Auto Video Production
Pictured here is an autonomous vehicle ready to roll. The van solves last-mile deliveries. It’s also fully electric. Brave new world! We chased and live-streamed the vehicle making deliveries around San …
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Video Production LA
Pictured here is our Sound Mixer in front of the Camera and Art Departments, plus our Stand In. We shot 2 :15 second and 2 :30 second spots for a Fortune 500 consumer packaged …
Read More →The New MoVI Pro
Here we are shooting with the new MoVI Pro from Freefly Systems. This rig allows you to execute smooth handheld camera moves. The 360 degree gimbal allows you to compose, move and shoot seamlessly through …
Read More →Camera Department
The all-important Camera Department: Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Focus Puller / 1st Assistant Camera, 2nd Assistant Camera, Data Wrangler. The Director of Photography is the Department Head for all things videography. Though the Camera …
Read More →Video Shoot in Oakland
Working with a full crew, we just shot an awesome project with none other than, Ayesha Curry, for GoDaddy. Pictured on camera below is our stand-in. Shooting twin ARRI AMIRAs, our …
Read More →Production Design
Production Designers create the “look” of any video content. The look includes all of the visual elements of a film, or the “mise en scene.” Production designers literally set the scene. Their work spans form …
Read More →Hair and Makeup
Pictured here is our go-to makeup artist in San Francisco, as she styles one of our talent for a product video production. Producing a video often requires a full crew. Positions can include: …
Read More →P&G and Disney
We just delivered a promo video project for P&G and Disney in association with a partner agency, Gel Communications, in Los Angels. The video was produced to promote a new iPhone and Android app to …
Read More →ARRI Alexa
Our Director of Photography and Gaffer hung this pretty setup for a recent shoot. We’ve taken over a small house in the Los Angeles suburbs. Here we are in the living room of …
Read More →Greatest Commercial Of All Time
There’s actually little debate about this contest. Apple’s 1984 commercial introducing the Apple Macintosh personal computer wins hands down.
Chiat/Day produced the film. Ridley Scott, of “Alien” fame, directed. It echoes themes from George Orwell’s …
Read More →Study Ace
Capitola Media recently wrapped a product-launch video project for StudyAce. Collaborating with the client from initial concept through pre-production, production, post-production and final delivery, we helped create a launch video for a new educational / …
Read More →Stand Up Interviews
Our Stand-In marks the spot for executive interviews with the founder of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, California. Soon to take that spot will be Mike Markkula. He was …
Read More →Video Production LA
Our principal actress is on her mark. The Director of Photography is ready. The 2nd Assistant Camera Operator is ready to follow focus, as our lead exits our awesome location.
Working with Sony’s …
Read More →Steadicam
We recently shot on a sunny day in Oakland with a full steadicam rig.
We mounted a GoPro to the shoulder of the camera operator to give you a behind-the-scenes look of one take …
Read More →Go Gimbal
We love this new handheld camera from DJI. It combines a precision gimbal-based, tilt-and-pan rig and a 4K camera in a small handheld device. The Osmo comes with a 94 degree wide-angle lens and features …
Read More →Video Cameras
Panasonic guns for the C200 and the FS7 with the new EVA1.
They may be late to the party, actually very late, but Panasonic have finally announced a sub-$10,000 S35 video camera, the AU EVA-1. …
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