Sloan Productions

We had the pleasure of working with Amy Grogan last week.  Amy is a producer for Intersport out of Chicago.  We were shooting a project for Intersport’s client, Cadillac at the Maderas country club in Poway, CA.  We wanted to give her a plug because she really knows what she’s doing, is very realistic, and a whole lot of fun, which makes for exceptional production days.  We shot the project primarily in the Varicam tape format and a Canon 5D Mark II for in-car footage

Both Jeff and I highly recommend her!

In October 2011, Turner Sports called on us to shoot Steve Wampler’s feature video for Gillette’s “Sweat for Greatness” competition on Sports Illustrated.com. Steve and two others are vying for votes as the most worthy “ordinary person who achieved extraordinary things.” Steve has Cerebral Palsy and lacks the use of his legs, and his achievement was climbing El Capitan, the 3000’ sheer granite wall in Yosemite National Park.  The feat required a specialized climbing chair, with Steve hoisting himself up by doing roughly 20,000 pull-ups over the 6 day climb.  For our shoot, DP Bob Sloan worked with Producer Billy Tucker and Marketing Manager Lauren Shannon and employed two Sony XDCAM HD cameras, HMI lights, and Cameraman Jeff Landie mounted a GoPro camera on a rock wall for an “over the top” view.  View the video here.

Golf.com brought us to the fore with a multiple day Sony XDCAM HD shoot at several major golf manufacturers.  Along with Producer Dan van der Kooy and Senior Writer David Dusek, we set out to help the website upgrade their video quality.  Locations included Titleist and Titleist Performance Institute (including a feature with wedge guru Bob Vokey), Callaway, Cobra, Cleveland, TaylorMade, and Scotty Cameron Putters. To give higher production value for exterior interviews, Bob Sloan and Jeff Landie used an overhead silk to soften the light and bring the contrast range down.  To view one of the 50 or so equipment-related videos that were produced from this shoot, click here.

ReadyComm from Dallas TX brought us onboard to produce a live webcast for their client Johnson & Johnson.  ReadyComm’s Garvin Hassell worked with Jeff Landie on all the logistics, including how to best light the room and capture sound from a live panel and audience members, as well as reinforce audio to the live audience.  During the event, Jeff directed and TD/switched the 2 camera production while recording the line cut, as it was being sent live on the internet.

January 2011, New York marketing and PR firm WCG chose us to field produce their video shoot for their client Maquet’s product CARDIOHELP, which is the world’s smallest and lightest life support system for cardiac support and respiratory assistance.  WCG’s Director Scott Schindler worked with DP Bob Sloan to capture the dramatic footage of the product in action while transporting patients between hospital beds, an ambulance and a helicopter.  Shot on location in El Centro, CA, Bob chose to shoot on the Canon 5D DSLR camera, utilizing a cage system made by Zacuto for more stable handheld shooting.  Jeff Landie served as Producer, working alongside client rep Susan Neath to arrange for all the different elements, and keep things moving and coordinated.

In April we produced a video for the Breathe LA organization of Los Angeles.  Shot with two Panasonic Varicams and edited back at Sloan Productions in San Diego on our high definition non-linear edit system by Bob Sloan.  Photographers were Jeff Landie and Jim O’donnell. See the video below.

Crews Control taps a Sloan Productions crew to shoot features for Prudential Insurance in Carlsbad and San Diego, CA.  DP Jeff Landie shot interviews and b-roll for a “Day in the Life” of an insurance agent on XDCAM HD, as directed by Producer Dave Katz of Prudential Productions.  In one setup, HMI lights were employed to light the interview subject in an interior conference room, to bring up the light level and balance it with the much brighter light level of the sky and scenery in the exterior background behind the subject as viewed out a window.

Sloan Productions provides professional video production services in San Diego and professional high definition television production, video and sound editing, skilled camera crew services to networks, producers, and corporate America.

Our Client, crewing agency Crews Control
Producer – Dave Katz, Prudential Productions
DP – Jeff Landie, (Steve Raines)
Audio Tech – Scotty Graham

• www.prudential.com
• www.crewscontrol.com

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.

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

• www.cbhvideo.com
• www.encinitaslions.org
• www.sandiegolions.org
• www.surfsdsa.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

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

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.

• www.graememcdowell.com
• www.callawaygolf.com
• www.intersport.com

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

• www.foresightsports.com
• www.foresightsports.com/analysis
• www.torreypinesgolfcourse.com