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Analysis: Tax credit regulations
By Norman Bacal…
Correction
In the Dec. 4, 1995 On The Spot column, two Ryerson Polytechnic University students were erroneously listed as contributors to the commercial advice feature. Pay Chen and Regan MacAulay Law, second-year media writing students at Ryerson’s School of Radio and Television…
Editorial: New Year’s resolutions
You know how it g’es….
Commercial Directions: Pouliot picks up Toy Story tie-in
The Animation House’s Terry Godfrey will spend four weeks this month directing the sequel to the first Whitehall Robbins Robaxacet spot featuring a wooden marionette. The stop-motion animator is Phillip Marcus and the agency is Young and Rubicam….
On The Spot: Tips for novice directors on dealing with creatives
on the Spot is a space for commercial production industry folk to ruminate, pontificate and just plain talk about job-related subjects….
Storyboards: Humor for what ales you
A package from Nova Scotia recently yielded a nugget the third installment of the Keith’s beer saga from the Halifax office of Corporate Communications. The very amusing and credible period piece came as a surprise pleasant and when…
Word on the Street: U.S. shop seeking merger
Word is a major merger is waiting in the wings between a u.s. and a Canadian advertising agency. Sources say a high-end u.s. shop is in the midst of an evaluation process of several mid-size Canadian counterparts for a merger sometime…
Ontario Scene: From funding freezes to hot talks, that was the year that was
In the auspicious words of comedian Tom Lehrer, ‘That was the year that was.’…
Quebec Scene: PRH’s animated kids’ soap a high-tech Canada/France affair
Montreal: Producer Roger Heroux is in the midst of his first animated series for children, Poil de carotte (Carrots), a family story about a little boy who lives in a small town in France at the turn of the century….
B.C. Scene: Dark tale Underworld marks departure for Keystone
Vancouver: Vancouver’s Keystone Pictures wrapped Underworld last month, its 14th production and most ambitious undertaking so far….
They Live to Polka in Saskatchewan
Vancouver: The most expensive documentary ever produced in Saskatchewan wrapped in early December in Regina when producers of They Live to Polka interviewed the reigning kings of polka in Canada and the u.s….
Binchmarks: Libel, copyright cases highlight media litigation in 1995
David Kent is a litigation partner and a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch….
U.K. documentary immersion
By Gerry Flahive…
Special Report: Post, Animation & Special Effects: Venues diminishing in Canada
It’s a long way from Lupo the Butcher’s gory world of dismembered body parts to the pastel realm of Little Bear and somewhere in between lies the world of animation in Canada….
Special Report: Post, Animation & Special Effects: Post-stage finessing on the rise
A young woman balances precariously on the edge of a building’s rooftop, supported by a bed sheet she is holding spread out against the wind, the full moon in a mottled night sky punctuating her gesture. Perhaps she is making a…
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