HD Production Company

Saturnalia Productions offers comprehensive HD Production Services. We can be your one-stop HD production company in addition to HD Post Production. We are based in Los Angeles, California but have traveled the world.

Our credits as a HD production company include over 150 hours of broadcast television for CBS, Discovery Networks, HBO, A and E, National Geographic, MTV, ESPN and the BBC, behind the Scenes work for CSI: Vegas, CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, BBC, and Lucasfilm, over 50 concerts around the world for MTV, Palladia and Direct TV, and over 40 features. Basically, we can handle any size HD production effortlessly and with the highest degree of professionalism regardless of whether the production occurs in Los Angeles or abroad.

Our HD production services include HD camera rental and high definition crew including, but not limited to:

  • Show Runner
  • Writer
  • Producer
  • Associate Producer
  • Production Coordinator
  • Line Producer
  • Technical Producer
  • First AD
  • HD Director of Photography
  • HD Camera Operator / HD Cameraman (links to postings only. For more information on hiring an HD Cameraman simply click on HD Crew or, better yet, contact Saturnalia Productions).
  • Digital Imaging Technician (D.I.T.)
  • Assistant Cameraman
  • Soundman
  • Gaffer
  • Grip
  • Make-up Artist
  • Production Assistant
  • Media manager

The HD production services, listed above, are offered by Saturnalia Productions at extremely competitive rates. The decision whether to use all, some or even simply one of our HD production services is entirely up to you. Basically, we can fill the gaps in an upcoming HD production or provide all of the HD production services listed above. The advantage of allowing Saturnalia Productions to be a turn-key HD production services company is that it will allow you to focus your attention on other concerns associated with the project.

 

Saturnalia Productions is an extremely experienced HD Production Company. The owner has over a decade of dedicated focus on high definition production and HD post production. Since 1999 he has worked with every piece of equipment in the process first-hand, beginning as an HD editor, before becoming a digital imaging technician in 2001, an HD camera operator in 2002 and founding an HD production company in 2003. He is one of the most respected high definition professionals in Los Angeles.

This rare start-to-finish experience allows our hybrid HD production company / HD post production company to create and implement the most inexpensive and efficient high-definition workflow, easily identify and work with the best and brightest high definition crew, and supervise all aspects of an HD production in order to complete projects prior to deadlines and deliver within the targeted budget.

 

Choosing an HD Production Company. Deciding who is going to handle your HD production and high definition post production needs can be difficult, especially for someone not intimately familiar with every nuance of HD equipment and workflow. Let’s face it –an inexperienced producer can allow an inexperienced HD production company to talk its way into the job and only becomes aware there’s a problem when things go horribly wrong. It takes someone, who can identify key personnel and speaks the language in order to hire a qualified high definition crew.

Our proven track record, as an HD production company, allows Saturnalia Productions to work only with pros in every high definition crew position. You can rest assured that you will get pros, when hiring Saturnalia Productions, quite simply because we have identified all the best high definition crew through hundreds of HD productions over the last decade. As a producer, you can simply take advantage of our HD production company experience by hiring Saturnalia to take care of all your high definition crew and HD equipment needs.

 

HD Workflow. High definition workflow, or more accurately digital production and post-production workflow, has grown extremely complicated over the past decade as digital camera manufacturers release dozens of new cameras every year.

It is more important then ever to sit down with your HD post production company and even your distribution company before committing to any HD camera or to any HD production company. Before the meeting with your post house, you should know answers to questions like, "What is my distribution format?", "What do I wish to accomplish in the field / what kind of look am going for?", "What is my budget?", etc. You should also have an idea of what HD cameras you are considering renting or purchasing so you can mention these cameras to your HD post production company. Ask them questions like, "What are the post-production issues you've encountered with media from these particular cameras", "What are the costs associated with HD post production workflow", "Do you recommend using another HD camera given an understanding of what I wish to accomplish", etc.

After this conversation with your high definition post house, you can backward engineer your HD production. Talk to the HD production company - "What are the digital workflow / high definition production issues they can see given your choices for a HD camera?" "What camera(s) would they recommend with your end goal in mind?"

If possible, try to get qualified representatives from your HD production company / high definition crew and HD post production company to sit down in the same room in order to discuss your HD project. As a producer, it is your job to ask questions until you feel satisfied with the answers. At the end of the day, only you will bear the financial burden of a poorly executed HD production or high definition workflow nightmare. So educate yourself and, above all, surround yourself with technical professionals you trust and have your interests at heart.

The advantage of hiring an HD start-to-finish company is that your HD production company and HD post production company are under the same roof; we can backward engineer the entire digital workflow due to years of start-to-finish HD production and post experience. Our particular HD production company has worked with nearly every HD camera / digital format under the sun and, as a result, we can help a producer avoid the dangers and pitfalls associated with a particular format without spending a dime.

 

 

 

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