Notlith · Grand Rapids
Event Videos and Promo Films in Grand Rapids, from festival to convention
Events in Grand Rapids range from volunteer-run festivals on Calder Plaza to association meetings at DeVos Place and winter programs downtown. Each needs a promotional film before the doors open, often before a single photograph of this year's edition exists. Notlith makes those films remotely, from venue images, past-edition material and confirmed details, with a script, AI-assisted motion, editing and sound.
Remote production · From your photos
A downtown that becomes an exhibition
When ArtPrize runs, buildings, parks and storefronts across downtown become exhibition space, and venues taking part need to tell visitors what they will find inside. A short promo can introduce the space, the opening hours and the type of work on show. We build it from your photographs of the venue and from images the artists have agreed to share.
Artwork is not raw material for generation. We do not recreate, restyle or extend an artist's piece, and every work that appears is credited as the artist requests. If permission is still pending, the film shows the venue and the dates, and the artwork arrives in a later cut once it is cleared.
Selling attendance at a convention
An association choosing DeVos Place has to persuade members to travel, register and book a room. The film's job is practical: the program themes, the format of the days, the exhibition floor, the skywalk link to nearby hotels if your attendees will use it. We assemble that from the venue's official imagery, last year's photographs and your confirmed agenda.
Speakers appear only through their own approved headshots or footage. We never generate a keynote on stage or an audience that was not there. If the program changes after release, a modular edit lets us swap a title card or a date without rebuilding the sequence, so registration material stays accurate through the campaign.
Promoting a festival through January and February
Winter programs such as World of Winter, or skating at Rosa Parks Circle, ask people to come downtown when staying home is easier. A promo has to make the cold part of the appeal: lights on snow, warm drinks, a fire pit, an installation glowing after dark. Licensed photographs of past editions and your own design renders give us the visual vocabulary.
Weather honesty matters here. We do not generate a snowfall over an installation that has only been photographed on a gray day and present it as documentation. A generated atmosphere can sit in an opening title, clearly stylized. Program details, accessibility notes and what happens if conditions change belong on the closing card.
Community festivals and a reusable kit
Festival of the Arts has been organized by volunteers for decades, around the Calder sculpture known as La Grande Vitesse. Events of that kind work with tight resources, so the film should earn its keep for several years. We design a master that carries the identity and a set of replaceable segments for dates, performers and sponsors.
Recap material often comes from many phones. Attendee photographs can be used when contributors agree, and we check each one for faces, children and private details before it enters the edit. Sponsor logos follow the agreements you hold, and the recap never suggests a turnout figure that your team has not confirmed.
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Plan the details
Can you film our event live?
No. Live coverage needs a crew in the room. We can prepare the promo before the event and edit a recap afterwards from photos and footage you or your crew capture.
Can the promo include La Grande Vitesse or other public art?
Public artworks are protected creations. We use licensed photographs where the rights allow it, and we never generate or alter a version of the sculpture.
Which formats do event organizers usually need?
A widescreen master for the website and screens at the venue, vertical cuts for stories, a square version for feeds and a short countdown loop that can be updated as the date approaches.
What should we send first?
Confirmed dates, the venue, your strongest photographs from last edition with their credits, sponsor obligations and any wording already approved by your board or partners.
Start with your images
Send us the event's confirmed details and the strongest images from past editions, and we will suggest a promo structure.