Natural | Northern Minnesota Resort Videographer

This past June Buffalo Media Group teamed up with The Kabetogama Lakes Association to present a collaborative project that covered numerous resorts in the area. Our goal was to give the impression of what you can experience by frequenting any one of the many resorts that are a part of the Kabetogama Lakes Association. Thanks so much for choosing Buffalo Media Group as your Minnesota resort video production studio!

Speed | Minneapolis Race Photographer

This past week we were finally back to work after restrictions were lifted because of the nationwide and statewide pandemic. We are thrilled to announce our new clients, ERX Motor Park in Elk River, Minnesota! Here’s a little promo video we did for them….hope you enjoy!

Nature | Top Minnesota Resort Videographer

This past season has been a peculiar one to say the least. Yet, we know how important it is to so many of our clients and their clients alike to have hope and patience throughout the state-wide closing and subsequent re-opening happening soon. This is why Buffalo Media Group partnered up once again with our clients Ludlow’s Island Resort on Lake Vermilion.

We wanted to help share the experience of being in nature, celebrating the outdoors, and spending quality time together with family. We know many of us are anxious to get out on the lakes, have those bon-fires, and snuggle up in a warm, secluded cabin after an evening fish fry. We hope this finds you and warms your soul!

Uplifting | Top MN Commercial Videographer

Great Message of Hope!

Back in February Buffalo Media Group teamed up with Justin Gambino of Justin Gambino Music to shoot his new music video.  Be sure to check out Anchored!  This will lift your spirits up during these uncertain times!

Chant | Colorado Guest Ranch Photographer

The story behind We All Ride Together was a rather interesting one that came out of the clear, blue sky.  Buffalo Media Group was approached by our friends at Western Pleasure Guest Ranch to do a statement piece for their ranch with the script provided and we just dub in the b-roll over scrolling text and add some music….done!  It turned out to be a very nice, short piece and I applaud them for taking the creative initiative to make a positive response.  This was three weeks ago.

From there, we were approached by Resolute Marketing to see if we could do something like that for them and how much would something like that cost, they asked.  We said, you write the script and we will take care of the rest.  A couple days past and then the script arrived…we were blown away!  The script was so beautifully written.  Again, we were asked to provide an invoice.

Next thing we know, we were contacted by The Dude Ranchers’ Association out of Cody, Wyoming to provide a statement video for the western hospitality industry.  Of course we said, let me see what we can do.  Soon after, we were approached by Resolute Marketing and told them we had a project and if they wouldn’t mind, we would love for them to write a script for the The Dude Ranchers’ Association that’s similar to theirs and we’ll call it even.  Luckily for us, they obliged!  

We submitted our bid to the The Dude Ranchers’ Association which was approved and then it was quickly onto the pre-production and production stages.  This was last Friday.  We got the green light and we spent the majority of the weekend putting together b-roll from a lot of our clients through the years.  The script was so powerful, we knew we needed a professional voiceover to carry the video.  

Reverse, two months.  Justin Gambino of Justin Gambino Music, whom we met at Wind River Ranch this past summer, had recently visited us in Minnesota to film a new song for his album.  Much to my surprise, it was going to be the title track to his next album and a major influence into his musical endeavors.  We were asked how much something like this would cost and of course my answer was to just get to Minnesota and I would take care of the rest….don’t worry about a thing.

Six weeks later, he’s here in Minnesota and we hit the road to northern Minnesota for a full-day of production.  It could not have gone any better quite honestly.  The video was a major success and was completed just a couple days before we completed We All Ride Together.  So when it came time to get a voiceover, we could only think how awesome it would be to have Justin Gambino do the voiceover for it.  Soooo….we called in a favor to him.  We told him the scoop and asked if he could graciously donate the voiceover and like the true gentlemen he is, he did!  

So now here we are with a potentially huge project on our hands all the sudden.  We mentioned to the Dude Ranchers’ Association that if we were going to undertake this project, that we were going to do it right.  So the footage was coming along great and the music selections were being made and we were communicating the script to the Dude Ranchers’ Association.

I went to bed Sunday evening with overwhelming anxiousness.  I had been thinking about a title to the video for a couple days and nothing had revealed itself yet.  I was awoken at 3:30 am to the voices in my head.  It was the repetitious chant of…We all ride together, We ALL Ride Together, WE ALL RIDE TOGETHER. 

That was the hook and it hit me like a lighting bolt! Simple and clean.

The Dude Ranchers’ Association loved the concept and the rest is history. The video was completed in one week.

We want to thank the Dude Ranchers’ Association for placing their trust in us.  We would like to thank our guest ranch clients, past and present, without you all this would have not come to fruition the way it did.  We would like to especially thank all the ranches for getting on board with us, embracing the concept, and sending us all the video clips.  We want to also specifically thank Amy Janzen at Resolute Marketing for the amazing talent she is with everything she does.  If you are looking for an extremely talented and gifted marketing specialist for your guest ranch marketing, she’s the real deal….trust me!  Justin Gambino, friendo, it has been a wild ride with you this year and we look forward to the next adventure.  Thanks so much for your generous time and sharing your amazing talents with us and the world.  Of course I want to thank the Lord for blessing me with such wonderful people in my life and a sincere passion for what I do.  I feel the fire burning inside me everyday and I am thankful.  I want to thank my family for supporting my ambitions and trusting my insane ideas even thought they might not fully understand where I am going with them…but I do ha!  But mostly, I am thankful for my best friend, my wife Chrissy for her continued love and support and for always believing in me and letting me know how proud she is to be married to me.  I hope I do the same for you!

Perseverance | Top Montana Hospitality Videographer

FEATURED PROJECT

WE ALL RIDE TOGETHER

Buffalo Media Group has teamed up with The Dude Ranchers’ Association to promote a video showcasing western hospitality. Buffalo Media Group collectively worked with numerous guest ranches all across the western United States to put together one unified piece to send a message hope, optimism, and perseverance during our national pandemic.
 

Script for WE ALL RIDE TOGETHER (Resolute Marketing)

Do you hear it?

The horses running through the open range in harmony. The crackle of the fire after a day of grand adventure. The wind blowing through the prairie grass on a breathtaking afternoon.

Take it in. Feel it. Let it touch your soul.

In an unprecedented time, when we distance from others, we go within, and in this stillness we find the connectedness we share: the inspiration and encouragement to create our new reality, closer to the truth of our nature.

For many of us, it's through travel where we can escape to regain that sense of deep connection to something beyond what we are and what we know, pure in nature.

So if you're feeling a little uncertain about what lies ahead, know that you aren't alone. We'll get through this together and come out more unified, stronger, more resilient, and ready for our next adventure because...

WE ALL RIDE TOGETHER.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - JUSTIN GRADDY, BUFFALO MEDIA GROUP MN

SCRIPTWRITING - AMY JANZEN, RESOLUTE MARKETING www.resolutemktg.com

VOICEOVER TALENT - JUSTIN GAMBINO, JUSTIN GAMBINO MUSIC www.justingambino.com

Wild | Top Colorado Video Production Company

This season has been an unusual one for most, to us, we feel like it’s kinda normal as we are in our slow season and we have time to take a look back at our body of work and look to ways to make it better for our clients and our portfolio. With that said, I decided to revisit, recut, re-edit, and produce a new piece for Rawah Wilderness Ranch in northern Colorado. We hope you enjoy it, I know we did! Buffalo Media Group is a full-service video production company based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. A very special thanks to all those who have helped with the production of this piece, your time and talents are invaluable and we are very grateful!

Production - Buffalo Media Group MN

Director of Photography - Justin Graddy

Narration - Justin Gambino