San Diego Comic Con 2011
Comic Con 2011 Highlights
San Diego Comic Con 2011 as seen from Hard Rock Hotel
Generally you can find all of the best San Diego video crews on the floor. Or in the press rooms or in the rafters during this intense convention. Geeks, nerds and costumed characters take over the city for four glorious days. As an elite video production crew in San Diego, our clients have called on us for over 25 years now to go and shoot interviews with celebrities, B-Roll of the masses, and Panels for various television shows and movies.
Our Director of Photography, Mark Schulze, remembers the days when the San Diego Comic Con was merely a bunch of card tables with comic books and trading cards back in the 1970’s at the U.S. Grant Hotel.
Growing Pains
My, how it has grown! It’s gotten so big that city officials tore their hair out over the last several years. But they finally figured out how to keep the San Diego Comic Con in San Diego. The solution? Outerlying hotels now absorb the overflow. The Omni, Hard Rock, Marriott and Grand Hyatt host special events. The Hilton Bayfront has red-carpet space for all the celebrities.
San Diego Comic Con 2011 was typically outrageous, amazing, intense and awesome. Crystal Pyramid Productions sent out several crews to cover all kinds of interesting events. These included interviews with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, Rob Lowe and Mark Hamill, who is beyond villainous in a movie called “Sushi Girl” that has generated lots of buzz.
Here is a little Pocket Production that I made. It shows many of the highlights of San Diego Comic Con 2011. (Disclaimer: I slapped this video together with my “pocket camera.” So it’s not professional. It’s more of a video “sketch.”) It features a local San Diego cover band, Banned From Eden, singing “Bad to the Bone.” Enjoy!
