JAMES GARTNER GUIDES ‘ROOKIES’ THROUGH OPENING NIGHT AT RADIO CITY
James Gartner‘s beautifully directed holiday spot tells the parallel stories of a Rockette and a young girl as each prepares for her first show at New York’s legendary Radio City Music Hall.
The Rockette will perform in the Christmas Spectacular, while the girl is an eager member of the audience, on this very special night.
Client: Madison Square Garden Entertainment
Spots Title(s): “Rookies”
First Air Date: November 13, 2006
Production Company: GARTNER
Director: James Gartner
DP: Tony Wolberg
EP(s): Rich Carter, Don Block
Producer: Roger Petrusson
Agency: Gardner Nelson & Partners/NY
Creative Director: Tom Nelson
Art Director: Claudine Lorme
Copywriter: Chris Baier
Agency Producer: Meegan Hanrahan
Editorial: Blue Rock/NY
Editor: Tom Schachte
Telecine: Company 3/NY
Colorist: John Bonta
Music: RMI Music/NY
Composer: Robert Miller
Producer: Heather Weisberg
Sound Design: Blast Digital Audio/NY
Sound Designer: Casey Hogan
Audio Post: Blast Digital Audio/NY
Mixer: Casey Hogan
Shoot Location: New York, NY
EXOPOLIS CREATES BOLD, NEW ‘REAL WORLD’ ON MTV
Gives Show's 18th Season Open a Rocky Mountain High
November 29, 2006 – For its 18th season, MTV's The Real World sought a bold new look while retaining the brand identity they had cultivated over the years. Creative studio Exopolis, whose recent credits include the iPod nano "Colors" spot, realized that vision. Created by reality television powerhouse Bunim-Murray Productions, the show chose Denver, Colorado, as this season's backdrop.
"Our approach combines editorial and motion graphics to create a dramatic look that still evokes the classic 'Real World' style," says Associate Creative Director Tosh Kodama. "We accomplish this by contrasting the show's two settings – the gorgeous Colorado outdoors and the fast-paced urban life of downtown Denver."
Natural elements act as transitional devices, as the show open whips from one cast member to another with dynamic camera moves. Choppy, treated
footage helps to evoke a raw feeling as the characters' personalities are introduced.
"We are thrilled to have collaborated with such an innovative studio," stated Joey Carson, CEO of Bunim-Murray Productions. "The technical direction Exopolis has implemented creatively reflects Denver's duality and provides a spectacular opening to one of our most captivating groups of housemates."
Credits:
Creative Director: Darwin Tomlinson
Associate Creative Director: Tosh Kodama
Associate Creative Director: Charlie Short
Design/Animation: Aaron Frebowitz
Animator: Magnus Hierta
Animator: Martin Lyden
Executive Producer: Jason O'leary
Producer: Ashley Cook
About Exopolis
Exopolis is a creative studio specializing in design and development for broadcast, print, mobile and interactive – with a special focus on the convergence of these media. As one of a small number of companies that can provide multi-platform creative solutions, Exopolis is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges of the marketing future.
Exopolis concepts, designs and produces with one purpose in mind: to make neurons fire, synapses spark and eyes stick. We believe in the power of inspired design and the potential of compelling ideas. We ignore the traditional divisions between web and broadcast, in favor of a truly integrated environment that reflects the inevitable future of communications.
As the marketing landscape evolves, Exopolis evolves with it, incorporating the best in new ideas and technologies. For our work on MINIUSA with Crispin Porter Bogusky, Exopolis earned a 2005 Cannes Titanium Lion, the 2006 One Show "Best in Show" award and the Grand Clio in the 2006 Clio awards. At the 2006 Promax/BDA awards, Exopolis earned four gold medals, one silver and a special recognition award. We have worked with brands such as Nickelodeon, HBO, DirecTV, Nokia and Lexus, and agencies such as Goodby Silverstein and Partners, Publicis, BBDO and TBWA\Chiat\Day.
About Bunim-Murray Productions
Bunim-Murray Productions is the leading independent producer of innovative entertainment content. The company is widely credited with creating the reality television genre with its hit series THE REAL WORLD (premiering its 18thseason on MTV). Bunim-Murray's other current programming includes ROAD RULES (with its return on MTV slated for January 2007), REAL WORLD ROAD RULES CHALLENGE (MTV), THE SIMPLE LIFE (renewed for its fifth season on E!) and THE BAD GIRLS CLUB (premiering on Oxygen in December). Bunim-Murray also recently launched M Theory Entertainment, a spin-off entity focusing on new media initiatives, to better reach the Digital Generation. Bunim-Murray Productions is based in Van Nuys, CA. It was founded in 1987 by Jonathan Murray and the late Mary-Ellis Bunim.
A WINNING QWEST SPOT FROM GARTNER’S THEODORE MELFI
Client: Qwest
Spots Title(s): “House Call”
First Air Date: November 16, 2006
If your cable bill were a game show, you might find yourself on a losing streak. In this spot, two overeager show hosts tell an unlucky customer they’ve made a “House Call” to jack up her prices.
Production Company: GARTNER
Director: Theodore Melfi
DP: Mateo Londono
EP(s): Rich Carter, Don Block
Producer: Bobby Close
Agency: McClain Finlon/Denver
Creative Director(s): Bob Rickert, Mike Weed
Assoc. CD(s): Mandy Stevens, David Paprocki
Agency Producer: Carol Williams
Editorial: Whitehouse Post/Santa Monica
Editor: Kevin Zimmerman
Post/Effects: Saadi Howell
Music: Peligro Music/LA, Barton: Holt/LA
Audio Post: Lime/LA
Sound Design: Whitehouse Post/Santa Monica
Sound Designer: Kevin Zimmerman
Shoot Location: Los Angeles, CA
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CUTTERS PUTS TOGETHER A THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR SAFEWAY
Edited by Cutters ‘ Kathryn Hempel, this spot is full of holiday spirit and great food, all of which make up the “ingredients for life.”
Client: Safeway
Spots Title(s): “Gourd”
First Air Date: November 12, 2006
Production Company: The Sweet Shop/NZ
Director: Kathi Prosser
EP: Steven Shore
Producer: Kyra Shelgren
Agency: DDB/Chicago
Group Creative Director: Diane Ruggie
Art Director: Sarah Reaves
Copywriter: Alice Dobrinsky
Agency Producer: Diane Chacharon
Editorial: Cutters
Editor(s): Kathryn Hempel
Asst. Editor: Jane Zander
EP: Cindy Duffy
Post/Effects: SOLdesignfx/Chicago
Graphic Artist(s): Joseph Lawrence, Todd Whatley
VFX Compositor: Danielle Woods
Online Editor: Steve Wood
Online Asst: Adam Kohr
Producer: Megan Mitra Maples
Sound Design: Another Country/Chicago
Sound Designer: John Binder
CUTTERS, SOLDESIGNFX, & ANOTHER COUNTRY FULFILL DISNEY ‘DREAMS’
Cutters, SOLdesignfx, and Another Country collaborated on this hugely popular commcercial, which follows the "Dreams" of several people who find themselves transported into the magical reality of Disney theme parks.
Production Company: @radical media/UK
Director: TARSEM
DP: Colin Watkinson
Line Producer: Ray Leakey
Agency: Leo Burnett/Chicago
EVP Executive CD/AD: Jonathan Moore
EVP Executive CD/Writer: Ned Crowley
Agency Producer: Tom Keramidas, Vince Geraghty
Editorial: Cutters
Editor: Chris Claeys
Asst Editor: Betty Jo Moore
VFX: Tom Sparks/London
Animation: Dubpoi/Paris, Blur/LA
Post/Effects: SOLdesignfx/Chicago
VFX Artist(s): Chris Kreynus, Brian Higgins
Music: Groove Addicts/Chicago
Sound Design: Another Country/Chicago
Sound Designer: John Binder
Shoot Location: Rome, New Zealand, Orlando, San Francisco
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TIGHT- DOW “The Human Element”
Shot on location in Mexico, Iceland, Namibia, New Zealand, and the Czech Republic, this spot for Dow from tight (www.tightfilms.com) director Iain Mackenzie – who also serves as director of photography – builds deep emotion upon a foundation of natural splendor. He accomplishes this first by incorporating manmade objects of beauty, and following those images with vignettes of man himself, at work and at play in the world.
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EIGHT VFX REUNITES WITH OLIVIER GONDRY ON HP “VERA WANG”
Eight VFX reunites with frequent collaborator Olivier Gondry on “Vera Wang” – the first of a new three-spot HP campaign from the director via Goodby, Silverstein & Partners/SF. Eight is providing visual effects on all three spots. The studio has worked with Gondry on spots and music videos, including projects for Chevy and Daft Punk.
In this first ad, fashion icon Vera Wang extolls the virtues of her HP laptop; as she does, the surface of her desk becomes a canvas for her life.
Client: Hewlett Packard/PSG
Title of Spot: “Vera Wang”
Air date: April 16, 2007
Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Creative Director, Co-Chairman: Rich Silverstein
Creative Director, Partner: Steve Simpson
Group Creative Director/Copywriter: Mike McKay
Associate Creative Director/Art Director: Stephen Goldblatt
Executive Producer: Josh Reynolds
Producer: Vicki Tripp/Josh Reynolds
Assistant Producer: Jen Moore
Account Director: Nancy Reyes
Account Manager: Elena Korzhenevich
Assistant Account Manager: Philippa Campbell
Production Company: Partizan Los Angeles & New York
Director: Olivier Gondry
Cameraman/D.P.: Tim Ives
Executive Producer: Sheila Stepanek
Line Producer: Valerie Romer
Head of Production: Ian Bearce
Editorial Co.: Filmcore
Editor: Michael Hackett
Assistant Editor: Kristin McCasey
Executive Producer: Scott Friske
Visual Effects Company: Eight VFX, Santa Monica
Executive Producer: Baptiste Andrieux
Producer: Marsi Frey
VFX Supervisor/Inferno Artist: Jean-Marc Demmer
Inferno Artists: Ryan Yoshimoto, Stefan Gaillot, Nicolas Cadorette Vigneau, Amalia. Luyet-McMahan
2D Artists: Yann Mallard, Amalia Luyet-McMahan, Randy Little, Joe Chiao, DJ Fitsimmons
3D Supervisor: Fredric Hopp
3D Artists: Scott Metzger, Chien-I Kao, Matthias Jourdes
On Set Supervisor: Jean-Marc Demmer
End Title Designer: Amalia Luyet-McMahan
Producer/Post & Design: Marsi Frey
Online: Eight VFX, Santa Monica, CA
Sound Design: Gus Koven @ Stimmung
Final Music: Mutato Muzika, Composer: Mark Mothersbaugh
Mix Engineer: Peter Rincon @ POP Sound, Santa Monica
Nicole Dionne: Directors, Artists, & Agencies
NICOLE DIONNE, Creative Director/Executive Producer of PrimalScream Music, has brought countless distinguished recording artists together with some of the most celebrated directors and leading agencies in the advertising industry, including:
Directors
Robert Altman
Dante Ariola
Agust Baldursson
Michael Bay
Samuel Bayer
Nick Brandt
Steve Chase
Bruce Dowad
Jesse Dylan
John Frankenheimer
Liz Friedlander
Bronwen Hughes
Wayne Isham
Phil Joanou
Tony Kaye
Lance Kelleher
Ang Lee
Logan
Pucho Mentasti
Marcus Nispel
Vadim Perelman
Thierry Poirand
Jeff Preiss
Guy Ritchie
Eric Saarinen
Peter Smilie
Jim Sonzero
Neil Tardio Jr.
Gerard de Thame
Pam Thomas
Sean Thonson
Traktor
Kinka Usher
Malcolm Venville
Wong Kar Wai
Paula Walker
Simon West
Agencies
GSD&M
Fallon McElligott
Leo Burnett/Chicago
TBWA/Chiat Day
McCann Erickson
Grey Advertising
DDB Needham
Mullen
Dieste & Partners
Zubi Advertising
The Richard’s Group
Doner Advertising
Bozell & Jacobs
Weiden & Kennedy
Foote Cone & Belding
BBDO
Young & Rubicam
Artists & Collaborators
Gram Rabbit
Marc Broussard
Avion
Simon Petty (Minibar)
RemyZero
Billy West
Front Row For The Meltdown
Ephraim Owens
The London Symphony
Steve Bertrand (Torries and Avion)
Caitlin Crosby
Klaus Badelt (‘Pirates of the Carribean’ & ‘Poseidon’)
Stuart Brawley
Derek O’Brien
Heitor Pereira
Russ Landau ("Survivor")
Paul Ill
Michael Des Barres
Gabriel Gordon
Victor Bisetti
Michael Wandmacher
Chris Johnson
Scott V. Smith
Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams)
Deron Johnson (Keyboard Player for Miles Davis & Seal)
Michael Jerome (Pleasure Club)
Julian Beeston
Mark Mercado
Oren Waters
Partial Client List
AT&T
American Airlines
Apple
BMW Films
Budweiser
Cadillac
California Lottery
Canon
Chrysler
Citigroup
Coca-Cola
Converse
Dodge
Dominoʼs
ESPN
Electronic Arts
FEMA
Ford
Gatorade
General Motors
Greenpeace
Greyhound
Guinness
Home Depot
Honda
Hyundai
Intel
Jeep
Levis
Lexus
Lincoln/Mercury
MGM
MasterCard
Miller
Mitsubishi
NCAA
Nestle
Nike
Nissan
Partnership for a Drug-Free America
Pepsi
Powerade
Seagrams
Sony PlayStation
Starz
TaylorMade
Toyota
UPS
Universal Studios
Visa
Wachovia Securities
Washington Mutual
Yahoo!
YMCA
…and countless others.
Read More »CUTTERS – Allstate “Ride Along,” “Flashback”
"FLASHBACK"
"RIDE ALONG"
Allstate "Flashback," "Ride Along"
Airdate: 2/18/07
Agency: Leo Burnett
Producer: Ray Swift
Creative Directors: Charley Wickman
Art Director: Jo Shoesmith
Art Director: Greg Nobles
Copy Writer: George Ellis
Production Company: Tool of North America, Santa Monica
Executive Producer: Jennifer Siegel
Director: Tom Routson
DP: Dan Mindel
Shoot Location: Stanfield, NC & Concord Motorsports Park, NC
Editorial Company: Cutters
Editor: Carlos Lowenstein
Editor Assistant: Christine Gilliland
Producer: Patrick Casey
Audio Post Company: Another Country
Audio Engineer/Sound Design: John Binder
Audio Engineer Assistant: Elliott Traeger
Audio Producer: Scott Maples
Online: SOLdesignfx
Creative Director/FX Supervisor: Chris Markos
Online Editor: Kris Kreynus
Assistant: Danielle Woods
Producer: Bruce Rindler
Telecine: Filmworkers
Colorist: Fred Keller
CUTTERS – Hallmark “Taxi”
Credits:
HALLMARK/Hall of Fame: "TAXI"
Airdate: 2/18/07
Agency: Leo Burnett
Executive Producer: Bob Harley
Creative Directors: Tim Pontarelli & Charley Wickman
Art Director: Jo Shoesmith
Production Company: GARTNER
Director: James Gartner
Executive Producer: Rich Carter
Shoot location: NY
Editorial Company: Cutters
Editor: Carlos Lowenstein
Editor Assistant: Christine Gilliland
Producer: Cindy Duffy
Audio Post Company: Another Country
Audio Engineer/Sound Design: John Binder
Audio Engineer Assistant: Katy Mindeman
Audio Producer: Scott Maples
Online Company: SOLdesignfx
Creative Director/FX Supervisor: Chris Markos
Online Editor: Steve Wood
Assistant: Adam Kohr
Producer: Megan Mitra Maples
Telecine: The Filmworkers Club
Colorist: Fred Keller
