day of the cruise.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Will there be dvds of the cruise with rick springfield after the cruise is over for the unlucky people that couldn’t go .will we have a chance to buy them?
November 4th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hi Shara, my understanding is that all DVD’s that we produce are for the guests on the cruise, and there won’t be any more duplicated or replicated. I don’t know what they will do with any that might be left over; I would check with their website contact at ricksmerch.com after the cruise is over to see what they might have left. Everything we produce will be given to their merchandising team on the ship though, we (McKnight Video Services) won’t be selling any once we get back home to Texas. Hope that helps – if you need any more information you can email us directly at the address on our contact page.
Thanks!
David