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!
Tag: on location
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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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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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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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Transforming Live Events
We love it when we can get out of our video studio in Orange County and load up our high-definition cameras and equipment for on-location video production. Yet, live events can be tricky. We have to stay focused on the task of transforming an empty room into something memorable. Whenever a client comes to us to bring a live event to life, we know that it needs to be a total experience. From setting the right mood with stage and lighting, to correct audio equipment and speaker positioning and making sure the visuals projected on the screens from our cameras can be seen by every attendee.
Well, practice makes perfect and this week’s event for CWS Capital Partners is a production they have been counting on us to deliver excellence for, for the past 10 years. While this live event of their annual investor’s meeting may only last for a few short hours, we make sure to capture every moment in high-definition to add another dynamic to the evening. Not only does this allow for us to project the image of each speaker onto two 20-foot screens for the entire room to easily see, the “recorded event” can be shared and relived for years to come no matter how technology advances.
At AVANT, we are always thinking ahead for our clients – how can your project be “future proofed”? How can your video expand and connect even further than you ever dreamed? Give us a call. We’d love to be a part of the team that brings your ideas to life!
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Images Come to Life
At AVANT, we love going beyond our green screen studio to shoot video productions on-location. Our recent high-definition video production for Ambassador Advertising, a five-minute promotional video set to music, was just such an opportunity.
The concept for this latest video centers on a young couple expecting their first child. While looking through a family photo album, they reminisce about the past and anticipate the future. We were able to take this project to the next level by developing the concept of photographs coming to life, giving the audience a glimpse into this young couple’s life.
The shoot itself went amazingly well. The real challenge was in the post production phase of video editing. Our effects team employed advanced motion tracking techniques combined with good-old-fashion hand rotoscoping to add post production images to the live video shots. All the hard work was worth it to see the still photos perfectly integrated with live video.
Yet, the most interesting part of the shoot was that our lead actress was actually pregnant and only a few short weeks away from her due date. With such a narrow time window we worked hard to finish shooting all of her vital scenes. With some quick and efficient prep work in setting up equipment and redressing the set, we were able to maximize our shooting time, and less than a month later we returned again to shoot her and her husband with their brand new baby boy.
The results were inspirational and the memories will last a lifetime!
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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…
