Theresa Leghorn, President, New Rochelle Council on the Arts
Philippa is a highly skilled videographer whose attention to detail is unmatched! She has created 8 videos for the New Rochelle Council on the Arts, and her work just blows us away. She is constantly working to improve her skills and techniques, and her clients are the beneficiaries of her diligence. She also has a great ear for meaningful quotes that add dimension to her videos. I cannot recommend Philippa highly enough.
Marjorie Madfis, President, Yes She Can Inc.
I was so impressed with the report Philippa Wharton produced for LMCTV about our organization, Yes She Can, that I asked her to produce a series of videos featuring our trainees for our first fundraising event. Philippa was able to create emotional 60-second and 3-minute stories that explained both the challenges and the successes of our job skills development program. She captured the joy and the anxieties of our participants and their parents so that the larger community could understand the value of the work we do and why it is worthy of their support. Philippa has a gift for getting to the essence of the message – she can shoot 40 minutes of video and net It out to share want needs to be said in less than three minutes. She knows how to tell a story. See her work here http://YesSheCanInc.org/videos
Joan M. Block, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Hepatitis B Foundation
Our decision to work with Philippa Wharton was the best first step in launching our national #justB digital storytelling campaign. Philippa’s videography skills, combined with a talent for telling stories through this medium, enabled us to share the stories of real people affected by a serious liver disease – chronic hepatitis B infection – in the most insightful and impactful manner possible. Philippa was able to establish an immediate trust and rapport with our patient storytellers who were sharing their stories for the first time. And the most amazing thing was that she was able to turn 3 hours of taping into 3 minute vignettes that expressed the heart of the story!
Linnet Tse, President, Mamaroneck-Larchmont Student Aid Fund
Philippa has created an amazing set of short videos for the Mamaroneck-Larchmont Student Aid Fund that have captured the spirit of our organization and our scholarship recipients. The videos have very effectively brought our organization to life for potential donors, and have had a significant impact on our fund-raising efforts. We have featured these videos in various PR campaigns, at our 80th Birthday Bash, and at our annual Awards Ceremony. The videos were very moving and captured the essence of our work in ways that words could not. Upon viewing one of the videos, one donor said “. . . that video brought me close to tears, and I thought how wonderful it would be to help out this young man.”
Philippa is very talented and is a perfectionist as her works show. She not only has the technical skills required of a good videographer, but she is gifted in the way she’s able to use video to tell a compelling story.
Jirandy Martinez, Executive Director, Community Resource Center
As a nonprofit organization, our annual fundraiser event’s video is key to demonstrating our important work and key to securing funding for the organization. CRC has worked with Philippa Wharton for two years to capture impactful 5-6 minute stories about the work we do year-round. In these two years, Philippa has produced three videos for us—all of which were genuinely heartwarming and visually clean. Philippa’s skills for understanding the organization, patiently capturing hours of footage, and her keen eye for creating a story in a short video is why I recommend her work to anyone. Not only is Philippa a joy to work with, but her work is neat, intuitive, and has a quick turn-around time. We owe much of our appeal success to her talent!
Amy Lelek, Turtle Park Association
I cannot say enough fantastic things about Philippa and her work. We came to her with an extremely tight timeline, which was truthfully unrealistic, and she delivered far beyond our expectations. She met with us right away, got our vision, we gave her disjointed information, and within 2 days she pulled together the most beautiful and perfect video that told the exact story that we needed! She was honest throughout the time we worked with her and told us her opinions, which were invaluable. She got excited about the project and literally dropped everything to help us tell our story and to meet our deadline. She asked for real time feedback and incorporated the feedback very quickly and gave us opportunities to tweak things as she was creating. Philippa was a pleasure to work with and her work is incredible. I 100% recommend Philippa – she made 9 months worth of our work come to life in a 2 minute video and we are extremely grateful for that. She was professional throughout and always assured us that we would have something special at the end! I will definitely be using Philippa in the future and I suggest that you do too!
Beth T. 90th Birthday Celebration Video
We just got home and I wanted to let you know that Mom and Dad (and everyone else!) LOVED the video! I heard Mom say “I think I’m going to need a Kleenex”! It was incredibly touching and masterfully edited – the way you wove together what we said, with photos and videos, to create the perfect tone! Your video was a huge success! And we thank you for all the time and care that you took to make it so special and so incredibly personal, for us!
Sunny Yeddis Goldberg 75th Birthday Celebration Video
It was my distinct pleasure to work with Philippa on on my husband’s 75th birthday video. She was so diligent, caring and helpful that the process didn’t seem half as difficult as I thought it would be. Her suggestions were priceless as far as time to view pictures, music, and length of the video. We have received rave reviews from all family members and friends who have seen this cherished work. It will remain in our family as a beautiful memory that can be viewed in years to come with joy about a life well lived. I can’t thank Philippa enough for putting up with all my calls, visits and for doing this video. She is one of the best people to work with that it has ever been my pleasure to experience. If you want to make a video, or have a cherished memory of your loved one’s life, don’t miss working with Philippa-she is a gem!
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