CineSource Magazine

The Loop Aug 2011

Video Arts

The view from the bridge at Video Arts is fair to partly sunny as befits our summer season. After a tough start, things have been heating up and we have enjoyed a modest updraft in activity and giving us some reason for optimism. Summer fun included developing the media for a big push by Nintendo at E3 in June, announcing their next generation controller.

Also in June, "Knife Fight", a political drama starring Rob Lowe and written and directed by Bill Guttentag, went in to production in S.F. Producers Daniel and Catherine Davila hired local hero Robert Dalva as editor and asked Video Arts to host the post-production, providing a pair of AVid editing rooms, technical and engineering support during editorial. The aggressive post-schedule calls the DI (digital intermediate) and color grading to be completed early this Fall with VA colorist Ed Rudolph.

VA is also wrapping post on "The San Francisco Symphony at 100" a special documentary being broadcast by KQED. Produced in conjunction with the SF Symphony and directed by Janette Gitler and edited by Blair Gerhkow, the program required the compositing a large number of green screen shots of interviews of the stars of Symphony past and present. Ed Rudolph was the colorist for VidArts with Loren Sorenson as the on-line editor with Scott Harris handling the compositing.

Other fun projects...VidArts produced a sizzle video for Beringer WInery priming the pump for their holiday promotions with heart-throb crooner, Michael Bublé and a branding video for Chateau St. Jean. Dave Murray has been providing design, motion graphics and editorial for a series of Visa videos for Karen Bisgeier and Richard Sloss of Dada and another Visa project for Rip Charbonnet Creative.

One Union

One Union Recording Senior Engineer Joaby Deal worked with producer Patti Bott from Amazon Advertising to mix a television spot for Kashi. He also teamed up with Duncan-Channon producer Karena Dacker to mix television spots for ticket outpost Stubhub. Deal collaborated with Draft FCB producer Patrick Wilkinson on a variety of projects this month, the two of which were a television spot for EA’s the Sims and a radio spot for San Francisco brand Dockers. The last project they worked on together was a radio spot for Habitat for Humanity.

One Union Recording Senior Engineer Andy Greenberg worked with producer Heather Yarbrough from Ubisoft to mix a video spot called “Imagine”. He also worked with prodcer Stef Smith from Mekanism to continue work on the teasers and movie trailer for Rise of the Planet Apes. Greenberg collaborated with Bob Dorfman from Baker Street Advertising to record English and Spanish television spots for Honda. Lastly, Greenberg continues to work with production manager Ruth Hasty of For Whom Productions to record ADR for the upcoming film “Hemingway & Gellhorn”. So far, he has recorded Connie Nielsen and Lars Ulrich for their roles in the HBO produced television movie.

One Union Recording Senior Engineer Eben Carr continues work with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners producer Christine Oh on the radio spots for Sonic. Carr also worked with Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners producer Lori Pisani to mix television spots for fashion apparel aggregate site Piperlime. He collaborated with producer Gary Neuman from The Hive to record and mix television spots for the Marin Zero Waste initiative. Lastly, he worked in collaboration with Umlaut and Pereira & O’Dell to mix dialogue on a spot for Logitech.

One Union Recording Engineer Matt Cohen worked tirelessly with producer Sean Atkins of Discovery to record over 40 segments with talent Mike Rowe. The spots are parts of the new MyDiscovery.com app for iPads. Cohen also teamed up with Gurney Productions producer Adam Polanger to record Mike Rowe for Discovery’s Shark Week radio spots. The spots to promote the well-known television event helped Shark Week to set record-breaking ratings. He also worked with producer Peter Hathaway of Blue Door Films to mix videos for Best Buy’s in-store kiosks. Lastly, Cohen, Eben Carr and Matt Zipkin wrapped up work producer Andrea Toyias of Blizzard on Diablo III recording.