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"
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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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