Even production companies can have bad hair days. A few months after we shot a training video for Baymont Inns and Suites on how to clean a hotel room, their legal department changed part of the cleaning process. (They decided it would be safer for the Room Attendant to work with the hotel room door open rather than closed which was the previous method.)
No problem. We’ll just go back into the hotel, reshoot the scenes that take place near the doorway and be done.
Not so fast.
When we contacted the housekeeper who had starred in the 1st video, she asked whether it mattered that she had changed her hair. “Changed” was an understatement. Her new look was much, much shorter and a different color. The only solution was a wig and, of course, there were no perfect matches.

So as you watch the clip from this project, you’ll notice that Veronica gets a complete makeover in a fraction of a second as we intercut the new scenes with the old.

(Our other favorite memories of this shoot were the stories Veronica told during lunch of all the things she found in the rooms she cleaned – most of them not repeatable to a family audience.)

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Among our projects for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin was a series of half-hour shows called “Children’s Heroes” that told stories of some of the great work done at the hospital and how it had impacted the lives of thousands of children – one at a time.

That’s where we met Howard. It was a terrific story in 2001 and it’s even better now. After you watch this moving story, we’ll fill you in on Howard’s progress.

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So that was Howard 8 years ago. Today he’s studying radio/TV and film at MATC and planning his career as a TV director. And in his spare time, he’s a member of the Brew Crew at Miller Park and occasionally gets to participate in the sausage race. Check out the Chorizo next time you’re there and see if turns your way when you yell “Hey Howard!!”