CDG News
Hello & WERE BACK!!!
Took sometime off from producing projects to concentrate on revamping the company and building ourand getting ready for 2024. We feel we have some strong creative direction to attack this year and we’re excited about it. More on this as we develop more on these projects.
Looking forward to building relationships with past and current professionals and explore our new adventures.
Get your inde scripts dusted off and lets start playing the game making films.
CDG E is shining even brighter then the past. We have a roster of pilots we’re pitching and we’re leaning towards more film productions. It’s exciting to see where this road takes us.
We have ventured out of the production arena to purchase our new real estate adventure. We’ve purchased a vacation rental at the always popular Omni Rancho Las Palmas Spa and Resort in Rancho Mirage, CA. Our new ABNB & VRBO desert escape is in full operation and waiting for you to come stay in the desert of California. You can visit the links below.
3 BDRM CONDO - RANCHO MIRAGE
ABNB LINK:
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/19554791?federated_search_id=2fc24f21-f4ba-4391-9c9d-fb45896c1292&source_impression_id=p3_1648496722_S9IKXaCJzB7CERPc
VRBO LINK:
https://www.vrbo.com/2464239?adultsCount=4&arrival=2022-05-13&departure=2022-05-16&unitId=3032792
HOUSE - THOUSAND PALMS
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/553577629316784206?check_in=2022-05-06&check_out=2022-05-09&guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=2a77be07-5e9a-483a-82dd-24b1c815f609
You can review the properties by visiting the links above. Check them out and let us know what you think.
More coming soon
Come on out to the desert, the water’s just right!
We want to thank the production teams at Newegg for awarding us to collaborate with them on a few of their high profile company videos. Especially a big THANK YOU!!! to Jim Stoddard. It’s always been great working side by side on these videos and many others. We’re looking forward to more in the near future.
We’d also like to thank Elvin Chacon for showcasing his editing skills to these videos. He can diffidently enhance any project that lands in front of him.
THANK YOU TEAM
These are still crazy times but most have seemed to power on. We are following and doing the same. We’ve been quite in the game but we’ve been very productive.
We were very fortunate to have been collaborating with our new clients, Newegg Video Productions. We’re putting a little demo together of the projects we’ve worked together on and we’ll be sharing soon.
It’s always fun working on these projects and we’re looking forward to collaborating on more in the near future.
Have a great week and keep powering forward.
Long time client and friends have rebranded their packaging and website. The number one Medjool Date producer, packaging and shipping company that produces millions of only the best Medjool Dates you can buy. Had a Date lately!
This year they have teamed up with MBN Creative, Hector Garcia, and Hector and his team have done wonders for their new packaging and for many high end companies. They’ve enhanced DDP’s large bags and now the new Medjool Dates two pack. Super cute, very tasty and very good for you.
We’re excited to be teaming up with Hector and his team to produce a series of new company videos. CDG Entertainment is not only creating and producing the main company mission video we’re producing new and exciting videos that will educate the public on the art of producing only the highest quality Medjool Dates right here in the Coachella Valley. The many health benifits that Medjool Dates and all other dates have is an eye opener. Yes we’re all date lovers and you will be too.
Coming soon and oh yeah we’ll let you know when.
Hello and Happy New Year!!!
It’s 2020 and who’d ever thought we’d get this far. We did that’s who! 2020 is kicking off and we are excited to be helping out our new client Sports Illustrated, SI. As they adjust and build out their new studios and production facilities right here in Santa Monica. Right on the lovely Third Street Promanade and they’re getting ready to start firing off sports news from the west coast.
CDG Entertainment produced five news story videos for the NFL Playoff games and was asked to produce an on the fly breaking news story when Dallas’s head coach got fired.
The videos aired and were and still are a huge success. Thank you RJ for awarding CDG Entertainment the project and we all look forward to many more ahead.
We’re very excited and extremely pleased about this year’s Calix ConneXions Conference 2019 outcome and amazing response. The Calix ConneXions 2019 Media Content, InyComm commercial series and the main show openers. The crowd enjoyed them as the laughs filled the hall.
Thank you to all that were involved. Your support was needed and appreciated, it really was a team effort and once again we have surpassed our client’s expectations.
https://www.cdgentertainment.com/workworkwork
Calix Videos are coming soon...You're gonna like them...just a little!
We’re very pleased to announce our first shoot with Havas Edge. We were awarded and produced a D.R. National Spot for Havas Edge and the product SoClean. This was a long format spot that we produced the live action of their spokeswoman. Shot on a stage in the middle of Hollywood the CDG teamed up with Havas Edge’s creative team and together enjoyed a successful day of filming…Yes we said filming…Old School!
It was shot on 4K but saying filming just sounds cooler.
Thanks to a great production team for helping us acheive a very ambitious filming day. (Ambitious filming day…Gee How Rare!)
Thank you to the entire team at Havas Edge and Thank you to our production team for running a very smooth and first class production.
We’re very excited to have booked and secured our production team here at CDG Entertainment for the up and coming production of InyComm 2019 commercial spots.
Kevin Smith has graciously agreed to come on as our Creative Director and we can’t express how fortunate we are to have his years of commercial industry experience, production knowledge and multipal creative skills here in our house.
The fabulously talented Jim Simeone is heading west to join in on the fun as our Director of Photography. We are so happy to have Jim’s talents on board as he too brings a whole lot more to the table then just his DP skills. Jim’s a team player and we’re so happy to be working with him again on another great production this year.
We’re happy to announce that Sonja Kroop, Production Designer has just signed on and with her skills and many talents has just elvated this production one more level…if not two more levels. Thanks Sonja and Team for coming on board.
The City of El Monte has invited us into their city and are supporting our production with open arms. We look forward to the few days we’ll be there.
Our production team, Robert “RJ’ Jarrin, Jim Stoddard, Ganna Hertzog and Marcus Velazquez are once again assemble to kick ass on another CDG Entertainment production. Thank you team your support through out the many shoots has always been outstanding. Glad you’re on board to cover our asses once again.
More to come as we go into our final prep weeks. Cast is being reviewed and final picks will be locked soon. Announcement on who made the cut will be coming out later this week.
Thanks to all involved and what you’ve already brought to the table. More coming soon!
Hello
GREAT NEWS - CDG ENTERTAINMENT has a national spot airing.
CDG has partnered up with HAvas Edge to produce the direct response long format spot for the SoClean product.
Look out for it,
SoClean Spots are running nation wide. Check it out as we had a lot of fun shooting the spot and especially meeting new folks.
Thank you to all involved GREAT JOB!
A Huge special Thank You to Marichelle Daywalt for all your support and guidance with working with Havas Edge on our first project.
May 2019 -
CDG delivered two promos for the 2019 Calix ConneXions Conference. This year we produced two versions, “Why Should I Attend” & “Why Should I Sponsor”. These :30 sec. promos have received great praises from our clients. Great job everyone!
Now we’re focusing on the big show later this year. (More on this later)
Go to Work Work Work! and check out the spots.
https://www.cdgentertainment.com/workworkwork
CDG took a simple concept and elevated with an impact that represents the company and their brand.
Link to the website
https://www.calix.com/events/calix-connexions.html
https://www.calix.com/events/calix-connexions.html
It’s here CDG’s new company reel
Go to Work Work Work page.
Make comments and hope you like and lets work together soon.
Saturday, April 6 - Thursday, April 11
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Thursday, April 11 | 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
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CDG Entertainment has produced a demo reel for our Client Decision Counsel. We hope you all like it. We think it’s super sexy…Yes Super Sexy!!!.
Decision Counsel & CDG Entertainment have teamed up again to produce a spot for Calix’s Annual 2019 Summit Meeting.
Decision Counsel has asked CDG Entertainment to produce a video that will be shown at a series of regional summits in 2019. The summits will update customers on Calix products. The objective of the summits is to create confidence in and fan the need for Calix’s latest products.
The goal of the video is to introduce the summit and give customers a sense of the competition, subscriber expectations and the success that other Calix customers have achieved using Calix products.
We were very excited to produce this video. Decision Counsel and Calix gave us the guide lines but really let us do what we do best. We approached it more like a national commercial spot as opposed to talking heads.
Calix
Its your Time
Creative Directors: Christopher Gourlay, Yoshio Kohashi and Anthony Vachris.
Written by Anthony Vachris,
Producers Sal Fluentas, Brad Yung and Christopher Gourlay.
New website, new videos, new relationships oh my!
coming soon.
1/15/2019 - Today is the 2019 Calix Company Kick Off Summit and from what we can tell it opened with a bang…
Our creative team produced a company video to kick off the Calix year and to continue the charge to change.
We would like to thank our clients @ Calix, Carl Russo, Michael Weening, Matt Collins & @ Decision Counsel, Sal Fuentas & Tom “TJ” Walker for their support and allowing us the creative freedom to create a powerful video.
Email Response:
christopher gourlay, CDG entertainment, principal
Good Morning, Good luck with the Company Kick Off today.
Scott Neuman, VP of Corporate Marketing, Calix
Thank you. Michael is pumped. Stay tuned...
Scott Neuman, VP of Corporate Marketing, Calix
Nailed it…
christopher gourlay, CDG entertainment, principal
That’s Good to Hear!!!
1/11/2019
We presented our clients with the final version for review and this was was the email thread from Calix’s VP of Sales and Marketing, Michael Weening after his review.
Michael Weening, VP of Sales and Marketing
Scott Neuman, VP of Corporate Marketing, Calix
Hmm, I guess this says it all. Time for final mix! ; )
christopher gourlay, CDG entertainment, principal
That’s Great News! We’ll pump it up in the mix. THANK YOU!
tom “tj” walker, Desion Counsel, Creative Director
I didn’t know fonts could get that large in an email. :)
credits:
creative directors, tom”tj” walker & christopher gourlay
master editor, yoshio kohashi
master mix by, cush
gfx, cdg e
Thank you for making ConneXions 2018 our best conference yet! Please see videos, photos, and sessions materials from our exciting week in Las Vegas. (Video coming soon)
