JBC Communications is a collaborative of creative, results-driven professionals. Unlike fully staffed, high overhead production companies, JBC can tailor the right mix of creative and technical talent, whose craftsmanship and dedication to high standards leads clients to want to work in this affordable environment time and time again. We deliver effective branding, marketing, sales, training, and recruitment solutions in high definition video, brilliant quality web video, and provide complete communications consulting and presentation support. JBC’s wide-ranging production services include:
• High definition video production including full
lighting/audio packages, production crews,
• Nonlinear HD postproduction,
• Video compression and encoding for Internet, Blu-ray DVD, standard definition DVD, and file-based presentation delivery,
• Network of performing talent including on-camera spokespeople and voice-over narrators,
• 2D and 3D computer graphic compositing and effects,
• Complete digital production music library and audio effects,
• Mastering and the best compression and encoding tools and talent in the region,
• Support for program implementation and results tracking.
An initial consultation and comprehensive follow-up estimate is included for each project.
Projects are generally divided into the following phases.
Preproduction
If there is one area that separates JBC Communications from the rest of the field, it is in the careful planning we invest in preproduction. We listen to your particular challenge, work with you to identify specific goals and objectives for the project, (i.e. what is the target audience supposed to do after experiencing the program)…and how will we track success and the return on investment. More time time and planning here ensures a more effective and efficient program, and helps keep costs down.
Production
Once a clear strategy is identified and script, storyboards and talent is approved, we craft the components that when melded together will comprise the final program. Shooters, illustrators, animators, photographers, audio engineers all work together with the project manager and the client to make sure their component of the program will integrate seamlessly with the others. JBC prides itself in its production people having broader knowledge of the production process than just their discipline – so a shooter, for example can think in terms of what an editor or animator needs. This knowledge and experience gives the client the piece of mind that their project is being shepherded through capable caring hands.
Postproduction
Following the acquisition of all the video, stills, audio, graphics, etc. these elements are woven together to create the final piece. This is where JBC prides itself in “no surprises” postproduction. We stand by our estimate from the initiation of the project. So long as the scope of work requested by the client does not change, JBC sticks rigidly to the estimate we provide the client. The only surprise we like is the client feeling we have exceeded their expectations … and we do that a lot.
Deployment/Duplication/Fulfillment
JBC is the leader in brilliant compression, encoding and deployment of video programs and modules across mulitple platforms. We are the leader in making your program look as good on the web, DVD or HD Blu Ray DVD as it did in our studio. We can also handle the mass duplication of your project in any media plus packaging and collateral material to ensure that the final product looks and performs well beyond your expectations.
Implementation and Results Tracking
Once the copies of the final product arrive to the client, many companies consider that the end of the project. In many ways however, that us just the beginning. The slickest looking video program will NOT meet the client’s objective if nobody sees it. JBC Communications is interested in the entire communications challenge companies and organizations face, including planning for how the program will be distributed and integrated into the client’s business practices, and how results will be tracked. This step is often not built into the project model of many production firms. JBC offers follow-up consulting to stay with the client through the implementation and results-tracking phase to ensure that JBC Communications fully met the objectives of the client.
JBC was approached by the Mass. Department of Higher Education to produce a short film to lead-off its rollout of “The Vision Project”. The Vision Project offers the first comprehensive view of where the Commonwealth’s public higher education system stands, in comparison to other states, on a number of key indicators including graduation rates, student learning and [...]
The success of UMass Lowell’s “Campus on the Move” film, originally intended for an audience of University System Trustees, inspired the marketing department at Lowell to ask JBC to make a shorter version with some slight adaptations, so the film could be shown to prospective students and parents before they took a formal tour of [...]
Takes you inside the world of small town New England to reveal some of the causes and effects of a graying state. Through the voices of NH citizens, Communities & Consequences uncovers the connections between local decisions and the difficulty in attracting and maintaining a working age population.
Created as part of Best Buy’s announcement that it would begin selling the Segway Personal Transporter in a scaled roll out of stores across the country. The HD video is displayed on a large HD monitor above the Segway sales kiosk with a real demo Segway i2. Video was shot in US, Mexico, Portugal and [...]
The Savings Bank of Maine rebranded to The Bank of Maine and asked JBC to help them through video communicate to employees throughout the company and its over 30 branches what was changing through the rebrand and, most importantly, that its core values were not. The goal was to get full buy-in from employees. The [...]
JBC recently completed an online video promotion for Living Lean & Healthy’s web site. “What was inspiring to us about this project was Living Lean & Healthy’s approach to lifestyle changes. So many programs promote impossible goals that people soon grow tired of and abandon. Dr. Schiel’s approach was much more reasonable and success-oriented,” said [...]
