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: Projects
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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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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.
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Television History to DVD
Remember when there was no reality TV? Remember when television consisted of timeless stand up and sketches? Sid Caesar was a genius who took television to the next level in the late 1960’s with his show “Caesar’s Hour”. Well, over 50 years later, Sid is now splashed on AVANT’s monitors as we help prepare the PBS show that reunited the Caesar writing team to soon be released on DVD.
Caesar’s Hour was a live, hour-long American sketch comedy television program that aired on NBC from 1954 until 1957. The program starred, among others, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Janet Blair and Milt Kamen. PBS brought this incredible team back together in 1996 for a special event at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles, CA. The evening’s events eventually broadcasted on PBS under the title “Caesar’s Writers”. Now, AVANT has the opportunity to be a part of the team to bring this historic production back to life by creating the DVD to master for duplication and worldwide sales. WOW!
So, at AVANT, we’re all about today’s productions along with the helping memorialize the productions from long ago that helped get our industry to where we are today….reality TV!
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From Green Screen to Video Editing
Every week it seems like a new production is coming to AVANT’s Orange County video production facilities to utilize our green screen studio. From indie bands, to non-profits, to babies… yes, you read that right, babies! Recently, we shot the young cast of a new DVD series to help babies learn how to read. With ten kids under the ages of 2 scattered throughout our offices we had our hands full. Placed on the green screen floor, shot with our high-definition cameras, then transfer the footage to our Final Cut Pro edit system and immediately start piecing the scenes together.
Video editing is one thing, video editing green screen footage of excited kids is definitely another! We had our hands full once again, but it’s been a fun and rewarding process placing these adorable children in far-away places.
Take a look at Before and After…
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Video Production On-Location
One of the perks of having our video production facility is getting to go beyond the studio and record video on-location all around Orange County. Such was the case with our most recent high-definition video production in beautiful Newport Beach overlooking Beacon Bay and Balboa Island. AVANT teamed up with Ambassador Advertising to shoot a five minute promotional video set to music.
A noteworthy piece of equipment that we used during the shoot was the jib. With smooth vertical and horizontal motion, we were able to pick up flawless shots perfect for creating the scene. We definitely achieved our “glory shots.”
All around, it was a successful day of shooting and a great way to kick off this music video for one of our first video productions of 2011. Take a look at the preview below…
