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"Sunset on Cayuga Lake" was taken on the final day of a recent Ithaca Festival weekend. This image is one of many available in Thomas Hoebbel's Stock Library. For more information on stock photo usage or to view samples from the library, please visit the stock photography section.
Music Current Events Blog Monday, October 05, 2009 Thomas Hoebbel PhotoVideo produces film for CMC Thomas Hoebbel recently completed a film for Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, New York to introduce the opening of the Cayuga Heart Institute at their hospital. The film was premiered at the CMC Gala at the Country Club of Ithaca on September 26th, 2009 and will be featured on the CMC web site in the coming weeks.
"Video is the future, especially with regard to internet and web-based marketing." says Hoebbel who is currently focusing on web-based marketing films for area businesses and not for profit organizations. "With the increases in available technologies and the popularity of such sites as YouTube, I decided that the time is right for organizations to go beyond traditional photo and text based web sites. Clients, or prospective clients would rather have a business or service laid out for them to watch and take in rather than clicking through several pages of a web site." Many of Hoebbel s video projects thus far have been three- to four-minute promotional pieces that are intended to give the viewer an accurate and intimate look at a product, service or organization. "One of the first projects I proposed was a piece for the Community Arts Partnership to promote the Greater Ithaca Art Trail. We interviewed several artists and art trail visitors and put it all together into a succinct piece to really give the viewer an inside look at what they might experience on the trail". CAP put the film on the Art Trail's web site and now simply makes updates to promote specific open house weekends. Thomas Hoebbel's services also go beyond the web-based promotionals. He recently completed a 15-minute piece for the Hamilton Central School district to encapsulate the benefits of the schoolEUR(TM)s arts in education programs. "I see these films as being powerful tools for outreach. Really demonstrating the benefits of a particular organization or program and letting the viewer grasp the powerful impacts through film would help with promotion and development efforts" says Hoebbel. Currently in production are short films for The Hangar Theatre, The Cayuga Medical Center, Rasa Spa and McGraw House. Before venturing into this business expansion Hoebbel acted as director of photography for the Ithaca-based film Waiting on Alphie, shot in 2005 as well as two music videos in 2007. Since acquiring his own equipment and software tools, Hoebbel has shot a second feature film Take That and the short Kiss and Tell for Headz-up productions based in Buffalo.
The film, a White Lightning/Diesel Movie Werks production, was shot entirely in Ithaca, New York last year. It is the story of two hitmen 'killing time' in an all-night cafe. Gus, flown in from Chicago, awaits the order on the cafe payphone to kill Alphie or let him live. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, they are in a standoff that turns minutes to hours. As today becomes tomorrow, the two find themselves discussing life, society, food and a secret from their past that comes crashing down. Thomas Hoebbel (pictured above with Kevin Hicks) is the director of photography, shooting the entire film in DV format on a Canon GL2. The film stars James K Fulater, Lance Zurek, Matthew Landon, Keri Szymanski and Kendall McAdams. Kevin Hicks directed and edited and Eric Lindstrom was our faithful producer.
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