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!
Category: Latest News
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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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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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Our Orange County Video Studio
You need something filmed? We’ve got you covered; From our full, wall to floor green screen capabilities, to our full lighting grid and crew to help bring your vision to life! At AVANT, we know it’s important for your footage to look good. So, that is why our Orange County video studio is the perfect place for all of your video needs.
Just this last week, our clients at The Boxer Law Group needed some video work done for their website. They wanted to bring in the element of one of their lawyers doing a walk on, introduction for visitors coming to the site. So, the perfect solution was to head on over to our green screen facility, set up the teleprompter with their script, and shoot with our high definition cameras to capture a stunning image. But, the process didn’t stop there. We then took the footage into one of our advanced keying systems to remove the green screen, touch up with a little bit of color correction, and create a file that would bring the welcome message onto the website with a transparent background. We know, quite the undertaking.
But, at AVANT, we love going above and beyond the call of duty to make sure that our clients receive the best Orange County video production to help elevate their business to a high-tech level… especially when it’s all about first impressions.
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Vanguard University Lighting Workshop
Lights. Camera. Students!
We recently had 20 Vanguard University students at our Orange County video studio to learn the basic of good lighting and beyond. These future filmmakers got a boot camp style seminar on how to create fast, simple and effective lighting techniques without a big budget or crew. AVANT’s Executive Director, Clark Severson, was off and running with creating real-world situations through demonstrations and hands-on practices with setups of our production facility’s lighting grid, equipment and green screen. The result? These students are now confident in creating polished and dynamic lighting that set the mood and capture an audience.
What started with questions like, “where should I put the light?” or “how do I get rid of that shadow?” Well, with Clark’s expertise and over 20 years of lighting video projects all throughout Orange County, these students left the AVANT studio with a head full of great ideas for their next project.
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Webinars at AVANT
Webinars are fast becoming the most exciting and and sought-after training experience on the internet. Why read a boring online tutorial or travel to a hotel for a seminar when you can log in and connect from home? Webinar participants don’t just watch your message, they engage in a dialogue with your presenters, asking questions online and taking polls with results presented in real-time.
At AVANT we recognize the power of webinars to deliver your message in a personal but powerful way. We have recently invested both time and capital in outfitting our Orange County green-screen studio and facility with everything you need to run a successful webinar.
Using a combination of well supported open-source video technologies and a suite of custom-developed web applets we have created a turn-key solution that embeds your webinar directly on your website with your own unique branding. No more logging into a faceless 3rd party website to view your message.
And with our unique green-screen setup we can produce not just a live webinar with impeccable audio and lighting, but also a full-quality DVD with professionally keyed virtual backgrounds after the fact. Host your live webinar one day and be delivery fully authored DVDs for sale of the same material less than a week later. After all, at AVANT we are all about bringing your more business and helping take things to the next level.
