SHORT CUTS
Curious Pictures, New York, produced a mixed media :60 for AT&T’s 7/7 offer via agency Impiric, New York. "Building Blocks," which combines stop motion with digital animation, begins with a single block that is dropped into frame. Soon, more blocks fall as the surface fills up with the objects. The pieces then come together and connect, forming a helicopter that becomes a computer that later goes on to create a phone, submarine, octopus, train, tunnel and lion, and finally the AT&T logo. Curious’ credits include director Steve Oakes, producer Nancy Giandomenico, DP Tom Lucak, editor Anthony Orkin, set designer Hunt Squibb, and project manager Lewis Kofsky.
Shooters, Post & Transfer, a film and video postproduction facility, is moving its headquarters and most activities to Philadelphia by late spring. The company offers Spirit Datacine with Data output, da Vinci 2k color correction and Primal, two Fire suites, CGI and graphic design, Flame, two digital Betacam suites, two Avid suites, two digital audio suites, an audio recording studio, and film and video crews and studio. Shooters will retain a studio in Cherry Hill, N.J., for larger shoots.
Santa Monica-based Blind Visual Propaganda (BVP) created the promotional trailers for the 2001 Los Angeles Film Festival. BVP’s design director Chris Do and director/lead designer/animator Tom Koh, produced three spots which mix live action with graphic elements, and feature the tag line, "See a movie instead." Additional BVP personnel on the project included editor Erik Buth, composer Adam Sanborne and DP Joe Maxwell.
MUSIC NOTES
Big Foote Music, New York, composed music for two Coca-Cola spots promoting the company’s Olympic Torch Relay sponsorship, via McCann-Erickson, New York. Both ads feature cyclist Lance Armstrong. For "13,000 Miles," a cinema :60, Big Foote provided McCann-Erickson with a half-dozen understated musical samples to present to Coca-Cola. But when Coke decided the cinema launch spot required something "anthemic," Big Foote composer/co-founder Sherman Foote had his composers readdress the spot by composing orchestral pieces that peak at the crucial emotional moment when Armstrong hands off the Olympic torch to a local runner. Sound design was provided by Frank Merone, of Jump, New York. The :30 "Letters" features music composed by Big Foote’s Chris Jordao. Ray Foote was the producer for the music/sound design house.
Venice, Calif.-headquartered Machine Head worked on Sybase’s "Office Worker" and "Mobile Worker," out of GMO/Hill Holliday, San Francisco. The :30s showcase a musical composition by Chris Neilman and sound design by Chris Smith and creative director Stephen Dewey. Vicki Melanson produced for Machine Head.
