U.S. Figure Skating Championship Events

J.Pac Productions owner, Joe Paciotti was recently contracted by 

U.S. Figure Skating & Red Brick Sports for multiple USFS events. 

The first event took place in Newark, DE at the University of Delaware / Fred Rust Arena for the USFS Adult Figure Skating Championships. Joe worked as the main camera op for this event.

Voted Daily Times "Best of Delco" 2022 for Best Video Production & Marketing Company!

 

J.Pac Productions is a Daily Times Reader's Choice Awards "Best of Delco" 2022 Winner for Best Video Production & Marketing Company! Look for the Daily Times "Best of Delco" Supplement coming September 22, 2022!

"The Delaware County Daily Times once again thanks our readers & our business community for participating in our Annual Reader’s Choice Awards! We started back in July asking readers to pick their favorites for Best of Delco 2022. We received thousands of votes this year. This year’s list of restaurants, shops & places that make Delaware County so fabulous is one of our best! We love listing so many extraordinary spots you may not know about or those familiar to you. While the following lists show your winners, we encourage you to support businesses in your neighborhood, around your town and throughout the county. Please continue to support our local economy by shopping local. Shopping local puts revenue back into the community and helps sustain area jobs. So enjoy this section, mark your favorites, & hold onto this special section highlighting the best of our towns in Delaware County. The Daily Times looks forward to bringing you the best of what Delaware County has to offer each & every day in print & online at www.DelcoTimes.com"

Congratulations to the Winners & Thank you again to all that participated. 

- Rich Crowe, Sales Director

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE "BEST OF DELCO" 2022 SUPPLEMENT

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PRINTED DAILY TIMES NEWSPAPER AD:

A Big Week with Brian Van Flandern – AMERICA’S TOP MIXOLOGIST BY FOOD NETWORK

      

J.Pac Productions was hired by Benvenuto Restaurant to create ads & shoot photos for 3 big events featuring Brian Van Flandern, America's Top Mixologist by the Food Network! 

DAY 1: September 13, 2022 - Bourbon Dinner Event

DAY 2: September 14, 2022 - Tequila Dinner Event

DAY 3: September 15, 2022 - Thirsty Games Event (Main Event)

At the Thirsty Games you'll enjoy 7 Stations: Mixology, Cooking, Cheeses/Charcuterie & Wine Tasting, Along with a Seafood Buffet, Oyster Bar & Prime Rib Carving Station! Also watch 8 exceptional finalists battle for $3,500 & the title of “Best Mixologist on Delmarva”!  Enjoy LIVE Entertainment from Raymond Charles & The Caribbean Authentic's on your outdoor patio! Plus guest contest & prizes all evening!

CONGRATULATIONS 

to Alex Taylor, Winner of the 2nd Annual Thirsty Games Mixologist throw-down & grand prize winner of $3,500!! 

About Brian Van Flandern: Brian is an American mixologist, spirits historian, & award-winning cocktail book author. He has been called "America's Top Mixologist" by Food Network. His book, Vintage Cocktails, won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best Cocktail book in the World 2009. Van Flandern has cocktails served in over forty countries throughout the world and he has created original recipes & cocktail programs for famed chefs: Michel Richard, Thomas Keller, Geoffrey Zakarian & many others!

Event Sponsored By: Seacrets Distilling, Monin mixers, I.G. Burton & The Emory Agency Inc.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS

Bounce the Mall America - Philadelphia Mills

J.Pac Productions was hired by "Bounce the Mall" America to shoot photos & video at their latest Philadelphia Mills Mall event. The Philadelphia Mills mall attraction will be open Saturdays & Sundays from July 9 through July 31, 2022.

Bounce the Mall is a new touring family attraction, bringing an assortment of bounce houses to malls & venues national wide! Bounce The Mall features eight inflatable attractions, including a customized sports arena, a silent disco dome with DJs, a 600-foot obstacle course & selfie stations. The most exciting aspect is "Balls in The Mall: the Largest Ball Pit on the Planet," a 10-thousand-square-foot ball pit containing 250,000 balls. It can hold up to 100 people at a time. While inside the gargantuan pit, guests can enjoy live entertainment from a central stage.

There are also features for adults, including a "Bounce Cafe" of food trucks and a patio to relax while the kids bounce around & enjoy the day. "Bounce The Mall is a playful inflatable festival set to brighten up otherwise drab and boring parking lots across the nation," said Cameron Craig, co-founder of XL Event Lab, the company that produces Bounce The Mall. 

The attraction, which is traveling to popular malls throughout the country, is a collaboration between XL Event Lab and Simon, the company that owns Philadelphia Mills. "Bounce The Mall is a tremendous fit for our properties and we're very confident this event will have a meaningful impact on all who come and visit us," said Joshua Ginsburg, vice president of business development for Simon Media Experience. For more on "Bounce the Mall" visit https://bouncethemall.com

View some of our photos from the event here: VIEW HERE

      

Aston Township Historical Society - Map of Historical Landmarks Sign

   J.Pac Productions was hired by Aston Township Historical Society to shoot professional photos of some of Aston’s top historical landmarks. The photos were then featured on Aston’s township’s brand new guide map of historical landmarks sign located out front of Aston Township’s Community Center!

J.Pac Productions shot present day photos of the

following historical landmarks in Aston Township:

• Village Green Schoolhouse
• Mount Hope Methodish Church
• Rhodes Mansion
• Crozerville School
• King’s Mill
• Carter-Weir House
• Our Lady of Angels Convent
• West Branch Mills
• Calvary Episcopal Church
• Old Cider Mill

Present Day Photos by Joe Paciotti of J.Pac Productions. "We are very blessed & thankful to play a part in preserving Aston Township history!" - Joe Paciotti

Check out the sign in person at:

Aston Township’s Community Center

3270 Concord Rd, Aston, PA 19014

The Aston Township Historical Society was formed to help preserve Aston’s heritage & invites all to visit the history displays located in the Aston Community Center. 

For more on Aston Township Historical Society visit: www.athsdelco.org

Film Connection Interview

   

  The owner of J.Pac Productions did an interview with Film Connection on some of his favorite film projects in the last 2 years. Check out the full article below!

Check out the original article at: https://www.filmconnection.com/blog/2021/06/09/grad-works-chopped-miss-america-more/

Film Connection grad Joe Paciotti on Working for Thrillist, HGTV, Miss America, Chopped & More!

Film Connection graduate Joe Paciotti founded his own Philadelphia-based production company, JPac Productions, prior to enrolling in Film Connection for Film Production & Editing. After graduating from our post-secondary institution, Joe was able to go full-time at doing what he loves.  Ever the go-getter, he’s also continued putting himself out there as a freelance camera operator, camera assist, and even PA as a means to make those connections and move up the production tier on larger tv and media jobs. As a result, Joe has built an enviably long list of credits right along with a career that affords him freedom and flexibility.

We recently connected with Joe to talk about a number of his favorite projects during the past couple of years. If you’d like to know more about Joe’s experiences in Film Connection, click the links in the article below.

Alright, here’s the chance to brag on yourself Joe. Tell us about some of your favorite projects over the past two years.

Barclay Prime’s Cheesesteak shot by Joe Paciotti of JPac Productions for Thrillist

“For Thrillist, I camera op’ed for my own company and did four different restaurants. One of them was Barclay Prime, which is a high-end steakhouse in Philadelphia. And they had this $120 cheesesteak, which is a bit crazy. It’s made with truffles and all these fancy ingredients. And it also comes with a bottle of champagne. So, I did a little video for that.”

It looks delectable.

“That cheesesteak was amazing.”

Did you buy one?

“No, I didn’t buy it. But after we filmed, they let me take a bite which was nice. That’s the plus side of doing food photography, or food video. …

I think that one got close to a million views. And then The Better Box, LLC [which Joe also shot] surprisingly got 3 million-plus views.”

Alright. How about working Miss America?

“That was definitely an amazing experience. Definitely one of the bigger productions I’ve been on. There was hundreds of crew members, plus a whole other staging department. And on that, I actually was production staff. And I also did three days of camera operating for the preliminaries, which was pretty cool. So I got to shoot on the higher-end cameras for that. Yeah, and they paid me a little extra on those days. Or a lot extra, I should say.”

Film Connection grad Joe Paciotti works Miss America 2019

So much goes into the orchestration of a huge, televised event like Miss America. So many people work behind the scenes.

“Exactly. Just in terms of how many people were involved in the many different departments: they have one room that was all editors, one with writers, another with producers, and so on. It was just so many different departments and just such a big crew. I work on some shows where it’s just a small crew of under 10 people. And this was just a crazy amount of crew members, compared to some of those other shoots.”

What did you do for Chopped?

“For Chopped, it wasn’t on the main show in LA, but we went to all the Philadelphia contestants and we filmed what they call the bio packs…. In the beginning of the show, they introduce each contestant, and they’ll show a short bio of each person. Typically, in their own kitchen or their own restaurant…. So that’s basically what we filmed, we filmed all the bio packs, we did I think about seven different contestants for seven different episodes. So that was pretty cool.” Article on Film Connection graduate Joe Paciotti working crew on The Voice, Carnival Eats, and other shows!

So that entailed going to all of these different locations and figuring out how you were going to get your shots and all that?

“Exactly. And I was the assistant camera on that one. The camera guy was apparently an Emmy Award winner too. So that was cool.”

And you got to work on a shoot for D.L. Hughley and Howie Mandel?

“Yes, I actually worked as a camera PA with Comedy Dynamics on two separate comedy specials. One was for Howie Mandel on Showtime. The other was a shoot for D.L. Hughley which was a Netflix special called Contrarian. It’s currently on Netflix, as we speak. [The] cool part about the Howie Mandel [shoot] was, that club actually just opened, like, not even weeks before the shoot. So that was pretty cool to be able to go to the brand-new Hard Rock Hotel, which was in Atlantic City. And yeah, enjoyed that. That was actually a 4th of July shoot as well. So that was a cool way to spend 4th of July…. That was pretty long day, actually, like a 17-hour day.”

Film Connection graduate Joe Paciotti works The World Poker Tour

The World Poker Tour on Fox Sports. What was that like?

“That was awesome. It was actually a much smaller shoot in the beginning. But then once they got down to the Final Four, that’s when they had that full-scale production setup that you see there. That was definitely a pretty cool experience.”

How many days was that shoot?

“About a week or so. And I actually did that for two years in a row as well.”

You’re getting called back. That’s awesome.

“Exactly.”

What can you tell us about doing HGTV’s House in a Hurry?

“That one, we went through about a dozen different houses all along the Jersey Shore. And then we actually ended the day getting some golden hour shots on the beach, which is that shot there [the featured shot for this post]. And that was definitely a pretty cool way to end the day out. That show is currently on HGTV On-Demand.”

Learn more about Joe’s experiences since graduating from Film Connection.

Learn about Film Connection for film production, cinematography, editing, screenwriting, and more!

 

“House in a Hurry” Season 1 - HGTV

“House in a Hurry” S1 EP7 “Home for the Holidays” - HGTV

  J.Pac Productions owner, Joe Paciotti recently had the honor of assisting production on a local episode of a brand new show called “House in a Hurry” on HGTV. The episode was for Season 1 Episode 7, shot just outside of Ocean City, NJ. The EP is called “Home for the Holidays" (30 Min l TV-PG) 
& just recently aired this past Sunday - April 26, 2020. 

Check out the EP anytime on HGTV On-Demand. 

You can also watch the EP online at the following link:
https://watch.hgtv.com/tv-shows/house-in-a-hurry

About the Episode:

    A couple wants to relocate from Minnesota to New Jersey to be closer to family; her goal is to be in their new home in time to have Thanksgiving with loved ones, but they struggle to find a home that checks off their wish list.

More about “House in A Hurry”

   From unexpected relocations to compelling personal situations, 

house hunters have one weekend to pack their bags and find the 

perfect home in an unfamiliar city.

BTS Shot of the crew walking off the beach after capturing some beautiful “Golden Hour” (B-Roll) shots to end out the day!

BTS Photo By: Joe Paciotti of J.Pac Productions