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- Behind-the-Scenes Prop38 (2000)
- 1991 Pittsburgh Penguins
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- Behind-the-Scenes Pagetime (1998)
- Frontier Telephone (2000)
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Last year, Glenn Przyborski directed and photographed a multi-part web series titled, “Moving Numbers.” The show is a humorous look behind-the-scenes of a political campaign. “MN” has the look and feel of spontaneous reality, yet every line is scripted. The cast is from LA, NYC and Pittsburgh.
John Brabender (of BrabenderCox) created and wrote the series based on events and characters that he’s observed (and worked for) in dozens of real political campaigns.
Post-production was handled by Thad Christian and his talented staff at Pittsburgh’s Phenomenon Post.
This BrabenderCox, Arena Football ad began airing right before Christmas. Since then we’ve had several emails and phone conversations asking how it was done. The interesting thing is that many of the scenes aren’t either video or film… they’re a series of still photographs, blended together to form a moving sequence.
At night, Pittsburgh is not a very bright city. To create the super luminescent “glow” of the city at night. Glenn Przyborski shot many of the scenes as 1/2 to 1 second time exposures. Using an intervalometer attached to a modified Panasonic GH1 camera, Glenn shot approx 300 digital exposures per scene. Using After Effects, these sequences of digital still images were frame blended, re-sized, then converted into 1080P high-definition video.
Phenomenon Post, visual effects supervisor, Thad Christen and digital graphic artist, Danny Johnson painstakingly rotoscoped the various buildings and objects to create multiple traveling masks. These masks allow the lightning and storm footage to replace the sky and create the illusion of various lights being turned off. The moving blur of the running football player was an actor filmed in slow motion on green screen using a RED One camera at WQED’s studio.
An effect driven spot is greatly enhanced by sound effects. Michael Goodis created original sound design and other audio effects that help “sell” the visuals.
WVU Healthcare is the largest hospital system in West Virginia. Fahlgren Advertising of Columbus, Ohio created the marketing concept and Glenn Przyborski directed and photographed their latest broadcast ad campaign.
Przyborski’s projects are often loaded with high-energy effects, but the new WVUH campaign is a throw back to simpler times. The Fahlgren concept called for 9 key hospital doctors, nurses and administrators to do a couple honest, sincere lines of on-camera copy.
Sometimes the simplest concepts are logistically the most complicated. Doctors can only commit to short, specific time windows. Busy hospital locations are only available at certain times. Judy Gurchak and WVUH producer, Lori Savitch created a doable production schedule for the 2 day shoot. Working with Jay Coughlin and Heidi Specht, Przyborski shot “B-Roll” footage whenever there was a break in sync-sound filming.
Sync sound scenes were shot on a RED One camera and prime lenses. Most “B-Roll” cutaways were shot on a Sony F900R with Canon lenses and a modified Panasonic GH1 camera with Canon FD lenses. Our Pittsburgh based crew made extensive use of LED lighting fixtures to minimize power requirements in the busy hospital complex. Glenn edited the 60 second spot in 1080P at Przyborski Productions. Allen DiCenzo of Circa Music in Dublin created the original music track based on the Aaron Copland composition, “Simple Gifts”.
Did you know that Google… the world’s most popular search engine, is now in the business of TV advertising? Google has plans and the technology to sell and distribute TV spots on most of the major cable channels. With their service, there’s no need for media buyers or agency traffic people. If you go through all the info on their site… Google can actually recommend professionals to design and write your TV campaign and production companies (at almost any price level) to produce it. Here’s a link to a site where a guy actually tested the Google TV Ads service: http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=71 After all, who knows more about the public’s viewing habits and personal interests than Google? If you work at an ad agency, watch all the Google videos and read the info from their site… You may be surprised. www.google.com/adwords/tvads/index.html#subid=branded-search
