PROFESSIONAL DVD'S AND WEB SITES

Thumbs Up Production has been producing videos and designing/developing web sites for over 20 years. We continuously upgrade our equipment and software in order to stay in the forefront of modern technology with the best software and hardware available. For our clients, our technology combined with Bette's creative talent has resulted in "wows"! For our commercial clients, this creativity and technology has also resulted in higher placement in the Search Engines and increased business for them. We listen to our clients' preferences and incorporate these into their project to produce personalized design geared towards the business goals they have set.

HORSE DVD'S AND WEB SITES

Thumbs Up Production invites you to watch a trainer morph into a horse, see a space ship shoot out a sale horse's name from its rocket booster, see an impressionistic painting become a trotting horse and then turn back into a painting, and many other delights designed to keep the viewer/buyer glued to the DVD. As seen in the demo, some of the footage shot by others was poor in quality, yet Bette was able to enhance it enough with filters, etc, to make it useable. Until snatched up by Hollywood, Bette is getting out her creative urges through her horse DVD's/videos so take advantage of her skills as a film maker. Her film Against All Odds has been shown on DirecTV several times and is still airing on Dish Network. Bette was hired as a screenwriter on the Fargo TV series.

Bette is aware that the horse market does not support Hollywood productions, yet she spends hours making them look "Oscar" quality. She prefers to work in the Santa Barbara/SLO/Paso Robles areas close to her horses so that she can get off the computer and onto her saddle! She's a horsewoman first and foremost and knows what buyers and trainers are looking for in a sales/stallion presentation/farm DVD. Her DVD's are within budgets yet eye catching and unique and showcase the horse's beauty, conformation and movement. Her dramatic music and wonderful transitions are enhancements and are not intended to replace good footage that shows the strengths of the horse. It has taken many years and much practice not to resemble "NYPD" shaky hand held footage. She is steady and can follow the horse's movement with or without the use of her floating head tripod.

FAMILY AND PERSONAL DVD'S AND WEB SITES

Bette has recently branched out from our successful horse video/DVD and web site enterprise to begin production of family albums which consist of family footage artistically edited and combined with music and beautiful transitions to produce a "living" memory. She has also recently produced a new type of video/DVD for a friend who wished to create a memento for his family so they would have his essence on film for his children and grandchildren and subsequent generations. He entitled it "The Last Word" and wants it to be played at his funeral. It is such a novel yet heart warming concept that she has decided to offer this type of video to others who have the same wish to say their goodbye's prior to their passing. The cost would depend on how many memories you wanted to document (and how long you want the funeral to last!)

Bette many times will use effects to evoke emotion in her web site work and productions that will make them memorable to their audience. Her stallion video has been known to create a lump in peoples throat as they watch the short tributel to her current stallion Riverdance's sire at the end of Riverdance's DVD. Any time you can evoke emotion in a sales video/DVD, you have a successful presentation, as people will remember your DVD. Bette can work with the different formats available to insure that your DVD is playable by your audience and produce a video CD which is playable in all computers. Of course, we have found that most people like to enjoy a sales or stallion DVD on the bigger screen of television, in the comfort of their living room.

COMMERCIAL DVD'S and WEBSITES

On a different note, Bette has done productions for corporations and attorneys, as well as small businesses. Most of these web sites are more formal than the family and ranch ones we've created. Peruse our Sample Web Sites page for a small sampling of these other types of web sites we have created and maintained, as well as our Demo DVD's page for a sampling of different types of film projects.