About Me

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Craig Witter has the rare broad media production skill set that allows him to produce professional videos from start to finish. Call Craig for:
- Male voice over narration,
- Professional audio recording room and facility in Pittsboro,
- 1,100 square foot video/photo production studio,
- Video camera operation (Own professional 1080HD P2 camera, & much experience with other cameras incl. Pro. Sony, Panasonic and Red),
- Script writing
- Photoshop graphics for video/web
- After Effects animations for video/web

Craig Witter founded General Training Company & Metropolis Motion Pictures in 1992 to provide a full spectrum of media production services to help client organizations achieve their objectives with effective, made to order media-based communications. He is equally adept at designing and building media.

The services of General Training Company will shorten the time it takes for people inside and outside your organization to effectively understand the information that your organization needs them to know. Think of us as your communication, training and media departments – always ready to collaborate on communication strategies and campaigns and to produce videos, PowerPoint presentationss, or text based communication media for print, video, internet, intranet, mobile devices, CD and DVD.

Examples of the many types of programs and medias we design and produce include:

• Safety Videos on DVD or online
• Employee Orientations in video or print
• Training PowerPoint presentations (self-paced interactive multimedia and/or for live presentation, internet or intranet distribution)
• Training Manuals and tests for print and/or electronic distribution
• Operator Instructions
• Post-sale Product Support on DVD, online or in print

• Male NARRATION – Craig Witter’s deep, engaging voice can be heard in hundreds of videos, audio programs and PowerPoint training programs in use around the world. Nice sound booth in Pittsboro, NC holds up to 4, professional mics, Mac computers, professional software.

• IN STUDIO AND REMOTE PRODUCTION – 1,100 studio with stage, lights, grip in Pittsboro, NC. We have a wealth of experience and all the professional equipment required to shoot video, photos, and record audio in studio and on location.

• DIGITAL VIDEO, AUDIO & PHOTOGRAPHY – We shoot digital video and photographs and record digital audio then edit on our professional-quality, computer-based editing systems at the precise level of quality that you need to make your program maximally effective within your budget. Some clients need the very best and most expensive production variables; some don’t. We will not sell you what we do, rather we will sell you the optimal mix of production services required to make your program as effective as possible within your budget.

• GRAPHIC DESIGN – Photos and graphic art images are produced and manipulated using premiere professional computer software and hardware. Hand-drawn illustrations are a specialty.

• ANIMATION – We produce 2-D, 2-and-a-half-D and 3-D animations. Animated logos are our specialty. Moving images irresistibly capture and focus audience attention on key messages. Many of our high-end videos are chock full of engaging animations. Most low-budget productions have a few, key animations, often including an animated logo fly-in. We can create anything you can imagine.

• MESSAGE DESIGN – We’ll research your audience, objective and subject to create a script that captures your most effective message possible.

• SCRIPT WRITING – Every word, sound and image your audience experiences will be carefully crafted into a script that will make your audience subscribe to, know, or do what you want. Our video and multimedia scripts are exceptionally detailed – with columns documenting production requirements for narration, video and graphics, animations, shoot locations and dates, scene numbers, and all the other documentation of production variables that will be required during production and post production. Every script is prepared specifically for the particular medium on which the program will be output (DVD, Web, CD, intranet, mobile device and/or other mediums).

• COMMUNICATION CONSULTING – Craig Witter has been hired by many organizations to study their internal and external communications and recommend solutions, improvements and applications of media to increase their effectiveness and profitability. He has led and participated in conferences and retreats for Boards of Directors and conducted independent needs analyses and training application consultations. Some organizations have enlisted Craig Witter to develop marketing mixes for their organizations, including: products and services to sell, persuasive campaigns of messages and media, etc. Craig Witter’s real-world, process oriented, devil’s advocate, Murphy’s Law scope of seeing what is needed, both possible and probable, have developed a strong group of followers across the country.

• MEETING FACILITATION – Craig Witter has facilitated multi-day marketing and planning retreats where VIPs from organizations have gathered to discuss and plan the future of their organizations. His philosophy as facilitator is always to come up with solutions and direction that are doable in the real world.

• CONSTRUCTION SAFETY ILLUSTRATIONS – We have collected our most effective graphics and sell them on CD. Construction trainers can use these illustrations in printed materials and PowerPoint presentations to raise the interest & effectiveness of their employee safety training. 108 matching, professionally hand drawn illustrations are included on the GTC-DRAW CD. Most are funny, proud, and/or frightening depictions of real world construction hazards.

I have been in the industry since 1992.