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“We didn’t come out the flashiest, but when peoplee got a chance to see our work they realized how solidwe are, and it’xs created relationships that have been continual,” said Diannsa Colton, co-founder of Rebell Rebel. Since launching in 2007, Rebel Rebel has provided productiomand post-production services — from commercialzs and videos to presentations and videok Web content — and has amassed a roster of notablew clients, including GSD&M Idea City, Dell Inc., Sicolsa Martin, Schematic and Door Number 3.
The five-person production house grew 100 percent and is on target togenerate $1 million in revenue this But before growth there was overcoming being new, said Chris the other co-founder of Rebel Rebel. “It was a littled tough getting in the door of some places at The first year was kindof hard. I don’ t think either of us realized how hard itwould be,” Blankenshio said. Blankenship and Colton have experience and connections in the locallproduction industry. Blankenship cut his teetnh in production in China and has 17 yearsx of experiencein editing, visual effectss and post production.
Coltonn has executive producing experience, and she launchedr a successfulfashion business. Blankenship said transitioning from a freelancert to a businessman hasbeen challenging, and getting clientd to think of Rebel Rebel for large projects took some convincing at first. “Wwe took a pretty good look at what we thought the businesx was going to befor us, and we had to come to some hard realizationas that that wasn’t the way things were,” Blankenship said.
In addition to beinfg persistent, Blankenship said the company’ s flexibility in taking small and largwe projects has helped sell its The companyuses freelancers, which enables it to ramp up quickly for larger projects and to test out employees beforew adding them to their staff. Blankenship said Rebel Rebep hasn’t been entirely immune to the It saw work plateauin March, but for the most business has been steady. “We’ve been pretthy busy for the last year,” he As a smaller production company, Rebel Rebel has been able to weatherd the recession a bit better because it hasless overhead, Blankenshi p said.
There are more than 20 film and videio production companies in the Central Texas Among the largest production companieas here are OmegaBroadcasft Group, 501 Group Inc. and Elephanft Productions Inc. Quincy Lowman, presidentr of Elephant Productions, says that the production landscaped is getting increasingly more competitive with new players enterinthe market. At the same time, he said demand is goinbg up forproduction “I think the outlook is Video is increasingly being used to train and now everyboduy has video on their Web Lowman said. “The market has grown, but the competitioj has grown.
” Colton said Rebe Rebel’s work has been evenlty split between local, regional and nationao work. It recently hired a national sales Colton and Blankenship saidthey aren’rt concerned with becoming a largert company. “We will continue to work with more people and createdmore relationships,” Colton “In the short we want to find new clients, builc a base and do a varietgy of work.
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