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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