Brien Lee has been a writer, producer, director, teacher and student of all things audio-visual virtually all his life.
Look at those ears.
He began his love of media as a child in New York City with a 12″ Philco b&w television, a cobbled together 78 rpm record player, a one transistor am radio that only picked up one station if held near a water pipe, and advanced his knowledge with cheap tape recorders, a couple of slide projectors, and his father’s abandoned Garrard turntable in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
Mickey Mouse projector. Literally and figuratively.
All of which to say is that he watched television, read books, listened to the radio, played with tape recorders, listened to music and generally absorbed everything around him until he was ready to explode, which he did.
Kodak Slide Projector
In college, he created slide shows, films, and audio plays, worked as a DJ, co-edited his yearbook, produced a 33 1/3 rpm record for distribution with the yearbook, and met his business partner, an extraordinary photographer named Ric Sorgel.
Slide Into Success
Together they formed a “Multi-image” slide show company called Sorgel-Lee (also SLI Multimedia, Sorgel-Lee-Riordan, Sorgel-Lee Multimedia, and a few other things), and they made their mark in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and beyond.
Sorgel-Lee Team baseball card
Years later, and a couple of companies later, Brien had produced mountains of media for business theater, corporate communications, broadcast, meetings and the web in video, multi-screen, film, multi-image slide shows, and interactive media.
Brien Lee & Company, circa 1987
Through all of these experiences, with the help of talented co-workers, suppliers and clients, Brien produced many award-winning efforts on behalf of clients and friends (not all projects were commercial; some were meant for family consumption only.)
During the years, a reputation was developed for being a creative director and writer, no matter what the subject matter; and through all of these efforts Brien developed and followed a strict set of creative rules, which of course, were meant to be broken– occasionally.
Brien Lee on Creative
This site, and his current efforts, are directed toward sharing these rules and insights through seminars, writings, presentations and web media to help enhance the audio-visual discourse and ensure that creativity and vision remain in corporate and personal communications, crowd sourcing be damned.
