Sloan Productions

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 Bob Sloan, using Panasonic’s Varicam with an attached ring-light, holds a steady shot and Jeff  Landie records sound.  Bob chooses the ring light for providing very flattering and a virtually shadowless treatment on subjects close to the camera.  San Diego Comic-Con is home of the largest comic book and popular arts convention in the world!

Sloan Productions is a video production company providing professional production crew services in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.

Photo Credit: Scott Graham

• Comic-Con – www.comic-con.org/cci
• True Blood – www.hbo.com/true-blood

A Sloan Productions crew and Cinemax teamed up for a fun filled evening on Friday during the busy San Diego Comic-Con 2010 event. Robert Rodriguez showed off his upcoming film “Machete” by filling a nearby parking lot with lowriders and custom Harley motorcycles from local San Diego bike and car clubs and served carne asada tacos out of a lunch truck to amused industry guests and members of the press along with “Machete” co-stars Danny Trejo and Michelle Rodriguez. Special featured clips from the movie were projected on the side wall for all to view, a star studded cast in the movie included: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Steven Seagal.

“Machete” is based on the ‘fake’ trailer in Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 ‘Grindhouse’, featuring Danny Trejo and Jeff Fahey reprising their original roles. Machete (Danny Trejo) is a renegade former “Mexican Federale”, who roams the cities, towns, and streets of Texas looking for work after a shakedown from a drug lord called Torrez (Steven Segal).

Photo Credit: Scott Graham

Sloan Productions is a video production company providing professional production crew services in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.

• www.cinemax.com
• www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694

Sloan Productions team sets a dramatic scene as a hand model displays a medical device for a product shot at California MedTech, one of California’s leading resource for complex medical device design, development and manufacturing services which offers Turnkey Outsourcing of Design & Contract Manufacturing of Medical Devices & Laboratory Instruments.

Bob is currently producing a second trade show video for CalMed Tech’s booth at the Clinical Lab Exposition in Anaheim, California.

Sloan Productions provides professional production crews in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.

Photo Credit: Scott Graham

• California MedTech - www.calmedtech.com

Shooting “B Roll” sessions for AKA Media Inc. with Pittsburgh Steelers player Troy Polamalu, at DV Creations studio in San Diego. In this scene, professional makeup and hair artists prepare Troy for a 63 Canon 30D multi-cam shot for a web promotion and Head & Shoulders commercial. Reel EFX, Los Angeles, constructed a rig comprised of 63 still cameras to capture Troy Polamalu from all angles. The Reel EFX camera rig is designed to mimic the flip-book, allowing its creators to freeze motion and identify its individual parts.

Sloan Productions provides professional production crews in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.

Photo Credit: Scott Graham

• Head and Shoulders – www.headandshoulders.com/en-US/troyGame
• DV Creations - www.dvcreations.us
• Reel EFX, Digital Multicam - www.reelefx.com
• AKA Media Inc. - www.akamediainc.com

Sloan Productions constructed a set of frames to be used in multiple scenes for Major League Baseball shooting a tease for the 2010 All Star Game.  Director of Photography Bob Sloan leads a Sloan Productions crew with MLB producer Darryl Martins around the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim. Panasonic Varicam & Canon 5D footage was shot over two days at three different locations, including the Angel Stadium of Anaheim.

In this photo, Bob directs personell for the  shot, making sure all props are positioned accordingly. The concept behind this shot is derived from the motion tracking principle, placing markers near each joint to identify his motion by the positions or angles between the markers, a visual-effects technique that allows the insertion of computer graphics into live-action footage also known as match moving.

San Diego Video Production Company Sloan Productions provides professional production crews in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.

Photo Credit: Scott Graham

• www.mlb.com
• www.disneyland.disney.go.com
• www.losangeles.angels.mlb.com

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 his body, balancing it in a hoizontal position.  The other move was “the surfer”, where he stands with one foot on handlebars and one foot on seat and rides it like a surf board.  Then we did a sit down interview in the vert ramp with Field Producer - Malinda Adams.

Known primarily for his vert riding, 540 variations and a solid 900, Simon Tabron turned pro in 1990 winning three consecutive Vert World Championships (2002-04) and is the only current Vert competitor to ride with no brakes. His smooth style produced the first back-to-back 900s in competition history at X Games ’07, where he earned his second silver medal. Tabron has added a more than a few awards to his trophy case, including Gravity Games gold in ‘02 and seven X Games medals – silver in 2007 and ‘09 in addition to five bronzes along the way. A Liverpool, England, native, Simon has made the move to Southern California to cut down on travel time and enjoy life by the beach.

Sloan Productions provides professional production crews in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.

Photo Credit: Scotty Graham

• sports.espn.go.com/espnmag
• smashboxstudios.com

Sloan Productions provides professional video production services to Action Television for Inside Golf Mag. Sloan Productions provides professional production crews in San Diego and across the states to networks, independent producers, and corporations alike.

• www.actiontelevision.com
• www.insidegolfmagazine.com

The Kia Classic, which teed off March 25th at Carlsbad’s La Costa Resort & Spa presented by J Golf.

This is the first time a full-field LPGA Tour event has been held in San Diego County since 1993. Sloan Productions provided key camera coverage during the 4 day event, with 144 of the world’s best competing for the $255,000 first-place check. Featuring 49 of the top 50 players from the 2009 LPGA Official Money List and the top 10 players in the Rolex Rankings.

• www.lpga.com/lpgalacosta
• www.thegolfchannel.com

Sloan Productions provides professional video, sound and lighting in an interview for ESPN Outside the Lines with baseball coach Jeff Dufek from San Marcos High School in San Diego California. Should metal bats be allowed in schools, after a California legislative committee advanced a bill that would place a two-year moratorium on the use of metal bats in high school baseball, responding to safety concerns that were raised when a Marin County teenager was severely injured earlier this year. The moratorium would allow time for the bodies that govern baseball at the high school and collegiate level to review the safety of aluminum and metal bats, which some say are more dangerous than wooden bats.

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 founded 5 years ago. Strikeouts for Troops works to provide the comforts of home and to lift the spirits and morale of our injured troops during their often long recovery process. Zito enlisted the help of other Major League baseball players and the current roster is some  65 names long.

Each spring, Strikeouts for Troops takes a group of  injured Marines, who are in rehab at Balboa Naval Hospital, to Spring Training in Phoenix, AZ, where the wounded warriors attend games and get some much-needed distraction from their injuries.

100% of every dollar raised supports troops in need. For more information: www.strikeoutsfortroops.org

Sloan Productions provides video, sound and lighting services at The American Society of  Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST) exhibit at the 2010 American Transplant Congress (ATC) this is the tenth joint American Transplant meeting designed for physicians, surgeons, scientists, nurses, organ and procurement personnel.

• www.meetmeinsandiego.com/ATC
• www.atcmeeting.org
• www.ohpr.com
• www.a-s-t.org
• www.asts.org

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 played out over three days from the San Diego Convention Center.

A production on the scale of “I Can Do It!“, is almost entirely front loaded as we coordinate equipment, crews, multiple vendors, unions, and schedules to ensure the show runs smoothly and flawlessly for everyone involved.  Over twenty thousand DirecTv subscribers signed up for this unique Pay-Per-View event as it aired on both television as well as online worldwide.

Bob Sloan brings a unique blend of experience,  management skill, and communication, that allows producers, directors, camera crews, sound engineers, and live motion graphic artists to work efficiently together as our client’s requirements are met and satisfied.  A San Diego Video Production Company, Sloan Productions provides award winning video production services to experienced clients worldwide.

www.icandoit.net
www.hayhouse.com
www.directv.com
www.visitandiego.com

San Diego based high definition television production company Sloan Productions once again provided all location production services for this year’s season of Golf Channel’s “Golf Fitness Academy“, presented by Titleist Performance Institute.  Director Bob Sloan worked alongside Producer Jen O’Neal and Editor Andy Ebert to create ten 30-minute episodes over four days.  Golf Channel’s Stephanie Dillon coordinated, and Jay Kossoff oversaw creative to make the programs meet and exceed the expectations of flagship sponsor Titleist.   Now in High Definition, four Sony XDCAM HD PDW 700 camcorders were used along with full lighting and grip crew to transform Titleist’s workout facility into a television studio for the show.

Photo Credit: Scott Graham

• www.titleist.com
• www.thegolfchannel.com
• www.currentwaves.com

Powderhouse Productions calls on San Diego’s Professional Camera Crew Services Company Sloan Productions to shoot a feature for the third season of Animal Planet’s, Cats 101.  Employing the Panasonic Varicam HD format, and a Sony HVR Z1U to capture additional B-roll, Producer Portland Helmich directed the story of Fizzgirl, a Munchkin breed of cat vying to enter the Guinness Book of  World Records as the world’s smallest cat.  To aid in hand-held shooting and bring the camera down to “cat’s eye” view, Director of Photography Jeff Landie, employed an EasyRig.

Photo Credit: Scott Graham

• www.powderhouse.net
• www.animal.discovery.com/tv/cats-101
• www.guinnessworldrecords.com

Working with celebrity talent requires careful planning and execution as time is a premium and must be used efficiently.  Longtime Sloan Productions client CBS Sports, shoots a commercial for Callaway Golf, to be included in the Super Bowl XLIV pre-game show.  The spot was directed by CBS Producer Sellers Shy, and coordinated by CBS Production Manager Ken Bolkcom. Director of Photography Jeff Landie shooting in High Definition with a Panasonic Varicam.

Photo Credit: Scott Graham

• www.cbssports.com
• www.callawaygolf.com
• www.philmickelson.com