Director of Photography, Bob Sloan shoots while Lauren Salituro of Intersport conducts an interview with Danielle Paskowitz of Surfers Healing, A Foundation for Autism. Lauren’s feature will air in the CBS Program “Courage in Sports”. Intersport is a long time client of Sloan Productions, relying on us for their many varied projects from commercials and promos to programming for their network shows.
Lions Club’s 15th Annual Blind Surfing Event
Encinitas Lions Club’s 15th Annual Blind Surfing Event on Sunday at South Ponto Beach in Carlsbad
Photo Credit: Nathan Thomas
Video production company Sloan Productions from San Diego enjoys another day in the sun, at the beach with the Encinitas Lions Club and San Diego Surfing Academy, who presented the annual Blind Surfing Event at South Ponto Beach in Carlsbad, California.
CBH Video out of the Chicago area tapped Sloan Productions to cover this event. Producer Anne Northrup worked with the crew to get XDCAM HD footage from the land, and Canon 5D Mark II DSLR footage in the water. CBH will produce the video as a news story to be posted to the Lions Clubs International video website, Lions Quarterly video magazine, which shares Lions inspiring stories of how they are making a difference in communities around the world. LQ is posted in January, April, July and October of each year.
In this photo: DP Jeff Landie is using a Sony XDCAM HD attached to an Easy Rig to document 11-year-old Jason Nixon-Patton, who has been visually impaired since birth, learning how to stand up on a board and ride a wave. Pat Weber, Founder of San Diego Surfing Academy, is the surf instructor and is in charge of making sure everyone is in good hands – his motto is ‘safety first!’ “These guys are soul food,” said Pat. “They’re not privileged to enjoy the beach every day like us. It’s amazing how they put their trust in us. They are truly lion-hearted.” – www.nctimes.com
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Field Producer: Anne Northrup, CBH Video
Topside DP: Jeff Landie
Water DP: Bob Sloan
Audio Tech: Scotty Graham
PA/Grip: Nathan Thomasx
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Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon 2010
Photo Credit: Bob Sloan
Sloan Productions crew spent the day in the sun at Del Mar dog beach in San Diego, shooting the 5th Annual Helen Woodward Animal Center Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon. In this photo, ESPN producer Matt Rissmiller, producing a feature segment for ESPN’s weekly magazine show E:60, interviews Doug Hokstad and his english bulldog named Dozer before their heat on Sunday. Dozer got a well deserved 3rd place in the final, behind last year’s winner Buddy, while the winner of this event was Abbie, doing the now infamous “board swap” in the finals.
This event raised a total of $93,645 in donations and helped raise awareness for orphaned pets while promoting responsible pet ownership. Dog surfing is unique in that it’s not a sport, it’s a relationship between humans, canines and the ocean. It made for a great family day at the beach for surfers and dog-lovers alike. Water DP Bob Sloan put to use a Canon 5D Mark II in an SPL water housing for capturing the dogs in the ocean, and DP Rob Amato used a Panasonic Varicam for topside footage in the specialized E:60 shooting style.
Sloan Productions is a video production company based in San Diego providing professional production crews, high definition television production, video and sound editing and skilled camera crew services to networks, producers, and corporate America.
Producer – Matt Rissmiller
Water DP – Bob Sloan
Topside DP – Rob Amato
Audio Tech – Scotty Graham
- www.crewscontrol.com
- www.espn.go.com
- www.animalcenter.org/events/surfdog
- www.dogtownsandiego.com
- www.surfdog.kintera.org
- www.divinepetcare.com
- www.killerimage.com/Pet_Portrait_Photography
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Interview and B-Roll of 2010 US Open Winner Graeme McDowell
Photo Credit: Scotty Graham
Director of Photography Bob Sloan leads a Sloan Productions crew at the Callaway Golf Performance Center in Carlsbad, for Intersport out of Chicago. In this sit-down interview, freelance Field Producer Michael Molinari sets out his questions for Graeme about tour highlight moments in 2010, including his career-changing win at the US Open at Pebble Beach. It will be included in a show called “Golf’s Best of 2010”, scheduled to air on Sunday Oct. 31 on CBS, 5-6 PM EST. Other elements shot were B-roll of clubs being built, to use for show open, and an interview with John Melican, Callaway Golf Sr. Global VP of Soft Goods. Sloan Productions provides professional production crews in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.
Producer (off site) – Lauren Salituro
Field Producer – Michael Molinari
DP – Bob Sloan
Audio Tech – Jeff Landie
PA/Grip – Scotty Graham
Camera: Panasonic HDX900, 1080i, 60 (59.94), 4×3 safe
Health Care Fraud Prevention Summit, Los Angeles
Photo Credit: Danny Feld
Sloan Productions provides professional video production services and television crews around San Diego and Los Angeles to networks, independent producers, and corporations. Broadcast network clients include ESPN, HBO, Cinemax, and Golf Channel.
Director of Photography Jeff Landie leads a Sloan Productions XDCAM HD crew capturing “B-Roll” during the Health Care Fraud Prevention Summit in Los Angeles, CA, on Thursday, August 26th 2010. The meeting was hosted by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Jeff Smith of Optik Communications Group produced and directed the event. In this photo, Secretary Sebelius tours an elderly exercise class during her visit.
Last May, President Obama asked Attorney General Holder and Secretary Sebelius to lead a new effort to stamp out health care fraud, protect taxpayer dollars, and kick criminals out of our health care system. Together, they created a new Health Care Fraud Prevention and Action Task Force, called HEAT – an unprecedented partnership bringing together Cabinet-level leaders from both departments to share information and coordinate strategies. With annual health care spending rising from $75 billion in 1970 to more than $2.5 trillion today, the health care system is a bigger target than ever for fraud.
- medicarefraud.gov
- www.hhs.gov
- www.healthreform.gov
- www.justice.gov
- www.stopmedicarefraud.gov
- www.youtube.com/USHealthReform
DP – Jeff Landie
Audio Tech – Scotty Graham
Producer – Jeff Smith
HBO & True Blood at Comic-Con
Photo Credit: Scotty Graham
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.
- Comic-Con – www.comic-con.org/cci
- True Blood – www.hbo.com/true-blood
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Robert Rodriguez shows off his “Machete”
Photo Credit: Scott Graham
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. Cinemax posted the video on their Youtube Channel.
“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).
Sloan Productions is a video production company providing professional production crew services in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.
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Video Production Crew, San Diego: Foresight Sports
Photo Credit: Scott Graham
Director of Photography Bob Sloan leads a Sloan Productions crew at Torrey Pines Golf Course, shooting a product demo for Foresight Sports and their new golf ball launch monitor the GC2 Smart Camera System, the next generation technology for golf simulation and ball flight analysis. Sloan Productions then edited a short demo, that was posted to You Tube. Outdoors, the GC2’s exclusive self-leveling technology provides verifiably accurate results on every surface and on every shot. Indoors, the GC2 produces the most accurate measurements of ball characteristics at launch. At less than 10 inches long and under four pounds, the GC2 moves from outdoor to indoor as easily as it fits in your golf bag.
Sloan Productions provides professional production crews in San Diego to networks, independent producers, and corporations.
CalMed Tech Trade Show Video
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
Three Dimensional Video Production
Bob’s Current Conclusions about 3 Dimensional Video Production
In April 2010, Bob attended the Digital Cinema Summit at NAB which was almost exclusively about 3D in production. Bob has since viewed many hours of programming, and spent many days talking to experts about 3D. Bob then let this “percolate” in his production brain. Here are his thoughts.
Production of 3D Content
• 3D production requires an entirely new visual language than we use in the 2D world.
• Shooting 3D is not a “look at the monitor and if it looks good shoot it” medium.
• Bad 3D or improperly produced 3D can have a negative affect on the viewer.
• Improper use of current tools in production can be harmful to production personnel.
Adoption of 3D Broadcasting into the Home
• Discovery/IMAX/Sony & ESPN are currently launching 3D networks. The success of 3D in the home relies on enough people buying 3D systems fast enough to support an ongoing economic model.
• 3D viewing in the home will be more of a dedicated home theater experience opposed to the more passive style of watching.
•3D video games may drive more sales of 3D receivers than broadcasted content.
• This is an exciting time to be in the business.
With out a doubt, good 3D is a Very Cool viewing experience.
Many thanks to the following people for their input and support:
Ken Aagard, Executive Vice President, Engineering & Production Services, CBS Sports
Josh Derby, Director of Technology & Standards, Discovery Development & Technology, Discovery Communications Jason Goodman, 21st Century 3D Buzz Hayes, Sony 3D Center John Chung Woo Kim, Product Manager Infrastructure, Miranda Technologies Inc. William Lange, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Barry Sandrew, Ph.D, Legend 3D.
More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film
