Hey! It’s been awhile since we have posted anything but a film review on here. Thought I’d give everyone a quick catch up of what we’ve been doing.
So, as most of you would have realised, we all have our day jobs that still continue even though we want to spend as much time on this business. That means having to spend every second of spare time outside our day jobs working on MEAN Productions. This can be a little exhausting and sometimes we lose sight of the end goal but we always pick ourselves up and put each other back on track.
Recently we had our first ever promo!! Naturely, as we have day jobs, we spent the last weekend working on our first ever promo. It was such a rewarding experience! The promo was for ARAN animal rescue, which are an organisation who focus on rescuing dogs straight out of the pound. These dogs have usually been found wandering the streets and have not been claimed. Over the last 6 years, ARAN have rescued and rehomed 1000+ dogs. This includes our own dog, Cludo, who was picked up on the streets; we adopted him in 2016. ARAN is a really great organisation and we wanted to do anything we could to help.
We reached out offering our services (free of charge); we were happy to travel anywhere in the Wellington region to film and produce small films of their dogs needing to be rehomed. We believe that it really helps to see the dog in a film/video format doing what dogs do so potential adopters can understand the dog better before meeting them. ARAN did have a dog up in Levin (which is a good hour and a half anyway from where we are based) called Blue; who hadn’t had a lot of interest in him for the last couple of months. Even though they wanted to keep him, his foster home was beginning to become overcrowded and ARAN really needed to find him a forever home. They were desperate for this.
Being dog lovers/owners, we travelled up early on a Saturday and spent a few hours filming with Blue. He was adorable, sweet and loving! I was so tempted to take him home myself. I knew that people just needed to see him the way I was seeing him now. If they could, he’d have no problem with being adopted. I spent all those hours trying to really capture the essence of Blue, I wanted to make a film that really showed how silly, loving and playful he was as well as showing potential adopters his ability to grow and learn (being a young pup). It was such a blessing to film Blue and his foster family. I got to be apart of his process in finding a forever home as well as being able to see the wonderful work a foster family can do for a dog who has ended up at the pound.
It was hard leaving Blue behind but I knew that this short video would help him. I just had to get it out there asap. I edited it together on the Sunday and made sure I sent it to ARAN on the Monday morning. They were very happy with the outcome of the film and posted it on their Facebook page that Tuesday. This was already enough for me in respect that we had gone out, made a short video in a weekend and delivered a quality product which was happily accepted in a short amount of time. Nonetheless I really hoped it would generate some more interest for Blue so he could finally find a home of his own. And as luck would have it, Blue was picked up on the Wednesday to a new home. Not even 24 hours had passed since the video was posted and Blue had potentially found his forever home.
As I said, it’s been hard and exhausting running MEAN Productions in our spare time and sometimes we do lose sight of the end goal. However it is times like these where you see what we can achieve and how we can help great organizations like ARAN. I couldn’t be more proud of the work we produce and of the outcome that came with it. We told ARAN that a short film/video of the dogs can help them with their adoptions. We said that potential adopters would get to see them as they naturally are before actually meeting up which should help in their interest and ultimately speed up the process of getting them rehomed. But never in a year of Christmas’ did I think it would work that well or that fast. We are over the moon! We only hope we can continue working with ARAN and help more.
If you want to check out the video of Blue, click the link below:
If your looking to adopt a dog who needs a home, check out ARAN’s website, link below:
https://www.arananimalrescue.org.nz/
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