Behind-the-scenes video from Business Leaders of the Year taping

In March, Mainebiz chooses three executives as our Business Leaders of the Year, writing profiles of them and their work in our print issue. This year, we decided to take things to the next level and do short videos on each one, pulling out one aspect of their impact to highlight.

The videos took a lot of coordination, since we wanted to not only include the business leader, but a couple of his or her employees or colleagues, and we wanted to shoot on location. The team who worked on the videos spent a few hours on site with each business leader to capture what we needed.

For our video on Michael Tarpinian, CEO of the nonprofit Opportunity Alliance, the team shot at a preschool program run by PROP, which recently became a part of Opportunity Alliance. The team's presence made quite an impact on the 3- to 5-year-olds there. Our editorial assistant/videographer, Travis Bernier, even got out from behind the camera to read them a story.

You can watch the final video of Michael Tarpinian here.