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Friday, May. 16, 2003
World Wide Wadio Wins IBA Radio Sweepstakes Honor
World Wide Wadio, Hollywood, serving as a hybrid agency/production house, won the Sweepstakes Best of Show Radio honor at the 43rd annual International Broadcasting Awards (IBA) competition, for its TBS Superstation ad, "Blame TBS." Jeff Howell served as director/producer, with Michael Niles...
Friday, May. 16, 2003
SPECIAL REPORT: POSTPRODUCTION_ Eyeing Retina
A major telecine commitment is being made in San Francisco, a market where the norm has been for ad agency producers and creatives to shuttle to Los Angeles and other cities for high-end film-to-tape transfer. Designed to keep more of that Bay Area agency work at home is Retina, a telecine/...
Friday, May. 16, 2003
SPECIAL REPORT: POSTPRODUCTION_ New In Town
During the seven years she spent as a producer with agency Riester-Robb, Phoenix, Louise Parker enjoyed every aspect of spot making—except postproduction. "I found it frustrating that, just because you're in a peripheral market, you're still not getting the quality and the services you can get in a...
Friday, May. 9, 2003
Liberty Media Set To Buy Remaining Shares Of Ascent
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—Liberty Media Corp. (NYSE: L, LMC.B) plans to buy all shares of Santa Monica-headquartered Ascent Media Group (Nasdaq: AMGIA) that it does not already own. The deal would make Ascent—the publicly traded parent of such commercial postproduction entities as Company 3, R!OT and Method...
Friday, May. 9, 2003
Tangerine Merges With City Lights
NEW YORK—Tangerine Films, a New York-based production company founded almost one year ago by executive producer Sal Del Giudice, has merged with City Lights Productions, New York, the commercial division of City Lights Media Group, New York. As part of the deal, Del Giudice will now be running City...
Friday, May. 9, 2003
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design Briefs And Music Video Briefs
SHORT CUTS Revolve , an Austin, Texas-based broadcast design company, completed an open and graphics package for "The WB Buzz," for KNVA-Austin. "The WB Buzz" is a thirty-second update that airs three times daily in the Austin area. Revolve artisans visited the University of Texas campus and asked...
Friday, May. 9, 2003
ON THE MOVE
New Faces Jerry Cronin has stepped down as executive creative director of BaylessCronin , Atlanta. William Dunlap is retiring as chairman of Campbell Mithun, Minneapolis, assuming the role of chairman Ermeritus. Account Movement Nextel Communications has awarded its $160 million ad account to TBWA/...
Friday, May. 9, 2003
Licensing Issues
The confluence of advertisers seeking a patina of hipness through cutting edge music in their commercials and unknown bands—who make that kind of music—aggressively chasing exposure through television spots, has thrust an already thriving music licensing business into hyper-drive during the last...
Friday, May. 9, 2003
SPECIAL REPORT: MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN_ Chart Toppers
For SHOOT's spring music and sound design issue, the top three picks point to the significance of a good piece of music accompanying great visuals. With the exception of voiceovers, these three ads are driven solely by their music. Hewlett-Packard presents sound that can be heard and seen, while...
Friday, May. 9, 2003
SPECIAL REPORT: MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN_ Song And Dance
Including an elaborate song-and-dance number in a commercial is not a new thing. The Gap did it in the late 1990s with an ongoing campaign featuring swing, mambo and line dancing. E*Trade weighed in a couple of years ago with "Monkey 3" (helmed by Bryan Buckley of bicoastal/international hungry man...