Bring Your Video Production Website to Life

Bring Your Video Production Website to Life
The next MCA-I San Diego Chapter meeting - New ways to use video on your website to introduce, sell and bring your website to life, along with how to use social media to attract the ideal clients.

Speakers are Frank Mutascio, Terry Crosby and Phillip A. Tanzilo will show the latest internet trends and important SEO secrets for tagging your videos.

Meeting date: March 24th - 6PM at Groovy Like A Movie - 5205 Kearny Villa Way San Diego, CA 92123. The San Diego Chapter of Media Communications Association - International is celebrating 30 years of connecting media professionals.

Marketing: Why Law Firms Need Video for Marketing

How much business can video actually bring into a company? And how can companies improve their online presence to generate more sales? Those questions have dominated the Online Marketing Summit, a four-day conference in February at Paradise Point Resort in Mission Bay.


On March 17th New York Attorney Gerry Oginski looks at how video marketing can differentiate a law firm and prompt new clients to call.
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PassmoreLab Wraps Production in Indian Ocean on Latest 3D Film

Bats in  3D?  Perfect!


3D Studio Goes to Great Lengths to Complete New Museum Science Film
San Diego-based 3D Production Studio PassmoreLab has returned from the islands of the Indian Ocean, officially completing photography on their latest 3D science film, "The Extreme Nature of Bats".
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Are video games, video? How about iPhone apps?

In 1991, Michel Kripalani, at the age of 23, started his second company in a Mira Mesa four-bedroom rental house. He rode the video game wave and built Presto Studios into a successful company.

Oceanhouse Media has already developed 74 iPhone applications including "Grinchmas," based on the popular Dr. Seuss book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" In December 2009, it was the eighth most popular paid app and the number one most popular kid's game. (More)

San Diego video production crews elbowing Oscar hopefuls

For the 12th year straight, San Diego video production crews from Solana Productions, Inc., were in prime position at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, as Oscar hopefuls Jeff Bridges, Morgan Freeman, Mariah Carey, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Renner, Quentin Tarantino and other Hollywood stars were spotlighted at the 2010 Awards Gala.

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It's a G.I.R.L. Scholarship

Program Awards Up To $10,000 Toward Tuition and Other Educational Expenses

Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 G.I.R.L. Scholarship to help educate and recruit more women into the field of video game production and design. Sponsored by Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) a global leader in online gaming, and administered by Scholarship America®, a leading non-profit educational support program, applications are available at https://www.scholarshipamerica.org/gamersinreallife
and more details, including official rules for entry are also available online at http://www.station.sony.com/girl/.

The new main squeeze "Squeeze 6"

Sorenson Squeeze 6 is an intuitive, total video workflow solution that enables video professionals,  to quickly and easily deliver exceptional video quality in all of the leading video formats – from Flash and VC-1 to H.264 and HD for MPEG-2.

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San Diego's Passage Productions goes 3D

San Diego Video Production Company, Offers A Unique 3D Video Presentation. 3D video presentations can also be a very effective tool in presenting complex processes to your audience.

Passage Productions, a San Diego video production company specializing in professional presentations and web media, has introduced affordable 3D video solutions to the Southern California area, a process that was unthinkable to smaller and medium-sized businesses in years past. (More)
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Scary film - San Diego 'In-house' production

Oren Peli comes across as one of the most un-scary people on the planet. 

Peli's ghost story, filmed on a video camera in his own house in San Diego for just $15,000 (£9,000), follows a young couple coping with supernatural phenomena in their home.  (Dec 11, 09)

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Solana Shoots Secret HD Video of 2010 Lincoln MKX

San Diego video production company chosen for secret shoot. Ford Motor Corp. once again relied on Solana Productions, Inc., to videotape high-definition (HD) video for the upcoming unveiling of its new luxury sedan, the 2010 Lincoln MKX. Using city streets the corporate video production team captured rolling and static shots while avoiding the public. (Dec 7 09)
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Q&A with Sandy Jack at Satellite Productions

Does Satellite have a particular niche in the San Diego market? Yes, our main clientele is in the TV commercial business. We do long format shows as well as corporate videos, trade show videos. We work closely with the networks and their sales reps. If they cant produce something in house, we can take the client from A to Z. Most of our work is direct with the client, and not as many producers as had been in the late 90’s early 2000.

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The Mother-To-Be of all Podcasts

San Diego Media producer Royce Hildreth at Hildreth Media Group is producing a podcast for pregnant women.
He and his pregnant wife launched the production in 2006 on Mother's Day. Everyone on the show, except the host (and perhaps the expert of the week) is pregnant. Royce says, "This is a casual conversation about pregancy among 4 to 5 women and an expert.
The topics include breast feeding, vaccines, pre-natel care."
Royce says there's lots of information out there, but the extended conversation of the podcast can fill in blanks often left by the limited 10-minute doctor visits that are so typical.
According to Royce, "The expectant mothers feel that they don't have enough time with their doctors, the doctors don't have enough time to spend with them. So we wanted to set up a community where these woman can talk with experts and other women who are going through the same experiences."
Royce says last month Preg-Tastic logged over 60,000 downloads.
Then they picked up where Preg-Tastic leaves off with another podcast called "New Moms - New Babies"
PregTastic
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On location at the cemetary (A graveside ceremony)

San Diego-based 3D producer PassmoreLab, in conjunction with the Johnny Ramone Army, has confirmed that the legendary rocker's memorial tribute will be filmed for a as-yet-untitled documentary during the previously announced 5th Annual Johnny Ramone Tribute, which will take place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 3, 2009.
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San Diego 'friends' with unconventional success story

“Paranormal Activity” was hardly a typical studio production. Oren Peli, an Israeli-born video game designer who had no formal film training, shot the $15,000 movie in a week in 2006 with a no-name cast, a crew of several San Diego friends and a hand-held video camera.

But as Steven Spielberg and the DreamWorks team believed, the movie held a special appeal — it was original and scary. The challenge was to fit this round peg into a DreamWorks square hole, a process that would ultimately take more than a year and a half, the delay exacerbated by the slow collapse of Paramount’s acquisition of DreamWorks.
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San Diego Video Producers captures American War Heroes - Sleeping On Our Streets

With all the vehicles on the streets of America sporting those little yellow “Support Our Troops,” ribbons, it is truly ironic that we have more than 200,000 veterans who are homeless. But not many Americans realize it.

Mark Schulze and Patty Mooney, of Crystal Pyramid Productions, a San Diego video production company, shot footage at the 20^th anniversary of Stand Down in 2007 for the Veterans Administration (VA). Stand Down is a three-day event that allows homeless veterans to come in off the streets for a shower, hot meals and a change of clothing. Additionally, the veterans also receive medical, dental and holistic treatment, as well as counseling and legal advice from caring volunteers. The San Diego Stand Down became the model for dozens of other Stand Downs that have been generated across the country by people who thought it a tragedy to have our war heroes sleeping on our streets.

For further information on “The Invisible Ones: Homeless Combat Veterans” go to http://www.blogger.com/www.theinvisibleones.org or call (619) 644-3000. http://www.crystalpyramid.com/.

A video production franchise?

Home Video System is a franchise video production business that has been tested for twenty-two years. In the words of HVSI founder Robert Hanley, "My wife and I were determined to rebuild our lives and our family fortune, and over the next few years we did just that. I developed a moneymaking machine that uses video to produce CASH. In 1998 alone, I made over $100,000.00 net profit.
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DivX says it has settled lawsuit with Yahoo

Video technology company DivX Inc. said Wednesday it has settled a lawsuit over a license and distribution deal with Yahoo, and raised its financial outlook for the third quarter.
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Volunteer Video

Christopher Francis began New Focal Media, a video production company, when he moved to San Diego from Indianapolis. He recently volunteered his video services to create a micro-documentary to raise awareness about a local homeless outreach in San Diego for a church ministry. The church liked the video so much that they've since hired him to create 6 more videos.
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San Diego Comic Con goers get preview of 3-D "Avitar"

Now, months from its Dec. 118 release, Cameron’s “Avatar,” the first feature film he has directed since “Titanic” (1997), promises to take 3-D cinematography to an unrivaled level, using a more nimble 3-D camera system that he helped invent.
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Search Casting Directors, Agencies, Photographers, Studios and other Industry Resources. They claim to be "World's Largest Talent Resource"
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