Well, this is a little out of season but we have been watching a lot of the NFL Combine lately and the draft is quickly approaching! (I’m the only princess in the midst of 4 avid sports/ESPN junkies. I’ve adapted well, just picked up my camera and jumped on the sideline!) This video seemed to be a big hit with the fam and with the Abilene Cooper Cougars. And of the countless football highlights I’ve made over the past 12 years, this is actually one of my faves too! So, watch and enjoy!

Note: You have to stay with it until the “21 Gun Salute!” (3:30) It’s such awesomeness!!!

About to Rock from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

You can see #99 Brandon Henderson at SMU and #7 Will Ford at Texas Tech next Fall!

P.S. If any of you work for the Cowboys or the NFL, I really want to work for you! That would be uh-mazing!

Back in December, I shot this music video for Sh’Pone Harris’s song called Born Again Believer. It was produced by Joshua Norman of The Truth Records and Champion Anthems. Sh’Pone wanted this particular song shot in the neighborhood where he spent his youth in Muskogee, Oklahoma. It features many members of his family and his close friends. We had a lot of fun with this project, which I believe is a powerful one! Enjoy!

Born Again Believer from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

I finished this project a while back but wanted to show you one of my favorite excerpts from Tim and Jordan’s DVD! It was a beautiful wedding and an amazing, FUN couple! It was an honor to produce the wedding DVD’s for Tim last year and his sister Kelly in 2006.


Jordan and Tim's Highlight from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

I was excited to video Josh and Amanda’s wedding a couple of weeks ago and got a few good photographs as well. Congratulations guys and have a really fun honeymoon!

Tim and Jordan had a beautiful wedding in Midland, Texas! Here is Jordan and her crew at Traci’s Salon getting their hair and makeup done for the big event!


Jordan at Traci's from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

Whew! I have been working, working, working, and catching up, but not blogging! I had a CrAzY week last week, putting about 1300 miles on the old minivan in about 5 days. But it was so fun! First stop, Abilene to shoot Timmy Dixon’s acoustic concert. Last time I shot him, he was performing with his band. It was great to hear the acoustic versions of all his songs, plus some new ones he had written just the last week or two.

Here’s one of the videos. He’s singing “Only In Time” that he wrote last week after one of his friends drowned.



This is Glimpse, one of my favorites out of his original songs.



Check out the rest of the videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/txlonghorn2314. They include his amazing original songs and several great covers as well!

August 7-8 I was in Midland at Rock the Desert, my favorite! It’s hard work, but so much fun. The lineup was great this year and it was fun interviewing all the bands with Shigity Sean!



This is Mr. David Grosse and I love him! He is so awesome at Op Camp and then he came to RTD to be my boom mic guy. He was so nice to carry the huge camera, drive me around and make sure I always had tape and batteries. I could use someone like him pretty much all the time!



This is Kevin Copeland. In a word, he’s amazing. He can do anything in the world of video production and pulls off the production for this huge event every year! I am so thankful he calls me to come out and help!



I grabbed this shot of the Newsboys on stage. I kinda like it.



Here’s Jason from Hawk Nelson. They are so great! They always end up signing autographs for HOURS after their performance!



Mr. Soul Glow Activatur from Family Force 5! There is no one who puts on a show like these guys!! He’s looking rather tame here. Must have caught him in an “off” moment!

After resting a little bit from Rock the Desert, it was back to Abilene to shoot my favorite Cougars on their first morning of two-a-days! This is Cole who will be a sophomore this year! There is so much talent on this team!
Funny story, the head coach’s son is in the Marines and just finished working at the White House. Coach Spradlin got to meet President Bush at some kind of ceremony the soldiers go through after their assignment is done at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. They walked into the room and President Bush asked Coach what he did for a living. When he answered that he coached the Abilene Cooper Cougars, the President said, “Oh! Ya’ll just dropped to 4A!” I love that! Currently, my coogs are ranked 3rd in the state! Whoo hoo! It’s going to be a great season!

These boys are ready to play some football!



I also met Monday with Donny and Randy Vaughn, the Marketing Twins and was excited to hear about things they are doing and how I may be able to do some production for them in the future! So fun catching up with old friends. I was a little tired that day and forgot to take a picture of them, among other things! But check out their blog - they have a lot of exciting things going on!

Okay, Tim and Jordan Philbeck are up next! Stay tuned!

Check out Amanda and Nathan’s Highlight from their wedding day here.

It’s my favorite time of year! I get to go to the desert (Midland), wear a cool t-shirt, grab some earplugs, gear up with a 1000 pound camera (okay, maybe 30 or 40 pounds) get on stage with and interview the coolest Christian bands, and hang out with thousands (literally) of their fired up fans! It’s so much fun! I get to see old friends, work with AMAZING people that I wish I could spend more time with, and rock out for two solid days! Come see me there! Click on the logo to learn more about it!

Go to the website to see the whole lineup!

It’s gonna be HOT!!!

Tags: Rock the Desert

I first told you about Op Camp Como in April when we had the training retreat for the counselors. This past week we finally got to live the dream! This is the third year we took about 80 elementary kids from the Como neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas to a week long faith-based camp at no charge to the campers’ families. It is always an incredibly powerful week and this year proved no different! God always assembles His very best among the camp staff and counselors. I am always so humbled to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest people on the planet! I quickly chose just a few of the thousands of photos I took last week to tell some of the story!

First, a funny story. (Well, kind of!) My husband Van directs this camp and was the director of the same camp out of Midland, Texas for seven years, but this was a first! During the traditional “keep-away” game in the pool, he caught the back of Mr. Wes’s head in his eye. He had a fairly innocent looking, but very deep split near his brow bone.

Thank goodness for Dr. Brown who was there to stitch him up! (The color has been removed from this photo to protect the squeamish - and yes, I videoed it too!!)

This is what that “innocent” looking injury looked like 2 days later! Carolyn Street, the business manager at the campgrounds took this shot!

Here’s Cody doing his Mr. Gravitt impression!

This is Tyler, who prefers to be referred to as the best intern ever, as they all do! He was definitely the best intern this year! He pretty much had a new hairstyle every day! It started out like this, turned into a mohawk, and eventually he was bald.

Here are Van and I with our boys, Josh and Joe Norman! They were campers back in the early 90s at the Midland Opportunity Camp and still come back every year to help us out. We’ve had the honor of watching them grow up and they are family to us. BTW, today is Josh’s 28th birthday! Happy Birthday, Baby! We are so proud of both of them! Josh played football and was a National Champion at OU and went on to play for the San Diego Chargers, New York Jets and Oakland Raiders. He is now CEO of The Truth Records and JLee Productions. Joe was the Texas Defensive Player of the Year his senior year at Midland Lee High School, played at Texas Tech, and was in the movies “Friday Night Lights”, “We are Marshall”, and “Invincible” as a football player. He is working in the oil business now. Just a little Mama-braggin!

Josh ran a little football mini-camp for the boys at recreation time one day! Pretty cool to have a former NFL player showing you how it’s done! Byron, the boy in the blue shirt, is a Hurricane Katrina survivor. His brother was a counselor for us this year and did an incredible job! We are so thankful God moved them to Fort Worth!

We also had His Son (a.k.a. Vince Carter, former OU center who graduated in 2004 and was drafted in 2005) perform. The kids loved him!

A couple of my favorite shots:

There are no smiles like Opportunity Camp smiles!

Probably the best shot of the week was this one taken by my friend Anda! You can tell we had quite a bit of hair cutting going on in the boys’ cabins!

And of course there is video!


Op Camp Como 08A from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.


Op Camp Como B from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.


Op Camp Como 08C from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.


Op Camp Como 08D from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.


Op Camp Como 08E from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

Tags: Opportunity Camp Como, NFL, Hurricane Katrina, His Son

Last night was Julie and Brian's reception in Fort Worth. I can post the top secret Tahoe video now! It is one of my favorites because of all the beautiful scenery! Someone at the reception told me they felt like they were watching The Bachelor. Is that a compliment? I don't know! But it was an incredible trip, super fun reception, and a wonderful group of people to hang out with! The best part of last night: kickin' it old school to MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice with Molly and Bev!! Ha! The DJ, Steward's Productions, did an amazing job!

I loved all the comments on the lightning photo! Thank you so much!


Julie and Brian from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

I am working on Brian and Julie's highlight video for their reception tomorrow night. They married in South Lake Tahoe, which was completely amazing! You might recognize them from their engagement photos. Here are a few photos I snapped and I will get their highlight video up after the reception!

After the wedding, we took a two hour dinner cruise on the Bleu Wave. Talk about gorgeous views! We had a fun time celebrating the brand new Mr. and Mrs. Ponder! I sneaked into the cabin (I think that's what you call it!) and caught this quiet moment between the two of them.

Both families were so sweet! I just loved Brian's grandmother. I took this photo through some pretty misty eyes right after she told Brian how proud her grandfather would have been of him! She had us all in tears. It was such a sweet moment.

There was an amazing lightning storm in Midland, TX the night of Tim and Jordan's rehearsal dinner. I got this shot from the infamous duck pond on the way to Jordan's lingerie shower - which was too much fun! BTW, I love to know who is visiting my blog! Please leave me a comment below the picture! Thanks!

I've recently done a couple of shoots out at DFW for a company called IAS Air. It was so much fun! They needed photos and video for presentations and their website. I love my job! Here are a couple of photos:

Hello! Check out Teryn and Brandon's new Highlight on the the "Weddings" page and here are Angie and Jose's "Getting Ready" Highlights!


Getting Ready from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

I apologize for not posting for such a long time! May is always a busy time in the event video world and I produced my fair share of programs and graduations! I also got to photograph some seniors, and shot two weddings - one in South Lake Tahoe and one in Midland, Texas. I also did some commercial photography out at DFW and just got back from a video/photo shoot of a calf roping instructor! Whew! For today, here are some of my favorite shots from some of my favorite seniors!

I am working on the video for the seniors at my church. We had an AMAZING shoot that was so much fun! Thanks guys for a great time! Here are some pics, and look for the video after Senior Sunday!!

It's an amazing ministry! I'm off to the counselor training retreat, and I will give you more details and pictures from this weekend! In the meantime, check them out at www.opcamp.com

I have some really great ideas in the works and will tell you all about it as soon as I can! But for now, check out Angie and Jose's wedding highlight by clicking the "Wedding Clips" link at the top of the blog!

My sister Candice got married on March 15. What a fun week we had! I was honored to be her bridesmaid, videographer, and, because I couldn't help myself, I also took a lot of pictures! She had a great photographer named Brian O'Neill (http://pnaproductions.shutterfly.com/action/). Since it's been a blog desert for me the last few weeks as we have been travelling and I have been working away editing and getting out weddings, I thought I would give you something to look at!

Cassi in her boots at the rehearsal.


College Roomies: Candice, Cassi, Val, Chelsea



Twins and Hubbies! Matt, Candice, Cassi, Nick









Love those eyes!


Me and the beautiful bride!

It's good to be home again! My sister got married and then we were off to Colorado for Spring Break. Lots of good times! I did manage to get some work done during that time as well! This clip is from the pre-wedding section of the twins' wedding movie. The boys played golf and the girls ate brunch! Enjoy!

Twin Brunch and Golf from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

Well, I did it. Took the big step. Made the plunge. Left the comfort zone.

Today I registered to go to the Re:Frame 08 conference in October that takes place in New Orleans! Some of the biggest names in the wonderful world of wedding videography are going to be presenting, and I am feeling a bit out of my league! But I know I will be incredibly inspired and will learn more in those three days than I probably have in the last 12 years of doing this! And that promises to be a blessing for all of my future clients/friends!

I haven't told you a lot about me or where I am in the life of Gravitt Productions. So if you're interested, here's a little history:

I started out as a newlywed fourth grade teacher in Midland, Texas on a soccer sideline shooting game film for my Coach Husband. I fell head over heels for video and started making CHEESY highlight films of the players to get them pumped up for games. (Turns out I didn't like shooting at the angle required for game film so I was fired pretty quickly! But I kept filming for the players and their parents.) We started buying equipment and over the next three years, my two oldest sons were born. I quit my day job to stay home with the boys and started Gravitt Productions. I worked on tons of different projects and loved most all of them! Some of the more memorable were football highlights, athlete recruiting, United Way Campaign highlights, school programs, promotional videos for non-profits - pretty much anything that someone was willing to pay me to produce.

Then we jumped on the coaching train and started moving around Texas, landing in Navasota and then in Round Rock (right near my old stomping grounds in Austin!). We then headed back to Midland in 2000 when our oldest was entering Kindergarten.

The freelancing was actually getting really overwhelming and took a lot more of my time and energy than I expected or wanted at that time in my life as a mom of two preschoolers. I was hired on part time at Golf Course Road Church of Christ as their videographer and got to work with Ken Young of Hallal Ministries. I began shooting the occasional wedding during this time. I also had a blast traveling and running camera at Rock the Desert every year, at Community Bible Study's National Conferences in Austin and Myrtle Beach, and also at Fidelity Investments' Christmas Follies in Irving. (Thanks to my good friend Kevin Copeland of Franklin, Tennesee!)

I worked at GCR and continued light independent work until we moved to Weatherford in 2004 with our two boys and our new 7 month old one! With a baby at home, living in a new place, and not even owning a camera anymore, I didn't pursue video work for awhile. But it pursued me! I received several calls over the last four years to do work, mostly weddings, for former clients in Midland. I also work on projects for Weatherford Christian School where my husband is the Headmaster, for our church, and most recently, for Head Coach Mike Spradlin and the Abilene Cooper High School football team.

NOW, my youngest will be entering preschool in August and I am gearing up to turn Gravitt Productions into a full time studio. Out of all the incredible experiences I have had, I have decided that I really enjoy telling wedding stories. I consider it a blessing and a huge responsibility to be a part of a couple's life on a day they will always treasure and remember. I consider them all my friends and love watching them over the years, happy and bringing kids into the world, knowing I was there when they marked the beginning of their life together!

I am anxious to offer even more to my clients, learn more cutting edge trends and techniques, and am already implementing great new ideas!

But when I visited the Re:Frame website, I felt completely pulled in. It wasn't really "should I go?", but I HAVE TO participate in this to really grow in and hone my craft! I can hardly wait! Stay tuned for exciting changes over the next few months!

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My sister Candice and her fiance' Matt are getting married on March 15! Enjoy their engagement shoot movie!

My four year old has decided to take up skateboarding! Yikes! I ran for his helmet and my camera yesterday and we had a lot of fun, although the session quickly came indoors. I guess the hallway seems a lot safer for someone just learning to balance! I just love little boys! Every day is a new adventure! I never know if I will be playing with a Power Ranger, Spiderman (or Peter Parker donning his sport coat over his costume!), Superman, Batman or a Jedi! Or maybe all of the above. Yea for little boys!

I also added a "Wedding Film" page for you to view samples from weddings I have filmed. I posted Gaylen and Nicholas' Highlight today and hope to get her sister, Ginna, up tomorrow. It was the most incredible day! A set of identical twin sisters married identical twin brothers! I have never, and probably will never again, see anything like it! I will write more about it coming up in the next few days as I finish production on these amazing weddings! In the meantime, be sure to check out Gaylen and Nicholas' highlight!

Last Sunday officially marked the end of football season, always a depressing day for me. So I am sharing my football love with some photos I took this past season of the Abilene Cooper Cougars. I did their highlight video and made all but one of their games. It was so fun hanging out with them! You can check out some of the videos by clicking on "Football Films" at the top of the page. I am actually working on wedding videos today - more about that later - but here's some Cougar Love!