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Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Post/VFX and music/sound design briefs
SHORT CUTS The Finish Line , Santa Monica, provided visual effects and conform for two :30 Merrill Lynch spots via J. Walter Thompson, New York. "Kate" and "Artists" features the Merrill Lynch financial team managing people's portfolios, while people are off vacationing or trying a new career. The...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Delusional Driving
The crew members, bending to their various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight-engined Navy hydroplane, looked at each other and grinned. "The Old Man'll get us through," they said to one another. "The Old Man ain't afraid of hell!" "Not so fast! You're driving too fast!" said Mrs. Mitty. "What are...
Friday, Jan. 4, 2002
Brotherhood
A few days after the tragic events of Sept. 11, Rick Boyko, chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather (O&M), New York, took a somber walk through Manhattan with his daughter. Time and again the pair passed impromptu shrines, collections of photographs, letters, flowers, candles-all of it...
Friday, Jan. 4, 2002
Post/VFX And Music/Sound Design Briefs
SHORT CUTS Boston-based National Ministry of Design (NMD) completed a graphics package for the re-launch of ESPN's ESPNews network. NMD came up with a totally graphic approach, with no sports footage used in the main IDs or opens. This allows ESPNews to have an impartial and unique identity in the...
Friday, Jan. 4, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Cole & Weber/Red Cell , Seattle, has hired Guy Seese as executive creative director. Most recently, Seese was a partner/creative director at Mad Dogs & Englishmen, New York.
Friday, Jan. 4, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: NEW YORK_ Still A-Number One?
Boom or bust, or another lukewarm four quarters—whatever the future holds for 2002—the commercial production industry was united on New Year's Eve in bidding a welcome adieu to the year 2001. And nowhere was the send-off more vocal than here on Manhattan Island. Who could have predicted the heinous...
Friday, Jan. 4, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: NEW YORK_ On The Rebound
Business in the commercial production industry wasn't exactly great prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. In fact, it was—and remains—sluggish overall. "The economy has had a massive effect on where the business is right now," says Matt Miller, president/CEO of the...
Friday, Jan. 4, 2002
Dir. Kimm Does The Twist
A house built in the center of a meteor crater, small-town residents measuring the width of their buildings and streets, a town fair honoring the future birthplace of Capt. James T. Kirk—all are subjects of Barry Kimm's documentary films. And now this filmmaker with a flair for dry comedy is the...
Friday, Jan. 4, 2002
NEWSBRIEFS
Nashville-based Studio Productions has changed its name to RuckusFilm. Additionally, the company has created strategic alliances with two companies to expand its business: The Calloway Group, Nashville, for corporate business, and New York-headquartered City Lights Pictures, which will expand...
Friday, Jan. 4, 2002
Brotherhood Offers Tribute To 343 Fallen Firefighters
A few days after the tragic events of Sept. 11, Rick Boyko, chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather (O&M), New York, took a somber walk through Manhattan with his daughter. Time and again the pair passed impromptu shrines, collections of photographs, letters, flowers, candles—all of it...