About Us
When it comes to media production, whether you're an individual, small business or large corporation, we can provide the resources, technical knowledge and creative support to carry you from concept to finished product.
We have originated everything from 30-second TV commercials to feature-length films. In between, we've produced numerous industrial and tutorial programs, shot footage for TV news and documentary series, recorded events and provided technical support for hundreds of live performances.
We have the experience and resources to assist you with whatever type of program you're planning to create. Our contacts in the theatre world provide a pool of experienced acting and voice talent from which to draw.
Our post-production facility offers a range of broadcast-quality editing capabilities to allow your creativity to shine. Then, when you're satisfied, we can master and duplicate the final product onto DVD and/or VHS formats.
Our location on the Oregon coast provides a relaxing atmosphere in which to work, and we urge you to compare our rates with anyone in the industry.
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A Brief History
Mick Alderman began producing short films as a teenager, employing the technique of stop-motion animation using clay and articulated figures.
In college, he graduated to larger-scale productions involving live actors. His film studies class project was a short science-fiction drama, photographed on Super-8 film and shot primarily on a spacecraft set constructed in his grandparents' basement. The set was later donated to the Astoria Children's Museum.
In 1984, Mick was invited by producer/director Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon) onto the Astoria set of the Warner Brothers film The Goonies to observe the production of a Hollywood feature firsthand. Donner later introduced Mick to executive producer Steven Spielberg as a "fellow director" -- talk about an ego boost!
At the same time, he learned the craft of television production while working in a variety of capacities on a weekly children's TV show, Captain Cidd's Castle, including writing and directing the Halloween 1984 episode.
In 1987, Mick ventured east, accepting a job with Millennium Pictures in Portland, Oregon. The company, owned by three prominent Portland filmmakers - Susan Shadburne, Dan Biggs, and Academy Award-winning animator Will Vinton - had been hired to produce the second in a series of children's videos based on the Wee Sing nursery rhyme books.
Following completion of that project, Mick returned to Astoria to accept a job at his alma mater, Clatsop Community College, where he continues to be employed as Audio-Visual Specialist.
In 1989, 2001 Productions embarked upon its most ambitious project to date, an action/thriller titled The Mind of the Circle. In a fateful bit of last-minute recasting, the role of the femme fatale was undertaken by Rhonda Dedmon, an actor and professional dancer who eventually accepted the role of Mick's wife.
By this time, Mick had developed a concurrent interest in live theatre, working on several local productions before writing and directing his first original play, A Place of My Own, in 1991.
1991 was also the year Michael Alderman Film & Video officially opened for business. While 2001 Productions remains the creative outlet for Mick and Rhonda's original projects, MAFV provides clients with expert technical and production services.
In 1994, production commenced on a feature-length motion picture, Somewhere Else, which was finally completed and released in 1999. Shot, edited and completed entirely on 16mm film, Somewhere Else remains by far the largest and most complex project in 2001 Productions' history.
Most recently, Mick was signed as a client of Kinetic Management in Los Angeles, where he is represented as a writer/director in the motion picture industry. His screenplay, Graveyard of the Pacific, an action/thriller set in the world of the U.S. Coast Guard, attracted attention from several noteworthy Hollywood companies, including James Cameron's Lightstorm Pictures (Titanic, Terminator 1 & 2). Mick's latest original screenplay is presently making the rounds in tinseltown.