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Friday, Aug. 30, 2002
Shannon Horan Named An Exec. Prod. At Click 3X
Shannon Horan has joined Click 3X, New York, as executive producer of broadcast design. Horan arrives from the New York design boutique Freestyle Collective where she had served as executive producer since its founding in March 2001. Her background also includes six years with now defunct Pittard...
Friday, Aug. 30, 2002
Dona Richardson Has A Return Engagement At AudioBanks
Audio mixer/sound designer Dona Richardson has joined AudioBanks. The move marks her return to the Santa Monica shop, where she spent three years on staff in the late 1990s before exiting to pursue a freelance career. Richardson had been freelancing regularly for 48 Windows, Santa Monica, before...
Friday, Aug. 30, 2002
NEWSBRIEFS
Hall Media Productions, Philadelphia, has named Andrea Elovson senior producer. Her background includes stints as a writer, producer and Avid editor for cable and network television, producing programs for PBS, CNN, ABC News, Oxygen Media and The New York Times Television. She has also worked...
Friday, Aug. 30, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: STOCK FOOTAGE_ Thirst Quencher
Stock footage figures heavily in a documentary-like Gatorade spot called "Origins," which relates the story of how the sports drink came into existence. Conceived by Element 79 Partners, Chicago, and directed by Mark Pellington of Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago, the spot uses old photos...
Friday, Aug. 23, 2002
CCA Shuts Down, Has No Plans To File For Bankruptcy
NEW YORK—As first reported in last week's "Street Talk" (8/16, p. 22), after approximately a year in existence, Creative Content Artists (CCA)—a holding company for a number of New York audio and video postproduction houses—is ceasing operations. With only one exception, all facilities under the...
Friday, Aug. 23, 2002
Final Draft Inc. And GoldPocket Unveil Interactive Television Script Software
LOS ANGELES—Popular scriptwriting software publisher Final Draft Inc., and GoldPocket, a leading provider of two-way interactive programming for TV set-top boxes and PCs, have unveiled an interactive television (iTV) scriptwriting solution that enables writers to add interactive content to their...
Friday, Aug. 23, 2002
Jon Francis Joins Rough House
Spot editor Jon Francis has joined San Francisco-based Rough House Editorial. He comes over from Phoenix Editorial, San Francisco, his roost for the last two years. Francis' credits include commercials for such clients as Levi's Dockers, Disney, Visa, Waterpik and Canada Dry, as well as music...
Friday, Aug. 23, 2002
L.A.
Due to inaccurate information supplied to SHOOT for the Top Spot, "Element 79 Makes Bold Pitch for Gatorade Fierce" (8/2, p, 10), Marguerite Cargill, Patrick Ferguson, Kristin Johnson and Mark Alan Loso of A52, Los Angeles, were improperly credited. They all served as Flame artists for the spot. In...
Friday, Aug. 23, 2002
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design And Stock Footage Briefs
SHORT CUTS Editor Brett Nicoletti of New York-based wild(child) cut the :30 "Premiere" for Lincoln Mercury via The Bravo Group, New York. The ad, directed by Juan Carlos Martin of Pigeon Productions, Miami, features actress Salma Hayek showing up at a Hollywood event, only the have the paparazzi...
Friday, Aug. 23, 2002
Wilco Rockumentary Delivers Unexpected Drama
NEW YORK—With no idea of what he was getting himself into, commercial director and still photographer Sam Jones wrote a letter to Jeff Tweedy, lead singer and principal songwriter of the rock band Wilco, asking him if he could join the band in Chicago to film a documentary on the making of the...