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Sloan Productions is deployed by 25 year client HBO to follow the cast of HBO’s original program True Blood, interviewing and shooting B Roll during sessions of the five day International Comic-Con event at the San Diego Convention Center. In this scene, HBO producer Rob Stein interviews Deborah Ann Woll, aka Jessica Hamby, while Director of Photography [...]
A Director of Photography’s challenge is to craft the quality and character of light in a scene. Since the majority of our projects are on-location, I am often working with a mixture of natural light within the existing scene and the “artificial” light I introduce. If my goal is to have all light be the [...]
Barry Zito Day in San Diego On April 20th, 2010, Sloan Productions camera crews are sent to cover San Diego native and San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito as the San Diego City Council honored him with a day named for his many works in philanthropy, most notably “Strikeouts for Troops,” a non-profit organization Zito [...]
San Diego’s video production company; Sloan Productions, recently coordinated facilities and crew for a live HD telecast of Hay House Publishing’s “I Can Do It!” Conference, (I Can Do It!). Contracted by Nashville based Bellmedia for their client DirecTv, Bob Sloan of Sloan Productions acted as operations producer for this four camera live telecast that [...]
Plural Eyes – is a plugin for both Final Cut and Sony Vegas that we use to sync up all of our clips automatically. Very cool and a huge time saver. Watch this video and see just how easy it is to sync sound with the Canon 5D and separate sound. www.pluraleyesmedia.com www.singularsoftware.com/pluraleyes Syncing audio [...]
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 [...]
During a shoot for McGraw Hill Publishing about the career of an Aquarist, we utilized reflector boards, (square panels left and right in photo), to reflect natural sunlight and add rim lighting to the subject and help separate her from the background. Reflector boards can be very valuable and versatile especially in a location away [...]
Sloan Productions provides live television production off the Pacific Ocean. A technician aims a microwave transmitter antenna towards Scripps Institution of Oceanography as Sloan Productions produces the educational series, “Undersea Classroom“, a live event where elementary school children interact with divers undersea in the California kelp forest. www.scripps.ucsd.edu
If a cameraman will have to spend a lot of time at his camera position and be elevated above the action, specialized platforms are available allowing much more flexibility and comfort, plus the ability to relocate with flexibility.
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 [...]
The ability to get the camera and operator into elevated perspectives adds a tremendous amount of production value and can be achieved in many simple ways, from simply bringing a ladder on location to renting construction equipment as in this case. For this production of “The Harvest“, produced by Bob Cording of San Diego, cameraman [...]
Underwater production has it’s own unique and specialized requirements. Since 1985, Sloan Productions has served it’s clients with underwater production services. In this project, an exercise video for Speedo, Bob utilizes an underwater housing for a Betacam SP camcorder, recording in the camera and powering the camera from the surface while the director and client [...]
Bob shoots a close-up of a map of remote Mexican islands for the PBS series Nature using the Sony F-900 High Definition camcorder. www.pbs.org/wnet/nature
For the opening to a Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year television special, renowned golfer Phil Mickelson addresses the camera. For this shot we used a Sony F-900 High Definition Camcorder mounted on a 25 foot jib arm for long time client Intersport of Chicago. www.intersport.com www.sportsillustrated.cnn.com www.philmickelson.com www.intersportnet.com
“It takes a village to make good television”. This is the behind the scenes view during taping of Titleist’s Golf Fitness Academy. Many large and small decisions and adjustments add up to a program that appears to the audience as if it “just happened”.
