Synopsis: Kansas City celebrates achievements with video montage

Challenge: Show the audience's hometown and favorite city in fresh new ways.

Background:
For 119 years, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has held an annual gathering to mark the community's progress. For the past several years, IBT Media has produced the signature video that provides a thematic summation of the year just ending.

Production Values:
IBT Media shot High Definition video throughout the year. For 2006, the theme was A Dynamic Community, Driven by the People. At Chamber events, at community gatherings, and just where casual but meaningful shots could be obtained, IBT Media was there. Photographing people gave us a different set of considerations than the prior year's construction and progress theme.

Highlights:
By focusing on faces and personalities, we allowed the style and personality of our fellow citizens, going about their lives and enjoying our city, to come through to the audience.

Results:
The videos received standing ovations at the Chamber's annual dinners and were also sent into the field as promotional DVDs for the community.