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“We didn’t come out the but when people got a chance to see our work they realizes how solidwe are, and it’ s created relationships that have been continual,” said Dianna Colton, co-founderf of Rebel Rebel. Sinc e launching in 2007, Rebeo Rebel has provided productionand post-productiojn services — from commercials and videos to presentationas and video Web content — and has amassed a rostedr of notable clients, including GSD&M Idea City, Dell Inc., Sicol a Martin, Schematic and Door Numbee 3. The five-person production house grew 100 percent and is on target togenerate $1 million in revenue this year.
But before growth there was overcomingbeinbg new, said Chris Blankenship, the othe r co-founder of Rebel Rebel. “It was a littl tough getting in the door of some places at The first year was kind of I don’t think eithert of us realized how hard it would Blankenship said. Blankenship and Coltonh have experience and connections in the localproduction industry. Blankenship cut his teeth in production in Chinaq and has 17 years of experiencein editing, visualo effects and post production. Coltojn has executive producing experience, and she launched a successfupfashion business.
Blankenship said transitioning from a freelancer to a businessmab hasbeen challenging, and getting clients to think of Rebel Rebep for larger projects took some convincing at “We took a pretty good look at what we thoughy the business was going to be for us, and we had to come to some hard realizationss that that wasn’t the way thingsx were,” Blankenship said. In addition to beinyg persistent, Blankenship said the company’s flexibility in takinyg small and large projects has helped sellits services.
The companhy uses freelancers, which enables it to ramp up quicklyh for larger projects and to test out employeeds before adding them to their Blankenship said RebelRebeol hasn’t been entirely immune to the recession. It saw work plateauu in March, but for the most business hasbeen steady. “We’ve been pretty busy for the last he said. As a smaller productionj company, Rebel Rebel has been able to weather the recessiom a bit better because it has less Blankenship said. There are more than 20 film and videoi production companies in the CentralTexas region. Among the larges production companies here are Omeg aBroadcast Group, 501 Groupl Inc. and Elephant Productions Inc.
Quinct Lowman, president of Elephant Productions, says that the production landscape is getting increasingly more competitive with new playerss enteringthe market. At the same time, he said demanr is going up forproduction work. “I thinkj the outlook is positive. Videi is increasingly being used to train and now everybodu has video on theirWeb site,” Lowmann said. “The market has grown, but the competitionn has grown.” Colton said Rebel Rebel’s work has been evenly split between local, regional and national It recently hired a nationalsales representative. Coltom and Blankenship said they aren’t concerned with becomin g a larger company.
“We will continue to work with more people and create more Colton said. “In the short term, we want to find new build a base and do a varietyof