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Friday, Oct. 26, 2001
Post/VFX and music/sound design briefs
SHORT CUTS Hollywood-based Film Roman completed work on two commercials featuring characters from the television series The Simpsons . Burger King's "Spaced Homer" shows Bart, Lisa and Milhouse in Halloween costumes enjoying their Black Cherry slushies, while Homer, desperate for a "black tongue,"...
Friday, Oct. 26, 2001
SPECIAL REPORT: CINEMATOGRAPHY_ ASC To Build New Campus
HOLLYWOOD—The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) recently announced plans to build a new $8 million campus on the Hollywood site where the organization's headquarters are located. The plan includes construction of a museum dedicated to preserving the history and artifacts of cinematography...
Friday, Oct. 26, 2001
SPECIAL REPORT: CINEMATOGRAPHY_ Table Talk
Growing up in London, Jess Hall was the odd man out in his family: His father, mother and sister all liked to write, but he was a student of the visual. From an early age he drew pictures, and later created paintings. At school he began shooting photographs. "I was a very enthusiastic painter. I am...
Friday, Oct. 26, 2001
SPECIAL REPORT: CINEMATOGRAPHY_ Shooting Star
Cinematographer Danny Hiele takes nothing for granted. The first time the Belgian-born DP shot a commercial in America—three years ago, at Raleigh Studios, Hollywood—he asked if he could turn on the camera himself. "I was completely overwhelmed. I remember I got really emotional," recalls Hiele. "I...
Friday, Oct. 26, 2001
The Continental Touch
It's somehow fitting that Continental Film and Video Lab's Kenneth D. Mitchell, COO/executive VP, and Glenn Newland, senior VP of operations and administration, were voted last year to serve on the Board of Film Florida. Similarly apropos was the naming earlier this year of Jim Hodges, Continental'...
Friday, Oct. 19, 2001
Post/VFX, music/sound design and stock footage briefs
SHORT CUTS The Finish Line (TFL) , Santa Monica, provided graphic design, visual effects and final conform on Sony Vaio's "Monks," via Young & Rubicam, Irvine, Calif. Directed by Peggy Sirota of bicoastal HSI Productions, the :30 follows a Tibetan monk as he travels a series of mountain trails...
Friday, Oct. 19, 2001
Squirrel In The Headlights
With inflated charges, car insurance can take the fun out of driving. And when there's an accident, a drawn-out claims process can seem to make matters worse before making them better. Unless you are dealing with Geico-which, according to The Martin Agency, Richmond, Va., is not your typical car...
Friday, Oct. 19, 2001
SPECIAL REPORT: VISUAL EFFECTS_ Going For A Ride
Spoon-bending psychics and runaway refrigerator magnets aren't typically the stuff that car commercials are made of. But then again, nothing is typical about the newly launched, visual effects-intensive campaign for the redesigned Toyota Camry from Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Torrance, Calif. Saatchi...
Friday, Oct. 19, 2001
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
OCTOBER 18, 1996/London-based directors Simon Delaney and the team of Stuart and Andrew Douglas—a.k.a. the Douglas Brothers—have signed with Ritts/ Hayden, Los Angeles, for U.S. spots. The last stateside representation for the three was through bicoastal BFCS, which closed in early summer….Veteran...
Friday, Oct. 19, 2001
N.Y. Ad Prospects Buoyed By Agency Heads Of Prodn.
Heads of Production—a four-year-old organization consisting of ad agency production heads and executive producers, mainly from New York shops—has adopted an initiative to try to keep more work in the Big Apple. Entering into a cooperative relationship with representatives from other sectors of the...

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