Hi, I'm Patrick. I'm an LA-based creative director and I lead a boutique digital agency specializing in the video production & interactive space. I work with clients from the Fortune 500 to cool new startups to maximize their messages, tell their stories, and grow their audiences. My team and I create award-winning TV commercials and infomercials, corporate video productions, explainer videos, tradeshow videos, and interactive projects that help my clients succeed, and we've had a better-than-95% success rate on the projects we've done.
I can speak both "right brain" and "left brain", and my clients love that. I also bring passion, experience, and an uncanny ability to ensure that your video or interactive production perfectly tells your organization's story. I put real personal attention into your project, and I work well with internal teams and advertising agencies.
I'm an award-winning video & film director, and my productions have won over a dozen video production and interactive awards, including Tellys, AVAs, and IMAs. Over the years I've been fortunate to work with 9 Fortune 500 companies and national brands, dozens of mid-sized corporations, and tons of startups. Some of my recent clients include UCLA, PepsiCo, Oxford University Press, and TechCrunch winner Vocre/myLanguage.
As one of the web's pioneers, I produced the first rock concert on the web, the first newscast on the web, and virtual reality content for The Olympics and World Series. Publications that have either interviewed me or raved about my work include The Toronto Star, The New York Times, PDN, Japan's NHK Network, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal, and Newsweek. I've also been interviewed and quoted in a number of books on interactive media.
A visionary with a great team and the willingness to work side-by-side with his clients' concepts and ideas are only a few of the reasons we enjoyed working with – and will continue to work with Patrick Ortman. Being from a [Design] services industry myself - and being a stickler for quality - I've been impressed with the results of each video production.
I see so many awful, cheeseball spots in our market, it sure is nice to know someone out there knows how to do it right.
Patrick is such a talent and really "got" our business to create a video presentation that simply "wowed" the firm. His level of expertise, creative vision and technical proficiency makes him so easy to work with, and instills a level of confidence that anything he does will be great. When he delivers the final product, we know we will always be thrilled.
You possess a unique blend of technical know-how and creative vision, while working within financial and scheduling timelines. I would recommend you to any business looking to project a professional and high-quality image online.
It is my pleasure to recommend you. Your work was done on time, no matter how many obstacles and last minute changes we threw your way, and at a reasonable cost. I'm extremely satisfied with the final product and look forward to working with you again and again in the future.
We highly value the outstanding work that this digital agency and its founder and principal, Patrick Ortman, have performed on the College’s behalf for many years. We have always appreciated the imagination and expertise that Patrick has brought to the table.We also want to acknowledge Patrick’s professionalism and integrity, two of the many qualities we also endeavor to model for our students.
When I knew this would be a full-service, multifaceted video producion request –with last-minute demands– there was no question about going with Patrick on this. Patrick's team can do it all: produce, direct, shoot, edit, create motion graphics, do the audio mix in ProTools, mastering, and more. Everything in a single resource. On top of that, he produced these challenging short films with soul and artistry. He would not sacrifice quality at any turn. As a reward, the piece earned multiple compliments and inquiries from members of our C-level audience.
Now that our website redesign is complete, I am relieved that we chose Patrick to work on this project. Not only did our scope grow and change, we underestimated the massive amount of pages that's needed to be edited after they were ported from our old CMS. The flexibility, expertise & positive nature of Patrick's team made this massive project possible.
We're focused on telling our clients' stories in a digital world, and our strengths in both video production and interactive media storytelling gives our clients a unique advantage that helps them succeed.
My Los Angeles based, world-traveling corporate & broadcast video production team creates TV commercials, promotional videos, mini-documentaries, and corporate video production projects for businesses and organizations that have something to say, and want to stand out.
We're not your typical video production company. We are more than that. We are digital storytellers, and we know how to work with you to make your story pop, whatever the medium. Of course, we also shoot on high-quality digital cinema camera systems from Arri, RED, and Canon's C-Series, and use professional crews. Our production value is on par with feature film productions, for a reasonable price.
As our in-house director, I offer our clients a cohesive, strong vision for their video production projects. We're not just shooters or editors. We're a strongly-led team of video production professionals that get award-winning results.
If you're looking for a director and Los Angeles video production company to help tell your story, and elevate your business above the competition- if you want your corporate video marketing to stand out- then you should talk with us.
In 1993, I founded one of the world's first dozen website design companies. Since then, my team and I have created web-based projects for world-famous brands, large corporations, and tons of smaller businesses and organizations throughout the world. I leverage that strong background in interactive as I and my team create digital content including explainer videos, web commercials and advertising, and multimedia presentations for tradeshows and events. Some of our interactive clients have included IBM, M.I.T., Motorola, AT&T, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Adobe, AOL, IBM, Trader Joe's, Kimberly-Clark, and The American Cancer Society.
We're passionate about telling our clients' stories, whatever the medium, and I am directly involved in every project we do. This has helped us maintain a better than 95% success rate with our clients.
Take a look at some of the recent video projects I've done
A TV commercial I directed, called "Too Many Cooks"
Another TV commercial I directed, this one called "Eyeball"
Award-winning (BEST DIRECTOR) short film, 2013 (trailer)
Lawyer TV commercial, called "King of the Road"
Lawyer TV commercial, this one called "You Know Us"