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Daniel Gourley began his post production carreer at the age of 15 making short films for highschool campus activities and clubs. His first set-up involved a VHS-C camcorder, a Mac LC550 and a DC30 card--WOOHOO! He has since upgraded his equipment and skills by graduating from Grand Canyon University with a Bachelors in Theater Production and Vocal Performance.
Daniel held the position as Associate Pastor of Visual Arts at Pure Heart Christian Fellowship for 8 years where he led volunteer teams through all facets of pre and post production. Daniel was the director of a small post production firm, Digital Insight, for 3 years before creating and forming PreToPost Media Solutions in 2003.
Daniel has worked with High Profile Realty, Compass Bank, McMurry International, Monsoon Digital, I-17 Collision, Merry Maids International and many others. As Creative Director, Daniel oversees all projects relating to Audio/Video Production as well as any Graphic and Web Design Projects
In the summer of 2007, Daniel worked as the Director and Producer for VerticalBlu Film Company on the feature film CONVENIENCE. He also is working in pre-production of VB's new film "Life in Transit" appearing in festivals in 2009.
Along with his PreToPost work, Daniel is in love with his beautiful wife Doné and his 3 adorable children Collin, Annabelle and Jordan.
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Stronz Vanderploeg started making short videos at the age of 4 with his parents home camera but his real career began when he began working for Pure Heart Christian Fellowship in 2001. While learning the basics of live video, he also started gaining experience with video editing.
Over the years, Stronz improved upon his talents and in 2004 he took over as Director of Video Production. Along with his job at Pure Heart, Stronz also joined PreToPost at its formation and began work filming corporate videos, animating intros and designing graphics for various companies.
Stronz has worked with McMurry, John C. Lincoln, Monsoon Digital, Deer Valley Unified School District and other clients from around the Phoenix area.
In the summer of 2007, Stronz worked as the Director of Photography for VerticalBlu Film Company on the feature film CONVENIENCE.
Stronz is currently attending Arizona State University pursuing a degree in film production. Along with his PreToPost work he still maintains his job with Pure Heart Christian Fellowship heading a live camera team and editing videos. Stronz also founded Steight Clothing Co. and continues to create new apparel designs in his spare time.
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Gary McSpadden holds a degree in Secondary Education/Vocational Education in the areas of Graphic Arts and Photography.
Gary was a professional photographer for 10 years before he started teaching it at one of the local high schools. His background includes being a teacher for 17 years in middle school and high school industrial education and vocational graphic arts and photography.
Gary also ran his own screenprinting business, Imagery Graphics and Tees while he taught journalism and computer applications the last 8 years of his teaching career.
Currently the Web Designer for PreToPost Media Solutions since 2004, Gary maintains his position as the webmaster for Deer Valley Unified School District. He has coded and designed web pages since the beginning of time when the web was brand new and he continues to learn new things about programming web pages everyday.
Gary continues to do event photography and is also experienced in videography and video editing and pretty much anything electronic that interests him. Gary also has experience as technical director for three local high school theatre departments as well as professional experience in technical theatre.
Gary is married to Jenny and they have two children, Mikayla who soars with the angels and Mykenzie who just turned four.
Gary uses Macintosh computers for his work.
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Tiberius Catinas had always been interested in film,
editing, and anything graphics related. In 2003 he
took a few classes working with film and graphics,
from that moment on he knew that his future would be
in this field.
He began his career back in summer of
2004 at Pure Heart Christian Fellowship working with
the live video team as a cameraman.
While improving
his skill behind the camera Tiberius also started
working with video editing, graphics and logo print.
Tiberius joined PreToPost working as cameraman and
began working with them for video shoots.
Tiberius
has worked for clients such as McMurry Marketing,
Monsoon Digital, and the Deer Valley Unified School
District as well as other clients in the Glendale and
Phoenix area.
In the summer of 2007, Tiberius worked
as the Sound Designer for VerticalBlue Film Company on
their film CONVENIENCE. Currently Tiberius is attending the Art Institute of
Phoenix for a degree in Visual Effects and Motion
Graphics.
While continuing his work with PreToPost
Tiberius continues to work as a cameraman at Pure
Heart Christian Fellowship.
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Ted Willis has always been interested in cinematography.
When he was little the question after a sweet action sequence was always “Wow! How’d they do that?”
Finally in high school Ted saved up enough money to buy is own video camera and started shooting and editing bike videos with his friends.
As he continued to experiment with his handy-cam he realized that video production was a major interest.
In 2007, Ted started working cameras for Stronz Vanderploeg at Pure Heart Christian Fellowship.
From there, Ted started helping with P2P jobs including filming the Deer Valley Unified School District’s high school graduations.
Over the summer of 2007, Ted assisted in the production of the feature film Convenience, as the official P2 card off loader.
Now Ted is exploring his options at The University of Arizona where he is a media arts minor.
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Toby Thompson began his artistic journey at the ripe age of 13 as an artist and certified thespian. Having participated in several plays in High School including acting for two years as well as assisting in running tech for two. Toby followed his passion into local community college drama, poetry and mime as well as several mediums of Art such as pottery.
Toby also worked in assisting managing a popular local independent record store for several years as well as concert promoting in the Phoenix and Tempe club scene for many years in the mid to late 90's. Toby was responsible for bringing acts from every genre of music from Metal to Hip Hop to Jazz to AZ clubs.
Toby is currently pursuing a degree in Web Design at Rio Salado and loves incorporating the artistic side of his personality in his work.
Toby is also is a Husband and Father of one and treasures the time he spends with his family the most!
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