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CD-Ron Mann strikes again

Intriguing topics such as fish condos, cat houses for dogs and cockroach cure-alls are all in a day’s cd-rom work at Ron Mann’s Toronto-based Sphinx Productions….

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Everything you ever wanted to know about new media

The OFDC all-biz new media seminar answers the questions you gave up asking because no one had credible answers…

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Special Report on Sound & Music: Sound & Music: Sound like you’ve never seen it before

(Sung to the tune of Dancing Cheek to Cheek:)…

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Special Report on Sound & Music: Music houses ready and willing to diversify

I have $10,000. I need music, voice-over, sound effects and a final mix, and I need it shipped and dubbed by Tuesday.’…

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Special Report on Commercial Production: Bigger jobs, say Quebec’s big four

In the Quebec market, commercial film production for national clients, in other words, brand advertising for television, is assigned almost exclusively to four houses – La Fabrique d’Images, Cinelande, Figaro Films International and Jet Films….

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Special Report on Commercial Production: Adjusting to the new norm: Ongoing era of restraint

It is neither the best of times nor the worst of times for the commercial production industry. This side of both the glory days and the recession, Canadian production houses are trying to come to terms with a reality more restrained…

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Special Report on Commercial Production: Commercial houses waiting for the call: Multimedia a thing of the future

Those still thinking the World Wide Web is a B horror movie starring a giant spider are out of the loop. The Internet isn’t a weave of pantyhose, water isn’t necessary to surf, and flaming isn’t the same old verb. Welcome…

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Special Report on Commercial Production: Dalton/Kessler getting in on new media

While it may look like new media initiatives are being fenced in at the agency level, there’s a role for the commercial production community if they’re prepared to come to the agency or the client with good, even crazy ideas, says…

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Special Report on Commercial Production: So where’s the infomercial boom?

With nary an infomercial proposal coming through the fax, mainstream commercial production houses have become skeptical that the infomercial boom will live up to the hype. But infomercial pundits continue to say long-form spots are revving up in Canada….

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Videotron

to distrib…

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Telefilm

rethinking…

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Industry study may get cash

infusion to expand effort…