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- HECHO A MANO TRAILER HITS THE WEB
We’re awfully close to completion of our new film Hecho a Mano. We just have to lock down some archives, do the color correct and sound mix and the film will be off to festivals before airing on PBS in November. PBS/WLRN liked the rough cut so much we’re even talking about a sequel featuring [...]
- SOUTHWEST SAYS “NO MAS” TO STAMPEDE
Unlike the famed Leonard-Duran fight - which went eight rounds before Duran uttered his infamous submission - looks like our Stampede video for AirTran has put a quick finish to the fledgling ad war with Southwest Airlines. Here’s a link to the UPI story in which Southwest says it’s throwing in the towel. We’re bummed. [...]
- “SKIP THE STAMPEDE”: AIRTRAN VIDEO GOES VIRAL, 90K VIEWS AND CLIMBING
We recently got a call from AirTran’s Director of PR Christopher White asking if we’d seen the ad Southwest Airlines was airing during the NCAAs, showing a bunch of their crazy ramp workers running up and flashing an AirTran plane. We had indeed. Apparently, AirTran crew members were hoping the company wouldn’t take Southwest’s crack [...]
- BEHIND-THE-SCENES STILLS: HECHO A MANO SHOOT
We’ve been busy filming our PBS documentary Hecho A Mano, featuring four expat Cuban artists who work with their hands (a pianist, a sculptor and twin brother mosaic-makers). The film will hit the festival circuit and a TV near you this fall. In the meantime, check out how good we look doing it.
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- THE MAKING OF COLTS 1
Indy is headed to Miami for the Super Bowl. We’re guessing AirTran will have Colts 1 in South Florida quite a bit over the coming weeks.
Check out the making-of video we made for the airline a while back, its one of series of NFL and NBA-themed paint jobs AirTran is tricking-out its planes with. [...]
- La Poursuite (The Chase)
Santa brought us a steadicam for Christmas (there must have been some clerical error on the naughty/nice list). So, we ran downstairs from our office and played with the new toy for a minute. Lots more to come.
Crew:
Le Lapin (The Rabbit): Brett O’Bourke
Man with Mannequin: Jorge Rubiera
Man on sidewalk: Castor Fernandez
Camera operator: Richard Patterson
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- THE MAKING OF MAGIC 1
We’ve been so slammed with work the past few months that we’ve neglected the blog. That’ll all change in 2010 when the office gets reorganized a bit and we have a couple crack interns on board to help out. Meanwhile, we’ve been busy cranking out video for AirTran Airways and we’re glad to see the [...]
- AIRTRAN AND DSM DISNEY TRIP
AirTran Airways took 40 disadvantaged kids from Atlanta to Magic Kingdom for the day. Most of them had never been out of the ATL city limits. AirTran commissioned Common Machine to document the day.
AirTran and DSM Disney Trip from Common Machine Prod. on Vimeo.
- NICHE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WEB
This fall, expect to see channels full of Amercanized versions of Japanese game shows and even more reality TV. Cheap and easy to produce, the networks are producing heavy slates of that drivel as a busted economy has made advertising dollars disappear - dollars that were already headed for the web, now even faster. On [...]
- HOT ON/OFF THE PRESS
* We’re producing a short documentary for Pacha Nightclub (NYC), featuring all the sex and sweat and behind-the-scenes action of their events during winter music conference week. The three-part series is in post-production now. Look for it within the next two weeks.
* The long-awaited next episode of our video series for Lost at E Minor [...]
