TELEVISION PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT * CABLE PROGRAMS * NETWORK NEWS * OLYMPIC SPORTS * DOCUMENTARIES * LONG FORMAT STORIES * NON PROFIT VIDEOS * CORPORATE VIDEOS * WEB CONTENT * PHOTOGRAPHY * HUFFINGTON POST BLOGGER *
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| Working with host broadcaster SIS Live in the International Broadcast Center at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India in October 2010. |
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TELETRENDS
Colorado television production company, Teletrends, and television producer, Vicky Collins, develop and produce programming for domestic and international audiences. Teletrends specializes in television production for broadcast, cable, national syndication, internet, corporate and non-profit clients in Colorado and worldwide.
The television production landscape is changing. Teletrends meets the evolving needs of clients by staying on top of trends that are shaping television production and digital content. Our productions include network news, long form storytelling, documentary programs, Olympic sports, image oriented corporate presentations and videos to advance humanitarian work of non-profit organizations.
Vicky Collins is an Emmy award winning television producer with 30 years of experience in news and programming. Her television production experience has taken her through Colorado, to all 50 states and six continents. Achievements also include four prestigious National Emmys, two Telly Awards, an Iris Award, a Cine Golden Eagle, and the UPI/Lee Nelson Award for Outstanding Newscast in New England.
RECENT TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS
*Television production of long form stories for HDNet’s "Dan Rather Reports" and “World Report.” Recent topics include the recovery of Greensburg, Kansas from a deadly tornado, prostitution in Nevada, oil drilling in Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park, acid attacks, the possibility of animal suicide, BeadforLife's Friendship Village, Uganda's child soldiers, Aubrey de Grey, Warren Jeffs and his Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. *Producing and booking for network news clients, “NBC Nightly News,” “NBC Today Show,” "ABC World News Tonight" and "ABC Good Morning America." Recent projects include producing for the Wallow Wildfire in Arizona, the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Balloon Boy, the Butte, Montana plane crash, live broadcasts of the flooding of the Grand Canyon, the San Diego area wildfires, the Windsor, Colorado tornado, the San Francisco tiger attack and the 10 year anniversary of Columbine.
*Producer for SIS Live at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India during October, 2010. Worked in the highlights unit located in the IBC to produce an hour long feed of athletic competition for distribution to rights holding broadcasters. *Producer for PBS Newshour in Alabama and Louisiana on BP Gulf Oil Spill disaster.
*Producer/ENG Supervisor for Olympic Broadcasting Services at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada. Worked for Olympic News Channel in a production/operations capacity. Responsibilities included overseeing 20 ENG crews and their gear. Also producer of an hour long highlights feed. Coordinated the program content and acquisition of highlights from the OBVans and worked with commentators, editors and transmission. Producer of short documentary project detailing the making of the coverage. Worked across all departments to insure they were represented in the finished product.
*Television production of videos for the Boulder, Colorado and Kampala, Uganda based NGO, BeadforLife (www.beadforlife.org) aired on broadcast networks and the internet. Coverage led to stories on HDNet's World Report, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, NBC Nightly News and NBC's Today Show.
*Producing for Beijing Olympic Broadcasting during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Responsibilities included producing and writing a documentary program that chronicled BOB’s coverage, producing presentations for the IOC and other audiences, production of Olympic summaries, assisting in the launch of the Olympic News Channel, producing a one hour long daily Paralympics highlights feed for all rights holding broadcasters including NBC (www.universalsports.com), daily supervision of producers, crews and editors.
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| Beijing Olympic Broadcasting at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China as Michael Phelps and his relay team received their gold medals. This was the historic 8th gold medal for Michael Phelps. |
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| Vicky Collins and HDNet's Jim Van Vranken covering Carnival in Port of Spain, Trinidad for a Dan Rather Reports documentary story on Chinese Investment in the Caribbean. |
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