Production: SourceGas
Jeff and I are shooting three spots for SourceGas, promoting commercial and residential rebates. Scott Tuke is behind the Sony F900.
agency | blue onion
creative director | Mike Heinrich
director | Jeff Feierstein
writer | Jordan Sher
dp | Scott Tuke
ac | Doug O’Kane
dit | Eric Anolin
script supervisor | Megan Cull
gaffer | Chris Gerding
key grip | [...]
MSP 2011 Ski Feature – “Attack of La Niña”
The Colorado ski season is just around the corner, and I’m ready for the snow to fly after finishing color on Matchstick Productions’ “Attack of La Niña”. The feature was shot on location in Colorado, Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and California, during the 2010-2011 season, one of the snowiest in recent history.
The MSP [...]
Production with Network Affiliates
Luke, Matt and I are on location with Network Affiliates. We’ve taken over (and painted) the streets of a beautiful S.E. Denver neighborhood. Jeff Feierstein is directing; and Darick D’Ercole is shooting ARRI Alexa. The best production crew in Colorado is listed after the jump.
director | Jeff Feierstein
location manager | Brooke Johnson
1st asst director | [...]
Network Affiliates – Personal Injury Testimonial
agency | Network Affiliates
editor | Matt Struck
audio engineer | Kirk Clausen
Testimonials are a great way to express the personal feelings of how a product or service has impacted an individual. The benefit of this particular series of testimonials was that they were going to be used on
the internet, thus not being constricted to the 30 [...]
CCT+Media Pantry for Rocky Mountain Health Plans
A rainy and snowy Colorado day won’t stop this year’s production. We started in the knee-deep powder at Loveland Ski Resort; moved on to gorgeous interiors in rainy Idaho Springs; and now we’re dancing with a cowboy at in the Highlands. CCT will shoot two commercials over the next two days in various front range [...]
Colorado Lottery – Cool Millions
Cactus put together a great team for this recent Colorado Lottery spot. Twist director Matt Pittroff shot Arri ALEXA. Matt Struck and Eric Anolin worked the AVID cut and Baselight color. Seductive animation by the team at Fuse.
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TUFF SHED – Photo Album
Steven Lopez created this purely 3D project in Adobe After Effects, utilizing scanned photo album pages, and a 3D camera with page peel transitions to deliver a virtual photo album. The spot is built to be customized for seasonal TUFF SHED offers, additional copy and different client photos and video.
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Avalon River Cruises
Crosspoint editors Steven Lopez and Luke Bishop worked together to finish this piece utilizing Final Cut Pro and After Effects. Working with client provided stills and video, they worked to deliver a video that had a cohesive feel to match the Avalon brochure and branding.
agency | Cactus
edit + fx | Steven Lopez and Luke [...]
K\H – Pinnacle Bank 2010
In 2010, Karsh\Hagan tapped the talents of director Tony McNamara of Futuristic Films, and the team at Crosspoint to deliver another beautiful broadcast campaign for Pinnacle Bank. Tony shot Super 35mm, and the negative was transferred with a flat-pass look to HDCam. Tom Welborn edited in AVID Media Composer and Eric Anolin worked [...]
20/20 Institute
In 2010, we finished two broadcast campaigns for blue onion and 20/20 Institute. The client message was delivered by celebrity sports figures in the Indianapolis and Denver markets.
blue onion’s Tom Baldonado and Mike Heinrich travelled to the practice facilities of the Indianapolis Colts to shoot a series of spots with NFL super-mascot Blue, and [...]
Pinnacol Assurance – Hands
When Karsh\Hagan was asked to make a new spot for Pinnacol Assurance, they reached out to the best talents in Denver to execute their vision. Karsh’s ode to working hands was shot by Futuristic Film’s Tony McNamara on RED, Crosspoint’s Donald Corsiglia completed both the off-line and on-line edits in AVID DS and CO3 in Santa [...]
Cactus+Futuristic Films/Tri State
We’re back on location with Cactus for the next two days. Futuristic Films is shooting a series of TV commercials for Tri State Energy.
I’m in the ‘VTR’ department today, using Crosspoint’s AJA Ki Pro for HD video playback. Jasper Grey is shooting ARRI Alexa – ProRes 4444 LogC.
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Wyoming Department of Health
Sukle Advertising & Design partnered with Futuristic Films to produce and shoot a series of spots pleading to the smokers of Wyoming. The spots were shot on Canon 5DMkII HDSLR and off-lined at Futuristic. The spots were then color-graded at Crosspoint by Senior Colorist, Eric Anolin, in Baselight. Final Cut Pro conform and online edit [...]
On Set: Cactus/Colorado Lottery
Matt and I are tech consulting for the latest Cactus/Colorado Lottery spot. This will be our first project shot on the ARRI Alexa.
The production company, Twist, will record ProRes 4444 LogC to SxS cards, cloned to LaCie ruggeds. Matt will offline and finish in AVID MC5 via AMA. I’ll conform an AAF to the original [...]
MoneyGram
Donald Corsiglia created this award-winning spot for MoneyGram, using Cinema4D, Adobe After Effects and AVID DS.
client | MoneyGram
edit, fx | Donald Corsiglia, Crosspoint
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Rocky Mountain Health Plans
Luke Bishop edited a recent Rocky Mountain Health Plans TV campaign for CCT Advertising. The commercials were shot in 2 days in several Colorado locations, including Idaho Springs, Empire and Silver Plume.
Theresa Wingert of Planet Dog Media shot Canon 5DMkII and 7D HDSLR.
client | Rocky Mountain Health Plans
agency | CCT Advertising
production | Planet Dog Media
fcp [...]
Colorado Lottery – Operation
Colorado Lottery – Operation from Crosspoint on Vimeo.
Cactus enlisted LAIKA/house director Mark Gustafson to create flawless stop-motion animation for the newest Colorado Lottery Monopoly Scratch game. Eric Anolin color graded uncompressed 10-bit quicktime files in Baselight, and delivered HDCam and Digital Beta masters for final audio sweetening at Rocky Mountain Recorders.
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Westfield Company introduces 1800 Larimer
Crosspoint and blue onion provided beginning-to-end production and post for Westfield Company’s opening of 1800 Larimer, the newest addition to the Downtown Denver skyline. A technologically-advanced office tower, 1800 Larimer is LEED Platinum certified and represents the future of urban office space.
The project was truly all hands on-deck: Scott Tuke shot interiors, interviews, [...]
Celestial Seasonings’ Kombucha
This is an editor’s cut of a video that I made for Celestial Seasonings to introduce their new Kombucha tea drinks. The project was produced by Doug Millington. Digital Dave created the animating mandalas, and Tim Turner created the 3D bottles. Music by Orbital.
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anythink: A Revolution of Rangeview Libraries
Objectives:
This is one of two documentaries created by Ricochet Ideas and Crosspoint to unveil and explain a revolutionary new concept in libraries. We also created 3-minute webisodes to give focus to more specific library topics. The shows have been broadcast at four new library opening events and are the key presentation at the 2010 [...]
Victory “Fuel it”
(video)
Integer Group chose Post Modern, Coupe Studios and Crosspoint for the latest commercial for Victory Motorcycles. The footage was shot entirely on RED ONE at 4K. Jason Sedmak (Post Modern) cut on Avid Media Composer (using Metafuze to transcode the .r3d files to .mxf). Eric Anolin conformed the 4K .r3d files + [...]
Boston Market – Lunch for Lunch
Cameron Christopher Thomas Advertising recently recruited Walk the Line Films and Crosspoint to execute two new Boston Market spots. Walk the Line Films’ Director of Photography, Roger Sackett, shot all food footage on a Sony EX1 using a lens adapter to accommodate the use of film primes. The results are stunning and look remarkably close [...]
Focus on the Family Tebow
Focus on the Family partnered with Tim Tebow and his family to produce the organization’s first Super Bowl commercial. Steve Vidano shot on a RED camera; and he and Paul Murphy edited on Final Cut Pro. Crosspoint’s Baselight color grading system gave them the power to conform the Final Cut timeline from the raw [...]
Flatiron
production | Luke Bishop, Shawn Roberts and Chris Walsh, Crosspoint
edit | Luke Bishop, Crosspoint
sound | Chris Walsh, Crosspoint
