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One of the routine services we accomplish for our clients is producing video clips for their websites. In this photo, Kimber Mahon, delivers a client’s message. Sloan Productions has a great deal of experience in producing web video content. ”We have been producing video way before the internet as we know it ever existed”, according [...]
Last week we were in Anaheim, CA to shoot player introductions of the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for Russell Gabay, Vice President & Executive Producer of Broadcast Operations for Major League Baseball, New York. Capturing against the “Green Screen”, Director of Photography Bob Sloan leads a Sloan Productions crew. San Diego is our home base [...]
Sloan Productions provides high definition San Diego production crew for HBO at Comic-Con 2009. HBO Creative Services producer Chris Denniston interviews Alan Ball, creator of HBO’s hit series True Blood. Director of Photography Bob Sloan focuses one of his Panasonic Varicams on Ball during the four day pop culture convention. Sloan Productions has serviced thousands of clients [...]
DVD playability issues predominately stem from dirt, dust, smudges, or foreign matter on the bottom side, (non label), of the DVD. Upon inspection if you find this to be true, clean the disk with water and some dish soap. Do this repeatedly until it is shiny and clean again. Use a soft cotton cloth or [...]
Guy Fieri at Pork Ad Photo Shoot – Behind The Scenes & On-camera for Contest, shot in Rancho Santa Fe, CA Searching for “Pork’s #1 fan”. Behind the scenes production during a still photo shoot for pork promo. Sloan Production crew shot standups of The Food Network’s Guy Fieri asking people to come out to [...]
Location shoot for Powderhouse Productions and producer Jen Madden about a Winchester, CA family and their twenty thousand dollar dog house.Client – Powderhouse Productions for Animal Planet www.powderhouse.net Producer – Jen Madden Director of Photography – Bob Sloan Sound – Jeff Landie Production Assistant – Johnathan McMackin Format – Panasonic Varicam 24p
By employing the use of an Easyrig®, Bob is able to greatly reduce the stress of hand-held photography. ”30 years of professional camerawork takes it’s toll on your body, but the impulse and need to work hand-held never stops”. The Easyrig® is ergonomically designed, reduces the static load on the neck and shoulder muscles, re-distributing [...]
Director of Photography, Bob Sloan directs camera angles for a recent infomercial production by RW Advertising of Chicago. Bob helped Sean Ryan and Alan Woods of RW block camera angles and engineered the three Sony XDCAM-HD camcorders during the two day shoot in Beverly Hills, California. Photo by Jeff Landie www.rwadv.com
It looks like $225 is the price point for the holiday season and several manufacturers are committed to that entry-level price making them very attractive. However, I really recommend spending a few dollars more to get a player that is firmware upgradeable so you will continue to get all of the cool new features being [...]
POV, (Point of View), camerawork and technology is one of our specialties. Outside our shop in San Diego, CA, Sloan VP Jeff Landie takes a swing at a prototype mount for the Iconix HD-RH1 miniature high definition camera. POV photography is used in many television & video production applications as well as feature films and [...]
It’s actually not that difficult to break into the business. But you first must have genuine passion for the industry and the craft, you have to have it in your blood. Then it’s just a matter of applying yourself. It all starts with desire, a desire to get into the business. With strong enough desire, [...]
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, JVC, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The [...]
First of all this discussion only matters if you are producing something that needs to be time accurate in NTSC, (standard definition) video. Examples are TV commercials & programs. Drop Frame and Non-Drop Frame write address positions for specific points on video clips, tapes, and programs differently. Non-Drop Frame is “frame accurate”, a specific number [...]
If you were painting a rectangular section of fence in 1080i, you would paint from top to bottom, left to right and put two coats on it to make up one frame of video. If you were painting it in 720p you would put one coat on it in the same manner to make the [...]
What are High-definition DVDs? High-definition DVDs will make watching movies at home even better. With far sharper images, better sound and more features, high-definition will greatly improve home entertainment. There are two formats of high-definition DVD: Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. What is the difference between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc? HD DVD and Blu-ray [...]
