Monarch Images is an outdoor-related media company based
out of
Delisle Saskatchewan, Canada
BACKGROUND
First of all I’d like to let everyone know
that I’m a hunter and outdoorsman at heart. As part of my
love for the outdoors, I’ve always been interested in
preserving those great moments, so video and photography
was, and still is, a big part of my outdoor adventures. My
knowledge about cameras, electronics, computers and video
editing was all learned along the way. The following is a
brief story of how I got into building scouting cameras,
and video editing.
Scouting
Cameras
What got me started on scouting cameras
was being intrigued as to what game were lurking in my
hunting areas when I wasn’t around. Manufactured,
store bought scouting cameras were expensive, so I did some
web surfing and found plans to build my own. I built
my first one which was a film camera hooked up to a sensor
from a garage motion light. After many trips, and
having to wait to get film developed I soon came to realize
that I needed to look into “Digital”.
Without much of an electronic background, I was nervous to
“hack” into an expensive digital camera to modify it to
work as a scouting camera. With a bit of nervous sweat, and
tons of help from the people on the Trail Camera Forums
such as Jesse’s Hunting and Outdoors, Pixcontroller, and
Chasingame to name a few, I was able to successfully
produce my first digital scouting camera! Since then it’s
been an addicting hobby, and in order to keep building them
without going broke, I started building for others. I’ve
now been building digital scouting cameras for about 4
years, and have put them to the test in “Canadian”
conditions.
Video
Editing
This also started off as a hobby editing
and producing family hunting footage. I was 13 years old,
and had just entered my first ever hunting season, when my
dad bought a brand new 8mm analogue camcorder. My dad would
sacrifice sitting in his deer stand most mornings, so that
he could film me hunt waterfowl and upland game. I can
remember wanting to get back home so fast so that we could
watch the footage of our hunts.
As the years went on the videos got even better, and we
even tried doing some rough editing so that when other
relatives would visit, we could show them just the
highlights of our hunting season, and they didn’t have to
sit through hours of footage. Every year the videos and
editing became more and more professional.
A couple years ago my cousin approached me about editing
some archery hunting footage from the Manitoba Bowhunting
Records club members, and producing a video that would be
sold as a fundraiser for their club. It was a huge
hit! and ended up being sold all over North America, and
even ended up in some hunting stores.
I was also approached by a Bow manufacturing company (APA
Innovations) right here in Saskatchewan to do a commercial
for them. I went out and shot footage of their
products in action, and edited and produced a 15 second and
30 second commercial. Nibal at APA was very pleased
with my work and this is what spurred me to add the video
editing part to my small business.
I hope to be able to offer video editing/production for
anything outdoors related, and not only for companies but
all outdoors people alike. I can do anything from family
outdoor footage for preserving memories, to commercials, or
promotional videos for hunting/fishing lodges, stores or
outdoor companies. I can edit footage people send to
me, or go out and film for them.
