SF Bay Area Event Videography: Weekend @ The Pitch Club

 

Conference room with round tables and stage. Stage has backdrop that says weekend at the pitch club and bright pink flowers for decor. By SF Bay Area Video Production Company Solhaus Media.

Weekend @ The Pitch Club is by far one of our favorite events to do video for, and this year’s event was a really special one for Solhaus Media.

It wasn’t that long ago that Solhaus Media was still just a one-woman show with me behind the camera. And I was also pretty exclusively only doing brand photography at that time – I rarely mentioned or marketed the fact that I also did video.

But when Instagram announced that they’d be shifting their focus to video in 2022, I decided to stop hiding behind this story I was telling myself that I wasn’t good enough to offer video.

That same year, Rebecca Cafiero, who is the founder of Pitch Club, needed a videographer for her annual event called Weekend at the Pitch Club. I knew that it was an event for women business owners, and I also knew that the pool of event videographers was mostly populated by men.

A woman with blonde hair and turquoise shirt is pictured smiling at the speaker on stage. In the background, there are other women business owners pay attention. There are round tables with bright pink flowers as centerpieces.
A room full of women sitting at round tables at an event. There is one woman with her hair up and in a puffy yellow dress speaking into a mic.
Emily Kim from Emily Kim Co. on stage in a white tank top and floral print pants speaking with her hand in the air. By SF Bay Area Event Photographer Bernadette Marciniak.

Don’t get me wrong, I learned a lot of great things from some really nice male videographers, and the vast majority of them are super helpful and nice.

But I also knew that the energy of having a woman behind the video camera at a woman’s business development event would reinforce the energy of empowerment that is usually at the core of these gatherings.

A blonde woman is excitedly moving her body with one hand with a mic in the air as other women in the background are cheering her on. Her hair is braided and she is wearing pastel green.
A brunette woman speaking into mic on stage on an event with her hand out.
A brunette woman is speaking into a mic with her hand in the air smiling. There is also a stage in the photo with another woman speaking into the mic from the stage in the background.
Two women, sitting down, leaning on each other joyfully smiling. There are bright pink flowers in the background.
A brunette woman sits on a panel on stage holding a mic in one hand and her other hand over her chest.
Several women seated at an event raise their hands. The two main women in the picture are blonde and wearing professional clothing.

What happened next became a lifelong partnership. I joined Rebecca’s Inner Circle mastermind the next year, and shared that I knew my photography business was meant to exist outside of just me and photography – that I wanted to have an agency made up of women and allies who would change the face of what video and other digital services has been up to this point.

It was during my time in that mastermind that I rebranded from just using my name to Solhaus Media, and introduced myself to the world as a woman-owned videography and photography agency.

Bringing It Back To Weekend @ The Pitch Club Event Videography

This year’s Weekend@ event was incredibly special for us, because it was the first event that Solhaus Media was hired as the official media team, which included three female photographers and two female videographers.

I also got to take the stage as a speaker and share my success story in front of 100+ women.

Six women are on stage as part of a panel. There is a listener asking a question in the middle of the room. She is wearing a pink dress and white boots.

It was also super cool to have the video I produced from this year’s Inner Circle retreat play on a big screen at the event, which ultimately led to a $250,000 ROI for Rebecca.

It was a full-circle moment from my first time in that room, and incredibly validating.

Conclusion

Rebecca walked away from this event with a massive media library, which included a 3-minute promotional video to market her next event, as well as over 200 B-Roll video clips formatted for both social media and websites with which The Pitch Club team can create tons of content with, and over 1,000 images. What’s even better is that Rebecca shares all of these assets with speakers, sponsors, and attendees, so when they share it on their platforms, it does the marketing for her. Win-win-win-win. So many wins. Such a great weekend.

A book titled "Taking the Plunge" is on a countertop on display beside three vases of white and pink flowers.

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MEET BERNADETTE

A of Los Angeles brand photographer Bernadette Marciniak, a blonde woman in a yellow shirt holding a camera. She is standing in front of a wall of pink flowers.

Hi! I’m Bernadette Marciniak, founder of Solhaus Media, a woman-owned brand photography and video production company. We work with coaches, healers, podcast hosts, educators and creative business owners to create powerful imagery that converts audiences into clients.

Bernadette is a cat mom of two, who loves good pizza, craft beer and red wine. She’s usually bingeing on the hottest new true crime documentary, or finding solace in the upteenth repeat of Ted Lasso or Friends.

Solhaus Media is based in Los Angeles, the SF Bay Area, and New York City.

 
Bernadette Marciniak

Personal brand photographer for entrepreneurs who inspire & innovate

https://www.bernadettemarciniak.com
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