A recent on-location video production shoot. What made this different was the location. Just upstairs from the Avant Studio is a kitchen. The client needed footage of a promotional product that required a kitchen look and microwave. The footage is part of a commercial to be aired in multiple national TV markets as well as online. Bon appétit!
Author: clark_severson
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Life After Manson Documentary hits NY Times OP-DOCS Page
A resounding Congratulations to producer, Olivia Klaus Moro and her documentary “Life After Manson.” A nine-minute section from her documentary made it to the NY Times OP-DOCS last week. The documentary quickly became the top choices on Hulu and Vimeo. Clark Severson is credited with Cinematography and Avant Productions is given Special Thanks for their role in the production. This month is the 45th yr. Anniversary of the crimes. For more about the full length documentary go to www.LifeAfterManson.com or on Facebook at Life After Mansion. Watch the 9 minutes here.
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Video Production in Studio and On Location
Green Screen Video Studio The L.A. Kitchen. Their mission is to reclaim healthy, local food that would otherwise go to waste, and use it to empower, nourish and engage the community. Avant Production’s very own, Clark Severson, was the DP, errr Director of Photography when spelled out.
Video Studio Production The L.A. Kitchen video shoot required the green screen studio, scenes in the parking lot, a dumpster, and along street curbs to name a few on-location spots. Clark even got a few cameos. Check out the L.A. Kitchen link below and see if you can identify Clark’s moments of glory. Instead of “Where’s Waldo?”, think of it as “Where’s Clark?”
See the video at: http://www.lakitchen.org/the-l-a-kitchen-story-is-your-story/
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Staging Delights the Client
Avant Productions has been producing annual meetings for one of our clients for over 10 years. Avant has been orchestrating the sound, two rear-projection screens, video recording, and video playback for the 400+ audience. This year, they wanted something different for the stage and their new company theme. Avant Productions put together the elements and the props for an eye-popping stage display. The colors, the theme, the lighting all came together for the meeting at the Newport Beach Marriott. The highest compliment received was when the client contact said, “the staging was her favorite part of the event.” Avant edited and created an online streaming version of the show to the company website making it available to all who could not personally attend the live event.
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Show #30 in the can
His Way Home has just completed the 30th show in the Avant Productions green screen studio. Show originator, Brett Miller, came looking for a production home for the show and found it at Avant’s video production studio. Since December 2011, the Avant crew has been producing a half-hour show for broadcast. Every few weeks a new show with an inspirational, positive message is recorded and produced in HD in the green screen studio. His Way Home airs regularly on The Learning Channel and public access in California and Tennessee.
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Website Development…Orange County Style
When you think of Orange County, you think of the beach, perfect weather and…traffic! So, how does that interpret for the web? Beautiful visuals, inviting layout and…traffic. Every detail matters and, at AVANT, we make that our first priority. So, for our latest website that we built for Cloud-Townsend Resources, we got our inspiration from outside our green screen studio and into our surroundings….Orange County.
The Beach
Every website needs to be visually enticing. Don’t have this in place and your visitors will immediately leave, discredit your persona or consider your focus to be spam. The solution? The beach! We made sure the Cloud-Townsend Resources site was a place you might want to lay out your beach towel and spend some time looking around. A place that you feel relaxed. A place to discover new things. A place to connect with materials that helps you go back to life relaxed and inspired.
Perfect Weather
No one wants to be blasted by a blizzard when they open the front door. Same goes for a website. No website visitor wants to be shocked when they go to the homepage of a website that is based on relationship, self and spiritual help. They want to feel the warmth of the sun on their shoulders and not the boredom of being snowed in. The solution? Create perfect weather on a website. Great aesthetics. Warm and inviting colors. A layout where a visitor can get out and find what they are looking for.
Traffic
Orange County is known for it’s traffic. When the clock strikes 4pm, you’ll be spending at least an hour trying to travel 10 miles on the 405 freeway. Yet, for a website, traffic is embraced. Yes, embraced! Because what good is a website we build for a client if there is no one visiting it. The solution? Well, these are secrets we definitely won’t be giving away. But, rest assure that we make sure that all the websites we build begin with the key ingredients of search engine optimization right from the beginning. We make sure that your website is built in a way that invites Google to the party. We make sure that your website has the solid content that helps you get found.
Read more about how our Orange County style services can help your website on our Web Development and Social Media page.
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Hermano Pablo Service Livestream
Hermano Pablo Ministries produces the 4-minute Spanish evangelistic radio and TV program A Message to the Conscience, which consists of a story followed by a moral and Biblical application. The program has been on the air six days a week since 1964 to reach millions of people in more than 33 countries. Played more than 6,100 times per day and is published in over 80 periodicals, this program is the second-most-effective media program in all of Latin America.
AVANT has been filming A Message to the Conscience in our green screen studio in Orange County since 2001. Every month we are helping to produce their program that reached corners of the globe we never thought fathomable from our video production facilities. Yet, on January 27th 2012, Hermano Pablo tragically passed away. The AVANT team will definitely miss him, but thought a perfect way to pay tribute would be to do a live streaming broadcast on the internet for all of the countless fans he has inspired across the world. With hundreds of people logging on for the stream, we love that we were able to make the virtual connection to help those be a part of such a special time from the far corners of the globe.
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E-Commerce Website Launched
It’s always a thrill to take a client on a new adventure. With our recent project for Cloud-Townsend Resources, we took a journey that needed a strategy right from the start in order to continue their legacy of providing best-selling resources to help people discover solutions to life’s most difficult personal and relational challenges. Yet, this particular job wasn’t for a new high definition, promotional video or green screen production shoot in our video studio. We were tasked to launch a new website platform and online, e-commerce store for an already top-notch company. So, we partnered with our friends at the Orange County based Orange Static interactive agency to create our dynamic team that really brought this new website to the next level.
Yet, where to begin? It’s easy…the end result. The website visitor. What would they be searching for? What are the best-selling products? How can we help streamline sales? How can we feature resources that people are searching for? The answers were simple. By assessing the analytic of their old website, we were able to truly hone in on the target needs to ensure an online experience that is graphically compelling, easy to navigate, contains dynamic resources and builds the bottom line. With over 1,200 products and nearly 1,800 video resources, you can see why we’ve been pretty busy.
The results? Success! Experience the new website for yourself at http://www.CloudTownsend.comand read more about how our services can help you on our Web Development and Social Media page.
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Bringing Still Images to Life
It’s always fun when a client brings us a challenge: “We have 50 product images, 2 logos, 3 taglines and we need to sell our new product we are launching. Can you make us a video?” Of course we can! We love these kind of projects, and our latest one for the Jorg Gray Watch Collection is going to be a blast. Bring in some great stock music, load all the images up into our video editing system, and let the magic happen.
So how do you communicate a message of time? For our job, it’s always about telling a story. Show, don’t tell, is what we always remind ourselves. Whether it be a 30-second commercial for a local business, or a high definition production in our green screen video studio in Orange County – we are always helping our clients tell a story.
At AVANT, we approach every project with the same goal: to make our client’s message unforgettable. And we achieve this with out of the box ideas ideas, unstoppable creativity and two decades of technical expertise. After all, this is what we love to do – Create. Connect. Define!
So, whether it’s a new promotional video for your upcoming product, a new design and development for your company’s website, a green screen shoot in our video production facility, or a DVD duplication job we’ve got you covered.
Let us help create your project.
Let us help you connect with your audience.
Let us define your story!
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Discovery Channel joins the AVANT Team
At AVANT, we’re not just about the latest corporate video or green screen studio shoot. We’re also take on the task of changing the world too. Yeah, no biggie!
So, now the entire nation with be impacted, not only with our video production services in Orange County, but also by the fruits of our labor of the last 10 years is this mission of making a difference. Our team were the ones behind the directing, producing, cinematography and editing of the award-winning documentary, Sin by Silence that will be airing on Investigation Discovery starting this October. We hope that you tune in and watch not only our experience and talents, but also the conviction of our hearts to help who are trapped behind prison walls.
Sin by Silence is a story of empowerment when all odds are stacked against you. A film that tells the story of women who are domestic violence’s worst-case scenarios: women who have killed their abusers. An incredible journey of women who overcame the odds to journey from victim to survivor.
78 million homes could be watching. Will you?
Make sure to tune into the broadcast and do something incredible for Domestic Violence Awareness Month! We spent many long days or many long years filming at the California Institution for Women, and we are thrilled that Discovery has joined us in airing our independent documentary to the masses. As Henry Schleiff, president of Investigation Discovery, stated, “We are proud to bring this powerful documentary to television, to share with audiences the harrowing stories of these women behind bars. Instead of fighting a system that does not fully comprehend the complexities of abuse, these courageous women chose to fight to change laws for battered women nationwide. Through the premiere of this documentary, we hope to extend their message and champion their crusade to stop the cycle of violence.”
So, make sure to tune in and check out ID’s page on the film and check your local listing for showtimes. It’s a story you will never forget…and you’ll be able to see the AVANT’s team on the end credits!
