PRIMA DOORWAY DOLLY

4 Wheel Steering

Prima Doorway Dolly

for Professional Film Video Production

#MSRP $2100 YOU PAY ONLY $1499

(Similar to the industry standard)

All Dolly parts are fabricated, inspected, manufactured and assembled in USA

Same basic features as our standard version Doorway Dolly used in filming Music Video "I'm Flexin' by Rapper TI & Big K.R.I.T~Watch footage on YouTube at 1:15 to 2:40

- 11" side boards can be installed on either side of dolly
- Spindle wheel stops - Eliminates wheel frame rubbing 
- Adjustable front wheel alignment - Toe in / Toe out. Similar to car tie rods (Most dollies don't have) 
- Insert lock pin to keep wheels in straight position 
- Plastic tube end caps - No open tube ends! For a clean, professional finished look

Added features * 4 way steering
* Seat can be placed in 6 Spots and attaches in TWO(2) Different ways
* Upright steering on Both ends of Dolly
* Pull bar connection on Both ends of Dolly
* Adjustable Turnbuckle Trim for 4 way alignment

Compatible with all Industry Standard equipment
10"  Pneumatic (Air) Slick Tires 
Push Bar, Pull Bar, Seat, 11" Side Boards
Heavy duty Spindles with 3/4" axle size
* Wheel color may vary from picture (Black, White, Gold or Zinc)
* Dolly Frame and parts color may vary For inquires or custom orders please call 404-981-5046

http://medianetusa.net/prima-doorway-dolly

AS FILM FESTIVAL SEASON HEATS UP, GEORGIA CONTINUES TO LURE DOLLARS, CREATE STARS

Events help solidify state as a top locale for film productions | 07/07/2010

ATLANTA, July 7, 2010 – For decades, Georgia has celebrated and embraced local films and talent by hosting a variety of film festivals throughout the state. Today, at least 20 festivals bring together and celebrate homegrown creativity, culture and communities. Film festivals are an effective place for local filmmakers and films to gain exposure, critical buzz and distribution. They also attract visitors from all over the world ? which economically benefits local communities and businesses.

While Georgia film festivals take place throughout the year, most occur between June through October – which is why everyone involved is gearing up in anticipation of another busy and rewarding season. Not only are film festivals taking place during this prime time but film festivals throughout the state are calling for entries. Filmmakers from across the state and the nation can submit entries to participate in this fall/winter or 2011 festivals. In addition, the entire month of August in Atlanta has been declared by Festival League as Independent Film Month. A variety of film festivals and events including Atlanta Shortsfest, Atlanta Horror Film Festival, Peachtree Village International Film Festival and Atlanta Underground Film Festival will take place in Atlanta to celebrate independent films.

“Our film festivals have the power to expose new film makers to new audiences and alternatively expose community audiences to new cultures, projects and art,” said Bill Thompson, deputy commissioner of the Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Division of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. “The abundance of film festivals throughout Georgia not only showcases the rich talent, creativity and innovation we have in our state, but it also helps to build a strong, sustainable film industry. In Georgia, film festivals not only bring stars, they also make stars”.

Georgia is the proud home of the largest and longest running festival in the Southeast, the Atlanta Film Festival. The Festival held in Atlanta receives more than 1,800 submissions from all over the world and is the most distinguished event in its class. Every year, over the span of 10 days, more than 25,000 people view 150 films, learn about the art of filmmaking from visiting industry experts during festival panels and attend networking events. From noon until midnight each day, at least three films screen simultaneously featuring a wide range of styles, subjects and perspectives. The Atlanta Film Festival is one of only 24 Academy Award qualifying festivals in the U.S.

In addition to the renowned Atlanta Film Festival, Georgia encourages the support and investment in film festivals throughout the state. From the Savannah Film & Video Festival in Savannah to the Macon Film Festival in Macon to the Rome International Film Festival in Rome to the AthFest Music, Arts, Kids Film Festival in Athens, each event contributes significantly to the local and state economies. In fact, the Macon Film Festival hosts nearly 70 filmmakers at the annual event and has an economic impact of $141,250. Also, according to Americans for the Arts’ Arts and Economic Prosperity Calculator, the overall economic impact of the Rome International Film Festival in Rome was $90,300 – equivalent to 2.6 full time jobs at a household income of approximately $46,967.

“The Rome International Film Festival encourages visitors from all over the world and hosts a wide variety of films from all countries,” said Harry Musselwhite, executive director of the Rome International Film Festival. “Our film festival takes place at Georgia’s first ‘talkie theater,’ the DeSoto in downtown Rome and has been called one of the finest film festivals in the Southeastern U.S.”

Through hosting and investing in local film festivals, Georgia has supported the growth of its local filmmakers, directors and actors. Events such as the Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project in Atlanta and the Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival in downtown Athens draw stars, critics, movie goers and students alike. Hosted by Robert Osborne, the festival boasted such guests as Academy Award winning producers of “The Godfather Part 2,” Fred Roos and Gray Frederickson, as well as Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick’s close associate and Patterson Hood from The Drive By Truckers. The 2010 Festival sold more than 38,000 tickets to people from across the country.

Georgia has emerged among the top five states in the U.S. for film production over the past few years and its many film festivals are a major reason for that recognition. In fact, there were productions in 50 counties in Georgia in 2009. Estimated to employ 25,000 Georgians, the state has a strong, talented workforce in all sectors of the entertainment industry and boasts one of the deepest and most experienced crew bases in the country. In addition to talent, Georgia offers an abundance of landscapes to fit almost any production including Georgia’s beautiful mountains, coastal beaches and islands, small towns, a major metropolitan city and many more attributes which make the state an ideal location for independent filmmakers.

For a list of film festivals in Georgia please see the list below. To learn more about Georgia’s entertainment industry please visit www.georgia.org.

About Georgia’s Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Division
The Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Division conducts extensive business development, sales, marketing and promotional activities in order to attract entertainment projects and businesses to the state. The division’s team also assists the local, national and international entertainment industries with information, expertise and resources. It is a division of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), the sales and marketing arm of the State of Georgia. For more information, please visit www.georgia.org/fmde.

SIDEBAR
Film festivals in Georgia include: AthFest Music, Arts, Kids Film Festival (June 22 – June 26, 2011, Athens, Ga.) Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project (June 2011, Atlanta, Ga.) Atlanta Asian Film Festival (Oct. 8-23, 2010, Doraville, Ga.) Atlanta Film Festival (2011 dates TBD, Atlanta, Ga.) Atlanta Horror Film Festival (Aug, 13-16, 2010, Atlanta, Ga.) Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (Feb. 8-27, 2011, Atlanta, Ga.) Atlanta Shortsfest (Aug. 6-8, 2010, Atlanta, Ga.) Atlanta Underground Film Festival (Aug. 27-29, 2010, Atlanta, Ga.) Atlanta’s Campus MovieFest (2011 dates TBD, Atlanta, Ga.) BronzeLens Film Festival (November 11-14, 2010, Atlanta, Ga.) Coca Cola Film Festival at the Fox (July 30 – Aug. 10, 2010, Atlanta, Ga.) Dixie Film Festival (Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, 2010, Athens, Ga.) Dragon*Con Independent Film (Sept. 3-6, 2010, Atlanta, Ga.) Kingdomwood Film Festival (Oct. 1-3, 2010, Lithonia, Ga.) Macon Film Festival (Feb. 17– 20, 2011 Macon, Ga.) Out on Film (Oct. 1-7, 2010, Atlanta, Ga.) Peachtree Village International Film Festival (Aug. 19-22, 2010, Atlanta, Ga.) Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival (2011 dates TBD, Athens, Ga.) Rome International Film Festival (Sept. 10-11, 2010, Rome, Ga.) Savannah Film & Video Festival (Oct. 30 – Nov. 6, 2010, Savannah, Ga.)

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CONTACT:

Communications Specialist, Georgia Department of Economic Development

QUALITY EQUIPMENT FOR FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION

FILM INDUSTRY DOORWAY DOLLY MANUFACTER REACHES FOR A GREATER MARKET SHARE

AUGUST 7, 2014

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FILM INDUSTRY DOORWAY DOLLY MANUFACTER

REACHES FOR A GREATER MARKET SHARE

Elliot Turner Enterprises Inc. (elliotturner), a custom grip manufacturer, has confirmed contracting Media Net USA as its first Authorized Dealer of its film and video production products. For ten (10) years, elliotturner has only distributed its premiere line of products on ebay.com (user= elliotturner). They have a customer satisfaction rate of 99.3% and pride themselves on proactive customer service, timely shipping and great customer communication.

Elliotturner is known in the film industry for its four (4) wheel steering PRIMA Doorway Dolly, used or professional film and video production. The engineers have designed a one-of-a-kind steering system that allows the dolly to have great flexibility. Its steering system can turn in a complete 6’ diameter circle and can be steered from the front and back of the dolly. It compares to the industry standard in quality for almost half the price.

Media Net USA offers elliotturner’s complete line of products online at www.elliotturner.us. They will also develop an online marketing strategy and begin SEO efforts on behalf of elliotturner. Media Net USA designed and hosts the website for elliotturner, located at www.elliotturner.us. Elliotturner’s owners anticipate the efforts of Media Net USA will increase their market share for doorway dollies in a market completely dominated by Matthews Studio Equipment. Elliotturner’s products have the same quality of Matthews but cost a fraction of the price.

Elliotturner seeks film and video dealers to sell its grip equipment.

Contact:

Noel A. Booker Sr.

(404) 981-5046

noel@medianetusa.net

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Social Media Is The New Blackhat

What happens when fake friends tell fake friends about your product? Does anyone care? Actually, yes, Google . They care because of how intertwined Social Media and SEO rankings are. SEO best practices are and should be the foundation of any business’ online marketing strategy. However, Social Media is not stand alone and is an essential part of that SEO strategy. Social media can help boost an SEO ranking when there is tons of buzz being generated in social feeds.

A recent study by Shareaholic, which tracked 300,000 websites over four months, suggested that social-media referrals now lead to 30 percent of websites’ overall traffic. But just like SEO, Social Media can have its dark side as well. The old trend was to try and scam Google using Black Hat SEO tricks and the new trend is to try and trick Google and users using Social Media as the New Black! And it’s backfiring on companies just like SEO did.

Not All Social Signals are Organic or Authentic

Not all social signals are authentic or organic. If you’re using a social site to boost SEO and brand awareness, we hope you haven’t been caught trying to fake your way to a following because it’ll ultimately put you in SEO jail. Google did a great job of fighting off black hat SEO marketers because it got better and better at identifying high quality websites. They’ve now turned their attention towards measuring the quality of your friends, likes, and views.

Buying a Friend

There are a lot of sources out there that will all sell likes and followers for a price. Whether you’re creating fakeFacebook profiles to interact with your business’ Facebook page, cloaking deceptive content, writing fake reviews, or purchasing YouTube views, SoundCloud plays for your artists, LinkedIn connections, and likes and followers for Facebook, Twitter , Instagram, and Pinterest, it’s the same result: it makes you seem popular at face value but Google is learning to look past face value, more than ever they’re looking under the hood.

If all your ‘friends’ are from Croatia or India but your company is based in California, something is amiss and Google will find out and punish you. Google and YouTube spokeswoman Andrea Faville said: “(we) take action against bad actors that seek to game our systems.” And if you look at recent history,YouTube just wiped out billions of views from recording artist who were faking views to boost popularity.

Faking Virality

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world and most marketers dreams are to go viral. Because of that, you can guarantee there are people trying to ‘fake or create’ virality. The common mistake is to taking the easy route and buy a couple thousand views to kick start the party and generating some ‘fake’ virality before it ultimately organically takes off. Wrong!  - If you went to a party that was suppose to be really cool, would you be able to tell immediately? So can Google. You can’t fake organic growth. If you buy 3,000 views, YouTube is waiting to see if there is organic growth. There is a reason it stops at the 301 mark. It’s waiting and measuring the quality of actual views and organic behavior. As Alex Bean from Fresh Consulting said, “Google doesn’t look at the fans or numbers of them, they look at the fans behavior. You can’t fake that.”

Bots will not share or retweet your post among influential friends and circles, they are either a computer or person simply paid to click the ‘like’ button and that won’t carry viral weight. If you have valuable content on social media, you will get organic social media reach and fans. If you are buying fake fans, then it sends signals that your content is not valuable enough to get organic fans and alerts Google accordingly.

Shape a Review

Social media marketing expert Ophelie Lechatdiscusses how black-hat tactics are generally unsustainable and Google usually neutralizes them with every algorithm update. Last year, an update to Google’s spam detection algorithms was aimed at stopping Local business’ from the number of reviews appearing on some Google+ Local pages. Google is very aware that local business owners are doing everything they can to scam the online reviews. They issued a warning to business owners that “fake glowing testimonies” written by SEO or reputation management companies will be taken down.

The Truth About How Social Effects SEO

It’s evolving. All the time. Every day, they tweak their algorithms to filter out spammers. Every year or two, they also roll out major updates that cause huge shifts in search engine rankings for nearly everyone on the web. As explained by the experts at Search Engine Land: Google launched the Penguin Update in April 2012 to better catch sites spamming its search results, in particular those doing so by buying links or obtaining them through link networks designed primarily to boost Google rankings. When the Panda update came out, it was meant to stop sites with poor quality content from working their way into Google’s top search results.

The next Google update will undoubtedly not only keep out spammers but it will purposely penalize those companies that tried to utilize Social Media Black Hat methods as it did with Expedia earlier this year who lost 25% of their visibility. Companies using social media to make false representations risk losing all of their social media efforts and wasted money on fake content, interactions, and fans along with their SEO rank when detected.

One thing we know is that Google is obsessed with transparency and not being tampered with. They won’t remove a negative review unless there is a major violation of their guidelines but even then it takes a lot of time to prove it. Twitter’s Jim Prosser said it best about using Social Media Black Hat tactics: ‘There’s no upside. In the end, their accounts are suspended, they’re out the money and they lose the followers.” If Google finds that you’ve purchased a stadium of fake people in hopes to improve SEO traffic, it won’t just ignore you. It’ll shut you down, fine you, and remember what you did.If it doesn’t do it now, just wait till the next release.

Image Credit:  Orange is the new Black – Netflix

John RamptonContributor FORBES

Deft and Daft use the Doorway Dolly

Georgia looking to expand film industry tax credits

Dave Williams

Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle

At a time many states are eliminating or scaling back their film industry tax credits, Georgia lawmakers may expand the Peach State’s film tax incentives to further encourage an already rapidly growing industry.

A legislative study committee created during this year’s General Assembly session will begin meeting this summer to consider proposals to expand Georgia’s film tax credit program to pick up portions of the industry not covered by incentives enacted six years ago.

“What we missed the boat on is our home-based smaller companies that don’t do the $500,000 minimum you’ve got to do to take advantage of the credit,” said Georgia Rep.Ron Stephens, R-Savannah, who will chair the study committee. “We’ve got to incentivize them more.”

The numbers tell the story of the growth of film and TV production activities in Georgia. The industry’s direct economic impact in Georgia nearly doubled from $132.5 million in 2007 to $260.4 million in 2008, the year the General Assembly passed legislation offering tax credits of up to 30 percent to companies producing feature films, television series, music videos or commercials in Georgia.

That growth has continued at an exponential rate to $933.9 million in direct economic impact last year.

Entertainment executives who have set up shop in Georgia say the willingness of states to offer tax incentives has become the top consideration for producers looking for locations to shoot.

“That’s all the studios look at,” said Steve Basso, general manager of Paskal Lighting, a film industry supplier with an office in Norcross. “They want to know where they can get the most for their money.”

Case in point: John Raulet, co-owner of Mailing Avenue Stageworks, an 85,000-square-foot motion picture and television production facility in the Grant Park area of Atlanta, said he got a phone call recently from a location scout who had been hired to fly to Atlanta to find a spot that looked like, of all places, Pakistan, for a film set in the Middle East.

“A bean counter in L.A. said, ‘I want to know if it’s there or not,’ ” Raulet said.

While Georgia wasn’t suitable in that instance, it does fit the industry’s needs more often than not, Raulet said.

“We have a lot of things here that put us a step ahead ... the busiest airport in the world with umpteen flights a day to L.A., oceans, urban, mountains, pretty much everything you want to find,” he said.

While Georgia’s film tax credit program continues to attract more investment from movie-makers, some states are ditching or reducing their incentives. During the past few years, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin ended their programs, according to a survey the National Conference of State Legislatures released in March.

Closer to home, lawmakers in North Carolina converted their film tax credit to a grant program, a move that threw up additional hurdles to producers. And the Florida legislature failed to fund that state’s incentives program this year when a dispute between the two legislative chambers wasn’t resolved by the end of the session.

Steve Weizenecker, a partner in the entertainment and music practice group in the Atlanta office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, said opponents of business tax incentives in general are behind those states’ decisions to dump film tax credits.

“It seems like the far left and some on the extreme right ... throw everything under the ‘corporate welfare’ banner and attack it without understanding what it is,” he said.

Wilbur Fitzgerald, chairman of government relations for the Georgia Production Partnership, a coalition of companies and individuals active in the state’s film, video, music and interactive game industries, said he met with several producers out of Wilmington, N.C., recently who told him they were planning to relocate to Georgia because of uncertainty over the future of North Carolina’s film tax credit.

“We will be strengthened by the collapse of North Carolina and Florida,” he said. “Some of their talented people will be looking for work in Georgia, and they’ll find it.”

Stephens said his idea to lower the monetary threshold for companies to qualify for Georgia’s film tax credit would allow smaller Georgia-based businesses that specialize in post-production to take advantage of the program.