The commercial spot I directed for Chelsea Piers is finished and launched. I have to say thank you to several people who helped tremendously in making it. First off , Dana Thayer at Chelsea Piers for green lighting the project from the beginning. Rick Kaplan for a tremendous amount of production support along the way. Brian George for amazing post wizardry and helping make it all come together. Andrew Trost on the camera and Liz Braemer for a stellar job with casting. And of course, all the incredible athletes. Thank you.
Archive for October, 2011
Top Chef Texas
Posted in News with tags ad campaign, Bravo, cooking, Gail Simmons, judges, Padma Lakshmi, reality, saloon, season 9, show, Texas, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef, tv, western on October 19, 2011 by Scott McDermott
The campaign for the new season of Top Chef Texas just launched across the country this week and it’s looking good out there. We shot it down in Dallas in July while they were in production on the show. It was a full couple days with portraits of all the chef-testants and the judges on two sets as well as the elements for the campaign you see here, like the knife shadow and the cowboy etc. It all went smoothly and was a lot of fun. I have to say thank you to Elisabeth Sinsabaugh and her team at NBC and Bravo as well as Eli Cohen and the team at Bemis Balkind for putting it all together so well. Make sure you tune in on Nov. 2nd for the premiere.
Being Elmo
Posted in News with tags being elmo, cinema, Constance Marks, doc, documentary, Elmo, film, ifc center, Kevin Clash, movie, poster, Premiere, Puppet, puppeteer, release, sundance, theatrical on October 18, 2011 by Scott McDermott
The New York premiere for the film Being Elmo was tonight. It’s been a long road since it first played at Sundance in January winning the jury prize. It went on to play at 12 other festivals since then and this weekend will finally be released in theaters starting at the IFC center in NY and spreading to many others nationwide soon. Full list of theaters here. The film tells the story of how Kevin Clash started making puppets when in grade school and ended up working along side his hero, Jim Henson on Sesame Street and the Muppets and eventually took a puppet another puppeteer at Sesame Street discarded and made him into an international sensation. It’s a wonderful story beautifully told and really worth checking out. My involvement with the project started at Sundance where I was on assignment for Moving Pictures Mag. and photographed Kevin and Elmo along with Director Constance Marks and DP James Miller. Which you can read about here. They remembered liking the pictures we did and when it came time to create the theatrical poster they contacted me to help with their new concept. I was happy to and honored to be a part of the project. So we did another shoot for the poster you see here. It’s been an absolute pleasure getting to know team Elmo and Kevin and truly fascinating and inspiring to see him bring so much joy to everyone. Go see the film if it comes to a theatre near you. You’ll love it.
