Friday, July 27, 2007

Lily Deveen - The Next Big Thing ?

Here is an independent video from Ottawa singing sensation Lily Deveen and her song It All Adds Up. Shot and edited right here in Ottawa !

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Vanessa Emerson - Host of Grape Potential

Meet Vanessa Emerson, the host of the on-line wine show Grape Potential. Vanessa talks about her background as well as the content of the show. In the interest of full disclosure, I am shooting and editing.

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Monday, July 2, 2007

DIGI60 2007 - The Producers

Meet the producers for DIGI60 2007. Each of the producers talk about why they love film-making. I also found out you can pull a decent chroma key with HDV.

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Friday, June 22, 2007

CUBED - Premier

The premier of the 35mm short Cubed took place on June 21 at Cube Gallery. In this video director Lisa Virtue talks to the attendees, including some of the cast and crew.

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Howard Sonnenburg - Studio Manager - Atomic Audio

An interview with Howard Sonnenburg - the Studio Manager and Chief Engineer at Atomic Audio. In this interview, he tells me about the role of the audio post production house, as well as their introduction of ISDN to enable remote voice over work.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Lisa Virtue - Director

I talk with Director Lisa Virtue. She tells me about directing a short called Cubed. Shot entirely on 35mm, Lisa talks about the experience of working on film. The final production also has a full 5.1 audio mix created by Bartmart Audio right here in Ottawa. For information on screenings, visit this site.

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Friday, June 1, 2007

Marisa Fusaro - Producer - Design U

I sit down with Producer Marisa Fusaro. She talks about producing Design U, a design show produced right here in Ottawa by Mountain Road Productions.

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Brigitte Gall Part 2 - Writing

Part 2 of my interview with Gemini Award winning performer and writer Brigitte Gall. She discusses
the highs and lows of trying to create and sell projects.

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Friday, May 18, 2007

Location Sound - Simon Paine

An interview with location sound recording expert Simon Paine. Simon has worked on Gemini award winning productions here in the Ottawa area, as well as productions that have taken him across Canada, Europe and even Africa. I talked with him as he was working on a show being produced for TFO here in Orleans. Here is the interview as I talk to Simon about the challenges of location audio in everything from studio productions to reality television.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Performer Brigitte Gall

I sat down with Gemini Award winning performer and writer Brigitte Gall. Here is the first part of the interview where I talked to Brigitte about her performing career, and how it brought her to Ottawa. Brigitte's most recent project was Me My House and I, produced here in Ottawa by Mountain Road Productions.

We also talked about writing and creating projects for television - I will post that interview in the not too distant future.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

INTERVIEW WITH ANDY SMITH of DIGI60 2007


There will soon be more info up on the DIGI 60 web-site ... click on the logo to visit the site.

Here is the interview I did with DIGI60 founder and director Andy Smith. He talks about his experience starting the festival, as well as the type of producers they will be looking for in this year's festival.

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

DIGI60 2007 is on


DIGI 60 - is on for 2007 ... click on the logo to visit the site. I am hoping to have an interview with the Festival Director Andy Smith up soon.

If you are interested in producing a short, check out the 2005 Documentary which profiles what the producers went through.


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