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“We didn’t come out the but when people got a chanc e to see our work they realized how solidwe are, and it’s created relationships that have been continual,” said Diann Colton, co-founder of Rebeo Rebel. Since launching in 2007, Rebel Rebel has provided productiohand post-production services — from commercials and videoss to presentations and video Web content and has amassed a roster of notable including GSD&M Idea City, Dell Inc., Sicolas Martin, Schematic and Door Numbetr 3. The five-person production housew grew 100percent year-over-year, and is on target to generater $1 million in revenue this year.
But beforde growth there was overcomingbeing new, said Chris the other co-founder of Rebek Rebel. “It was a little tough getting in the door of some placesxat first. The firstr year was kind of hard. I don’t thinj either of us realized how hard itwould be,” Blankenship said. Blankenship and Coltobn have experience and connections in the localoproduction industry. Blankenship cut his teeth in productiomn in China and has 17 yearxs of experiencein editing, visual effectds and post production. Colton has executive producingt experience, and she launched a successfulfashion business.
Blankenshi said transitioning from a freelancer to a businessman has been and getting clients to think of Rebelp Rebel for larger projects took some convincinbat first. “We took a pretty good look at what we thoughtt the business was going to befor us, and we had to come to some hard realizationds that that wasn’t the way things were,” Blankenship said. In additiob to being persistent, Blankenship said the company’s flexibility in taking small and large projects has helpexd sellits services. The company uses freelancers, which enabled it to ramp up quicklh for larger projects and to test out employees befor e adding them totheir staff.
Blankenship said Rebell Rebel hasn’t been entirely immune to the recession. It saw work plateay in March, but for the most part, business has been “We’ve been pretty busy for the last he said. As a smaller production Rebel Rebel has been able to weather the recessionm a bit better because it has less Blankenship said. There are more than 20 film and video productiom companies in the CentralTexaas region. Among the largest production companies here are OmegasBroadcast Group, 501 Group Inc. and Elephant Productionw Inc.
Quincy Lowman, president of Elephant Productions, says that the productio landscape is getting increasingly more competitive with new playere enteringthe market. At the same time, he said demaned is going up forproductioj work. “I think the outlook is positive. Video is increasinglyg being used to train and now everybody has video on theitWeb site,” Lowman said. “Th market has grown, but the competitiob has grown.” Colton said Rebel Rebel’s work has been evenlty split between local, regional and national work. It recentluy hired a national sales Colton and Blankenship saidthey aren’t concerned with becominhg a larger company.
“We will continu e to work with more peopler and createmore relationships,” Coltom said. “In the short term, we want to find new build a base and do a varietyuof work.”