Nathan Maulorico of Unknown Films and Derek McGuire won the 2008 Skills USA Missouri competition in April, 2008. The contest consisted of creating a video from scratch with no preparation about what the video is required to be about. Each team has only three timed hours to create the video. Within that three hours story boarding, scripting, creative thinking, shooting, editing, and exporting must all be completed. This years requirements were to create a news broadcast style video, up to 90 seconds long, that contained no music or sound effects.
"This particular video contest was very hard, not only due to the extremely short amount of time alloted, but the subject matter as well with no musical audio to rely on to "smooth" out the piece. I really enjoy the challenge though, as we have many clients who want quality as well as speed, and these types of contests help improve those skills" -Nathan Maulorico
With the win of the Missouri gold medal, Nathan and Derek will now be competing for the National title in June.

This is officially the first  Unknown Films blog. If you didn't already know, Unknown Films creates video media productions for all sorts  of things, we like to think with dreams and make them a reality.  We hold true our motto of  "Be the Change" because being the change is about making things better, not just being different. Our main website can be found at www.unknownfilms.com. A few people in Springfield, MO were asking us if we had a blog somewhere for them to read, and again we were asked during our latest trip to New Orleans. We unfortunatly had to tell them no. With that said we felt it was time to enter the blogging world! So here we are, what now? Well, we plan on posting updates on new cool projects were working, upcoming Unknown Films happenings, as well as pictures and videos from our travels. This past year we traveled to places like Italy, Mexico, and Poland. In 2008 we already have over a dozen US cities with planned visits, with more in the works as well as some Europe visits too! 2008 is going to be a great year for us. Some things to look forward to in 2008 are the long awaited final completion of unknownfilms.com parts two though five, some great television commercials planned for our clientele, of course this Blog, and even a Top Secret Project that will be a lot of fun for us and you! As you read our new blogs feel free to contact us about any questions or comments you might have along the way, email us or even chat online with us at AIM unknownfilms13. Thanks to everyone and we'll be posting our next blog very soon.