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Joining the advertainment game is clothing retailer Aeropostale, which will run a two-and-a-half minute short film on MTV. Aside from the fact that the cast is clad in Aeropostale apparel, the only evidence that the film is actually a commercial comes in the form of the company's supered logo...
SEPTEMBER 12, 1997/Click 3X has made plans to extend into Southern California with the opening of Click 3X Los Angeles, Santa Monica, by Oct. 1....Editors Roger Harrison and Gayle Grant have teamed to launch Exit, Santa Monica. Harrison has closed editorial boutique Cutaways, which he co-founded...
Amy Massingale has joined visual effects/ computer animation house Rhythm & Hues Studios, Los Angeles, to head its commercial CG production division. Massingale was previously a coordinating producer at Vinton Studios, Portland, Ore., and director of sales and marketing for Dallas-based Big...
The Association of Music Producers (AMP) West Coast chapter is getting in gear for its second annual award competition designed to recognize and honor the postproduction audio mixer's contributions to commercials. A call for entries has been issued for the 2002 West Coast Mixer of the Year Award...
After eight years at FilmCore San Francisco, followed by eight months of freelancing, editor Rick Lobo is starting a new chapter in his career. Last month, he and executive producer Tatiana Derovanessian started Revue, a Santa Monica post shop.
Lobo brings much editing experience to his...
Two men sit down at a bar. The bartender nods to them. "How ya doin'?" he says, by way of greeting. "How ya doin'?" they say in reply. A third man, in a cowboy hat, takes a stool. "How ya doin'?" asks the bartender in greeting. "Thanks for asking," says the newcomer, in a friendly Texas drawl. "...
Cutting "hours of miscellaneous piano tinkering" into a cohesive 60-second spot may sound daunting, but for editor Stephen Jess of The Whitehouse, New York, "it was a lot of fun."
The spot was "Birds," one of two recently launched PBS commercials that Jess edited for helmer Francois...
There was a lot to choose from, and all of it was good," says editor David Cornman of The Blue Rock Editing Company, New York, referring to the abundance of footage he had to work with when he cut Computer Associates' "Amnesia," helmed by the directing team LeMoine/Miller—Rick and Steve,...
Editor Jinx Godfrey, a native of the U.K. who edits commercials in the U.S. via Post Factory, New York, has lately been spending a lot more time in America thanks to a spate of stateside work. This year, she has been working almost entirely on U.S. spots including her current project, an...
LOS ANGELES—Executive producer Steve Schofield, along with creative directors Chris Jones and Loni Peristere—all formerly of Radium, Santa Monica (a company that also maintains a full-service operation in San Francisco)—have formed visual effects company Zoic Studios. The new Los Angeles-based...