Greg Wolske has been self-employed in his own production and advertising
business for most of his career.He received a B.S. in Business Administration from
Ohio State University, after changing his major from art to marketing/advertising.Two years in law school followed during which time
he began videotaping testimonies and accident scenes for his father's law firm.Legal advertising on television was in its infancy
and seeing an opportunity, Wolske was soon producing commercials and placing media buys
for numerous law firms.Additional
advertising and production clients followed.Wolske
has created commercials for bridal shows, hot tubs, used cars, politicians, cosmetic
surgeons and numerous PSA's.He has produced
many corporate videos, including several for a leading national insurance company.
A guitar player since an early age, Wolske
began experimenting with audio recording while in college.He purchased a 4 track, multi-track recorder and in the spirit of Les Paul,
learned to overdub and bounce tracks in order to record himself playing the various
instrumental parts for his original songs. Similarly,
Wolske is completely self-taught in film and video production, including video and 16mm
& 35mm film camera operations, lighting, location & studio audio, video editing,
animation and computer graphics.Producing,
writing, directing, designing and creating are also an integral part of Wolske's
production abilities.
Wolske is currently involved in producing,
directing and creating several of his own projects, including two documentary films.The first is "Tear It Up!: The Rockabilly
Documentary".This is the first film to
comprehensively document Rockabilly music and recognize it as a separate American musical
style, such as jazz and blues.Wolske has
interviewed over eighty musicians from the 1950's and today, and he has filmed numerous
performances in the United States and Britain.The
film is currently being edited and has twice been screened as a work-in-progress film at
the Independent Feature Project film festival in New York City.The second documentary film is entitled, "The
American Teenage Hot Rod".This short
film commemorates the teenage hot rod experience with interviews from several hot rod
enthusiasts.Vintage hot rod film footage
from Mr. Wolske's personal film collection is also included.This short documentary, now completed, was also
screened at the IFP in New York while it was still a work-in-progress.
Check
out the Director's film about Rockabilly music at www.rockabilly.org!!!
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