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Check Out 2011's Top Spots
Take a pause for the holidays and check out all the busiest showreel spots across Showreelfinder in 2011.
Screen Legend Don McAlpine ACS ASC To Receive Raymond Longford Award
The first award to be bestowed by the newly-established Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) is the Raymond Longford Award.
This will be awarded to cinematographer Don McAlpine ACS ASC.
McAlpine is a lauded cinematographer with is a veteran of more than 50 feature films.
Honouring the great Australian film pioneer, Raymond Longford, the award provides recognition to a person who has made a truly outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Australia's screen environment and culture.
McAlpine said, “I accept the Raymond Longford Award as a great personal honour. I am thrilled with the honour it implies to the art and craft of Australian cinematographers.”
Career highlights include The Getting of Wisdom, ‘Breaker’ Morant ,My Brilliant Career, Peter Pan, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, for which he was nominated for an Oscar® for Best Cinematography in 2002, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Colin Skyba Director
A warm welcome to director Colin Skyba. A winner of Clios and a Gold Lion at Cannes, Coiln''s reel is all about connecting with people. Be it comedy, slice of life, or more serious public service announcements. the foreground is natural performance and real people narratives.
David Jagoda Director Updates
Director David Jagoda adds to his catalogue of tvc spots updates with a handful of new spots for Babici, AAPT and McDonalds.
Jagoda is a freelance director with a rich history of creating attention grabbing campaigns, sometimes controversial. Usually specialising in comedy and performance, his decorations have included spots on the Shots Reel, inclusion in the Cannes Grand Prix, ATV, and One Show awards.
More Changes Under The Hood
This month we're introducing even more features to our Dashboard, our complete online showreel control system.
If you haven't logged in yet, get in soon, and have a look around at what you can do with this powerful tool set. The more data you add, the more pages you'll be seen on.
Latest changes include Edit Specialties, Add Captions and Add Keywords.
Director Shahir Daud gets Double Happy
Labours of love or full blown feature film calling cards, it can sometimes take years to see short films pay back a little of the effort spent working on them.
Enjoying some well earned success is "Double Happy" an evocative short film created by expat Director/Editor/Motion Graphics Designer Shahir Daud. Influential US indie film site Short of the Week has picked up as this week's feature. Visit the site to watch it, share it, rate it.
Quick and Dirty - Let's Get Technical
Apple ProPres HQ422 Decoding is now supported in our upload process. If this rings a bell to you, you'll agree it's a major upgrade to our video encoding path. We can now support most popular video and audio formats.
The Dashboard is Here
Our major service upgrade is now here for trial by all current users.
This is a free upgrade that allows you to fully control your content and page profiles.
Upload reels, and manage your content at anytime.
Get in touch to arrange your trial and see it in action.
Some Changes, Some Bug Fixes
Back To Work 2011
Seasons Greetings
Taking this opportunity to wish you and yours a warm and safe Christmas, and a jolly great New Year ahead.
Our offices will reopen on Monday 17th January.
Of course, you can always find us by email during this period but you may need to wait for us to paddle our boards back to shore, or some other summer time distraction.
We look forward to introducing some exciting feature upgrades to you in the early stages of 2011.
Warm seasons greetings from Simon, Boris, Alice and our (still hard at work) technical team Chris and Dru.
Some Strange Creaks and Bumps
We're installing a new database ...There may well be some strange bumps and creaks as the old one gets hauled out over the next 24 hours.
We're trying to keep any interruptions outside AEDST office hours. Thanks for your patience.
Boris Mitchell Joins Showreelfinder in Business Development Role
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Boris Mitchell as our new Business Development Manager. Boris brings with him a wealth of industry knowledge including a television background as Facilities Manager at Channel TEN along with time spent as a Territory Manager in the professional audio industry and more recently 19 years as an Account Manager for Kodak’s motion picture products servicing the needs of local & overseas DOP’s, production companies, independent filmmakers, film schools & post houses.
Boris will be utilising his customer relationship skills along with many years of sales & marketing expertise to further enhance the Showreelfinder experience for all of our customers.
Find Boris’ on 0439 885 980 or by email.
Stay tuned for more exciting news from Showreelfinder as we prepare to launch The Dashboard, a powerful new tool set for complete online showreel management.
Revamps and Renovation
Krafthaus Wins International Emmy
Krafthaus Director David Stubbs wins an International Emmy for Reservoir Hill. Along with co-creator Thomas Robins, David was in Cannes this April to receive the Emmy award (New Zealand's first International Emmy) for KHF Media's "Reservoir Hill" online drama series. See the KHF Website
Updates Direct To Your Network
Our updates now feed direct to facebook and twitter. Stay up to date with every showreel, news item, or podcast update we make. It's easy as clicking on the icons to the right.
New This Week: After FX Animation
Motion Graphics specialist aka After FX Animator Todd Neale joins Showreelfinder.
Read his full profile here and find his showreel here.
End of Year Numbers
We're talking 2.9 million hits, 955,000 page impressions, 38,000 unique visitors watching 10 to 12,000 showreels every month. Average length of visit is 6 minutes 30 seconds.
Build A Showreel Online and Save It As A DVD
Need to add a new spot to your reel? No problem, simply forward us the file.Then, when required, you can simply create a customised showreel at anytime.
Change the order of the spots, choose what's on your reel, and decide where to send it.It can be viewed by dvd, email, iphone, and computer.
Our aim is to streamline your showreel creation and distribution.
Full Web Design Service Available
We can now offer you a full custom built website and design services. We offer online content mangement, and digital storage facilities for individual websites or full suites for production companies.Contact our Sydney office for full details.
An Easier Way To Send Us New Showreel Spots
To send us new showreel spots simply navigate to our JOIN page. Click on Add Files and choose a new file to send to us.
Easy....
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Cranbrook - Australian & NZ TVC Production
Cranbrook’s Roger Tompkins has built an international reputation for his commercial direction with his dedication to creative excellence.
His strong visual work is a given, as is his legendry collaboration with creative teams.
He is always striving to realise the idea’s full potential. Tompkins: “'I strive to create clear communications. I am about ensuring the outcome matches the expectation, and preferably exceeding it.'
Tompkins is especially skilled when combining the visual narrative with live action talent direction.
His unique comedic style is founded upon a love for slapstick and more subtle ‘less is more’ humor he comments “gawd everything is so PC at the moment, you know mum & dad, sitting at home watching the box surrounded by tails of doom and gloom need cheering up: yes it’s hard to tell a joke anymore, but here in Australia and New Zealand you’re still allowed to be rude and offend people and humor is soo good for a brand and so great for the nation’s soul….”
Wayne T Smith, Production Designer and Liquids/Beer Specialist
His work features predominately in the international market.Now available throughout Australasia. Involved in commercial production for more than 35 years. Always in the art department, he’s worked with many of the industries best directors and busiest companies worldwide. A sought after Designer and technician who traditionally works out the USA and New Zealand, his expansion into Australia and Singapore is focused more on his abilities as a Beer and Liquids Specialist.
A liquids expert for more than thirty years, when it comes to making liquids look fantastic in front of a camera he’s done it all:
• He’ll create any look you want, from the perfect pour shot of beer into a frosty glass, to a bottle of coke flying through the air.
• The perfect standing shot to flowing waves.
• Works with all liquids: beer, hard liquor, soft drinks, milk and water.
• Special mechanical effects: pours, rigs; waves, spillovers, flying bottle caps, and ice.
• Complete set of perfect faux ice cubes for soft drink and whiskey commercials.
• He knows the difference between proper small bubbles on a head of beer and large soapy ones. From too much spritz over a logo, to the perfect running droplet.
• There’s nothing with liquids that he hasn’t done in front of a camera; this experience and expertise will save you valuable time and money.
• He’s knowledgeable, hard working and does it all with a good attitude and good cheer.
His broad experience in all aspects of the craft makes him an invaluable team member. From designing to liquid effects, he’ll bring out the best in your project.
Production design / Art direction / Liquids specialist. Wayne is based in Auckland, New Zealand. He works Los Angeles as a local. He’s a member of the IA.
Contact:
Wayne T Smith
The Art Ranch Limited
Inside New Zealand: 09 410-6552
Outside New Zealand: +649 410-6552
Email - artranch@xtra.co.nz
Skype - waynetsmith
New Search Tool Test
Notice the new search tool top right?
This is our beta test of a new way of searching for showreels.
Give it a try....
We're recording what you search for and fine tuning the search results.
Custom Video Podcasts Launched
Welcome to our new regular video podcast feature.
Click on this button to download the first episode.
It features new work from DP Callan Green for Sky Online NZ.
Director is Sam Peacock for Robber's Dog.
Find Brave Films director Amanda Jane skillfully honing her dialogue
performance direction in this atmospheric cancer awareness PSA.
Also from Brave is Director Edwin McGill's comedic homage to Marcel Marceau for Amplimesh.
If you're a subscriber you can submit your latest spots. We'll ready them for download to iTunes.
A branded content service is available,the perfect forum for production companies to showcase your latest and greatest.
Director Nathan Price at Capital City Films
Nathan is back directing Commercial work following his successful and rewarding foray into the world of Drama Directing for which he took out Best Director Awards at both the recent Air NZ Screen Awards and Qantas Television Awards.
Contact Producer Julie Elstone for a reel.
+64(0)21 426 921
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Email us your details and we'll add you to the data base and get back to you with artwork requirements. Contact Us.
Update The News,Reinforce Your Web Presence
Share your successes and adventures with the wider Showreelfinder community.
Submit a news item using our contact page to send us your story.
We use RSS feeds (Real Simple Syndication) to help internet search engines find out and consolidate information.The more info available to the serarch engines the more comprehensive information that can be offered to web searchers looking for your work and contact details.
Large Size Showreel Download Service
Now you can download large size showreels and choose to watch them full screen.
You may need to download the plug in for Mac or for PC to get your system set up if you haven't already.
Send us your latest reel and we'll put it up for you,
Your reel will be available anywhere a computer is online, so there will be no worries paying for overseas couriers or freight charges. After viewing, the reel download can be burnt onto a dvd in the popular Div X format.
Let us know what you think.
We're always interested in your feedback.
On The Block for 2008
Happy New Year everybody. We're back in the office for 2008 and working on some handy upgrades for the website. Stay tuned.
Make 2008 the year to put your reel online.
Be sure that your showreel is never further than a click away.
& Gossip
DOP, Dale McCready is currently working to get established in the UK market, shooting commercials, drama and music promos while also helping out in various capacities in post-production. He is interested in more work in Asia and returning to New Zealand in January to shoot a feature. Production Designer Nigel Evans has had a busy 2007 applying years of film and TV Set Design to produce Ads with that “ big movie” feel …from pirate ships in south Auckland for Perry Bradley at Film Construction, to kung fu karate schools in Silverdale for Adam Stevens at Robbers Dog. Returning to a string of Burger King commercials with Flying Fish (Gary John, Luke Savage) and a kitchen Build for Kellogg’s, Spencer Susser and Curious.
Reels in Quicktime and Flash Video
Our Flash Video testing continues.We've received a lot of positive feedback from visitors on slower connections. It seems that the reach of Showreelfinder is increasing as a result of adopting this format.
We're ironing out the bugs during our beta period and will soon be offering Flash as a full time alternative.
Kia Ora Showreelfinder New Zealand
Showreelfinder is now available as a dedicated local online showreel facility in New Zealand.
Reserve a place now and take advantage our fantastic startup offer.
Get your showreel online with us and make your work available anywhere a computer is online.
