Posts Tagged San Francisco
Marketing video with local flavor and creative character
Posted by TheBigPicture in Marketing Videos, Web Video on January 6th, 2011
Check out our spin on creating a marketing video for our client that not only explains the product and the process, but shows how a small business would actually use it, with a dose of humor and entertainment! There are many ways to explain the 1, 2, 3 of what a product does and we enjoy the opportunity to get creative and present that in an engaging and different way. We created, “Frank the Entrepreneur” to tell us how he markets his scrumptious dogs.
We shot this at the Rosamunde sausage grill in San Francisco – yum!
You can see our flickr album of the day here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebigpicturetv/sets/72157625765074824/
or click any of the following images:
The power of location expertise and crew efficiency
Posted by TheBigPicture in Web Video on November 18th, 2010
Take a look at the video below. You’ll notice that to tell the story we have several set ups on several scenes at various locations.
A commuter on a ferry boat, a park, a coffee shop, an intersection. We were able to shoot this video at all of these locations in only one day.
With a talented crew and our knowledge of the San Francisco bay area we were able to coordinate this shoot down to the minute, shooting the ferry from the dock, our talent on the ferry, our talent in the park, at a coffee shop and at an intersection.
It takes good script writing, well thought out location scouts and a responsive on set crew to pull something like this together, without sacrificing any of the quality that one would except from a shoot that costs tens of thousands more.
This is what you can expect from The Big Picture with our over 15 years of experience in the San Francisco Bay area.
George Lang risks life and limb for the perfect video
Posted by TheBigPicture in Broadcast, Video News Release on November 16th, 2010
George Lang, our founder, President and resident DP is no stranger to adventure and perilous camera work. He has taken footage underwater with sharks, dangling from a helicopter, in the line of fire in Rwanda – you could definitely throw around some adjectives here such as fearless, audacious, daring and also just plain nuts.
But lo and behold, we send him out to the Ice Rink in Union Square, and he comes back like this!
Luckily we know that George can get the job done blindfolded and with his arms tied behind his back, so we aren’t too worried.
Take a look at the final piece that we did for Mammoth Mountain for the grand opening of the holiday Ice Rink at Union Square – featuring Woolly the Mammoth. See if you can spot George skating by.
Terrell Lloyd – Extreme Photographer
Posted by TheBigPicture in Documentary, Web Video on November 10th, 2010
In telling the video stories of professional photographers working with digital media storage, we have had the great opportunity to work with some very talented and exciting photographers. You can see the video we did with living legend, Jay Maisel, here: http://thebigpicture.tv/blog/2009/10/jay-maisel-documentary/
Meet Terrell Lloyd. Terrell is a talented professional photographer that has worked in the Bay Area and United States for nearly 20 years. he is well known for his sporting event photos, and has what some would call a dream job, snapping photos of the 49ers for the last 12 seasons. Take a look at this inspiring video where we see him working with the action, close to it and capturing it.
Dick Bright performs God Bless America
Posted by TheBigPicture in Broadcast, Musicians on October 25th, 2010
We’ve known how great Dick Bright is for a very long time. We have some great images of him and his band performing at various corporate events for us over the years. Since he lives nearby and has been a part of The Big Picture for so long, we’d like to claim dibs on him, but since he does events like the Black & White ball in San Francisco, we are occasionally reminded of his huge success and that we do in fact share him with the world.
And that’s really no joke. Dick Bright performed “God Bless America” to a singing crowd on his sexy white violin at AT&T park last Wednesday for the Giant’s game 4 of the NLCS for the thousands of fans that were there and for the world to see on broadcast. And now the web. Click below to see his performance.
Capturing Damian Marley’s live freestyle
Posted by TheBigPicture in Musicians, Web Video on August 17th, 2010
The Big Picture shot a live Q & A yesterday of Reggae artist Damian Marley. Holding a tablet, he viewed and answered questions from fans that were posting to the chat board.
Damian, as you can guess, is the son of Bob Marley and an accomplished grammy-award winning musician in his own right. In the video you can see him discuss his upcoming musical projects as well as plans to visit Africa.
You can view the archived video here at Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8971387
Historical Snapshots
Posted by TheBigPicture in Staff and Crew Stories on July 26th, 2010
Just for fun, I’ve pulled up some photos from the Historical Archives in the Life of George Lang. Enjoy the sneak peak into his life adventures, where work and play and sometimes trouble overlap.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebigpicturetv/sets/72157624414544639/
Peter Pan the Show – at Ferry Park in San Francisco
Posted by TheBigPicture in Marketing Videos, Video News Release on May 13th, 2010
If you’ve been down to Ferry Park (across from the Ferry Building) in San Francisco as of late, you may have noticed a giant white tent. And though you’d be right to stipulate that there is some kind of entertainment going on in there, I bet you haven’t imagined anywhere near the scope of it.
Peter Pan – The Show is in town, and inside that tent are flying actors and a 360 degree screen onto which background scenes are projected, giving a whole new meaning to fully immersive experience.
We had the pleasure of putting together an Electronic Press Kit for them, and we reveal some of the magic in this video.
http://www.thebigpicture.tv/blog/videos/SF_Peter_Pan_EPK_16x9-NTSC.flv
Pablo Cruise – Memorial Day Concert
Posted by TheBigPicture in Musicians, Staff and Crew Stories on May 7th, 2010
A lot of famous rockstars live in Marin and the San Francisco North Bay, and we are very fortunate to intimately know Pablo Cruise. They are good old friends of George Lang’s, and various members stop by the office barbeques and we even get Cory Lerios to score for us when we need music that has beauty, drama, and power in one of our videos.
So it’s a sad day today to note that original bassist/vocalist Bud Cockrell passed away yesterday. In honor of his memory, the guys are going to get together for a special concert event up at Rancho Nicasio on May 31st for a special tribute day of stories and songs.
Rancho Nicasio is west of 101 north at the Lucas Valley turn off in San Rafael, about a half hour from that turn off. Pretty simple and a beautiful ride through the redwoods, for those of you that have never been there. They have a great menu and it’s a good place to cut loose. They are going to play at 4:00 pm. You can call to make a reservation at 415-662-2219.
And, you’re urged to check out www.Budcockrell.com to see some of the letters people have written in and some of Bud’s music is there to hear. It’s really great stuff.
Beach Blanket Babylon – San Francisco Musical Comedy Show
Posted by TheBigPicture in Musicians on April 30th, 2010
Darlings, if you didn’t know before… well you are about to. Beach Blanket Babylon is America’s longest running musical, and it is so much more than that. Keep a tissue handy for tears of hilarity might ensue.
The show is a musical comedy extravaganza filled with political satire and current news spoofs, and it is flawless and fabulous. (Scroll to the bottom for examples!) We had the great fortune of shooting a little video spot with the very talented Tammy Nelson in her giant animatronic San Francisco skyline hat. Seeing her belt out a few lines of song was a great display of the performance power that each cast member has.
If you have never seen this show, you must! Here are some great pictures (courtesy of their website, photos by Rick Markovich).
Behind the Scenes
