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YOUR SHOT: Music First
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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MUSIC IS ONE OF THE MOST important components of commercials today; especially any project dealing with the intention of attracting the viewer. Why do many producers wait until the absolute last...
SPOT.COM.MENTARY: Valuable Lesson
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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LAST WEEKS COLUMN about the animation seminar for art teachers in Chicagos public school system wasnt intended to be part one of a two-parter. But the idea of making teachers better equippedaand...
GOING DOWN: Score For More - Spot composers like to work the big gigs too, creating tracks for features.
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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Feature filmmakers are showing an increasing willingness to give spot composers the opportunity to try their hand at scoring their movies. And many spot composers are leaping at the chance....
Mark Yang Joins Crush Digital Video As Executive Producer: Aims To Further DVD Interest In Ad Community.
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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Mark Yang, who had been with New York-based Post Perfect since 1992, most recently as VP of production services, was named executive producer at Crush Digital Video, one of the first DVD studios...
Zyrtec And Director Windell Win Mobius Best Of Show
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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Power of Zyrtec, a spot for Pfizer pharmaceutical company promoting allergy medication Zyrtec via HMC Consumer, New York, and directed by Terry Windell of A Band Apart Commercials, bicoastal and...
June Manton Joins Open Frame Prodns.: Former Drive Director Takes Humor And Drama To NYC.
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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Commercial director and former agency creative June Manton has joined New York-based Open Frame Productions.
After a two-year stint with Venice, Calif.-based Drive (formerly Shut Up and...
Cognito Films Moves Into Hispanic Spot Market: Opens Specialty Division No Guns Pictures.
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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Cognito Films, the Santa Monica shop headed by executive producer Alan Landau, has launched a Latin spot division, No Guns Pictures. Based in Venice, Calif., with a satellite office in Buenos...
Planet Blue, Visitor Slingshot Bud Light
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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PRODUCTION CO.
Anheuser-Busch/Bud Light.
PRODUCTION CO.
Visitor, Santa Monica. Dave Merhar, director; Amir Mokri, DP; Olivier Katz, executive producer;...
Ted Chin & Co. For Visiting Nurse Svc.
- Friday, Feb. 26, 1999
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CLIENT
Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
PRODUCTION CO.
Straw Dogs, New York. Mike Rowles, director; Peter Donohue, DP; Craig Rodgers, executive producer...