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Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

The soundtracks for films that music supervisor Randall Poster creates are as well known and lauded as the features themselves. Poster has collaborated with noted auteur Wes Anderson on all of his films-- Bottle Rocket , Rushmore , The Royal Tenenbaums , The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and the...

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

The Art Of Song

Today's television audiences are inundated with messages from a myriad of sources such as 24-hour news channels, reality series, entertainment programs, and talk shows. Because information comes from so many different directions--and viewers are bombarded by ads outside of TV--clients and agencies...

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005

"Drink" Impresses Emmy Voters

The spot "Drink Up" features scenes of typical drinking scenarios--complete with a drinking song extolling the virtues of imbibing. There's a pub full of people drinking from bottles, while cheerily breaking out in song, which cuts to a celebration in an Octoberfest beer garden complete with a...

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005

"Surprise Dinner" Thrills Haines Hall.

Haines Hall, partner/editor at Spot Welders, Venice, Calif., cut Ameriquest Mortgage Company's "Surprise Dinner," one of this year's nominees for the primetime Emmy Award for best commercial. This is the second time a spot cut by Haines has received a nod--in 1999, that distinction was earned by a...

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005

Starbuck's "Glen" Receives Emmy Nod

Starbucks' "Glen," directed by Noam Murro of Biscuit Filmworks, Los Angeles, for agency Fallon, New York, is one of the more memorable spots nominated for this year's primetime commercial Emmy Award. The ad features a remix of the '80s hit "Eye of the Tiger," from Survivor--performed by Survivor...

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005

Kirk Baxter Heads West

While editor Kirk Baxter excels at cutting performance-based, dramatic storytelling, he's also proven his prowess for effects work. Propel's "Ordinary Water," out of Element 79 Partners, Chicago, and directed by Rupert Sanders through now defunct Omaha Pictures (Sanders is now with bicoastal...

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005

Achieving The Impossible

"Impossible Field," a global adidas spot out of 180 Amsterdam which broke earlier this summer, is a visual tour de force. The spot opens on a soccer field, with footballers lining up to start a game; however, this is no ordinary field--it's a series of metallic rails that make up the playing area,...

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005

Adapting To A Changing Landscape

As the advertising landscape changes and grows--with ads reaching consumers via an ever-growing number of media channels--from video games to cell phones to online and beyond--the role of a producer is changing, moving beyond executing TV ads. For this week's series on agency producers, SHOOT...

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005

Midterm Grades Are In

This week's series Report Card series presents a look back--and a look ahead--at the state of the ad business in 2005, as well as the state of creativity. To that end, we asked agency creatives, producers, production and post execs the following questions: How would you assess the state of...

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005

Midyear Perspective

This week's Midyear Report Card and look at what may lie ahead during the second half of 2005 reflects an ever-changing marketplace. Indeed, the agencies and clients that chart a savvy course into emerging media and branded entertainment figure to have a leg up in a competition that is diversifying...