Gale Force Wins is a company that specializes in creating authentic, story-driven video content for career colleges and universities, as well as their associated vendors. The company’s unique approach involves on-site, rapid interviewing and editing, often producing multiple “YouTube-ready” videos within hours. They aim to highlight the positive impact and career-focused education offered by these institutions, emphasizing genuine conversations and NOT scripted interviews to help individuals and organizations share their impactful stories. Gale Force Wins’ service is mobile and efficient, designed to capture compelling narratives with ease.
In the competitive regulated college space are you telling your stories?”
Amplifying Career Colleges Through Stories of Success:
Your College’s Authentic Voice with Gale Force Wins
Gale Force Wins, a content creation company, specializes in amplifying career colleges and universities across Canada and the United States through authentic, impactful storytelling. Co-owned by Navy veterans Allan Dale and Gerry Carew, Gale Force Wins focuses on empowering people and changing lives by showcasing the genuine journeys of individuals within your educational community.
Why Stories Matter for Your College in a Competitive Landscape?
In today’s dynamic educational environment, telling your college’s story effectively is paramount. Gale Force Wins helps career colleges and universities:
• Empower their community and educate the public on their significant impact.
• Authentically showcase their value to stakeholders, helping them stand out in a competitive academic landscape.
• Augment existing marketing efforts by providing genuine, unscripted content that fosters strong emotional connections with audiences.
• Enhance positive perceptions, increase visibility, and ultimately boost the bottom line.
• Demonstrate how their education leads to real careers for real people, making a tremendous difference in communities, provinces, and states.
Gale Force Wins’ Unique and Efficient Storytelling Model
Gale Force Wins’ model is designed for speed, ease, and user-friendliness, ensuring a seamless experience for colleges. They deliver high-quality digital media content that highlights what makes your organization truly unique.
1. Pre-Production: Rapid Planning & Storyboarding The process begins with a concise, one-hour storyboarding session where the Gale Force Wins team, including Allan Dale, collaborates with your marketing team or ownership to align on thematic lines of conversation and goals. Prior to arrival, Gerry Carew liaises with your marketing team to ensure branding elements like logos, intro sequences (typically 7-10 seconds), lower thirds, and outros are perfectly integrated into the video template.
2. On-Site Production: Genuine Conversations & High-Quality Capture Gale Force Wins arrives at your college, setting up swiftly – often ready to shoot within 30 minutes. Their setup is resource-friendly, moving around efficiently, ensuring they can capture stories anywhere on campus, making your environment an integral part of the narrative.
They emphasize:
• High-Quality Audio and Video: Gerry sets up professional lighting and sound systems to ensure excellent production quality.
• Authentic Conversations: Allan conducts interviews in a conversational, relaxed manner, often described as “just like having a coffee together”. They make interviewees feel comfortable, allowing their genuine stories and emotional journeys to emerge, rather than adhering to scripted Q&A.
• 360-Degree Perspective: Gale Force Wins captures a comprehensive view of your college by interviewing a diverse range of participants, including students, graduates, instructors, employers, community leaders, and even friends, family, or senior administrators.
• Flexibility: While they offer a dedicated “interview booth” setup, they are highly mobile and have conducted interviews in various unique locations such as trucks, cabs of trucks, helicopters, and even ships.
3. Post-Production & Delivery: Quick Turnaround & Organized Access Efficiency extends to post-production and delivery, ensuring you receive your content promptly:
• In-the-Moment Editing: While not live, Gerry performs “in-the-moment” editing, allowing for quick turnaround of videos within 20 to 60 minutes in graduation settings (Click here for Willis College Graduation for an example) and within 5 business days for on Campus work.
• Branded & YouTube-Ready: All videos are fully branded, processed for optimal audio quality, and delivered as YouTube-ready files, complete with thumbnails.
• Raw Footage Access: You also receive the raw, unedited footage if desired.
• Streamlined Access: Content is organized within Google folders and linked via a Google spreadsheet, which is sent to you within five business days.
Powerful Deliverables & Proven Impact
With Gale Force Wins, you’re investing in more than just video production; you’re gaining a partner dedicated to amplifying your college’s unique narrative. Standard Deliverables:
• A pre-production, one-hour storyboarding session to align themes and goals.
• 15 fully branded, success-focused videos, each up to 10 minutes in length.
• Videos include your college’s “call to action”.
• Promotion of your content via the Gale Force Wins (GFW) YouTube and LinkedIn network.
• Expert guidance on social posting cadence.
• A Google spreadsheet linking all content for streamlined access and distribution.
• A full-service package covering shooting, editing, production, post-production, and access to GFW’s network.
• Shared travel costs for colleges in the same geographical area and booked in the same timeframe.
Expanded Offerings (Additional Investment): Gale Force Wins offers various add-on services to further enhance your content library:
• Extra fully produced videos: $550 each.
• Extra raw, unedited format videos: $250 each.
• B-roll footage captured during their engagement: $500.
• Summary Montage video: $1000.
• Posting to their Facebook page: $1000.
• Excerpts from interviews: $100 per clip.
• Teaser videos to precede main interviews: $100 per clip.
• Timelapse videos and stills in the moment: $100 per post.
• YouTube timestamps: $100 per video.
• A suggested expanded offer includes a Montage video and Timestamps for $1500.
A Track Record of Success Across North America
Gale Force Wins has already established a remarkable track record. They have worked with 22 Canadian colleges in 2024, completing over 600 impactful interviews, covering the entire country from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Nanaimo, British Columbia. This extensive experience has involved capturing moments and stories of transformed lives, proving that their approach truly works and resonates with people. Now, Gale Force Wins is excited to offer this proven product to the American market, building on their success in Canada. They created content at the North American Education Convention, collaborating with organizations like the Career Education Colleges and Universities (CECU) and the National Association of Career Colleges (NACC).
Are you ready to tell your college’s unique and powerful stories?
Reach out to Gale Force Wins today for a quote and to schedule a virtual conversation. By partnering with Allan Dale and Gerry Carew, you can ensure your college’s authentic voice is heard, helping you stand out and connect deeply with your audience.
