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Showcasing the “County” One Video at a Time

Friday, August 27th, 2010

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Trevor Crowe wants to showcase Prince Edward County. His company Crowe Video Productions is a local, full-time producer of the latest web videos and specializes in capturing local businesses in a creative way. Crowe’s company also provides training and online tutorial videos, live event streaming through social media, multi-cam event recording to Blu-ray, wedding videography and film or VHS transfers to DVD. This extensive list of activities keeps his team busy!

Since setting up shop in Picton in the spring of 2010, business has quadrupled. Today’s County retailers, whether they are art galleries or cheese factories, “rely on traffic from websites and social media sites for their business,” Crowe shares. Crowe Video Productions’ work entices web viewers to stop and look at dazzling videos posted on his clients’ websites. In one project, County Showcase, he collaborates with the local Prince Edward County associations to produce short business web videos that will be prominently featured on tourism and visitor homepages. He sites that statistically, 90% of tourists go online to plan their trips. Crowe feels that his compelling videos increase the chances of a tourist choosing his clients’ businesses.

Crowe and his wife are out house hunting to move their family back to Prince Edward County. Crowe Video Productions’ is committed to becoming a fixture in a growing community. Supporting an event like TASTE! a celebration of regional cuisine came from a desire to be a part of this region’s growth. Crowe Video Productions will be on location shooting a promotional piece for the event and rubbing shoulders with clients who know the success of his work. Then he’ll get back to house shopping.

Arts Trail Turns One

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

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June 2009 month marks the one year anniversary of the launch of Prince Edward County, Ontario’s Arts Trail (www.artstrail.ca), a tour route that winds over 200 kilometres to link together the galleries and studios of local artists.

Like the Taste Trail (www.tastetrail.ca), the region’s epicurean trail, the Arts Trail comprises a bilingual print brochure/map, a website and road signs that help guide the way. More than an opportunity to admire and snap up original artworks, it offers the public the ability to meet artists, to tour their studios and to enjoy special insight into understanding their work. It was developed to shine a spotlight on Prince Edward County’s vibrant creative community and so far it is working.

Despite the economic downtown, the trail enjoyed a successful first year with many participants reporting an increase in both traffic and sales. David Drown of Wellington Pottery says 2008 was his “best season ever” and photographer Graham Davies admits that despite initial reservations about the project’s potential to bring consumers to his door that it worked, “I saw a lot of customers with the Arts Trail in hand.”

This year’s edition includes 21 participating locations. They are: Windswept Studio; Wellington Pottery; Bloomin’ Barn Studio; Armstrong Glassworks; SideStreet Gallery; Suites-on-the-Lake Studio; Beach Street Studio; Shattered Gallery/Studio; Oeno Gallery; Angeline’s Restaurant, Inn & Spa; Covent Garden Contemporary Fine Art & Funktional Art & Design; Bloomfield Studios, Peta Hall Gallery; Mad Dog Gallery; Bald Photographer Gallery; La De Dah Sculpture Studio; Red Roof Gallery; Riccaro Jewellery Studio & Gallery; The Red Barns (an artisan’s playground); and two newcomers: Moontide Studio Gallery and Round the Bend Gallery.

Visit www.artstrail.ca or, better yet, travel the trail, to learn more.

Photo credit: Graham Davies.