Bicoastal production house Original (formerly Original Film) has partnered with noted editor/director Jonathan Del Gatto who will serve as creative director of its newly formed postproduction division. Plans call for the new post venture to offer services spanning editorial, design, motion graphics, visual effects and animation for broadcast advertising, branded content and other forms of visual media.
In addition to heading up the post division, Del Gatto will be available as a director and editor. In his first project under the Original banner, he directed and cut The Ambassadors of Wow, a series of web videos for Jamba Juice and The Neighbor Agency, Los Angeles.
Del Gatto, who has been a commercial editor for more than 15 years, arrives from Foundation Content where he expanded into directing. His work there included web-based video series for United Airlines and real estate developer Del Webb. He also directed and edited two music videos for Matt & Kim. One of those clips, “Cameras,” earned inclusion earlier this year (1/28) into SHOOT‘s The Best Work You May Never See gallery.
Del Gatto’s background includes seven years at Terminal Media, an editorial house he founded, and eight years at Red Car. He also had tenures at 89 Editorial and Butcher prior to joining Foundation Content.
Over the years, Del Gatto’s work as an editor has received eight AICP Show honors, seven Clios and seven London International Awards. In 2009, he edited while at Butcher a 30-minute film, created by Minneapolis agency Barrie D’Rozario Murphy for the Chambers Hotel, that won a Gold Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival and was honored in the Next Experiential category of the ’09 AICP Next Awards. (The “Chambers Video Art Piece” was directed by Peter Nydrle of production house Nydrle.) In addition to his advertising work which includes such clients as Budweiser, Sony, Nike, Chevy, Coca-cola, Coors and Lexus, Del Gatto has extensive experience in feature films, documentaries, music videos and shorts.
Del Gatto said that he plans to develop Original’s post division into a state-of-the-art digital production studio. “As advertising media continues to expand into web and mobile platforms, the production industry is becoming increasingly post-centric,” he observed. “We plan to capitalize on that trend by offering a way to develop projects in creative, smart and modern ways.”
Original has production offices in Culver City, California and New York City.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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