Our videos, all made by experienced filmmakers, have one goal: to tell the story of you, your company, or your product, in a way that will electrify and engage your audience.
Are you looking for guidance on how to best position your company or your product? We use narrative techniques to coach business leaders to become the most effective communicators possible.
We provide other marketing services such as photography and web design to ensure that you are delivered a complete product. Together we'll accelerate your company's ascent.
Siren Song Creations has become known for how well our narrative-focused work energizes audiences. Our work has been featured on national television, Oprah.com, Deepak Chopra's website, in film festivals, education, before business and political leaders, and within a documentary distributed by Paramount Pictures. Our founders have worked with companies such as Adobe, ESPN, NBC, Sentilla, Cinequest and Plug and Play.
We have also helped launch a global youth media education initiative, championed by Alec Baldwin, actor, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple Inc.
Oscar has worked with several technology start-ups and a major venture capitalist firm; he co-founded Siren Song Creations to bridge the worlds of technology and film. He believes that art and innovation can shake the foundations of society, and hopes to give voice to the voiceless.
An award-winning screenwriter and director, Vijay works in multiple genres and formats. He believes that media has always been and always will be the world's primary uniting force. With his work at Siren Song Creations, he hopes to connect audiences through the power of art born from adversity.
We create videos and perform narrative consultancy to capture the compelling truths behind companies that are changing our world.
Our founders have a deep respect for the rules of storytelling as defined by millenia of history, mythology, and literature, tools that can still be used to actively engage audiences and effectively communicate ideas.
As award-winning artists and filmmakers, we strive to work with people who challenge the ideals of "business as usual" so that commerce and artistry can combine to truly recreate a second Renaissance.
From 2010-2012, Siren Song Creations has worked with Cinequest to craft the message and the branding of the multimillion dollar organization (film festival, distribution house, film studio, and philanthropic global movement), creating more than 150 videos.
Siren Song Creations executed and helped define the seminal pilot year for Picture the Possibilities, a $700,000 global youth media initiative.
Our team traveled to East Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico City to produce compelling material that told the stories of young people around our world as well as their visions for the future.
The program was championed by these powerful people: Alec Baldwin, actor, Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple, Inc.; Franklin Leonard, VP of Creative Affairs, Overbrook Entertainment; and Erica Hill, CBS News anchorwoman.
To see our work for PTP, please click here.
At Siren Song Creations, we strive to work with companies such as Sentilla, companies that are making a difference. Using ground-breaking software, Sentilla maximizes the energy efficiency of data centers -- thereby allowing other Silicon Valley companies to securely save money, energy, and the environment.
We were hired to create an overview of Sentilla, a combination of live footage and animated text. View the video above.
Siren Song Creations was hired by Kanbar Entertainment (headed by Maurice Kanbar, owner of Skyy Vodka) to build a website for their independent film "Seducing Charlie Barker." Other Kanbar Entertainment films include "Hoodwinked" with Anne Hathaway.
"Seducing Charlie Barker" has now been sold for theatrical and DVD distribution after enjoying an award-winning run at prominent film festivals worldwide. Director Amy Glazer credits the website as a necessary part of the puzzle in getting the film recognized and in-demand.
The website can be viewed here.
Years ago, SJSU hired Vijay Rajan and Oscar Arguello to cover the unveiling of the on-campus statue of John Carlos and Tommie Smith. To commemmorate this historic event, Vijay and Oscar also interviewed these amazing men, as well as Peter Norman, the Australian who stood with them in 1968 during the Olympics.
What Vijay and Oscar did not know was that their interview footage would then be integrated into the powerful documentary "Salute" or that this documentary would go on to be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Vijay and Oscar feel extremely privileged to have been a part of this truly extraordinary film celebrating such a monumental piece of history. Watch the trailer above.
Ambience is one of the San Francisco Bay Area's best bands, writing amazing songs and building a large following. Not only has Siren Song used many Ambience tracks within our corporate videos -- giving these artists an outlet for their music to be heard -- but we were also hired to do photography of their concert at the Laguna Seca Raceway. Click here for the photo gallery.
03/06/2012 - San Jose.com - "Today at Cinequest"
03/01/2012 - Knight Foundation - "Young Filmmakers Who Inspire Global Change"
02/22/2011 - Metblogs.com - "Interview with Vijay Rajan"
03/08/2012 - Oprah.com - "Deepak Chopra Receives Life of a Maverick Award (Short)"
03/08/2012 - Deepakchopra.com - "Deepak Chopra Receives Life of a Maverick Award (Long)"
02/29/2012 - KTVU - "Acclaimed Film Festival Kicks Off"
03/23/2012 - KSCU - "Full Director Interview: Base Emotions" (Audio)
03/23/2012 - KSCU - "Director Interview Excerpt: Base Emotions" (Video)
02/27/2012 - San Jose Mercury News - "Growing up in East Palo Alto" by Karen d'Souza
And just to show how far we've come, some postings from quite a while ago:
12/15/2006 - NYCMidnight.com - "Vijay Rajan is Heat Winner in Screenwriter's Challenge"
11/14/2003 - The Spartan Daily - "Students Get Hands-On Film Experience"
New Website Launched
New Siren Song Creations website redesign is launched. Check out our many new pages -- including our new Outreach page, where anyone can purchase products, learn filmmaking tools, and get involved in the Siren Song Creations experience. Included is the first chapter of our new book on screenwriting "Storytelling in Film" and the first act of our feature script for "Fire and Blood"! Read today!
"Journey Through Fire" Gains Supporters
As we continue production on our feature documentary "Journey Through Fire", experienced documentarians have been signing on to become mentors of and to guide the film. These include Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina, co-directors of "Dying to Do Letterman," and Kurt Kuenne, director of "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father." Siren Song Creations is excited to have such sure-handed guidance in our film.
PTP Premiere and Cinequest 22
March proves to be another very busy month for Siren Song Creations. We work to produce four energetic videos for Cinequest 22. Picture the Possibilities also has its world premiere, and Siren Song Creations is invited on-stage and asked to speak about their profound PTP experience.
We also launch a new graphic novel project entitled "The Monster Pool", a fantasy story for all ages that will be in production throughout 2012.Media Launch and Adobe
Siren Song Creations prepares for Cinequest 22 by editing together an exciting montage of the various films that will be in the festival.
Also in this month, SSC volunteers with Adobe's amazing Adobe Youth Voices program, helping to empower youth to tell their stories through filmed media. They were very impressed by the quality and dedication of the teenagers involved. To discover more information about Adobe Youth Voices, please visit the official site.
Original Music and a New CFO
After seeing the teaser trailer for our documentary film "Journey Through Fire", not only has popular Chicago band i:Scintilla agreed to let us use any of their songs for our film, they have agreed to score music for the entire documentary. The documentary continues to build in momentum and Siren Song Creations is very excited for its future.
Also, more important news for Siren Song Creations: we have hired our new Chief Financial Officer, Zachary Smith, and welcome him onboard.
How We Grew in 2011
In 2011, Siren Song Creations' first year officially in business, we wrapped and premiered a short film, sold one feature script, and launched a feature-length documentary. We began the year with only our two co-founders as Siren Song Creations' regular staff, and ended with a staff of eight. We produced 150 videos: a daunting task that we are very proud of. We built five websites. We worked with a multimillion-dollar organization to really define their branding and positioning. We worked with some amazing artists, innovators, and young people. And we traveled all across the country and to Mexico City.
PTP Draws to a Close -- and "Journey Through Fire" Launches Big
The final stop of the PTP process is here: Mexico City. Oscar travels to Mexico City to oversee a short narrative film with the young voices there about global identity.
Meanwhile, back in San Jose, Vijay and Elisabeth finish the edits on the 130 videos made in this PTP year, ranging from the films to personal profiles of each young participant to e-learning videos to videos about the celebrities that championed the program.
Even in this very busy month, the website for our feature documentary "Journey Through Fire" is launched, including the first teaser trailer and the poster. Response is overwhelming; those who watch the trailer report being "moved," "rendered speechless," and "intrigued."
While 2011 has been great to us, 2012 promises to be even better.
Production on "Journey Through Fire" Begins
Production begins on a major new Siren Song Creations venture: a feature-length documentary called Journey Through Fire".
In this very busy month, Siren Song Creations sponsors a Movember Mo' Moustaches Mo' Problems event in downtown San Jose to fund-raise for problems relating to men's health. The event was very successful and helped to raise a substantive amount of money to aid in the fight against prostate cancer. An additional note: neither Vijay nor Oscar were in the running for Best Moustache.Also, we add more members to the Siren Song team: Dustin Coleman, Arianne Tavares, and Andrew Kostyanovsky.
9/11 to Obesity: PTP New York
From a Wedding to a Global Reality Show
Siren Song Creations is hired to shoot a wedding video. While this is not normally within the scope of what we do, occasionally we like to flex our skills and work on telling different kinds of stories. Also in this month, we work on Picture the Possibilities stop three: East Palo Alto again, with an older group of children. Finally, two posters for "Makin' It... Thailand", a global project that Vijay and Oscar worked on in late 2010, are released.
A Powerful PTP Location
Picture the Possibilities continues with a really moving stop in Los Angeles.
Elisabeth works on an environmentally conscious film entitled "Girl Trash"; Oscar makes a narrative short speaking to the issue of bullying in "Don't Push Me"; and Vijay works on two powerful documentaries, one entitled "Peace" about a young woman whose life has been marred by gangs and the other "Right Here Among Us" about Homeboy Industries and how some gang members have found their way out of the cycle of violence. "Peace" can be viewed to the left.
Where Technology and Entertainment Meet
Siren Song Creations is hired to make a video for Sentilla, an innovative company that uses ground-breaking software to maximize the energy efficiency of data centers.
Picture the Possibilities Begins
Also, Elisabeth Evans joins the Siren Song Creations productions team. Our company continues to grow.
Websites and Photography
Siren Song Creations builds a website for local photographer Marcia Pereira and her company Cantine Caffeine. Siren Song is told that the website we built for Kanbar Entertainment is a necessary part of their film "Seducing Charlie Barker" achieve distribution. And in this month, we also photograph local breakthrough band "Ambience" at their Laguna Seca Raceway concert.
Siren Song Creations Grows
And last but not least, Marianna Lynn Moles and Lisa Rowson join the company as PR and Marketing Managers, respectively.
'Base Emotions' World Premiere
Simultaneously, Siren Song Creations covers the festival and produces three energetic videos that capture the narrative positioning of Cinequest. Halfdan Hussey, CEO, is so thrilled, he asks Siren Song Creations to be the media team for the pilot year of Cinequest's new global youth education initiative, Picture the Possibilities.
Gearing Up for a Special Month
'Base Emotions,' our emotive short film is wrapped. We are accepted for our world premiere into the Cinequest Film Festival. Vijay is interviewed as director of the film in a long and substantive interview for Metblogs.
Meanwhile, we create six client pieces for Cinequest for the media launch -- to accurately capture the various facets of the festival.
And So It Begins
Siren Song Creations is co-founded by Oscar Arguello (Chief Executive Officer) and Vijay Rajan (Chief Creative Officer). They divide the company into two parts: Client Services, which will provide video, narrative consultancy, and webdesign and photography services to innovative clientele; and Originals, which will create groundbreaking and emotionally compelling original media, from feature films to documentaries to short films to graphic novels and books.
We also produce compelling original media -- feature films, documentaries, short films, graphic novels -- made possible by your patronage of our Services.
We're hard at work on our feature documentary Journey Through Fire. We are also in development on several other projects, including a multiple-perspective suspense thriller and a mythological adventure graphic novel intended for all ages.
To find out more information about these exciting projects, please visit our Originals page.
Read the first chapter of our book "STORYTELLING IN FILM"
Siren Song Creations is proud to present a brand-new book that discusses the art of screenwriting, from its history to its rules to how movies have successfully broken those rules. It is a loving tome to screenwriting -- and you can read the first chapter completely free right here!
The book is entertaining, informative, and even funny. The full book will be available for sale soon. If you like what you read, please support us by purchasing it when it becomes available. Thank you all.
Purchase the feature script for the HISTORICAL VAMPIRE EPIC "FIRE AND BLOOD"Written by our Chief Creative Officer Vijay Rajan and adapted from a short story by team member Elisabeth Evans, this sweeping epic takes the viewer through a morass of early 20th century settings: a cobble-stoned London sanatorium, earthquake-ravaged San Francisco, a beautiful coastal town, and inside the Pomo tribe -- and in so doing, tells a vampire origin story like no other.
Use the free preview above to read a full description, the original short story, and the first act of the script. Once you've whet your appetite, you can purchase the entire script in book form at our Blurb.com bookstore in either softcover or hardcover format. As always, all proceeds support the passions of a talented network of artists.
Though we are headquartered in San Jose, CA, we have traveled all over the world for our clients. We're a global company centered in the heart of technological innovation.
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