LTB Productions director Christopher Gentile and dop David O’Keefe shot two 15-second spots over a day for Nu-Gro. The spots, ‘Wipeout’ and ‘Weedout,’ were executive produced by ltb’s Wayne Fenske. Agency credits go to Kelley Advertising creative director Lynn Ridley and art director Jamie Lirette. Rik Morden handled post at The Post Group.

ltb’s Chris Nolan helmed a day with dop Marcus Elliott on a Tiger Electronics’ spot called ‘Morphed the Mutt,’ with Fenske once again exec producing. The Posnick & Kolker team of creative director Paul Posnick and writer Lois Sandberg provided the creative, with Helen Polise producing for the agency. Editing on the :30 is being handled in the u.s.

Director Colin Chilvers got the call on a four-day shoot for The Toy Biz Company. The four :30s all star The X-Men and were lensed by dop Marc Blandori. Fenske produced. The Berenter Greenhouse & Webster creative team of Maurice Mahler (art director) and Dan Trink (writer) provided the creative for the spots, under the watch of creative director Bill Berenter and agency producer Gabriel Peterson. Post was handled by the agency.

ltb director Clinton Ashton landed a day for the Canadian Paraplegic Association, resulting in 30-second spot titled ‘Round the World Challenge.’ dop on the project was George Willis, with Fenske exec producing. The creative team at Goodgoll Curtis consisted of art director Elvin Letchford and writer Allison Ceper. Agency producers were Diane Feather and Nadya Soler. Post was handled by Third Floor Editing’s Shannon Perreaulte.

The Big Film Company dispatched director Carl Harvey and dop Paul Dunlop to shoot three :30s for the Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation. The creative was out of McDonnell Haynes Advertising under the creative direction of Phil Haynes and associate creative director/art director John Ellis. Dee Anderson produced for the agency. Post was handled in-house by Big’s Chris Brook.

Big director Kari Skogland and dop Willis spent a day shooting a 30-second spot for McCain Foods’ Potato Smiles. The spot is appropriately called ‘Smiles.’ Writer Richard Kurtz and creative director/art director Carol Law provided the creative on behalf of Granicus Productions. Peter Anastasoff produced for the agency. Post was completed by James Taylor at Big, with music from Brad MacDonald.

Big director Chris Sanderson landed a day for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Products. The :30, ‘Crayons,’ was lensed by James Gardner. Agency Axmith McIntyre Wicht utilized the talents of art director Ron Smrczek, writer Brian Howlett and creative director John McIntyre. Agency producer was Bob Kirk. Flashcut’s Brian Noon handled post.

Big’s Willis served as director/dop on a pool of five commercials for Star Choice, with Kathi Prosser from Crush co-directing. The spots are titled ‘More Popcorn,’ ‘Satellite,’ ‘Pay Per View,’ ‘Channel Chooser’ and ‘Future of tv.’ The production design was handled by Prosser, with the effects coming out of Crush. The creative for the spots came from the Leo Burnett team of art director Clarke Smith and creative director/writer Patrick Doyle. Karen Peterman produced for the agency. Post was handled at both Crush and School.

The Directors Film Company sent director Walter Stern on a three-day, two-spot job for govworks.com. The two :30s, ‘Beautiful Ticket’ and ‘Beautiful Garbage,’ were lensed by Ivan Bird and executive produced by Susi Patterson.

The spots exploded from the brains of the Fallon McElligott creative team of writer Chris Landi (also an associate creative director), art director Phillip Squier and executive creative director Jamie Barrett. Post was completed in the u.s.

Correction

the creative work on the Pantene campaign mentioned in the Aug. 7 On The Spot was handled by the Grey Canada team of creative director Marc Stoiber, art director Ed Lea and copywriter Mary Secord. David Smith produced for Grey. *