Can you believe it’s almost Memorial Day weekend? The countdown to summer is on around the Metro offices, but there certainly won’t be any lazy summer days here. We’ve got production crew scattered all over the U.S., while here at home we’re editing, working on new demos, coming up with graphic treatments, and much more. [...]

Everyone at Metro has very clean hands…. well, at least this week they do! We’ve been doing product shoots and demonstrations for SafeHands, a fantastic new alcohol-free hand sanitizer. We’re working on their video and marketing strategy, honing in on their target demographic and helping them to develop their message. The product hits shelves in [...]

As most of you know, last fall we started our first ever Non-Profit Video Contest, and the prizes were awarded at the beginning of February. BARK took home the Grand Prize of $20,000 in our production services, with SEVA GRREAT, Comfort Zone Camp, and Arlington Free Clinic taking smaller video production prizes in the runners-up [...]

It’s a very fun, very relaxed Friday here at Metro! Our Non-Profit Contest ended at midnight last night (or I guess I should say “this morning”?), and today we’re doing class company photos in the studio and outside! We’re doing individual shots of each employee, and also group shots by department. We were lucky enough [...]

The year is getting off to a very busy, very exciting start here at Metro! Between shoots, new client meetings, and plenty of Post work, we’ve managed to fit in a few other things… We had our company retreats at Lake Anna, where we did do a little bit more than just play Foosball…. we [...]

Below is a press release about our $20,000 video production contest, to be awarded to a deserving non-profit in the Virginia or D.C. area– help us spread the word, and make sure you enter your favorite non-profit!   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    METRO PRODUCTIONS GIVING AWAY $20,000 IN PRODUCTION   Contest to Win $20,000 in [...]

                                    Shooting a Tribute to the Troops in our Live Studio Day two of AUSA 2012 is winding down, and we’ve had a great show this year so far.  In conjunction with SCECON, Metro set up a large [...]

Metro’s COO Patrick Bedall and Director of Business Development Jim Miller were up in D.C. today for a special event– Patrick’s presentation at the Metro-sponsored IPRA luncheon! Patrick spoke to an audience of over 40 attendees, sharing some of his knowledge of the video production world and its future. In addition to getting some insight into [...]

We’re looking to get some new Metro t-shirts made, and decided we’d have a contest to find a slogan for them. Everyone at the company was invited to submit ideas, and we ended up getting over 100 of them! Very exciting. After a few rounds of narrowing down the submissions by a committee in our [...]

Metro held its yearly meeting today in the Richmond office, and almost everyone– from all three locations– was there. We all gathered in the specially-set-up studio for the event, and got to enjoy presentations from each of the different positions at Metro– Admin, Graphics, Producers, Sales, Production, and so on. Everyone got a chance to talk about [...]