Boards Magazine - April 1, 2009
Word
The big squeeze Omnicom overatures toward enforcing sequential liability mean tough days for prodcos
BOARDFLOW
Board Flow Monitoring the level of scripts from agencies that production companies experienced from mid-February to mid-March: Los Angeles 5/10; Toronto 5/10; New York 4/10; London 5/10
MONITOR
A quickie with an agency producer Bullet, New York founder Oscar Thomas was a child smoker, has just had a child and swears childishly.
Name your price The Purchase Brothers excel at frugal filmmaking
Most insightful Oslo digital agency develops "Most Evil" student project
Playlist Depeche Mode> "Wrong"; Bat For Lashes> "Daniel"; Röyksopp> "Happy Up Here"
Top spots Sagami "Love Distance"; Puma "Lift"; Claro "Guinea Pig"; Beate-Uhse "Child Lock"; Reporters Without Borders "The Test"
The lessons learned What can adidas.TV learn from Bud.TV?
DIRECTOR'S CHAIR
Professional plus one Syd Garon animates NASA's all-star collabo
SPOTOPSY
Water logged Steve Rogers emphasizes H2O for James Boags Draught
ON LOCATION
Thumbing a ride Academy tackles four locales in six days for Lastminute.com
I.D.
Paper Trail Jamie Caliri sidesteps digital for pop-up titles
Round we go Anima Istanbul's Ayse Unal cheats a zoetrope for film promo
THE 10th ANNUAL FIRST BOARDS AWARDS
Effortless craft Director Winner Harold Einstein makes light work of comedy
Nima Nourizadeh > Partizan Director Finalist
Scott Lyon > Outsider Director Finalist
Sam Peacocke > Robber's Dog Director Finalist
Trish Sie > Bob Industries Director Finalist
Learning curve Agency Producer Winner Matthew Mattingly is quick on the uptake
Ben Davies > BBH, London Agency Producer Finalist
Nikolas Traxler > Leo Burnett, Chicago Agency Producer Finalist
Chaos theory Editing Winner David Brodie digs deep
Chris McKay > Cut + Run Editing Finalist
Bruce Herrman > Lost Planet Editing Finalist
Ye old twee Composer Winner Scott Langley discovers his inner folkie
Oli Chang > Nylon Studios Composer Finalist
Elijah B. Torn > MassiveMusic Composer Finalist
Procrastination pays Animation Winner Johnny Kelly finds inspiration in avoiding the inevitable
FX & Mat > Nexus Productions Animation Finalist
Tomas Fontes Salles > The Mill Animation Finalist
The eyes have it Why observation is key for VFX Winner Gavin Camp
James Sindle > The Mill VFX Finalist
Minchung Cho > Framestore NY VFX Finalist
Outsider art Motion Graphics/Design Winner Stephen Watkins' age belies his vision
Sean Dekkers > Oktober Motion Graphics/Design Finalist
Chris Hoffman > The Core Motion Graphics/Design Finalist
EDITING
Z-axis adventures A primer for editing in stereoscopic 3-D
Artful error Nabil and Ghost Town Media 'datamosh' Kanye West
INVENTORY & HOOKUPS
Inventory & hookups A look at who's making the moves
REARVIEW
OMG, cutest YouTube animal videos EVER!!! The Viral Factory taps the cuteness craze for Samsung
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