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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 45^thyr. 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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/opinion/my-life-after-manson.html

August 18, 2014
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.

October 8, 2013
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.

October 3, 2013
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.

January 16, 2012
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!

January 11, 2012
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!

October 21, 2011
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.

September 27, 2011
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.

September 7, 2011
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!

July 8, 2011
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…

June 13, 2011