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Welcome to the ARIA historical website...
For a time, ARIA Motion Pictures went international, but in June of
2024, crew is once again home in San
Deigo... "Hollywood South". On the right is a frame from a long term
project that took us throughout the Caribbean, where we did a lot of
Second Unit and location work for a number of movie companies. A lot of
politics played
out and we worked Pirates filming and a whole bunch more. We even
survived one of the worst hurricanes in history! But in the end, the
staff and crew of ARIA has returned to our original home base location
in Ramona, California. What you see here is how our original website
appeared from 1994 to 2024.
ARIA has done a LOT of
shooting in Florida, working with Disney production groups there, and
from 2005 to 2010, we even had our own aerial division with three
production helicopters to play with, while we attempted to move the
core of the company into the Virgin Islands area of the Caribbean,
following the shooting of two Pirates films on the commonwealth of
Dominica, where ARIA had once planned to move the operations into the
Eastern Caribbean (at the request of the Oganisation of Eastern
Caribbean States' [OECS] Film Task Force). This was to be an effort to expand
their island media production into the international marketplace with the
export of island generated content.
Starting with an original staff of just eight highly efficient crew
personnel, ARIA was been capable of creating high-end high definition
content at big
level results paralleling the results of a full twenty-two member
production crew, earning us the nickname "little giant". We
had minimal but
efficient equipment, always at the forefront of technological
develoments, which have now become the mainstream for a LOT of
content these days. We shot "film-look" digital, having developed our
own camera system, long before it was popular.
ARIA, being a forerunner in HD
video production right from the beginning, we knew how to capture a
great HD product before the rest. Shows like: "Choosin' Cruising" are tokens to that
achievement in HD content. In our show: "Why We Fly", there is some of
the best air to air content ever seen when high definition was still in the up-and-coming stages. To date, we have
seen NOBODY match our air to air shots, and that is a huge (and
admittedly quite arrogant) statement. However, even within the
industry, we still get rousing comments and compliments on just how
good the images are and how impossible it seems they would have been
to get. No... it wasn't easy.
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With the Caribbean now behind us, ARIA
will work back into the San Diego production field and then reestablish
our connections with our Hollywood associates who were once hopeful for
a new Caribbean base that was eventually abandoned due to the
unpredictable storms, which caused problems for site and projects
alike. We all ended up finding out Mother Nature is not to be
underestimated and you don't want a whole lot of valuable production
gear having to be evacuated annually for the Caribbean "Storm Season",
which stopped the production of "The Efficiency Expert" and the
preproduction steps for the huge film, "Final Trumpet".
With
our UHD production capabilities a little stunted due to loss of a
studio
full of equipment on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, during
Hurricane Maria in 2017 (and then the need to reset and recover),
we
have returned to Ramona a little lean, but still packing what we need
to in order to
rejoin the production market and merge into the mainstream game. Once
again,
starting "right in our backyard" (as we did thirty years ago), we will
tap the unlimited production capabilities of new equipment, new
technologies, faster and more efficient methods of distribution, and
even the capabilities of creating our own media channels. Exciting
times to come, and we have thirty years or experience to back it all
up. Get ready...
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. . . The best is yet to come!
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