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Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
Oscar Winner Jon Johnson Howls For Spots
Howling Music, a Malibu-headquartered shop specializing in music for TV commercials, has signed Academy Award-winning sound supervisor Jon Johnson to serve as its chief sound designer. Johnson earned the sound effects editing Oscar last year for his work as supervising sound editor on the Jonathan...
Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
Open Frame Productions Adds Dir. Bill Aylward
Open Frame Productions, New York, has signed director/designer Bill Aylward for exclusive U.S. spot representation. At the first of this year, company founders/executive producers Andrew Swee and Nan Swoyer asked Aylward to come aboard, and he accepted shortly thereafter. Aylward said he's looking...
Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
Hothaus Editorial, Dallas, Changes Name To N20
Executives at N2O admit that their company name change has no real meaning other than to give the Dallas-based editorial shop formerly known as Hothaus Editorial, an "edgier" feel. N2O, the chemical compound known to giddy recipients of root canals as "laughing gas," may symbolize how executives...
Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
ARTiFACT Sees Orange In Southern Calif. Expansion
ARTiFACT, the Santa Monica-headquartered creative editorial/design house, has extended its Southern California reach with the opening of an Orange County shop in the Santa Ana Performing Arts and Events Center. The new venture—dubbed ARTiFACT OC—features two Avid Meridien systems, as well as the...
Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
Landon Named Exec Prod. At HUM, SubZero
Debbi Landon has been appointed executive producer of HUM Music+ Sound Design and its SubZero subsidiary, both based in Santa Monica. Additionally, assistant producer Chanel Scott has been promoted to producer at HUM. Landon comes over from Hanks Editorial, Santa Monica, where she served in an exec...
Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: CANADA_ On The Rebound
The Canadian production industry seems to be rebounding from what was, by most accounts, a rough year for business in 2001, caused in part by a faltering economy that was shaken even further by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. "The phones stopped ringing," recalls executive producer Andy Crosbie...
Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Della Femina Rothschild Jeary and Partners , New York, has promoted senior VP/creative director Jeff Linder to the position of executive VP. Ann Lemon has joined The Romann Group , New York, as its third creative director. She moves there from an associate creative directorship at Young &...
Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
Post/VFX And Music/Sound Design Briefs
SHORT CUTS New York-based Rhinoceros Visual Effects and Design (RVED) created "Illusions" for Mazda out of Doner, Southfield, Mich. In the :30, a gray Mazda MPV winds around a scenic road emerging from such locations as waterfalls, foliage and tunnels, as a sporty red Miata. RVED Inferno designer/...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: AGENCY PRODUCERS_ Launching Mobility
AT&T Wireless's mLife campaign has in essence been Lynn Roer's life for the past few months. Roer, senior partner/co-director of broadcast production at Oglivy & Mather (O&M), New York, has been overseeing production on the mLife commercials, which launched the new tagline for AT&T...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
Editor John Anklow Joins 3 Fingered Louie
3 Fingered Louie, the New York-based creative editorial facility, has hired editor John Anklow. He joins a team of cutters comprising Wendy Rosen, Jon Smalheiser and Dave Smalheiser. With a 1989 degree in English from Colorado College securely tucked away, Anklow began his career as an apprentice...