StreamByte TV - Live Stream Events

  J.Pac Productions owner, Joe Paciotti was hired as a Camera Op & JIB Operator 

for multiple live stream events with Streambyte TV. (www.streambyte.tv)

 His most recent gig was at Two Commerce Square (Philadelphia Skyscraper) for the "Over the Edge" (https://overtheedgeglobal.com) Outward Bound Building Adventure fundraiser. This signature fundraising event launched from the 29th floor of Commerce Square, located on 20th & Market Streets. You then Rappel 315 feet down one of Philadelphia’s most iconic skyscrapers, making its participants one of the few rappellers to go over the edge. This years event has rasied over $220k in donations. 

                                      For more on this event visit: 
     https://outwardboundphiladelphia.rallybound.org/BuildingAdventure2019/ 

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   Another gig took place at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia for a AmeriHealth Caritas LIVE Stream Event. J.Pac Productions was contracted by Streambyte TV to provide a camera crane & operator for the  live stream broadcast. AmeriHealth is a Family of Companies which offers a range of services for individuals and employers. From locally-focused health insurance plans to national-scale programs that assist those who need it the most. They exceed their customers’ expectations through innovative health insurance and wellness solutions. Learn more about AmeriHealth's offerings, and discover how personalized health care can make a difference. 
For More Visit: www.amerihealth.com

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Another live stream shoot took place at the ABB Inc in Warminster, PA for a ABB LIVE Stream Conference. J.Pac Productions owner, Joe Paciotti was contracted by Streambyte TV as a camera op for the live stream broadcast. 

 ABB Inc is a Fortune 500 technology leader that is driving the digital transformation of industries. With a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB has four customer-​focused, globally leading businesses: Electrification, Industrial Automation, Motion, and Robotics & Discrete Automation, supported by the ABB Ability™ digital platform. ABB’s Power Grids business will be divested to Hitachi in 2020. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees. 

For more on ABB visit: https://new.abb.com

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    Joe was also hired to provide a camera crane & operator for a live stream G-Herbo concert at the Underground Arts (www.undergroundarts.org) in Philadelphia. Herbert Wright III, better known by his stage name G Herbo, is an American rapper and songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. Herbo is signed to Machine Entertainment Group. For More on G-Herbo visit: www.gherbo.com 

 

Check out Jumpbox TV's live streaming service at Jumpbox.TV.

FOR MORE ON STREAMBYTE TV VISIT:

 www.streambyte.tv

Chopped on the Food Network

J.Pac Productions owner, Joe Paciotti recently had the honor of assisting an Emmy winning DP as a Key Camera PA with responsibilities of an AC & Grip for Season 43-46 of Chopped Bio Packs shot locally around the Philadelphia & Tristate Area. Chopped Bio Packs are the short segments at the beginning of each episode which introduces the contestants showing B-Roll of the contestant in their work place along with interviews. 

If you haven't seen "Chopped" It is an American reality show which airs on the Food Network. Four chefs call on their culinary skills as they face off against one another to prepare a spectacular three-course meal consisting of an appetizer, entree and dessert. The catch? In each round, they have to use all the ingredients the show provides them, however unlikely they might be (Gummi Bears, anyone?). At the end of each course, a panel of three guest judges "chops" one chef who fails to measure up in terms of taste, presentation and creativity. The last chef standing takes home bragging rights and a cool $10,000. Hosted by Ted Allen. 

Look out for the new seasons of Chopped airing this year 

& next year (2019-2020) on the Food Network. 

For more info visit: 

https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/chopped/chopped-full-episodes

Behind the Scenes shot from our recent shot in Philadelphia.

Our Lower Swedish Cabin Video Featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery's "Cabin Fever" Exhibit

J.Pac Production's recent "Lower Swedish Cabin" video was featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery in a new exhibition called “Cabin Fever” which ran from June 9th thru September 30th, 2018! 

    The Vancouver Art Gallery's "Cabin Fever" exhibition offers a historical and cultural survey of cabins in North America. The title of the exhibition draws from the idiomatic term for an anxious state of mind resulting from a prolonged stay in a remote or confined place. 

Historical Cabin's are as much a cultural construct as it is an enduring architectural form, as much a symbol of a certain way of life as it is a marker of the human relationship to place. Such complex connotations and meanings have, at times, rendered the cabin indefinable and elusive. But at its essence, the cabin conjures ideas of a simpler, more primal existence. 

It stands apart from ordinary life. It provides basic shelter. It allows for communion with nature. Forever associated with Henry David Thoreau and his iconic (and often misunderstood) retreat on Walden Pond, as well as countless other thinkers and writers from Martin Heidegger to Michael Pollan, the cabin has allowed for considerable philosophical inquisition. It is also an object of consumption and a compelling part of our visual culture, popularized by coffee table books—Rock the Shack, Hide and Seek, Retreat—and websites such as Cabin Porn. No longer is a cabin simply a cabin. Having been appropriated for politics, bastardized in the name of design, and romanticized by the mainstream and counterculture alike, the cabin, as we understand it in a contemporary context, is rife with contradiction. 

Perhaps this is because in Canada and the United States the tradition of the cabin has long been associated with the frontier, and as the idea of the frontier changed—both geographically and psychologically—so too did motivations for inhabiting this type of architecture. The old associations endure, but we've ascribed new meaning to the cabin. Whereas initially it provided a pragmatic solution for shelter, it has come to represent an idealistic vision of an unattainable past. So potent and seductive is this image that increasingly we present it as a panacea to the modern condition. This is both an obvious response to our over-stimulated world and a puzzling outlet for a culture intent on being connected. 

The exhibition’s layout is structured as a historical narrative in three parts and told through architectural models, drawings and plans; photography; historical documents, literature, film and ephemera. Full-scale cabins, or full-scale structural fragments, will be used in several instances to provide palpable reference to materials, scale and building technique. Installations in the high-wall galleries, and a selection of artwork spread throughout the exhibition, will reveal how ideas of the cabin have been manifest in artistic practice. 

CHECK OUT OUR "Lower Swedish Cabin" VIDEO ON DISPLAY!

🎬 For more on this exhibition visit: tinyurl.com/vanart-cabinfever

Filmed/ Edited / Produced By: Joe Paciotti of J.Pac Productions

Voiceover By: Joseph Frantz

Executive Producer: Delaware County Historical Society

Official Website of the Lower Swedish Cabin: https://swedishcabin.info

Official Website of J.Pac Productions: www.JPacProductions.com

Official Website of The Vancouver Art Gallery: www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

The 2019 Miss America Competition

On Saturday, Sept 1st, 2018, J.Pac Productions owner, Joe Paciotti was contracted to work as Production Staff (PA) & Preliminary Cam Op for the 2019 Miss America competition at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ! The gig lasted 10 full days & 3 of those 10 days were spent filming preliminaries for archival purposes. On Day 9 the Miss America Competition aired LIVE on ABC from 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM. At the end of the event, Miss America 2018, Cara Mund of North Dakota, officially crowned her successor, Nia Franklin of New York, as Miss America 2019. 

   The Miss America 2019 pageant was the 92nd Miss America pageant, though the Miss America Organization will celebrate its 98th anniversary in 2018. On June 5, 2018, it was announced that Miss America contestants would no longer be judged based on their physical appearance and that the national Miss America event would be considered a competition, rather than a pageant, and the titleholders now candidates, rather than contestants. When the program aired on September 9, 2018, the swimsuit competition was replaced with state titleholders participating in a live interactive session with the judges, "to highlight her achievements and goals in life and how she will use her talents, passion, and ambition to perform the job of Miss America.” The red carpet, formerly evening gown, competition allowed contestants to choose clothing, "that makes them feel confident, expresses their personal style, and shows how they hope to advance the role of Miss America.” 

    The panel of judges on the final night of competition on September 9, 2018 included professional boxer, Laila Ali; radio host, Bobby Bones; Grammy-winning producer and musician, Randy Jackson; country singer and TV personality, Jessie James Decker; TV journalist, Soledad O'Brien; entrepreneur and podcast host, Alli Webb; and singer/songwriter, Carnie Wilson.^{[21]  The Show was hosted by} Carrie Ann Inaba & Ross Mathews.

CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOS BELOW:

(PHOTOS SHOT BY JOE PACIOTTI OF J.PAC PRODUCTIONS)
📲 Shot on iPhone

D.L. Hugley & Howie Mandel Comedy Specials with Comedy Dynamics

J.Pac Productions owner, Joe Paciotti was recently hired as a (Key)

Camera PA for multiple comedy specials with Comedy Dynamics & Netflix! The first shoot was at the Merriam Theater in Philadelphia for D.L. Hughley's new comedy special called "Contrarian" which is set to be released September 2018 on Netflix. 

D.L. HUGLEY COMEDY SPECIAL

HOWIE MANDEL'S COMEDY SPECIAL

The second gig took place on the 4th of July in Atlantic City, NJ at the new Hard Rock Casino & Hotel for Howie Mandel's new comedy special coming to Showtime Jan 18th, 2018 at 10 PM!

Check out some Behind the Scenes photos from the shoot!

*New* THRILLIST "Fork Yeah" Content - Shot by J.Pac Productions

J.Pac Productions was recently contracted by Thrillist News/Media Company (Group Nine Media) to film multiple "FORK YEAH" videos which have hit over a million views on facebook!
Camera Op: Joe Paciotti of J.Pac Productions

New "Fork Yeah" content was shot for 4 different restaurants in Philadelphia.
RESTAURANTS INCLUDE: 
Barclay Prime, Better Box LLC, Little Baby's Ice Cream & Stargazy.

Barclay Prime:
237 S 18th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
https:/barclayprime.com

Better Box LLC
https://thebetterboxllc.com
















Little Baby's Ice Cream:
2311 Frankford Ave Philadelphia PA 19125

http://www.littlebabysicecream.com

Stargazy: 

1838 E Passyunk Ave. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19148

www.facebook.com/StargazyPhilly 

Featured in Film Connection Film Institute Newsletter!

Check out the latest Film Connect newsletter featuring J.Pac Productions owner, Joe Paciotti!

https://www.rrfedu.com/weekly-report/november-13-2017/

Master of the Hustle: Film Connection grad Joe Paciotti gets gigs on The Voice and other big sets!

Joe Paciotti (in striped shirt) with Noah Cappe, host of Carnival Eats

“It’s been weird lately,” says Film Connection grad Joe Paciotti of Philadelphia, PA. “Like every time I turn on the TV, I see someone I’ve worked with before. It’s the weirdest feeling.” It’s a weird feeling most aspiring TV/film professionals would love to experience—but it didn’t get to be that way for Joe overnight. Since completing his apprenticeship with Film Connection mentor Nick Esposito, Joe has become a master of the hustle, working his connections, building his online presence, and taking almost any gig that comes his way. “Once I graduated, my main focus was just getting on as many sets as possible,” he says. “When I first [graduated] I was doing a lot of volunteer short films and things like that, just to kind of get out there & meet new people. And then all the volunteer stuff led to a lot of paid work, and that really helped me continue to build my resume.” What kind of paid work? Gigs on NBC’s The Voice, for starters…plus opportunities to work on set for World Poker Tour on Fox Sports and various shows for The Food Network. Plus, he says he recently landed a gig with a marketing company serving multi-million dollar corporate clients! “They’re actually based out of Texas,” he says, “and they basically hire camera ops from every state. I actually started as camera B with them and I pretty quickly worked my way up to the lead camera guy. And they’re working with some pretty big clients, making like $10+ million a year.” It’s a huge jump for a guy who basically came into his apprenticeship cold and clueless. Joe says working with Nick in a real world setting truly prepared him for what he does now.  “Prior to the program I really had no actual professional experience,” he says. “I had no idea what an AC was or a director. I mean I heard the terms, obviously, but I never truly knew what they do…What I really liked about the program is you’re getting the hands-on training, and a lot of the people I talked to in the film industry, like assistant cameras and people that have been doing it for 30 years, they say they can care less about a degree. It’s all about the experience for them.” Joe also says learning on-the-job helped him hone in on what he really wanted to do in the industry. “Actually for a while I wanted to be a director,” he says, “but then once I got on set I realized that’s not exactly what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a DP.  Because I [had] always thought the director would be the guy framing up the shots and doing the filming, but then I later realized the director is more directing the talent rather than the actual camerawork.” So how does Joe get these gigs? For him, it’s a combination of networking and saying yes to as many opportunities as possible, sometimes regardless of the pay—because all of it leads to connections. “Here and there I’ll still do volunteer work, which normally leads to paid work,” he says. “I’m always gaining new connections, and 90% of the time if I do a project, the client normally comes back for more videos…And even if some of these gigs aren’t extremely high paying…it’s still worth it because you’re getting experience.” Joe also keeps his online and social media presence active, even taking a unique approach. “I’ll do a blog after every shoot,” he says. “I like to do a little promotion stuff to show what I’m doing. I think all that type of stuff helps too, because when people see you on these big gigs, they’re more likely to reach out and want to work with you.” Even more recently, Joe has taken the next step, from pure freelancer to entrepreneur. He’s set up his own production company, J Pac Productions, and is formulating plans to take things to the next level financially. “I guess still finding my way in some ways,” he admits. “In other ways, I feel like I’m growing every day. So in terms of my income and getting to where I want to be, I think I’m getting very close year by year. This year alone has been a huge jump for me in terms of the bigger projects and higher paying projects. So I think moving forward, I just hope to continue to increase my rates and eventually get to the point where I can…make well over what your average person would make working a 9-5 job.” How does he aim to impress his clients? With a combination of confidence and service. “Always a firm handshake, of course,” he says. “Always [make] a good impression. I try to do the best job that I can, no matter what the budget is. That way I leave a good impression, and it usually leads to more jobs down the line.”

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