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US DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS UNVEIL NEW CURRICULUM FEATURING SOLIDLINE VIDEOS
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Production at the VA Medical Center in Washington, DC.
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Since early 2009, SolidLine Media has been working with Northwestern University
and the US Department of Veteran Affairs on a series of educational modules for
their new EPEC end of life and palliative care curriculum. The curriculum will be
taught at seminars throughout the country to key VA Medical Center hospice personnel.
From there these personnel will train their staff at the individual VA Medical Center
level. Each of the SolidLine produced educational modules focus on a single element
pertinent to the care of Veterans at the end of their life, to fully understand their
life struggles, and provide the best care in their last days. Topics such as WWII and
Vietnam issues, Transitions of Care, Spirituality, and more are brought to the surface
through a series of Veteran interviews and background stories.
To date, SolidLine has filmed at 4 VA Medical Centers including Chicago, IL, Tomah, WI,
Washington, DC, and Lebanon, PA as well as the Veterans Homestead in Fitchburg, MA. The
production also required SolidLine filming with the Under Secretary for Health Robert
Petzel, MD at the VA Central office just a block from the White House.
SolidLine has just been contracted to continue with a new series of educational modules
that will add to the EPEC curriculum in FY 2011.
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MODERN HEALTHCARE REVIEWS SOLIDLINE DOCUMENTARY
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Modern Healthcare, one of the largest publications geared towards hospital leadership,
has recently reviewed the SolidLine produced educational documentary "The Story of Lewis
Blackman." This production, which is the first in a series of twelve films SolidLine is
producing along with Transparent Health, follows a young man who ended up unnecessarily
dying after an elective surgery. SolidLine’s film was favored over the other 2 films
being reviewed in the Modern Healthcare article, which stated:
The film is the most clinical of the three, but this strangely antiseptic feel works
to increase emotional impact in some sections. Blackman's mother, Helen Haskell,
describes in even tones her harrowing experience in which her son went in for an elective
surgery and bled to death in the hospital after a weekend crew failed to notice his
worsening condition.
There's a lot of blame to go around, but "The Story of Lewis Blackman" works to disarm
the reflexive defensiveness of clinicians and administrators and make room for some genuine
soul-searching.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: NEW SOLIDLINE MEDIA MOTION AND 3D DEMO REELS
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SolidLine is proud to announce two new productions to our demo arsenal, our 2010 Motion
Graphics Reel and 2010 3D Animation Reel. The productions highlight an overview of our
motion and 3d work over the past year and showcase the wide variety of high end graphic
talent we have working in the full time SolidLine Art Department. Check them out via the
links below and enjoy!
SolidLine Motion Graphics Reel
SolidLine 3D Animation Reel
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BUS SCHEDULE
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THE SOLIDLINE PUZZLER
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Fall is nearly here so for those of you who are already suffering from the end of summer,
here is an easy puzzler for you...
Your bed and light switch are 15 feet apart. Without using any object or mechanical device,
no pole, no remote switch, how can you turn off the light and get into bed before the room
is dark?
Think you know the answer? Send it in to puzzler@solidlinemedia.com. Our
first email with the right answer will win a special SolidLine prize!
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CREW PICS
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HAPPY SLM CLIENTS
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"Working with Solidline has been an incredible rewarding experience for the EPEC for
Veterans Project. At every step of the way, from planning to filming to editing, they
have been incredibly professional and responsive to our needs. They have also contributed
creatively to our videos - from our selection of subjects to interview to editing to the
final shape of the videos. Their professionalism is unparalleled and we are looking forward
to continued collaboration with them."
Josh Hauser, MD
Director of the EPEC Project
Buehler Center on Aging, Health and Society
Palliative Care and Home Hospice Program
Northwestern University
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ABOUT SOLIDLINE
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SolidLine Media is a full service production house focused on the development and creation of
smart video productions across the US and the world. Our full-time in-house crew of professionals
can handle any video production project, and create a final product that is fun to watch, and
entertaining.
SolidLine Online Video Gallery
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SLM AWARD CORNER
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2010 Communitas Award
"The Story of Lewis Blackman"
Transparent Health
14 Awards in 2010 to Date
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MEET THE CREW
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Greg Vass, Executive Producer
As a co-owner of SolidLine, Greg has been through it all at SolidLine, since the first days
of running the company out of an apartment in Palatine to the creation of a talented
hand-picked staff of pros now working at SolidLine’s downtown Chicago headquarters. Along
with business partner and longtime pal Michael Kromm, Greg has spent the last 9 years
building a dream that began as a kid.
Why start a video production company?
Now there's a loaded question. And I guess the best answer is really because it's all I
know, well sort of. I've been a certified video geek since I was about 6 years old, making
videos with my parent’\'s video camera as a kid and making my family watch every second of
them (sorry again family). This passion first turned into a business with my new friend
Michael Kromm in middle school making weddings and photo videos, which turned us into
the "video guys" around town and an even bigger business in high school that got us out
of 3 hours a day to operate. So after college we figured we’d keep it going. Hey at this
point why not, right? Nowadays we're strictly producing high end marketing, educational
and documentary work for clients across the globe (just a slight leap from filming
recreations of the TV game show "Supermarket Sweep" in my parents basement when I was
a kid), but my passion that started brewing as a kid is still as evident as ever.
Looking back, what have the last 9 years been like?
A roller coaster ride with the most amazing ups and downs you can imagine. A lot of people
say to me "man it must be great owning your own business." For which I say back, "yes it
sure is." But this business, like every business, demands your complete attention and focus.
It's long hours and difficult choices and you can never waver from your path to greatness,
no matter how hard that journey gets. We are lucky to have the best clients imaginable and
a staff that is amongst the best people I have come to know. Hard workers, yes. But the
respect and friendship we all have is what makes what I do every day so much fun. And the
work we put out as a team is what makes it so rewarding. 9 years is a long time, but its
still only the beginning of our journey.
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