Client INFOR is a global software developer with 58 million users and 90,000 corporate customers in 200 countries. Challenge/requirements To reimagine a formerly live, Las Vegas corporate team-building event into a Simul-live, streaming, three-day Sales Kick-Off Conference for Infor customers and employees, generating interactive meetings, seminars and study groups simultaneously, in over 180 countries in a global post pandemic environment. The streamed presentations would be viewed by groups in far flung Infor offices across the globe, as well as single, remote customers signing in on laptops or tablets as solo participants. Solution Black Watch Productions transformed what was formerly a solo Presenter on stage, with…

Client CHOOSE NJ/STATE OF NEW JERSEY Challenge/requirements In 2018, the State of New Jersey restored the film and television tax incentive programs that had been defunded for the previous eight years. In 2020, the governor expanded the incentives and extended them through at least 2028. The Covid 19 pandemic knocked out much of 2020, following a booming 2019, and a concerted effort was needed to jumpstart the program, once restrictions were eased and shooting resumed. Filmmaker Attraction Solution Create and produce a Filmmaker Attraction Video for the State of New Jersey that would entice producers and studios to bring their projects to New…

Video/stills RLTD Compilation Final High Res RLTD Land Rover Final Client BBC AUTO Challenge/requirements The BBC was looking for content for its new website, BBC Auto, a platform that featured, you guessed it, stories that were designed to feed the British fascination with all things automotive. Anchored by BBC staples like Top Gear, they were looking for a series that was particularly American in appeal. Solution Create and Produce Real Live Test Drive, a web series highlighting real life test drives of new vehicles by real (non automotive professional) people. Creative concept We were recommended to Jonathan Schultz, an editor/producer at BBC America, by some…

Client INFOR Challenge/requirements To maintain corporate communication with customers and employees all over the world in the midst of a global pandemic and unilateral shutdown. SOLUTION Pandemic Production; Studio shoots, Remote Live Action Productions throughout the United States as well as overseas, Virtual Global Conferences; Multi-Camera live streaming panel discussions with top executives INFOR-2020 Virtual Convention Creative concept Once it was determined that the 2020 Inforum Conference was going to have to be a virtual one, the decision was made to work up a conference-like environment in the Manhattan headquarters of Infor. A 44’X12’ LED Wall was brought in and a stage was built to go…

Video/stills USO - Nerves of Steel USO Aftermath USO Portraits-Invisible Wounds of War Client Williams Whittle Associates, Alexandria, Va USO, Washington,DC Services Agency Broadcast Producer role; complete location live action production services; Postproduction supervision Challenge/requirements In 2003, the USO was an organization trapped in it’s own glorious past; identified chiefly as the vehicle for Bob Hope’s famous shows for the troops that started in WWII. Few if any, of the general public had any clue what the USO represented in the modern world, and most assumed that it was a government agency, not an NFP that relied on donations for its ability to provide services to…

Client VML/Motorola Challenge/requirements To prove that the 21 megapixel Moto X had the best smartphone camera we challenged a tableaux vivant photographer to capture 21 choreographed moments in one shot using only the Moto X. Solution Create a tableaux on the Coney Island boardwalk, populate the scene with influencers, actors, locals and extras and hire Ryan Schude to photograph it. Then create a deeper experience with 21 interconnected films across the Instagram grid. We flipped the Instagram UI into a horizontal grid. Every square is a video and part of an interconnected Coney Island story. Post the finished images and videos on a dedicated website…