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Shooting behind the scenes of still shoot (Smashbox Studios) for ESPN Magazine with BMX rider Simon Tabron, at at Tony Hawk’s location – vert ramp in Vista, CA. While Simon did some of his iconic moves, including his “gut killer” or something like that where he puts the handlebars in his ab area and planes out [...]
In preparation for ESPN’s telecast of Monday Night Football in San Diego, Director of Photography Bob Sloan leads a Sloan Productions high definition crew and shoots the helmets of the opposing teams. The San Diego Chargers hosted the Denver Broncos during ESPN, ABC, and Disney’s 40th year production of the most popular football telecast of [...]
These are my favorite assignments, innovate a way to make it work. On this assignment for ESPN‘s E:60 program, the producer asked for a dynamic shot of a bull charging the camera in High Definition. Combining research, technology, and innovation Bob used an Iconix HD-RH1 camera with a 2.2mm lens mounted in a custom camera [...]
Frame Grab from the Bullcam Video.
High Definition Cameras allow a more versatile palette to the photographer allowing more ability to “paint” with filtered light. In the older system of NTSC it is impossible to portray some colors. Director of Photography Bob Sloan shoots an interview for ESPN with boxer Shane Mosley.
In preparation for ESPN’s telecast of Monday Night Football in San Diego, Director of Photography Bob Sloan leads a Sloan productions high definition crew and shoots the helmets of the opposing teams. San Diego hosted the Denver Broncos during ESPN, ABC, and Disney’s 40th year production of the most popular football telecast of each football [...]
Live programming is an area that Sloan Productions excels in. As a lead up to the start of the 2008-09 NFL season, ESPN toured the training camps of prominient teams for their program NFL Live. Sloan productions provided the facilities and crew at the San Diego Chargers training camp with multiple cameras, lighting, and sound.
As the San Diego Chargers made their run in the playoffs, ESPN-The Worldwide Leader in Sports, relied on us for their gameday production needs gathering b-roll, player sound, & feeding stand-ups of Bob Holtzman & John Clayton for ESPN‘s Countdown program. We employed two pop-up shelters for intermittent heavy rains, (yes, in San Diego…). Shari [...]
ESPN needed to capture a full High Definition shot of a bull charging the camera for their new show E:60 and we love a challenge. Bob designed and built a custom mount to protect the camera and facilitate the shot. We used an Iconix miniature HD camera fitted with an extreme wide-angle lens and recorded on [...]
