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Celebrating ten straight years of award-winning multi-media production.

Welcome JALT 2009 Teachers and Participants!

Please Click on the Book Covers Below to go to the Digital Video Day Webpage

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New Release:

Shizuoka Cherry Blossom Festival

Held annually on the first weekend in April, the Cherry Blossom Festival is the biggest event of the year in Shizuoka City.  A seemingly uncountable number of people attend and/or participate in the three-day event at venues all over town.  Cherry trees throughout the city seem to miraculously comply by blooming just in time making for a dramatic backdrop to performances by thousands of participants.  What most don't know is that every year four local boys are selected to learn and perform an ancient and sacred dance on the main stage of the famed Sengen Shrine.  

***Click here to play video of the Cherry Blossom Festival.

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GMP Photography Recognized with Prizes

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***Click the photo above to view a gallery of GMP's winning photos.

A Grand Marquee photo was awarded a gold medal in the prestigious photography contest sponsored by Betterphoto.com.


More than 31,600 entries were submitted to the online photography contest, which attracted contestants from around the world and featured 10 separate categories. 


GMP's image, "Iconic Detroit 2", garnered top honors after being submitted in the Elements of Design category.


"It's very exciting to have the photos recognized with awards," said GMP's founder, Marcus Grandon.  "It acts as such positive reinforcement and as tangible evidence that our efforts to attain a high-standard in all of our multi-media productions are being noticed."


Other GMP photos were selected for numerous Editor's Pick Awards.

   

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Now Shooting High-Definition Video

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GMP upgraded to high-definition video in January and our early HD video projects have completely met expectations. 
 
We now have one Sony Z5U and one Sony FX1000.  They are both in the same family of cameras from Sony and both record in stunning HDV!  They compliment each other in exceptional ways giving GMP the ability to do two camera shoots for events completely in HD.  These cameras also shoot in standard definition, so we now can do multiple camera shoots in SD as well. 
 
At the same time, the studio received upgrades in the tripod area with a Slik Professional 4N that goes up 7.5 feet, and a very dependable Libec LS-38 for day-to-day HDV productions. 
 
Last but not least we ordered a new heart for the studio in the form of an Apple Mac Pro with 2 Quad-Core Xeon "Nehalem" processors for a total of 8 core processors (An Octo Mac Pro).  This provides major horsepower to pull the HD train. 
 
All subsequent GMP projects will be shot in HDV unless otherwise requested.

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New Releases:

Second University Textbook Completed

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GMP teamed up again with Alpha-Maya Press to release another university textbook.  It was originally released in April as an e-book with the published version on campuses several months later.  All the videos used in the lesson content were created by GMP.  See "Digital Video Day" sidebar for more information.

    

Photography Book Published

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This book was released in April.  GMP did all the photography for this publication which is a book of photos with accompanying essays.  It's available only as an e-book at this time.  See the "Conversation Pieces" menu item on the sidebar for more details.

    

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Excerpts from Noh Hamlet

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Kuniyoshi Ueda as Hamlet

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May 25, 2004 at Osaka Sakai Noh Theater

We were recently asked by ISHCC in Japan to create a short video of "Noh Hamlet in English". If you have never seen Noh, a typical performance lasts about an hour, but it was requested that we make the video 5 minutes or less. We created two versions, one condensed version of the story (5 Minutes), and the other a promotional trailer (2.5 Minutes).

Click here to play the teaser trailer for Noh Hamlet.

Click here to play the condensed version of "Noh Hamlet in English".


Welcome to our site!

The main thrust of our work is to produce cultural, educational and documentary videos.

On this site you'll find information about our activities, along with descriptions of our special video and audio productions. We hope you will find all of the information you are looking for about our multi-media.

We create videos that people love to watch.
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"Sharing Local Ideas Globally"


Grand Marquee Productions
2-12-3 Tokiwa Cho
Embel Celes #1201 
Shizuoka City 420-0034
Japan

Phone: (054) 221-0113 
Cell phone: 090-7853-0128

Or e-mail:
marcusgrandon@mac.com

Click here to send mail directly to Marcus Grandon


Our speciality is to produce short, visually exciting videos that people love to watch over and over. They are usually culturally based in content, but we also record events that act as an archival record and preserve history.

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Grand Marquee Productions * 2-12-3 Tokiwa Cho * Embel Celes #1201 * Shizuoka City * JAPAN * 420-0034

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