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We're back in San Diego!!! And what were we doing while we were gone? For starters, here is a behind the scenes look at the filming of the feature film: Fallen.
This movie was an ARIA production that started within a film acting
class of child students needing a final project to do. The script was
approved and our Executive Producer secured the funding to shoot a
full-budget feature film, from what started as a simple class project
short film!
Finishing
up in Florida, for a long time, ARIA Motion Pictures went international
on projects that took us throughout the Caribbean, where we did a lot
of Second Unit and location work for a number of movie companies,
coordination and even BROUGHT THEM down.
During that time, a lot of politics played out, while we worked Pirates of The Caribbean
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 have
returned to our original home base location in Ramona (San Diego
County), California, at the end of May, in 2024.
 In
2017, when Hurricane Maria hit right where we were, our UHD production
capabilities took a major hit and left us a little stunted due to the
loss of an entire studio's equipment inventory on the island of
Vieques, Puerto Rico. This means we 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 distribution game
again.
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! It also helps when you own a real studio to do your work in.
There
are exciting times to come, and we have thirty years of experience to
back it all up and make it work. So now, we only need people to crew up
again and find new talent. This means ARIA will literally invite the
community around us to become part of the magic and make a mark in
production history, when what others think is a "sleepy little
one-horse town", ends up sending out into the world, some great TV and
movie content.
As the people of The Bahamas say, "We're taking
it to the people." There they pool their talent and muscle in a
collective team effort and get done with people, what we here in the
states do with heavy equipment and specialized machines that cost
millions. The key to their success is their drive, enginuity, and
creativity, and that's exactly how ARIA has been doing things for over
thirty years.
 Our return to Ramona will unleash opportunities to
tean up with us, learn from us, and even make use of our previously
exclusive production facilities and equipment. Be a part of our
productions or produce your own with professional support at affordable
rates.
Take an acting class, learn professional production
skills, land a leading role, make you own TV show, and the list goes on
and on. This time ARIA is "home base" to it all. The doors are open and
we're ready to team up with pro and public alike, and make media arts a
center point for this great community that surrounds us.
So,
check out our history. See what we're doing, and where we're doing it.
But most of all, COME AND BE A PART OF IT. The doors to Hollywood have
not been closed by fires, the back door just opened, and you can walk
though it right here in San Diego County.
CASTING CALLS are pending and so are new projects.
Time to go for that second chance, as they don't come around too often.
Time to make some magic, have some fun, be a part of history that lasts
throughout history. Let's make a movie!
Join us at the ARIA Metro Pilton Studio Complex in
Ramona, California, and make your production dreams a reality. |
ARIA Motion Pictures began in 1994 as a politically
motivated rogue independent producer of TV and movie content with a mission to
prove big studio results could be duplicated by much much smaller entities, by
simply being innovative, creative, patient, and above all, very determined.
ARIA’s name is actually a testament to that early mission,
being an ACRONYM, not a musical interlude within an opera, which was assumed because our
president was an actual San Diego Opera performer in his younger days.
So, if you said our name completely, it would be:
"Another Radical Independent Attempt Motion Pictures"
But a lot has changed since those days and now indie
production is the backbone of movie making. We are no longer the radical new
kids on the block trying to make a name for ourselves, but probably one of the
oldest deeply embedded indie institutions in the industry, with a long line of
political and functional successes under our belt. Not because we made it big
in production, but because we “facilitated it”.
From 1994, until about mid-way through 2004, if it was
shot in San Diego County, our people were probably part of it, and in fact, we
did a lot of work supporting and assisting the former San Diego Film Commission,
when it existed. We brought productions down from Hollywood, provided
everything in the way of locations and other resources, and were the go between
facilitators from permits to support facilities. It was a “one stop shopping”
experience for everyone shooting, and we are proud to say, during that time, we
changed San Diego’s image (in Hollywood) from being what was once called “the
ugly stepchild of the film industry”, into “Hollywood South”, once again, as it
was hailed for being in the fifties and sixties.
But in 2004, at the request of both major producers and
foreign governments, ARIA closed our facilities in San Diego, to take on a
mission to facilitate production in the Caribbean, and worked on setting up
facilities in the Eastern Caribbean islands for the Organization of Caribbean
States (OECS), initially requested to setup production facilities on the island
of The Commonwealth of Dominica, which ended up being the location for Pirate’s
of The Caribbean, films two and three. We were also asked to provide production
training content and techniques for their College of Arts & Sciences. Then
the request came in to setup production on the island of Grenada, by former
Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, and even another request for film training.
 But on the way, our staging in Orlando took and
unexpected turn for the better, when production entities local to that area,
mainly shooting for Disney distribution, asked us to stay for a while and
assist. At that time ARIA had an aerial unit, and we owned and operated a fleet
of helicopters dedicated to different types of shooting and shooting equipment.
ARIA Services and its division under the DBA of TigerCopter LLC., were the
first to get busy in the area, but then learning the staff of the ARIA Film Lab
was in town, we were asked to setup a teaching facility in Melbourne, Florida,
and the Henagar Center for the Performing Arts. Why was this?
The fact of the matter is, ARIA’s biggest claim to fame
over the past thirty years, is not the shows we produced, it’s the people who
shoot them! ARIA is home to the world-famous ARIA Film Lab, which has been the
birth place of the highest concentration of working crew and talent, speaking
percentage wise (not size – the school itself is small). Boasting a higher than
eighty-percent success rate of working graduates, ARIA was more responsible for
manning larger production teams than we could keep those folks for ourselves,
our students being recruited from San Diego, to Hollywood, or later in Orlando
productions.
 But now we’re back in our native San Diego, and yes, the ARIA Film Lab will once again train crew and actors,
but the goal this time is local production, as, “the indies rule” these days,
and there is no reason to go to Hollywood anymore. We can do it all right here,
and we even have a real working movie studio to get it done.
In the next few pages, you can learn about the ARIA Film
Lab, our ARIA Metro Philton Studio Complex, and the line-up of productions we
plan on taking on locally.
But the biggest change for ARIA is doing everything as A
COMMUNITY BASED PRODUCTION FACILITY. That’s right, our new mission is to show
that “a community” can come together and put its name on the production map,
and create content rivaling any other professionally dedicated team in the
industry.
Ever want to be in, or make, a movie or TV show? Now you
can. We invite you to be a part of the production magic that Disney producers
asked us to bring to Orlando! That’s right, we worked for Disney teams too.
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