For the past four months of this semester, I’ve been enrolled in a class entitled Hothouse Productions, which is a student-run client-driven production company based at BU.
The goal of the semester? Make the best video for your client. Or else.
Goal met. Goal met big time.
My group and I – Kellan Reck, Katie Wolosoff, and Brian Gallagher AKA Team Kenmore – took on Hotel Commonwealth, a popular Boston hotel in Kenmore Square, as our client. We met with the hotel management, who charged us with the task of creating a promotional video not for them, but for Kenmore Square.
What’s the purpose of that? The hotel wanted to promote the special area Kenmore has become for the city. Kenmore used to be quite the dodgy neighborhood, but now, thanks to the hotel and thriving businesses in the square, Kenmore has quite literally become the heart of Boston. It’s pulse.
Kenmore Square is the where you see the pulse of the city.
Our resulting work below represents some of the most satisfying work my Brian, Katie, Kellan, and I have ever done. From shooting on the roof of the hotel in the wee hours of the morning to staying up way past our bedtime for lil meetings that became quite the bonding moments for us, we’ve created not just a promotional video for Hotel Commonwealth to share on their website, but a tribute to Kenmore. A tribute to Boston.
Why would you need to go anywhere else?
BIG BIG BIG special thanks to our professor, Barry Nolan, and his wife, Garland Waller, for all of their help in making this a success.
Producer: Brian Gallagaher
Associate Producer: Katie Wolosoff
Director: Kellan Reck
Editor & Media Manager: Chris Roys
Written by: Katie Wolosoff, Chris Roys & Brian Gallagaher
Narrator: Will Keary
Executive Producer: Barry Nolan
Chris Roys 