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NEWS
February 19, 2010 – San Francisco, CA - Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite guru Deke McClelland joined composer Buddy Saleman, the creative leader of Potrero Post, and a team from Flying Moose Pictures, to produce 101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes, the pilot for a season of edgy video podcasts designed to entertain, educate, and drive the sales of Deke's numerous training books and DVDs. More >
February 18, 2010 – Los Angles, CA - Is it possible to produce both a still photo shoot and a video shoot in a single location at a single time? Absolutely! This question has been presented to Flying Moose by several clients who need to produce both types media for marketing, sales, and training. By combining a still photo shoot with a video shoot, clients can reduce costs for location rental, set construction and setup, hired models and actors, achieve a consistent look and reduce the time required for busy company employees to appear on camera. More >
January 6, 2010 – San Francisco, CA - Nearly every day at Flying Moose Pictures, we receive a call from a prospective client who has discovered our services through a Google search, reviewed our portfolio, and looked beyond the charismatic megafauna in our company name at the prospect of trusting us with a vital task of visual communications. More >
January 5, 2010 – San Francisco, CA - We should have been forewarned when Deke McClelland, the hyper-kinetic Photoshop Guru, visited our studio for a "quick lunch" and showed up dragging a battered aluminum suitcase filled with a rainbow of colorful T-shirts. Lunch quickly turned into a scripting and pre-production session for dekePod, a series of high-speed, highly irreverent, video podcasts. Late in the afternoon, after burritos but before martinis, we shot the pilot episode for dekePod, How to Scan Money. More >
January 4, 2010 – San Francisco, CA - With a bumpy mechanical jolt, a safety orange manlift deposits the Flying Moose production team on a windy concrete slab five stories above the UCSF campus at Mission Bay in San Francisco. Miles of cables and ductwork hang from the steel skeleton of the building, flailing in the wind above our heads. The maze of construction materials will soon be the University of California Medical School's Cardiovascular Research Building (CVRB) - a 236,000 square-foot research center that will include labs, offices, a vivarium, and an outpatient clinic. More >
November 18, 2009 – Emeryville, CA- Scientists have linked methane from livestock production, a powerful greenhouse gas, to global warming. And even those who insist global warming is a hoax would find it difficult to deny that untreated manure, stored in large, pungent lagoons, represents a huge threat to the environment. But there is good news. Greg Johnson, chief executive officer of New Logic Research, says, "Hog manure can be converted from an environmental liability into valuable byproducts that can be sold or reused." More >
November 11, 2009 – San Francisco. New Zealand is blessed with abundant, inexpensive hydroelectric power, but the economical harvesting of solar energy in the country lags behind installations in other parts of the world where the sun shines more often and there are fewer alternatives to fossil fuel. The Pacific island country averages only about 2,000 hours of sunshine each year. In contrast, Southern California basks in about 3,000 hours of sunshine annually. More >
November 10, 2009 – The Bayview, San Francisco - The team from Flying Moose Pictures spots a hedge of vibrant red, yellow, and green plants and sets up a high-definition video camera and monitor. Candice Kollar, their collaborator and founder of the green communications company Kollar Design | EcoCreative®, nods enthusiastically as she scans the video image of the lush grounds at Flora Grubb Gardens, a solar-powered nursery and garden center focused on sustainable, water-saving plants. More >
October 1, 2009 – ORLANDO, FL. Flying Moose Pictures Director of Photography Mark Leialoha focuses a camera on a 10 year old boy as he struggles with the safety cap on a prototype lancing device - the sharp, spring-powered needle that diabetics use to prick their fingers and obtain blood samples for glucose testing." More >
October 1, 2009 – SAN CARLOS, CA. Architect, designer, and woodworker, Blaise Descollonges, patiently scrapes a 130 year old nickel-plated Stanley radius plane against a raw wooden beam, carving a gentle curve that he promises, "shows both the function of the beam in supporting the rail on top of it and is pleasing to the eye." More >
October 1, 2009 – MOUNT DIABLO, CA. Dave, a middle-aged amateur astronomer, stands in a parking lot at Mount Diablo State Park, describing the difference between craters on the moon and the lunar maria, or "seas". It is dusk, and a small audience braves the high wind on the mountaintop, listening to his lecture and waiting for the moon to rise into telescope viewing range. More >
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SPOTLIGHT
Meridian Solar LTD, New Zealand’s largest energy provider, is a leader in the field of wind and solar energy. Meridian needed to communicate their commitment to solar and wind power through video interviews with their San Francisco collaborators at Jane Capital. Our challenge was to work with an extremely short schedule, adapt to the location at Jane Capitol, and film the interviews to fit Meridian’s web aesthetic. The completed web clips now promote Meridian’s green message to customers around the world.
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