How VFX Can Save A Commercial With Adam Elder Of Spiffy.

Posted on December 19, 2019December 23, 2019 Posted in Advertising, FilmTagged Commercial Directing Bootcamp, commercials, Filmmak, Pancakes, podcast, Spiffy, vfx, visual effectsLeave a comment

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My friend and collaborator Adam Elder of Visual Effects and Finishing house Spiffy drops by to tell us how effects enhance spots in ways we never see. Other assignments are more obvious, obviously. You’ll learn a lot of how that process flows. Check out Spiffy’s VFX showreel.

Spiffy 2020 VFX Reel from Spiffy on Vimeo.

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Jordan

This is 52 minutes. Commercial Directing Bootcamp is half full for January 18th, 2020. Our Filmmakers’ Sunday Mixer is the next day from 10am to noon. Our sponsor is the only hot sauce made by bears, found only at www.OsoDelicious.org.

Why I Reluctantly Cut A Montage Of My Visual Effects & Filmmaking Trickery.

Posted on June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 Posted in FilmTagged CG character, director's reel, filmmaking, Just Shoot It Podcast, montage, Thryv! Toyota, vfx1 Comment

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Commercial Directors are not well-served by montages, the collection of coolest shots of their career. Advertising agency folks and clients want to see you can tell a good story in :15, :30 or :60 seconds. So for years, I have resisted the montage reel. But friends, this weekend I succumbed to the siren of the montage. After listening to the new breed of filmmakers, like Oren Kaplan and Matt Enlow (Of Just Shoot It Podcast fame) and others, I realized it’s part of the schtick of being a director. And who knows, maybe I’ll get a gig from someone seeing this?

As a comedy director, my work with CG characters, trickery and even critters, must be done with deft collaboration among the entire team. Starting agency creatives come up with these concepts, and then I do a mind-meld with production and post. My wonderful friends at Arsenal Creative did the all post for the Toyota work, and House Special did the newly launched Thryv!

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Jordan

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Secrets Of Mark Nickelsburg’s Short Film “Harry Grows Up”.

Posted on January 22, 2015November 22, 2015 Posted in Film, UncategorizedTagged ad agency, Adobe, cinematography, collaboration, commercials, Confessions of a Commercial Filmmaker, directing., editor, filmmaking, filmmaking podcast, Friar's Club Comedy Film, indie film, Jordan Brady, premiere, respect the process, short film, spoof, StageIt.com, vfxLeave a comment

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Mark Nickelsburg made a great short film, “Harry Grows Up” and we chat about how he did it. Effects, puppets, working with a toddler, you name it. Originally part of last week’s interview, the tapes were lost for weeks. Until now.

Buy your tickets now for my live web presentation February 10th at 6pm West Coast, “Confessions of a Commercial Filmmaker” on StageIt. It’s an intro to commercial filmmaking with a live Q&A. It will sell out.

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Jordan

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How VFX Can Save A Commercial With Adam Elder Of Spiffy.

Why I Reluctantly Cut A Montage Of My Visual Effects & Filmmaking Trickery.

Secrets Of Mark Nickelsburg’s Short Film “Harry Grows Up”.