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Welcome to The Big Picture Team, Renée!

Renée holds a degree in Film & Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz and spent the last year and a half as the Operations Assistant with Team People at Intel Studios where she scheduled corporate video productions, booked crew, and assisted with editing.  She is a Bay Area native who loves spending time with her family and friends, watching SF Giants baseball, playing soccer, and going to concerts.  Renée is eager to assist with productions and edits for The Big Picture.  We are excited to have her as a part of our team!

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Welcome to The Big Picture Team, Ben!

Ben spent the last 7 years working as a contract Director/Producer/Designer/Editor (what he refers to as a slashy) specializing in high quality films and animations for broadcast and corporate videos. Some of his clients included the Wall Street Journal, Hard Rock Café and others. And for over 3 years he was the Creative Director and Editor of “Warriors Weekly,” a behind-the-scenes TV show for the Golden State Warriors. He is one of those rare Bay Area natives and enjoys the combination of great weather, outdoor activities and people here in NorCal. His wife, Jaime, is awesome and is expecting a little one in July. Ben’s looking forward to combining his love of creating visual stories and working here at the Big Picture.  We are so excited to have him on our team!

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Ski-in/Ski Out Starbucks

With the snow on the slopes and sunshine in the sky, our producer/editor Willow headed up to Squaw Valley for the weekend.  Not only did she have a great time carving down the mountain, she was the first of the Big Pic clan to visit the world’s first ski in/ ski out Starbucks and we must admit we’re a little jealous…

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Celebriducks!

As we prepare for this year’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Award programs we find that we can’t help but get into the entrepreneurial spirit. Yesterday, George and Kristen spent a few hours with Celebriduck creator Craig Wolfe marveling at his creations. Who would have thought collectable celebrity rubber ducks fashioned to look like icons of music, film, sports and history would have such a following? Well we are part of that following, we love the ducks and we love Craig’s story- he truly embodies what is means to be an entrepreneur. Click here to check out the Celebriducks website to learn more about Craig, the awesome collection of celebrity ducks and his latest venture- bringing the rubber duck business back to The United States.

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Entering into New Dimensions at CameronPace

George spent some time with Vince Pace in Burbank learning the ins and outs of the 3D world. The technology is unbelievable and thanks to our friends at The CameronPace Group we’re starting to figure it out!

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A Fruitful Future for Earthbound Farm

Office foodies Alona, Kristen and Willow have long been educating the office on the importance of organic produce.  After our October shoot at Earthbound Farm most of us at The Big Picture have jumped on the organic train too. We were so excited to find out our friends at Earthbound Farm have formally launched a fruit division. Now organic fruit will be easier to get our hands on and because Earthbound Farm is already a leader in organic salad, we have no doubt this new division will be just as fruitful!

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The Big Picture in Front of Their Big Picture!

The Big Picture took a walk down Fifth Street today to ham it up in front of a picture of…well, us! As we mentioned last July Circle Bank chose The Big Picture to represent one of their local small business clients in an advertisement. That advertisement is now being displayed on the front of Circle Bank’s Fifth Street branch. Swing by and take a look!

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Making of The Big Picture Greeting Card

Since so many of you asked, we decided to unveil the secrets to the creation of our Big Picture Holiday Video! Chris Roy, our in house editor, provides a  step by step tutorial on how our holiday video came to life. Some of the details may suprise you!

Enjoy!

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Getting Ready for the Holidays!

It’s December 1st which by our standards, is practically Christmas. We’ve been running around the office like little elves decorating the tree, trying on silly hats, and raiding the thrift store around the corner for all of its dorky Christmas sweaters. Below you can see a few pictures from our Christmas card video shoot…but you’ll have to wait a week to see the final video!

Get it girls! Singing Kristen the Reindeer Robert is so excited to be on camera Chris the Christmas Turtle No moosin around with these sweet sounds

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George’s Big Hollywood Debut!

Common curiosity often leads us to question where one comes from and when it comes to George Lang there is often more to his character than meets the eye. It is often over looked that ages ago in the 1970’s, George’s star quality was discovered on the streets of San Francisco. This eventually lead to numerous roles as an extra in Hollywood hits such as the Dirty Harry movies, The Laughing Policeman, Freebie and the Bean and an episode of Vegas, just to name a few.

After embodying the life changing roles of man in background, standing person, man looking scared and guy with blonde hair  ( Yes, you heard it here he HAD hair!)  George decided to listen to the little voice in his head that told him his efforts would be much better spent behind the camera.

While we are very proud of George’s ten roles as an extra, we believe he made the right decision in pursuing his career behind the scenes of the Hollywood limelight. In a tribute to what could have been, we have attached a link from 1974’s Freebie and the Bean starring Alan Arkin, James Caan and Loretta Swit and of course, featuring Mr. George Lang as the blonde man in a white jacket who almost gets hit with a motorcycle and attacked by a flying chicken.


 

 

 

 

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