The studio cyc game in Vegas isn’t the easiest to navigate, especially for out of town productions that don’t know the offerings. Sure, there are some decent places but most are too small for many productions, don’t deliver on amenities or are out of the way and not convenient for talent or crew. That’s all…
Corporate video production can have it’s challenges. One of these challenges is locations as we don’t often get to choose where we shoot. If we’re lucky, we get a scout day or pictures of the location we’re supposed to shoot in or we’ve been there before and already know what we’re walking into. In these…
Studio FiveSix was selected to show our first short film, Andrea, at the Best Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City. Andrea shows on Feb. 15th in the 8:15pm block of films. We’re very excited to be included and are happy that our premiere showing is going to be in neighboring Boulder City. There was…
Sometimes you just need a little extra power to spice things up in the office. Here at FiveSix Productions, we’ve been running a few different workstations for some time now, a couple mac trashcans from awhile back and a couple newer imac pro machines. But with the new Mac Pro out, we decided our Edit…
At FiveSix we do video productions of all types including corporate storytelling, commercial, reality, social media, political, event, documentary and short narrative films. The last one in that list is fairly new to us and I’d like to chat about how the casting was done in a entirely different manner than our normal process. For…
We have been enjoying our new MYT Works slider. We work on a large variety of video productions so we’ve had to outfit ourselves with a number of options when it comes to camera movements. We have sliders from Edelkrone, Cinevate, Kessler and Dana Dolly. While these have been great, our commercial productions have required…
Harold Walker of Walker foam was an important and insightful interview for our film. Everyone in the Surf Industry chose a side. Clark Foam or Walker Foam. It was interesting to hear Harold’s take on the past. Harold Walker was a legend in the industry and for a time he was one of two men…
Behind the Scenes on local election commercials. Every time an election season nears, our calendars fill up with plenty of campaign commercials. Sometimes it’s someone campaigning for a local, “entry level” position, other times, someone is trying to move into the big-time in D.C. T.V. commercials are one of the most effective ways to get…
FiveSix Productions’ crews hit the beaches from Long Beach to San Diego! Do you know what’s better than having sand literally everywhere on and in your body? Not much, because you must have been on the beach to get that way, and, if you’re on the beach, you’re winning. Down here in Southern California, we catch…