Welcome to 888 Productions

Welcome to 888 Productions, home of the best event planners / wedding planners, designers, photographers, videographers and coordination services in Los Angeles. With over ten years of experience and over thousands of successful events, 888 Productions is one of the most sought-after event planning services in Los Angeles. We partner with only the best vendors, caterers, performers and service industries in all price points to ensure that every detail of your event planning and execution is storybook perfect, whether it's a small cocktail party with 20 guests or a grand wedding with thousands.

888 Productions' extensive experience has nurtured relationships with the best specialists in every price range, so you can be sure you get top quality service for every detail of your event or celebration at the best rates in the industry. Elegant design, exceptional organization, meticulous attention to detail and professional mediation with vendors is the key to perfect event planning; 888 Productions ensures it all so you can revel in your special occasion instead of being removed from it by the rigors of production. Browse our services and unique specialties on our site, read up on our business and our founder Jonah Rodriguez, and contact us today for more details about our services and a free consultation regarding your special event.


Office Location: 2922 East Chapman Avenue, Suite 202, Orange, CA 92869



Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Wedding & Special Event Professionals Business Summit (11.11.12)

November 11, 2012 -- Weddings-N-More together with The Premiere Wedding and Event Industry Network presents............



The Wedding & Special Event Professionals Business Summit (11.11.12)
http://vimeo.com/53407451
Event Organized by: Arlisia Staley of The Premiere Wedding and Event Industry Network
Exclusively Filmed by: Solano 888 Productions Speakers: (1) Jewel Diamond Taylor - Speaker, Motivator, TV / Radio (2) Amy Harrick - Publisher / Editor-in-Chief (Ceremony Magazine) (3) Beverly Harris - Beverly Harris Weddings & Events (4) Rena Puebla - Coast Concierge Service (5) Nicole Munoz - Start Ranking Now (6) Chris Evans - Evans Solutions Preferred Vendors: > Ashley Lyons Floral Artistry > Bring That Beat Back Entertainment > Delicious Arts > Smile Lounge > Solano 888 Productions > Vivian Lin Photography



Speakers:
(1) Jewel Diamond Taylor - Speaker, Motivator, TV / Radio
(2) Amy Harrick - Publisher / Editor-in-Chief (Ceremony Magazine)
(3) Beverly Harris - Beverly Harris Weddings and Events
(4) Rena Puebla - Coast Concierge Service
(5) Nicole Munoz - Start Ranking Now
(6) Chris Evans - Evans Sales Solutions


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

SOCAL Wedding & Special Event Professionals Business Summit

It's OFFICIAL!!! SOLANO 888 PRODUCTIONS is exclusively covering the Southern California Wedding & Special Event Professionals Business Summit on November 11, 2012 at the Embassy Suites Ontario-Airport.

 
Our Event & Film Producer, Jonah Solano, would also have a special segment by noon on the topic: "What is a Same-Day-Edit??" It's time to SHARE the LOVE with our dear Professional Event Planners out there!!!

Don't miss out! Get your tickets now!!! > http://shopweddingsnmore.eventbrite.com/#

This event is organized by: The Premiere Wedding & Event Industry Network
— with Jonah Solano and Events-By Arlisia.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Solano 888 joins WMBA 2012 Panel in Las Vegas

Solano 888 Productions' Event & Film Producer, JONAH SOLANO, was fortunate to be invited as one of the panelists/ keynote speakers for the Association of Certified Professional Wedding Consultants or ACPWC at the Wedding Merchant Business Academy (WMBA) held at the Las Vegas Convention Center on October 3, 2012. Together with the pre-selected panelists and Certified Professional Wedding Planners in the United States: Jaymar Pinzon of Granevento, Rhonda Baker of Precisely as Planned, Ryan McHugh of Phenomenon Events, Drish Singh of Drish Couture Events and Tanya Porter of Weddings by Tanya, Jonah shared her personal thoughts and experiences in the wedding industry with thousands of wedding planners WORLDWIDE.

Some of the topics discussed were:

1.  There are pros and cons about the importance of training and certification in our industry. Do you think training and certification is important?  Explain why or Why not?

2.  Do you think there should be national guidelines and standards for Wedding and Event planners and what are some elements that you think the standards should include?

3. We all have been impacted over the last couple of years by the economy. How have the tough economic conditions affected your business? How did you withstand the challenges and what would you recommend in preparation for future?

4. How do you educate brides about the value of your services and importance of working with other wedding professionals?

5.  There are more brides that use the services of a wedding professional now than there were a decade ago.  What changes have you seen in the expectations of brides and grooms?

6.  If we could impact the wedding industry, in a meaningful way that would add credibility to our profession, and allow brides and grooms to more easily see the value in working with a wedding and event professional, what are some things that could be done? 
  
7.  There are some things that could impact the industry.  Now what can we as planners, and professionals, do to implement these changes?

 The Wedding MBA Panelists on board at the Las Vegas Convention Center on October 3, 2012.
From Left to Right: Jonah Solano of Solano 888 Productions Tanya Porter of Weddings by Tanya and Ryan McHugh of Phenomenon Events.



From Left to Right: Drish Singh of Drish Couture Events, Rhonda Baker of Precisely as Planned, Ryan McHugh of Phenomenon Events, Jonah Solano of Solano 888 Productions, Tanya Porter of Weddings by Tanya and Jaymar Pinzon of Granevento


Source: WMBA Press Release

Friday, August 3, 2012

What is a "Same-Day-Edit" Wedding Video? - Los Angeles


Same Day Edit or SDE: (Also called a wedding day edit) A short 3 to 5-minute video produced from the footage of the wedding shot earlier in the day, usually only incorporating highlights from the Bride & Groom's preparations, Ceremony and Bridal Photoshoot, that is then showed at the Reception (EDITED) as a recap of the wedding. 
Many of you are probably not familiar with "Same-Day-Edit" wedding videos... I have encountered hundreds of brides in Los Angeles, CA and I am still surprised to realize that 9 out of 10 brides have NOT seen or are familiar with this kind of wedding entertainment. Yes, I consider it as a form of entertainment since it's a very unique touch in any wedding reception. Just imagine your wedding preparation and ceremony highlights showcased at your reception, creatively CUT & EDITED into a 3 to 5-minute "cinematic" reel! Who wouldn't want to be real ROCKSTARS on their wedding day??! 

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A testimonial from Diana Chiu [July 14, 2012, Hilton Hotel- San Gabriel]
"Jonah, we can't thank you enough for the AWESOME sde. WE ♥ IT!!! Right when we got home, we popped in the video... But this time we didn't have to fight the tears, lol. This only makes us more anxious to watch the wedding video. It was great working with you and your team. You guys ROCK.... I thought it was impossible, but u guys made us look like ROCKSTARSSS! lol  =D"


 ** Watch Diana & Tien's "Same-Day-Edit" video: http://solano888.com/videography/just-say-i-do-sde
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The first time that I've watched an SDE was in 2006 at a wedding that I've organized at Splendido Taal Golf Club in Tagaytay, Philippines. It was magically done by the MOST GENIUS Wedding Cinematographer that I know, JASON MAGBANUA. I was in AWE right after watching his masterpiece!! Since then, I have always been inspired watching "same-day-edit" wedding videos (especially his works). I became a BIG fan! He definitely set the bar of wedding videos for me!

Two years later, I moved to Los Angeles, CA to get married on August 8, 2008. I started Solano 888 Productions shortly thereafter. I've started what I love doing ever since, Wedding Planning. It was in 2010, while organizing a Persian wedding at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, CA when I discovered my passion for video editing. I believe that it was a blessing in disguise when I incidentally offered to edit one of my bride's wedding videos since her own videographer couldn't deliver to her standards. It was very challenging at first but I had to give it a try to please my client. I literally studied Final Cut Pro in 2 weeks on my own. Luckily, I just purchased a 15-inch macbook pro at that time. I got the Final Cut Pro software and the FCP for Dummies book and I studied everyday as if I had a bar exam, not just to pass but to Ace! I know exactly what she wanted and I had a perfect vision in my head of what I wanted to show her. I requested for all the raw footage from her own videographer and edited the whole thing into a 20-minute feature film. I remembered not sleeping for straight 4 days (I think) just to finish my very first film. I have no background in film or cinematography so it was harder for me but some of the tutorials online were quite helpful in the process. I'm a wedding planner so I'm a little OC (Obsessive-Compulsive) when it comes to details so it didn't help with my hours! haha After 4 days of endless cutting and polishing.... was this: http://www.solano888productions.com/videography/persian-wedding, my very own MASTERPIECE!

That was my ultimate driving force to enroll for Cinematography class at Pasadena City College a week later... 

After a few more months, I was sharpening my skills and knowledge in film and I was able to finish my Cinematography class with flying colors. I started buying my own gears. Canon 5D Mark II was one of my first investments, then the precious pricey lenses! Wish I knew beforehand that they're NOT cheap at all! I didn't know that one good camera set would cost you atleast one used Honda Civic car already! Haha! But I honestly think that it was all worth it! I call them GOOD ASSETS. Anyway, I then completed my first set and I became more obsessed with it! I must admit that my wedding videos are now selling more than my wedding coordination! I never thought that planning weddings will lead me to this. Oh well, whatever works! When I moved here in LA, I wanted to be in the Hollywood Film industry. It's always been my frustration to work in a film production and I never had the opportunity to get in the industry. I also believe that everything happens for a reason... What I didn't know was, I would eventually have my own Film Production company in LA! I couldn't get in the Film Production so I BUILT ONE! =) Who would have thought that I could also produce my own films... my own WEDDING films!! =)

After a few more weddings, I was able to finally try a "same-day-edit" for my husband's cousin's wedding in San Diego... I was hesitant at first but I took the courage to do one as a surprise! I told myself after filming a Vietnamese Tea Ceremony, "I have a 5-hour free time until reception time... What am I gonna do?? Why not practice a same-day-edit? If I didn't finish it, then it's fine since nobody's expecting it anyway.... If I finished it, then it's a BONUS and a GREAT accomplishment for me!" So after 5 to 6 hours of non-stop editing on the same day, with my husband as my 2nd shooter, here it was: http://www.solano888productions.com/videography/vietnamese-tea-ceremony-sde, my very FIRST "Same-Day-Edit"!!!


I'll take it from Jason: "The biggest hurdle in producing a same-day edit (SDE) is doing your first one." And it was! All I did was challenged myself and gave it a try... It takes real courage to do one but after seeing your clients' and the guests' reaction, you'd feel RELIEVED and OVERWHELMED. The cheers and acknowledgments are very REWARDING!! The thing with SDE's, you'll never know you can do one until you TRY one, under TIME pressure!!!
 
So there you go... there's my short story on how everything started... how SOLANO 888 PRODUCTIONS evolved!!

And here's an article from my personal idol and inspiration, Jason Magbanua: 
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How to Become a Same-Day Edit Rock Star
by: Jason Magbanua






  
For a lot of people, producing a same-day edit at a wedding reception is a regular thing, and something that is second nature after years of repetition. But for others who find just shooting a wedding to be stressful enough, producing a polished edit to show to a live audience that same evening seems like an impossible task. The biggest hurdle in producing a same-day edit (SDE) is doing your first one. In the Philippines, an SDE is de facto. It’s understood that if you get a videographer, you get at least two-camera coverage, you get a final video, and you get a same-day edit. So it’s practically a necessity that if you go into our business in the Philippines, you’ll need to conquer your fears of SDE production to meet your clients’ expectations as set by the wedding market here. But there are other great reasons to do SDEs, even if you don’t work in a market where your clients automatically accept it. 

Four Reasons to Produce SDEs

Why would you subject yourself to the difficulty and stress of an SDE in the first place? 

The biggest reason of all is marketing purposes. When you book an SDE, the client is paying you to market your work to 200 or more people. Before my company started doing SDEs, when we did traditional wedding videos, the couple and their parents and maybe some of their friends were the only people who would see it. Our audience was 10–15 people, tops. SDEs open opportunities for viewership of your product that you would never get otherwise.

Second, with social networking, you are able to post a short film you’ve produced on the wedding day on Facebook or Twitter right away.
This extends the longevity and the marketing potential of the work you produce. If you post it immediately while the “wedding high” of the couple is still there, the value of your efforts are multiplied via Likes on Facebook and retweets on Twitter.

Third, doing SDEs gives you instant feedback on your work and encourages you to critique your own films as soon as you shoot them. Before we started doing SDEs, it would take us 3–4 months to see the footage we shot on a wedding day because of our backlog. By the time I would see the footage of a wedding shot in January and edited in April, improvements our shooters could have made right away would have been delayed 3 months. If the video was underexposed or overexposed, if the composition was bad, if the framing was bad, if the camera movement was off, there was a delay in the feedback to the shooter and myself that limited our opportunities for improvement.

If you can see the footage during the wedding, you can instantaneously tell yourself and tell your shooters what you are doing wrong and make any technical adjustments that will improve your shots.

Fourth, SDEs provide added revenue. Sometimes you just factor in the amount of money that it takes to produce an SDE (extra shooter, extra editor) and add it to the package price. So you have to learn to factor that into your costs and pass that cost on to your client.
Jason Magbanua
Jason Magbanua shooting a wedding in the Philippines with the Canon 5D


Doing the Impossible

It’s not impossible to do an SDE, although it may appear so if you’ve never done one. You just have to get over the first hurdle of fear and then equip yourself and your crew to do it effectively.
The main enemy of SDE production is time. Every minute you can save yourself in your workflow will help you edit a better film.

Begin by getting the fastest available laptop you can afford. It will help you do your SDEs better and lessen the stress. If you can afford 8GB of RAM for your laptop and your NLE can access that much RAM, get it. Soup up your video card so you can take advantage of your NLE. The most recent thing I did to upgrade my laptop was to get a solid-state drive (SSD). It’s a very expensive upgrade—almost $1,000—but in the first 5 weeks I had it, it made a big difference. Also, get a FireWire card reader instead of using USB. It will shave off the copying time. Anything you can think of that will help make your workflow faster and more efficient should be added to your SDE process. Any equipment you buy to speed up SDE production is a legitimate business expense.
Here’s another tip for maximizing efficiency and making your workflow faster: Say, for example, you’re shooting with DSLRs. It’s very important as you shoot to take note of footage that you’ll use in the timeline later. If you’re shooting tape, take note of the timestamp for the segments you expect to use. If you have a great shot of the first kiss on your camera, make a mental note that it happened at, say, 42 minutes so that when it’s time to edit, know what you’re looking for. If you’re not good at taking mental notes and keeping numbers in your head, write this info down and ask your shooters to do likewise.

If you’re shooting on CF cards, don’t let the cards get filled. It will take too long to copy them. Use a card to shoot the bride prep, eject it, and replace it before the ceremony. Dump it to your computer, and move on to another card.
There’s going to be a lot of footage. Organize it in bins as soon as you dump it so that you don’t get overwhelmed with the time you have to spend sifting for your shots. I have an assistant take care of the bins and set up the project before I edit it. I have bins for each shooter’s footage of the church. If I have one full 32GB card, it’s going to take a long time to sift through the footage. I have each CF card’s footage identified by bride prep, church, etc., as well as organized by shooters. If it’s footage of accessories (rings, shoes, etc.), and I’m looking for a ring shot, I know it’s on CF1 because of the organization we have in place. It’s easy to do and worth implementing.
You’ll also want to mark out in advance where your sequences are going to be within your NLEs timeline. It’s a good idea to place markers in your timeline. I do this in my NLE of choice, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, and this feature is available in most NLEs.

Working With the Music
I also break up the song I’m using for my SDE in advance of the shoot. The basic structure of the songs we use are verse-chorus-verse-chorus. I cut the song up mentally. I’m very accustomed to that because I’ve been doing this for a long time. If you’re new to SDEs or short-form edits, you can add place holders or add text directly in the timeline. You can say, in the first part of the song, I’m going to place bride prep, then groom prep, then church setup, then an establishing shot of the church, then the bride or groom walking down the aisle, and so on. You can map it all out the night before using the music you’re going to use for the SDE.

People who have grown confident about their editing skills may plan it out the morning of the wedding instead of the night before, which is perfectly acceptable if you can take this approach and still finish the SDE. But if you’re new to this, spend a half hour the night before working with the songs and mapping out the sequences you want to use.
Use the crests and troughs of the music to guide your edit. There are peaks and valleys in the waveform that you can see. For me, as an editor, if there’s a peak in a particular piece of music, that’s exactly where I want to put the highlight of an event. Of course, you have to identify what your highlights are before making any placements. For me, those are the bridal procession, the veiling of the bride, the first kiss, and the first dance. I always keep them in mind and place them in strategic parts of the music so that the buildup is assisted by the music chosen by me or by the couple. And in any kind of edit you do, whether SDE, short form, long form, or highlights, I always recommend, as an editor, that you start strong and end strong.

Estimate Your Time Allotment

You may want to produce a WEVA CEA gold-winning entry for every SDE you produce, but if you don’t have time to do it, you have to compromise. You have to make quick decisions. If you have five shots to choose from, you have to decide quickly and pick the one shot that will move your edit forward. That’s why a lot of great editors I know can’t do same-day edits, because they feel they are compromising their edit and shortchanging the client by doing something so quickly.
The dynamics of editing an SDE are different from editing a highlights film in 5–7 days’ time. You have to be quick with your decisions and you have to be quick with your edits. Sometimes, you’ll realize in hindsight that you made a bad cut, but you can’t do anything about it; it’s already been shown. You accept it, you learn from it, you move on to the next same-day edit, and you make it better than the last one.

There are a lot of factors to consider regarding time allotment when producing an SDE: the length of the program, the travel time, the ceremony, the venue, or even how close you are to the coordinator or the planner. Some planners will give you all the time in the world, putting you at the very end; others won’t cut you any slack. These are variables that you have to find out about ahead of time.
When I’m doing an SDE, I need to be comfortable. I need to have my favorite mouse and mouse pad. I need to avoid being grumpy. There’s no point in doing SDEs every day of my life, especially during January and February when I’m always busy, always angry, and always yelling at my employees and shooters. I need to keep cool. If there’s anyone who needs to keep cool, it needs to be the boss, and it needs to be the person who does the same-day edit.

One thing I do to make sure my time is well spent is to listen extra carefully to the audio—to the homily, the vows, the readings, or even as early as the preparation—to identify sound bites I can use. These all can contribute tremendously to the buildup of the timeline for the same-day edit, and they are things we shouldn’t ignore while we’re picking shots and other visuals.
Overall, I’m always trying to identify the shots and the sequences that I want. Since I am also the principal shooter in the prep and the ceremony, I know exactly what to look for and exactly what I need. This is just as important at times when I’m not shooting. For example, if I have a particular shot in mind for the formal portrait session, I tell my shooter, “I’m going to start editing the SDE now; this is the sequence that I want.” Then he or she shoots that for me.
I also edit nonlinearly, which means that sometimes I can start at the middle of a piece of music rather than at the beginning. Sometimes I find the peak of the music and start my edit with that.

The SDE Process, Minute-by-Minute

Let’s go through the timeline of the last SDE I did before I wrote this piece. I’ll break down the process minute-by-minute, step-by-step, starting at 4:25 when I sit down to edit and ending at 8:00, when it’s time to present the edited clip. At 4:25, the clips are in the bins, ready for me to edit. The music I chose is a Filipino song. I start by thinking of how the song progresses and how to start strongly. I choose a piece of the homily from the priest and use it right until the vocals begin.

Jason Magbanua
4:25—choosing a piece of the homily that will provide a strong start and end just at the point where the vocals in the song begin (indicated by the arrow)

At around 5:01, the intro is done. On the right-hand side of the timeline, I have a bunch of clips placed randomly. This is the footage I saw while flipping through my bins. I may or may not be able to use them, but they’re good shots, so I put them there so they’re easily accessible; I won’t have to skim through my bins again to find those clips if I want to use them. If I see a good shot but don’t know if I have a place for it, I put it on the right side so it’s there if I need it.

Jason Magbanua
5:53—Adding more natural audio at a point in the song with an instrumental break (indicated by the arrow)

It’s 6:14. I kind of cheat at this point. The song I’m working with is 5 minutes long. I have plenty of time to build a 5-minute edit, but, as an editor, I want a certain amount of brevity, so I shorten the music. I’m going to cut about 40 seconds, trimming with a nice fade.

At 6:24, I’m expecting my shooter to give me good footage of the formals so I can put that in the first part of the timeline. Right now, I’m really deciding on a closing. I have two major events that I have not used: the bridal prep and the bridal march.

Jason Magbanua
6:24—looking through my bins for a clip sequence that will close the SDE nicely

I’ve decided to use those parts at the end. At 6:56, I’ve chosen the shots for my ending.
At 7:05, I need to do titles and final touches for the SDE. This should be preplanned since you’ll most likely have the information you need for your titles before the wedding day. If you use After Effects, why not do an animated title and have it ready to go before you do your edit at the wedding? I don’t use After Effects—I’m kind of lazy that way—so I just use static titles. These are my final touches for the SDE.

Jason Magbanua
7:05—adding a static title in Premiere Pro CS5

Now it’s time for export. I export using Adobe Media Encoder, using the Vimeo HD preset. A 3.5-minute timeline takes roughly 8 minutes to export. This timeline, at just longer than 4 minutes, will take just a few minutes more. I export it and play it back from a laptop provided by the third-party AV crew to use for projection, which is typical for weddings in the Philippines. If there is no laptop available, we burn a DVD. You can see the final SDE from the edit described here, Mary and Guido.

Pushing Your Same-Day Edits to the Next Level

The first thing you can do to take your SDEs to the next level is to develop the storytelling aspect of your work.

For this you need to be willing to break chronology. Another word for this approach is time shifting. When you start doing same-day edits, you’ll have accessories, the bride prep, the groom prep, the setup shots of the church, the march of the groom, the march of the bride, and so on, and you’ll do it all chronologically. But as you progress, you’ll gain confidence and more skills and storytelling; you’ll learn to tell a story in a manner by which you don’t need to do it in a chronological fashion. This is something that you’ll perfect through practice. A lot of SDEs are done in random fashion, almost like a montage, where storytelling isn’t really the focus. There is a science to this, but that’s a subject for another article.

You can also learn to cut faster, which will free you from some of the crutches that inexperienced editors rely on. The de facto newbie same-day edit is 50% slo-mo and dissolve. I know that because that’s what I did for my first 2 years. It didn’t matter if the dissolve didn’t look good, as long as I could fill up the timeline with half as many clips as I should have put into it.
You can also color grade if you have enough time and a fast enough computer. Right now I’m very much in love with Magic Bullet Looks and Mojo, and, if there’s enough time, I grade my footage. I’ve been a user of Adobe Premiere since very early on in my career, going back to version 4. Now I use Premiere Pro CS5 because I’m able to edit flawless MOV files from the 5D. It took quite a while for me to adjust to editing native MOV files from the 5D because we used to convert to something more editable, but with the advances in processor speed, 64-bit processing, RAM, and the ability of Adobe’s Mercury engine to leverage the power of video cards, we always edit unconverted 5D files, whether we’re working on a MacBook Pro or Alienware PC laptop.


Setting the Bar

I recommend shooting and editing like you’re going to be judged later. In the Philippines, competition is very tough. If you’re lucky, you’re the best videographer in your market, but don’t let that make you complacent. I always think, “I am only as good as my last wedding, and I will do my damnedest to do the best presentation for the reception for my couple.” That’s my mindset. I imagine that Randy Jackson of American Idol is going to judge me, and I want him to say good things about me and not mock me.

People have come to expect more from videographers here in the Philippines, and we have to up the ante every time. The piece you show at the reception will determine if the guests will book you or not book you to shoot their upcoming events.
Always think of your reputation as a videographer, which is at stake, to some degree, in every SDE you produce, and think of your promise to your bride and groom to give them the best video possible. Sometimes, my couples tend to think of their SDE as their video, and regardless of the time pressure, they expect nothing but the best from me. If you work in a market like the Philippines where the SDE is a standard part of just about any wedding that has a videographer, that’s something you have to live with.

For those of you who are in nonsaturated markets—i.e., areas where SDEs are less common or not done at all—don’t stress that much. Even if what you produce the first time is not CEA-worthy, your clients and their guests are still going to be blown away by what you whip up. Start by setting the bar low, and try to get better every time you do it.
SDEs are very addictive. Anyone who does them will tell you that. The feedback that you get from the couple, the friends of the couple, the general audience—it usually makes up for all the stress, hassle, and exhaustion that you get from doing them.

Jason Magbanua (www.jasonmagbanua.com) is a five-time EventDV 25 honoree, member of the Re:Frame Collective, and internationally recognized speaker who has been a featured presenter at events from San Francisco to Sydney. Winner of dozens of WEVA Creative Excellence Awards, he has won multiple Gold CEAs for Wedding-Day Edit production. Based in Makati City, the Philippines, Magbanua is the subject of Bio, a collaborative film project developed by five award-winning Filipino studios and premiered at Weddings at Work (W@W) Videofest 2011.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Vey Gallery by: Solano 888 Productions

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Once Upon a Time...

Thank you Karl Josef Granados Bacalzo for the opportunity of planning your beautiful daughter's (Sofia's) Disney Princess-themed 7th Birthday party on May 27, 2012 at the McCambridge Park in Burbank, CA! This is our very first Kiddie Party in LA and this event would not have been successful without the help of the following people: Melvin GilbertMichael Quintanilla, Eric Golowski, Alexis Solano, Jillian Lester, Pakky Anichakant, Bobby CoquiaNancy Adams-FriedmanJoel FriedmanMaynard Cabellon and my forever supportive husband, Dennis Solano

Thank you so much for making this event a magical celebration!


Click to watch the event highlights:  Princess Sofia's 7th Birthday Party

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

FUN & LOVE

When we first met Ngay and Frances, we immediately felt that these two are special. They booked our cinematography services for their wedding exactly 10 days before their event which is a little unusual since we always get booked 3-6 months before an event. Luckily, we were still open on Thanksgiving Day since it’s a Holiday and mind you, they booked us for 2 consecutive days since they have 2 celebrations, a Tea Ceremony on Day 1 and a Grand Chinese Reception for 800 people on Day 2… Yes, 800! And this was our biggest headcount yet! Moving on… All they wanted initially was the typical and traditional wedding video like what most of us know… the long, boring, 1 to 2-hour old-school wedding videos that we only watch once, or maybe twice if you own it! lol But when we showed them what they could possibly have, which is a 15 to 20-minute cinematic feature film, they instantly gave us their blessing. As per Ngay, “Ok! Let’s DO IT!” As artists, we value our craft so much that we appreciate it a lot when our clients give us their full trust and confidence when it comes to our work. As a result, we enjoyed every minute working with these wonderful people. They eventually became our friends and food-buddies! =) As a film editor, I personally got soooo inspired watching and editing the footage from their wedding and that’s a BIG plus! Cuz the personality of our clients also reflect on our work. Ngay and Frances are fun, loving couple. And these are the actual traits that reflect on their own wedding film –- FUN & LOVE! Watch their video and see for yourselves! ;-)