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The Boardwalk and James Durbin

Regan — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:45:09 +0000

This past Saturday we shot our annual television program to kick off the summer events. Our “Look Live” production included our talent Lex van den Berghe and Julie Courtney, a performance by Chinese acrobats and finished with a concert with James Durbin. Of course there was a ton of shooting, interaction with Boardwalk and beach [...]

Pretending Can Be So Much Fun!

Regan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:41:19 +0000

We were hired by our client International Culture Exchange Group to create a television commercial campaign to promote the upcoming event, Global Winter Wonderland, which took place in Santa Clara over the 2011 Holiday Season. (See Susan O’Connor Fraser’s blog post Global Winter Wonderland – A huge marketing success! to read more about the project.). [...]

5 Things to Think About Before You Build A Web Site

Tim — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:23:54 +0000

When we embark on a new web project, everything is possible. Well, everything within the schedule and budget! But beyond the nuts and bolts, there are still innumerable possibilities, so where do we start? How do we bring a field of possibilities into fine focus, allowing the most important and most interesting possibilities to emerge? [...]

The Lab Burned My Neg

Susan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:45:45 +0000

The year? 1989. The place? The beautiful Filoli Estate in Woodside, California. We were working on the trade show video “Amadeus” along-side Cadence Design Systems’ in-house Creative Genius (not his title but what he was), Larry Eberle. My stomach was turning, hoping we were going to pull off what was one of our biggest and [...]

Finding Great Voice Talent

Regan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:47:32 +0000

When I first started working full-time for Tam Communications and took on the task of arranging auditions and booking voice over talent for our digital media projects, I worked strictly through talent agencies like Stars and JE Talent. Between the two of them, they provided access to the amazing variety of talent in the San [...]

From Our POV: The State of the Corporate Video Industry

Susan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:21:20 +0000

It’s been an interesting decade and corporate video has evolved as a result enabled by all of the technological advancements, many of which were born right in our own backyard. As I said, it’s been interesting. I remember “back in the day” working with high tech Silicon Valley companies that were (and many still are) [...]

Global Winter Wonderland – A huge marketing success!

Susan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:22:51 +0000

Many families look for ways to celebrate the holidays in new and unique ways. Those same families may have annual traditions. This past year, nearly 420,000 people visited Global Winter Wonderland off Great America Parkway in Santa Clara and added a new experience to their holiday checklist. That’s right – over 400K in just 27 [...]

West Marine University

Regan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:09:23 +0000

West Marine has been a client of ours for many years. We used to produce all of their national television commercials. You can imagine how tough that is…production in places like southern California, northern Washington state, and south Florida. (Wonder why we love our work?) Then they stopped buying TV. So you can imagine our [...]

Tribute to Butch

Regan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:47:09 +0000

We lost a very dear friend of not only Tam and Susan’s but our company on December 21st. Butch Butler was not only a giant in the carnival/amusement industry and the much-loved patriarch of the Butler family but was simply a great man. Tam and company spent an entire summer with Butler Amusements and the [...]

A Peach of a Client!

Regan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:40:25 +0000

One of my favorite clients Peachwood’s has been very busy lately with launching a new company and rebranding their restaurant and weddings/special events. We have been working hard for them and we’ve still got more to do, launching a new website and creating a new section to their current one. If you’ve never had a [...]