K&R Creative Media Production Services Studios

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Dan Gamlin

Dan Gamlin just released his new single. It should be in stores soon. They recorded it at home and we mastered it.

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Jonathan Swift was just in the studio doing a voice over commercial. I will tell you more when I get it

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Pre-Production

Let K&R help plan your next film project. We can fit your budget. We Record, Mix and Master audio for Web, DVD, film, trade shows, video and more. Stereo, 3.1, 5.1, analog 24 tracks video synchronized and digital sessions with Pro Tools. It is what we do. We shoot , edit, animate video, add motion graphics to video and video for film projects as well. Start off on the right foot.

Production Tools Rentals

Let K&R help you with the hard to get special geer you need to do your film. Need a Sound crew or Film crew, a RED or a scrim, maybe a cable, C stand, lens or a SD card? Try us. Being in the business for forty years in Southfield gives us an advantage in finding what you need. We just might have it too. Let us manage your project.

Recording Studio A

On Location

Talent, Musicians and Voices

Produce at K&R From Your Home

Foley and ADR

Replacing bad audio and making your motion picture sound real is critical to a good film. Proper recording and mixing of dialog, sound effects and mood music set to legal standards will make a good film great. K&R has established a great reputation on Lip Sync translations. We work with Dr. Mariano Polaris who knows what it takes to translate the emotion and the meaning of the conversation. It is not just the words.

New Music

Mixing and Mastering

DVD Replication and Duplication

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Our studio has a variety of vintage and modern microphones, current digital and analog equipment, and MIDI instruments.

Bands & Groups

Whether you want a full blown production or maybe you just want to hear yourself mixed in our tuned mastering room, K&R can do it. Don't pay for mastering when you know mixing is mastering when done in a balanced surround sound control room. Why pay twice. We eliminate the cost of mastering.

Jingles and New Music

Need the memorable jingle? Or mood music for a film you are producing. K&R knows what it takes to make that happen. We have done work for Little Caesars, Deithrich Furs, Tubbies, Sears, and many independent film makers. Check our video gallery.

Theater Mix, ADR and Foley

ADR is a technique for replacing or inserting new dialog. Maybe it was not correctly recorded on the movie set. For example, in an industrial scene, the distracting "Factory Noise", may interfere with the recording of dialogue. That creates a need to replace the sound with dialog recorded at K&R. Another example would be lip synchronized language changes. (See our Video Gallery) Once the voice is recorded (ADR), the sound effects are added such as walking, street noises, factory noises but under our control. That is Foley.
Call us to get the specifications on file formats we need to give you flawless film layback. If time is of the essence, let K&R do the theater DCP build.

Transferring Analog Tape To Digital Format

We have just about every consumer and commercial track format so we can get the best out of your originals. We have baked many tapes and did mixes on some cool vintage bands too.

Mixing and Mastering Tracks From Your Recording Studio

In house or On line Multi-Track Mastering will improve your mix. It's important to have a good listening room that's been tuned to the British standards. That helps in spotting errors that could keep your recording from being a hit. If you ask we can critique your recording track by track so that you could make better recordings. You'll be working with experts in your genres, so why not ask.
K&R has a variety of vintage and modern microphones, digital and analog equipment and MIDI instruments to enhance your mixes.

Additional Talent

Musicians and voices are easy for us to find. What would you like? With our high speed internet cloud connection we can have just about any world wide talent live during your session. From time to time we get asked to provide talent using our cloud too. Maybe you should consider recording here.

Your One Stop Shop

Computer advanced technologies have brought together all media types. Once captured, files can be formatted and placed in all all media types. There's no need to go to different service bureaus to complete a production when all all media can all be done at K&R. Call us to find out how we can save you money on every project using new and advanced technologies.

For example an audio or video production made here can easily be made web post and PDA ready. Then we can post it to your host or promotional site like Vimeo and CD Baby. Need a host (web page) to promote your project? We can do that too.

Once our design team creates a cover for your CD or DVD package the artwork can easily be made into a web site, posters or an animated video for web, PDA and broadcast TV. The computers at K&R have no boundaries. They truly are limited by your imagination.

Web Design

So often we hear horror stories about how ones web site needs to be up dated. Once you have product to promote you definitely want potential clients to see you in good light. When audio, video and print is done here, it is easy to create a web presence. There is definitely a savings in time and that translates into dollars.

Mobil Apps

We can show you how we can format your web presence to fit on your cell phone or PDA properly.

Get The Best

Even if you do a portion of your project at another facility, maybe your home, K&R can easily interface and professionally bring it to completion. This allows us to bring a level of sophistication to your project which others can’t.

Additionally no mater where you are in the world, you can sit in and watch as we mix and edit your tracks - live through SKYPE. When finished you can have your session instantly uploaded to a server of your choice for you to download immediately.

Let K&R Design Your Project

Visualize your business! Fourty years of experience gives us a real advantage in providing some of the most creative and stunning designs anywhere. We take into consideration all the formats of printing (screen, laser, offset, shirt transfers, etc) and display types (HD-TV, posters, web, mobile app, etc) ensuring that our work can be replicated in any media. This will save you time and money and gives a consistency to your branding. If you are in a crunch, let us do it for you.
If you are planning to have us do the art work and design, please provide us with a conceptual sketch of how you envision the final product, along with the best quality elements you have including high resolution photos and graphics. It helps us "Martian Mind Meld" with your brain so we can best meet your needs. Remember! Junk in is junk out and we want you to look good.

Working With Your Designer

We've created this program to service clients who wish to work with an outside designer, or design their projects personally. By sending us a disk of your completed artwork, we can usually offer a faster turnaround and price your package accordingly.

Design-supplied jobs are assumed to be accurate and complete as provided. Use our design templates for best results. If you are submitting your project, please be aware that it is your responsibility to submit files for each part of your job. CD and DVD projects normally require a label, if posters or postcards are a part of your package, we will need you to supply separate files for these. While all of our prepress specialists have some design background, our workflow is such that they do not normally create missing parts of your projects.

We will check your supplied files and can correct technical errors we discover. We examine every piece of every file to make sure they are ready for professional print production. If we find errors in your files (such as incorrect crop and fold marks, insufficient bleed or safety margins, RGB images, small errors, etc.), we can correct these for a charge. For small errors we will explain what needs to be done and estimated the cost of implementing corrections. For larger problems, we may ask you for a new file. Please do not be upset if we discover problems. It is our responsibility to make sure we can successfully print your files, and it is as much to your benefit as well as ours that we find any the problems from the outset. If there are serious issues with we will work with you prior to printing.

To summarize, it is your responsibility to create all the artwork for your project, to proofread your work to make sure everything is accurate and correct, and to supply us with all the files in the proper format and resolution necessary to print your artwork (fonts, scans, complete layouts for every part of your project, etc.). We will check your files for specifications, to make sure your files are ready for professional film output and printing.

Everybody who does business with us asking for services, hereby acknowledges, understands, has been told, read and agrees to all terms of our "Engineers Contract For Payment" contract as stated herein and that signed or not, our agreement constitutes a legal and binding contract and that the signer is empowered to enter into this contractual agreement. Signing of our agreement also constitutes approval and acceptance of the work and materials referred to in the contract. All sums due under all contracts, are personally guaranteed and guaranteed by those parties whom the singer is contracting for. All contracts are deemed past due if not paid in full, but payable within 30 (thirty) days if credit has been approved. As collateral and until all contracts are paid in full, all rights of ownership to all the work or works, and to what it is attached to shall remain property of K&R's Recording Studios Inc. Any rented equipment not returned by the "in" date will be considered stolen and or missing and the undersigned in addition to rental charges will include the replacement cost for equipment as total due. Commencing upon the 31st. (thirty first) day, any unpaid sums shall be considered extremely and unacceptably past due and bear a 10% late fee penalty plus compounding interest at 1.5% (1.5 percent) per month. In the event of suit to collect past due sums; the undersigned and/or those parties whom they are contracting for, in addition shall be responsible for all court costs, and reasonable attorney fees, profits realized from the use of these works and our loss of business for time spent, but not limited to such. If in the event payment plus penalties are not made in full within 90 days of the date above, all work and what it might be attached to, materials, rights of ownership including any and all copyrights, publishing rights, and royalties present and future, remains the property of K&R's Recording Studios Inc. to be used or disposed of at our discretion in any way. The authorizing signer must notify the copyrights bureau and all involved in writing. The remedy shall be in addition to any balance remaining due and owing. K&R's Recording Studios Inc. specifically reserves the right to use any or all recordings of any type, prints of any type, intellectual materials, computer files, works submitted and or changed by K&R’s Recording Studios, Inc., but not limited to such, past, present and future only for their own promotional purposes. It is further acknowledge that K&R's Recording Studios Inc. will not be responsible for loss or degradation of materials or equipment stored and for any copyright or royalty infringements of reproductions made as a result of this contract and for any work done pursuant there to. Deposits are considered a non refundable and replenish-able retainer for services of holding in reserve a service(s), product(s) to create, or product(s) and is approval to complete such works it was made for. Signing of our contract acknowledges our terms of sale for all future contracts signed or not. These terms can change at out discretion at any time without notice. We reserve all rights. © 2000 K&R`s Recording Studios, Inc.

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Foley and Sound Effects

This is what makes the movie take on realism. Street sounds, birds, rustling of cloths, crunches, bangs, booms, creaking, fight scenes, are just some of the parts of your movie that puts your action in reality. You might barley hear them, but they are there. Doing these is as much a performance as the actors in the film. At K&R we have the expertise to complete what you need. Give us a try.

Dialog replacement

ADR is a technique for replacing or recording the sound that was not able to be recorded on the set. For example, if you are doing a scene in a noisy factory, and the sound you record is full of "Factory Noise" you need to replace the bad sound you recorded on set, with dialogue you recorded in our studio. OR if your actor is busy hanging off the side of a building when he is saying his lines, and getting good sound is kind of hard, you can add it in at K&R. Or how about lip sync language changes? Dr. Polaris our expert translator knows how to preserve the meaning and feeling of a scene and make the dialog fit.

How We Do It

As far as I know there is no plug in for your PC. We have a special recording system that places an edit point at the beginning of the line of dialogue or sound effect location. Then the screen actor or Foley actor gets to watch the scene "as it was recorded filmed and Edited" to watch the timing of lips and objects. Then the scene gets played again, three sec. before the insert of Dialog or sound effect is to begin, the actor hears three beeps in their head-set as sort of a count down, on the last beep they say the line or make the sound effect. If it looks and sounds good, they move on to the next insert of dialogue or sound effect, if not, they do it again, and again. Typically whole scenes need this kind of professional and technical improvements.

What We Need To Mix Your Film Tracks Theater Ready

We will assume you have your picture edited and have dialog resolved. If not we can resolve your dialog into your picture.
Our picture runs from within ProTools with Video sent to multiple screens. Picture files should be QT-Motion JPG files (*.mov) at 320x240 pixels or 640x480. 16x9 in a 4x3 is OK. We just need enough quality to see our cues and code burn in. Files over 500 MB should be delivered to K&R on a Windows compatible Hard Drive. There are free cloud services for larger files too. Also include META data.
The Running TC should be visible preferably at the top of the screen, on the edge of the frame of picture. We can read VITC too and can jam sync our own TC that will lock to your TC. Guide tracks can either be included within the QT-mov picture files or sent separately. If sent separately please insure the presence of a corresponding TC and please observe the 500 MB rule above. K&R requires an EDL in Excel for each reel of picture. The TC in the EDLs should match.
Please specify your ProTools session specs if you have one started: Session Start Time, Audio File Type (.wav, aif), Sample rate (96K, 48K, 44.1K), Bit rate (24, 16), TC Rate (23.976, 24,25,29.97 Non-Drop, 29.97 Drop 30, 30 Drop), Feet + Frame Rate (23.976 FPS, 24 FPS,25 FPS), Audio Frame rate, drop/non-drop/pull down, Video Frame Rate, drop/non-drop/pull down. Best settings ate 48K 24 bit. A snapshot of your extended ProTools session setup window is helpful too. If sending Foley notes, specifics, cue sheets or deliverable specs, please send the notes when you send the picture and guide elements. Foley notes can be cued via ProTools session or in PDF format, however we would prefer the notes written as an Excel *.exl document including the In and Out TC or footage of the specific effect to cover. But *.doc will do here too.
All completed Foley sound design finishing mixing sessions are typically delivered as discrete tracks. We can produce a final mix in 2 Stereo RtLt/RoLo, 3.1 discrete, 5.1 discrete encoded to the correct LUFS. Completed sessions can be delivered via our ftp site or on CD or DVD. If using your ftp site please supply us with your ftp information or speak to someone at K&R to make suitable arrangements.
We can also do your DCP encoding for direct theater release. For that we need the full resolution picture with specifications. The DCP folder can be returned to you any way you want.

Leveling

Mixing is more than just adjusting the volume levels of individual sounds and dialog tracks. At K&R we have a specially tuned room that can show problems that may keep your mix from becoming that worldly hit. Mixing all the original tracks while correcting small issues eliminates the need for remixing. It saves money and makes a better overall release.

Placement and Panning

In addition to volume levels, mixing engineers decide where each sound appears in the image field. There are left and right speakers, maybe center and rear speakers for surround sound. Proper positioning will improve the clarity of the mix. It helps individual parts stand out and balances the left and right channels.

Final Mix

Typically we do a standard stereo Lo, Ro mix. We can mix to discrete 5.1. That is a Lf, Lr, Rf, Rr, Center, and Lfe for encoding. Or we can finish with a stereo LtRt mix encoded ready for Music CD, FM Radio, DVD and TV distibution. We will be happy to explain the options for playback systems.

What We Need To Mix Your Film Tracks

We will assume you have your picture edited and have a ProTools session started. If not we can resolve your dialog into your picture.
Our picture runs from within ProTools with Video sent to multiple screens. Picture files should be QT Motion JPG files (*.mov) at 320x240 pixels or better 640x480. 16x9 in a 4x3 is OK. We just need enough quality to see our cues and TC burn in. Files over 500 MB should be delivered to K&R on DVD or BluRay or on a Windows compatible Hard Drive. There are free cloud services for larger files. Files can be sent via our KNR ftp site if necessary but we would prefer all files to be sent on DVDs as data files. Also include META data.
The Running TC should be largely visible preferably at the top of the screen, on the edge of the frame of picture. We can read VITC too and can jam sync our own TC that will lock to your TC. Guide tracks can either be included within the QT-mov picture files or sent separately. If sent separately please insure the presence of a corresponding TC and please observe the 500 MB rule above. K&R requires an EDL in Excel for each reel of picture. The TC in the EDLs should match the ProTools Session TC.
Please specify your ProTools session specs: Session Start Time, Audio File Type (.wav, aif), Sample rate (96K, 48K, 44.1K), Bit rate (24, 16), Time Code Rate (23.976, 24,25,29.97 Non-Drop, 29.97 Drop 30, 30 Drop), Feet + Frame Rate (23.976 FPS, 24 FPS,25 FPS), Audio Frame rate, drop/non-drop/pull down, Video Frame Rate, drop/non-drop/pull down. Best settings ate 48K 24 bit. A snapshot of your extended ProTools session setup window is helpful too. If sending Foley notes, specifics, cue sheets or deliverable specs, please send the notes when you send the picture and guide elements. Foley notes can be cued via ProTools session or in PDF format, however we would prefer the notes written as an Excel *.exl document including the In and Out TC or footage of the specific effect to cover. But *.doc will do here too.
All completed Foley sound design sessions are typically delivered as ProTools Sessions. Completed sessions can be delivered via our ftp site or on CD or DVD. If using your ftp site please supply us with your ftp information or speak to someone at K&R to make suitable arrangements. We can produce a final mix in 2 Stereo RtLt/RoLo, 3.1 discrete, 5.1 discrete, 7.1 discrete as well as encoded to the correct LUFS.

Events videography

On Your Wedding Day

HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO HIRE A REAL PROFESSIONAL? Vitally important. Typically low priced wedding videographers use consumer equipment. By cutting costs and quality they can charge a lesser price. In exchange for a lower price, quality is sacrificed. A professional will use special RF (Radio Frequency) microphones which can eliminate background noise. A skilled professional will also have the means or knowledge to shoot and edit the program into a closely knit production that tells your love story with emotion and impact. You are paying for a professional. Why not have one?

IS IT EXPENSIVE TO HIRE A PROFESSIONAL VIDEOGRAPHER? NO! On average, it should run less than ten percent of your total wedding budget, perhaps less than your flowers. Less than a band. And yet with the exception of your photographs, you're video is all you have after your wedding is over. It is the only sounds and motion pictures you will ever have of the most important day of your life. Your friends and family will be immortalized in this video. These moments are priceless. K&R pricing is based on options you select ala carte. These options alow you to design your own package to fit your budget and needs, likes and dislikes.

WHAT PRE-PLANNING SHOULD BE DONE WITH MY VIDEOGRAPHER? First, inform the person in charge of the venue that you intend to have your wedding video taped. There may be restrictions with regard to the lighting and filming locations you need to be aware of. Next have us visit the locations in advance of the wedding. You'll sit down with your videographer and discuss the shots that are important to you. Tell them of the special scenes you want them to catch. Provide guidelines or an itinerary in writing. Include interviews, down the isle shots, possible locations for best view of ceremony, etc. Your input is essential so that we can get the very best shot for you. In addition, we will guide you, suggest shots we know are popular, and will work hard to be unobtrusive and still capture those memorable moments for you.

DO I NEED TO SIGN A CONTRACT WITH MY VIDEOGRAPHER? Yes, you do. A contract spells out and clarifies the specifics of your arrangement with your videographer and eliminates confusion and misunderstanding.

HOW MUCH TIME GOES INTO CREATING A GOOD VIDEO? Typically a good wedding videographer puts 30 to 40 hours into a single video. This includes your initial sales meeting, visits to wedding and reception sites, shoot time, your sales meeting, editing, and equipment preparations. Excellence shows. You will get more than your money's worth when you hire an expert like K&R.

We live in a video age. Wedding videography has become as accepted as still photography, and will be valued even more since this is the only family historical documentation that uses sight and sound. Call us to find out more. 248-557-8276

Mixing is more than just adjusting the volume levels of individual instrument and vocal tracks. At K&R we have a specially tuned room that can show problems that may keep your mix from becoming that worldly hit. Ask us how you can be here through SKYPE, as we mix and edit your multi-track. Mixing all the original tracks correcting small issues eliminates the need for mastering. It saves money and makes a release competitive with your market. #mastering

Volume and Panning

In addition to volume levels, mixing engineers decide where each instrument appears in the stereo image. There are left and right LoRo speakers, maybe center and rear speakers for 5.1 surround sound. Proper positioning will improve the clarity of the mix. It helps individual parts stand out and balances the left and right channels. Mixing is mastering.

EQ and Tone

Layering multiple instruments on top of each other often produces a muddy sound. Engineers at K&R have the expertise to distinguish EQ highs, mids, lows, and everything in between, enabling the mix to sound clean. Each instrument occupies only its intended place in the song. Movie dialog and music vocals will be clean natural and heard.

Effects

Musicians typically record with effects, but the vast majority of these only realize their potential after being processed during the mixing procedure. Always include a clean track from a direct conection before any signal processing. Things like compression, reverbs, delays, fuzz, WaWa, your amp, and many other effects are chosen and tweaked by the mixing engineer, who transforms what might otherwise be a dull or lifeless recording into something full and lush. K&R has a wide array of professional quality live and electronic effects processors and plug-ins to ensure a great mix.

Automation

Mixing involves much more than simply setting the volume faders in one place and letting the song finish. Since different tracks need to be at the forefront of the song at various times, volume levels, panning, and other effects must be automated. Automation is the process by which a mixing engineer programs certain effects, fades and pans into different parts of the song. This can be a very specific and a complicated process, and requires the hands of a professional!

Send Us Your Tracks

We know you have worked hard to record your music as you want it. Mixing the individual tracks in a tuned room at K&R will eliminate your need to spend extra money mastering. If you are concerned about how the mix will come out, you can be here through SKYPE. Here are some helpful pointers explaining how you should send us your tracks so that we can produce an excellent commercial mix:
1. Save what you have done and make a stereo copy of your rough mix so we can hear what you have in mind.
2. Resave your project(s) in a new subdirectory with all files copied.
3. If you have MIDI tracks make sure the audio for each is recorded on a seperate audio track.
4. Do not put any effects on your original recordings. Make sure we have a clean direct input of each instrument.
5. Hide muted, unused, audio and MIDI tracks. Provide us with a track sheet and song order.
6. Check edit points to make sure they are clean with no clicks or discontinuity.
7. Remove all plug-ins and automation when you save for our copy. We have sophisticated plug-ins to make your recording sound great.
8. Provide us with a folder that has one sub directory per song.
9. Please export the project as an *.OMF or consolidate your files into one folder. Use zip to compress your files. Upload files here!

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10. After completion we will return a final mastered pro-mix ready for replication and distribution. Ask us how you can be here through SKYPE, as we mix and edit your multi-track. #protools #steinberg

"How much does a video branding program cost?"

When speaking to clients, we frequently discuss a familiar question: "How much does an audio/video branding program cost?"

Really you should profit from this. However clients sometimes looks at us as if we're magicians. They expect me to pull a budget out of the air, our sleeve, or from behind their ear. The best response we've seen for this question is an analogy of the cost of a home. There are all types of homes, such as cottages, houses, and mansions. Each have many different budget considerations. Every audio or video program we produce starts at the same point, a beginning with nothing but a need. No two needs are the same. They may fall in similar realms like employee/customer training, grow new business, corporate identity, sales, or promotions; but they are never the same.

It stands to reason that if the needs are never the same, their solutions won't be either. They may be similar, but never the same.

For this reason, we have developed a matrix that will help design audio video programs and give you a starting budget. Get Matrix PDF

A home has many factors, one or two car garage? How many stories? A full basement? Very much like a video program, we have to consider production options like, live talent or a simple voice over? Slides or real time video? Animation? Custom music? Etc.?

There are seven basic criteria in an audio/video branding program; budget, production time, production style, talent, music, graphics and editing listed in the left column. Each criterion has been broken down into five classes 1 (basic) through 5 (advanced) represented across the columns. Decide which class you want each criteria to have. Then assign it the point value from the column it is in. Add the total points. Divide by the number of criteria used to define your program. Round to the nearest whole number. Check Classifications. This will tell you what your solution should be similar to.

To return to that perplexing question, How much does a video program cost? If you choose something from every criterion except Budget, and divide by six, you will still get a class level with a corresponding budget. A class II program (industrial type) should run between $2,000 and $5,000. A reasonable average budget is about $1000 per finished minute, with a minimum of $1000.

This should serve as a useful tool to arrive at a preliminary budget figure. If you let us help you put options together it will better plan your project to meet your objectives.

If you need help planning an audio or video production, simply call us.

Need an Audio Crew?

K&R Can provide: Crew, Fish Pole, Muff, Senhiser MKH-416, Many Types of Lavalieres, iPad Movie Slate with WiFi camera sync, Horita, Zaxcom, Zoom-6 or HSP-82 and all cables to interconnect. We can resolve location sound for your pictures as well.

Need A Film Crew?

K&R Can provide: Crew, Black Magic, 5D II with all the cables, Tripod. Items like the Red, Dolly, Jib Arms and Lighting, are available.

DIY - Do It Yourself!

This is to provide you with a tool for planning a video production and to give you an appreciation for the myriad of tasks associated with the creation of a video. Your project won't necessarily require each of the steps described below. In fact, some projects can be quite straightforward and only require minimal work. That said, the success of your video project will largely be determined by the effort you invest into planning your project. However! If you find it too daunting, let K&R manage your project. That is what we do.

♦ Develop the concept and Statement of Work. Define your business objectives, ideas, theme, and topic.
♦ Determine the story you're trying to tell (a treatment)and identify your audience.
♦ Decide your form of distribution. On line, TV, radio, PDA, CD, DVD?
♦ Determine your budget. Compare the cost of a similar video program for perspective.
♦ Ensure that everyone is in agreement about the goals and requirements of the project.
♦ Create the storyboard (a scene by scene description) and script. Then make it more succinct as appropriate.
♦ Hold facilitated story planning meetings. Involve a range of people associated with the project to ensure all relevant perspectives are heard.
♦ Get storyboard and script approval from appropriate parties
♦ Create a timeline for completion with scheduled dates and places
♦ Obtaine necessary approvals from pertinent government authorities. Clear video project with appropriate department supervisor/office/city.
♦ Finalize locations and inform staff.
♦ Verify that the budget is adequate to complete the project.
♦ Reserve cameras and equipment, production staff, talent. Let everyone involved know what to expect.
♦ Note anything special you will need to bring during the shoot
♦ Consider partnering with others if the video allows. Local schools may have kids that want to practice their video skills or a local TV station may have footage or equipment you could use.
♦ Gather all assets and make copy for client to have for safe keeping.

If you observe all of the above steps and properly plan, you have a much higher likelihood of success on your video production. However:

Let K&R take care of it all.