A few days after receiving the call to shoot Wednesday and Thursday on a pair of branded videos for BuzzFeed, they added another one for Friday: Teens Teach Their Parents How To Dance. Initially, we planned on De Longpre’s small white […]
A few days after receiving the call to shoot Wednesday and Thursday on a pair of branded videos for BuzzFeed, they added another one for Friday: Teens Teach Their Parents How To Dance. Initially, we planned on De Longpre’s small white […]
It’s been a busy period for both BuzzFeed branded video content and myself. During the first week of November, I shot three different videos for the flourishing production company! The first two projects recently hit the web: Jane Qian’s Time Hacks for […]
Animals, children, and fake snow: my first shoot for BuzzFeed had the holy trinity of elements that often torture filmmakers. Thankfully everything went swimmingly. Starting at 10:30AM on November 10, 2014, production designer, Ariana Nakata, and her art department transformed […]
Due to a few missed opportunities because of scheduling, I haven’t collaborated with fellow Northwestern grad, Andrew Garland, in a few years. As Director/Partner at Good Engine Media in New York City, he’s been doing great work in the commercial world on […]
August 24, 2012 marked my first time shooting for Jordi Matsumoto’s recently formed digital content studio, Marching Penguin. In the time since we shot that promo for the Hailey Mayz Foundation, the boutique company has grown in many ways. Being the […]
Some gigs take what seems like an eternity to come to fruition, while others take hours. The series of commercials that I shot for Stadium Nissan Orange County is kind of a hybrid of the two. In April of 2012, […]
Getting the call to shoot a promo for a wildly popular video game, Dance Central 3, was exciting enough, but when The James told me that we were using Nicki Minaj’s smash-hit, “Starships” I did a little dance of my […]
Continuing the trend of shifting our focus towards commercials (not because we don’t love music videos, but the budgets have been too low lately), The James and I are proud to launch this 1-minute spot for the Los Angeles based company, Well […]
There is something fancy about a World-Wide Commercial. We often hear actors talking about booking a National Commercial, but you can’t deny that the whole globe is a little wider of an audience… That is just what the hilarious Nathan J. Barnatt […]
This blog entry should be called, “My day at the Fish Tank with Chali 2na and The James,” but I have already established a pattern for when I blog about work and that wouldn’t jive with the other entries. In […]