McgarryBowen brought-in George Spyros to conduct over 20 interviews as research for the final 10 testimonial radio spots which he also directed.

Filmmakers from the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival discuss the state of indie film and the importance of Founding Partner American Express.

We conducted and shot these interviews with Chase Blueprint customers traveling to New Jersey, Chicago and Tallahassee for McgarryBowen.

BCP provided post-production services on this rip-o-matic as part of Momentum’s pitch to client St. Ives.

DP Rob Featherstone breaks down the shoot…

A red hot and red-blooded phenom recently came to a mall near you in the personages of Vampire Diaries stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder.

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill interviews pro surfer Rob Machado on another installment of the Vloggie-winning web series TreeHuggerTV.

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill interviews pro surfer Rob Machado on another installment of the Vloggie-winning web series TreeHuggerTV.

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill interviews pro surfer Rob Machado on another installment of the Vloggie-winning web series TreeHuggerTV.

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill interviews pro surfer Rob Machado on another installment of the Vloggie-winning web series TreeHuggerTV.

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill interviews pro surfer Rob Machado on another installment of the Vloggie-winning web series TreeHuggerTV.

Elle in her most fun and sexy shots.

All off Sara’s most alluring and goofy moments.

The cast of The Beautiful Life in all their — well — beautiful glory.

After the recent announcement of the Live Earth ‘Run For Water,’ TreehuggerTV sat down with Alexandra Cousteau for a chat at The Lighthouse on the shores of the beautiful Hudson estuary. This Flip Clip was shot on the Nokia N95 8GB smartphone and sliced-and-diced together on good old FCP.

After the recent announcement of the Live Earth ‘Run For Water,’ TreehuggerTV sat down with Alexandra Cousteau for a chat at The Lighthouse on the shores of the beautiful Hudson estuary. This Flip Clip was shot on the Nokia N95 8GB smartphone and sliced-and-diced together on good old FCP.

A 3-minute video to play on televisions in all of Marriott’s North American properties.

Post-production services on a 1-minute communication video cut together from behind the scenes footage of McGarryBowen’s ad campaign “Where the Driven Go.”

As we previously mentioned, Discovery hired us to produce some short-form videos as interstitial programming for Planet Green. Hosted by TreeHugger founder Graham Hill, we took to the rooftops of Manhattan to see how New York City honey with made in the hives of urban Beekeeper David Graves.

As we previously mentioned, Discovery hired us to produce some short-form videos as interstitial programming for Planet Green. Hosted by TreeHugger founder Graham Hill, we ventured out to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to the Roof Top Farms to speak with Annie Novak about her Growing Chefs program for kids.

As we previously mentioned, Discovery hired us to produce some short-form videos as interstitial programming for Planet Green. Hosted by TreeHugger founder Graham Hill, we ventured out to Greenpoint to the Brooklyn Standard Deli.

As we previously mentioned, Discovery hired us to produce some short-form videos as interstitial programming for Planet Green. Hosted by TreeHugger founder Graham Hill, we went to the DUMBO, Brooklyn storefront of Recycle-A-Bicycle to get a bike refurbished and to hear about the program.

We’ve just finished shooting the shorts with Graham Hill. Feel free to poke around and we’ll let you know when video is available!

The cast of The Beautiful Life are generous and playful. They were great sports for modeling for the camera so we could get head-to-toe shots of their designer outfits: Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, and on….

We heard tell of executive producer Ashton Kutcher’s drama The Beautiful Life at this year’s CW Network upfront. Having done a whole mess of stuff for CW shows Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model, we were looking forward to some fresh faces. Well here they are in the form of cast interviews of all the principals of The Beautiful Life: TBL.

We heard tell of executive producer Ashton Kutcher’s drama The Beautiful Life at this year’s CW Network upfront. Having done a whole mess of stuff for CW shows Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model, we were looking forward to some fresh faces. Well here they are in the form of cast interviews of all the principals of The Beautiful Life: TBL. (Also be sure to check out our video of the red carpet premiere of The Beautiful Life: TBL which we covered for The CW.)

We heard tell of executive producer Ashton Kutcher’s drama The Beautiful Life at this year’s CW Network upfront. Having done a whole mess of stuff for CW shows Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model, we were looking forward to some fresh faces. Well here they are in the form of cast interviews of all the principals of The Beautiful Life: TBL. (Also be sure to check out our video of the red carpet premiere of The Beautiful Life: TBL which we covered for The CW.)

We heard tell of executive producer Ashton Kutcher’s drama The Beautiful Life at this year’s CW Network upfront. Having done a whole mess of stuff for CW shows Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model, we were looking forward to some fresh faces. Well here they are in the form of cast interviews of all the principals of The Beautiful Life: TBL. (Also be sure to check out our video of the red carpet premiere of The Beautiful Life: TBL which we covered for The CW.)

We heard tell of executive producer Ashton Kutcher’s drama The Beautiful Life at this year’s CW Network upfront. Having done a whole mess of stuff for CW shows Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model, we were looking forward to some fresh faces. Well here they are in the form of cast interviews of all the principals of The Beautiful Life: TBL. (Also be sure to check out our video of the red carpet premiere of The Beautiful Life: TBL which we covered for The CW.)

We heard tell of executive producer Ashton Kutcher’s drama The Beautiful Life at this year’s CW Network upfront. Having done a whole mess of stuff for CW shows Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model, we were looking forward to some fresh faces. Well here they are in the form of cast interviews of all the principals of The Beautiful Life: TBL. (Also be sure to check out our video of the red carpet premiere of The Beautiful Life: TBL which we covered for The CW.)

We heard tell of executive producer Ashton Kutcher’s drama The Beautiful Life at this year’s CW Network upfront. Having done a whole mess of stuff for CW shows Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model, we were looking forward to some fresh faces. Well here they are in the form of cast interviews of all the principals of The Beautiful Life: TBL. (Also be sure to check out our video of the red carpet premiere of The Beautiful Life: TBL which we covered for The CW.)

Green Apple Cleaners, who we know from a project we did for Sundance Channel as well as from around the nyc green scene, hired us to clean-up and prep some online video clips for use on their website. This job fell into the service category we call The Clip and was pretty much a no-brainer executed with TLC.

Here’s a 15 second version of the spot Big City did soup-to-nuts for McGarry Bowen client Kraft Foods. The mission was to create a video for Facebook in the spirt of the on-air campaign. Why a “fifteen?” Well upon viewing the cut of the original 60, Kraft was so pleased with our work that they requested a this here 15 second version. Read all the project info as well as get a gander of our 90 second cut with one clicky-click-click.

Here’s the original 60 second version of the spot Big City did soup-to-nuts for McGarry Bowen client Kraft Foods. The mission was to create a video for Facebook in the spirt of the on-air campaign. Upon viewing the cut, Kraft was so pleased with our work, that they requested a 15 second version viewable in its short entirety here. Read all about the project and get a gander of our 90 second cut with a single clicky-click-click.

Here’s the LONG VERSION of the spot Big City did soup-to-nuts for McGarry Bowen client Kraft Foods. The mission was to create a video for Facebook in the spirt of the on-air campaign. All the project deets after the jump.

Shot on the Panasonic HVX200 on the good-ol’ flavor of DV, but sent directly to P2 Card, with available light by a one-man-band shooter-interviewer. Phew. Fabien was impressed with our alacrity! Editor Michele has more on Fabien’s watery talk-walking over at Susty.

Shot on the Panasonic HVX200 on the good-ol’ flavor of DV, but sent directly to P2 Card, with available light by a one-man-band shooter-interviewer. Phew. Fabien was impressed with our alacrity! Editor Michele has more on Fabien’s watery talk-walking over at Susty.

Shot on the Panasonic HVX200 on the good-ol’ flavor of DV, but sent directly to P2 Card, with available light by a one-man-band shooter-interviewer. Phew. Fabien was impressed with our alacrity! Editor Michele has more on Fabien’s watery talk-walking over at Susty.

Shot on the Panasonic HVX200 on the good-ol’ flavor of DV, but sent directly to P2 Card, with available light by a one-man-band shooter-interviewer. Phew. Fabien was impressed with our alacrity! Editor Michele has more on Fabien’s watery talk-walking over at Susty.

We were hired by PR and marketing firm Tobin and Tucker to shoot interviews with key designers at the 2009 International Contemporary Furniture Fair to be used for promotional purposes.

David Lynch, Angelica Huston, Graydon Carter, Buzz Aldrin, Jean Nouvel: Le Cabinet De Curiosités

Starting around the 16th Century, aristocrats would maintain a room in their homes displaying a microcosm displaying the world through certain objects collected from their travels. These privately held museums became in a way a portrait of their owners these rooms were know as Les Cabinet De Curiosités.

Directed by George Spyros.

The Art Directors Club in New York was recently the venue for an evening of genteel design discussion and civilized refreshment with British illustrator, graphic designer, comics artist and typographer Rian Hughes. Client Veer needed a video for their website as a way of featuring the typography work of Hughes (which Veer licenses) and reached out to BCP to do this multicam shoot.

Called in at the last minute to add a little spunk to the brooding, “Devil Wear’s Prada” fashion editor boss character portrayed by real-life Elle Fashion News Editor Anne Slowey, BigCityPix popped over to the magazine’s office for a quicky.

Live Earth Founder Kevin Wall attended the GQ Magazine Gentlemen’s Ball at The Edison Ballroom on October 15, 2008 in New York City. Big City stopped by the red carpet to chat with him about his do-gooding and the environment for Discovery / Planet Green’s web show TreeHugger TV.

NBA champ Rajon Rondo attended the GQ Magazine Gentlemen’s Ball at The Edison Ballroom on October 15, 2008 in New York City. Big City stopped by the red carpet to chat with him about his do-gooding and the environment for Discovery / Planet Green’s web show TreeHugger TV.

Musical artist and performer Usher attended the GQ Magazine Gentlemen’s Ball at The Edison Ballroom on October 15, 2008 in New York City. Big City stopped by the red carpet to chat with him about his do-gooding and the environment for Discovery / Planet Green’s web show TreeHugger TV.

Toms Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie attended the GQ Magazine Gentlemen’s Ball at The Edison Ballroom on October 15, 2008 in New York City. Big City stopped by the red carpet to chat with him about his do-gooding and the environment for Discovery / Planet Green’s web show TreeHugger TV.

Actor Mark Wahlberg attended the GQ Magazine Gentlemen’s Ball at The Edison Ballroom on October 15, 2008 in New York City. Big City stopped by the red carpet to chat with him about his do-gooding and the environment for Discovery / Planet Green’s web show TreeHugger TV.

While in the process of producing the film shoot of Maya Angleou reading her poem Amazement Awaits in celebration of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, our production company Big City Pictures was asked to do a quick video shoot of Dr. Angelou as a greeting for a pre-dedication event of the Maya Angelou Libraries in the U.K.; she was feeling under the weather and would not be able to attend. Dr. Angelou belted out 12 minutes of extemporaneous speaking with nary a telepromter to be seen — pretty impressive even if she hadn’t recently become an octogenarian — wow!

Shot on location at the Silvercup Studios in Queens.

Big City provided post-production services on this spot for Viewfinders who produced the New Mexico shoot of fabulous fashion models posing in the desert for Replay’s Autumn Winter 2008-2009 line.

We shot the cast of Gossip Girl in character in order to send a wink to already crazed fans, but more importantly to let newer viewers know that it wasn’t too late to leap feet first into the show and to get intimate with the personalities inhabiting the show’s world.

On-Air spots for Discovery Communications’ online property TreeHugger.com for cross-channel airing and of course on Discovery’s Planet Green Network.

On-Air spots for Discovery Communications’ online property TreeHugger.com for cross-channel airing and of course on Discovery’s Planet Green Network.

On-Air spots for Discovery Communications’ online property TreeHugger.com for cross-channel airing and of course on Discovery’s Planet Green Network.

TreeHugger, the leading green site on the internet, advocates for living a simpler environmentally-friendly lifestyle and practices its preaching with a minimalist design sensibility. The brand’s various icons, including hero tree logo, are simple as well as Spanish Modern Art inflected. When the need for an on-air spot promoting the site’s growing Gift Guide vertical, we spotted the need for a TreeHugger Gifts icon. So we reached out to the lushly talented Federico Slivka Lederer to get our fix. He came back with something that blew our hemp socks off: gift box bow made out of the top of the TreeHugger hero tree — we think deploying an exclamation point or two here is justified, so please allow us to add: !!!!!!!!!! The rest of the creative fell into place from there. Next challenge up: how to deliver a spot worthy of the brand’s elegant aesthetic, but (you know what we’re going to say) on a budget…

On-Air spots for Discovery Communications’ online property TreeHugger.com for cross-channel airing and of course on Discovery’s Planet Green Network.

TreeHugger, the leading green site on the internet, advocates for living a simpler environmentally-friendly lifestyle and practices its preaching with a minimalist design sensibility. The brand’s various icons, including hero tree logo, are simple as well as Spanish Modern Art inflected. When the need for an on-air spot promoting the site’s growing Gift Guide vertical, we spotted the need for a TreeHugger Gifts icon. So we reached out to the lushly talented Federico Slivka Lederer to get our fix. He came back with something that blew our hemp socks off: gift box bow made out of the top of the TreeHugger hero tree — we think deploying an exclamation point or two here is justified, so please allow us to add: !!!!!!!!!! The rest of the creative fell into place from there. Next challenge up: how to deliver a spot worthy of the brand’s elegant aesthetic, but (you know what we’re going to say) on a budget…

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We shot a ton of material during the question and answer portion of Core77′s Offsite event, Design, Wit, and the Creative Act, but we’ve put together a tasty sampler of some of the best.
We produced, shot and post-produced this series of standard-definition videos for Core77.com, the premiere [...]

Business and design leaders are increasingly aware that some of the most successful goods and services are those that elicit emotion. Trading in this spectrum poses some unique challenges to the designer, however, since the creative process of generating this kind of work presumes a shared set of cultural experiences and some deft leaps of [...]

Steven heller is a senior art director of the New York Times and the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the MFA Designer as Author Program at the School of Visual Arts. He recently co-founded (with Alice Twemlow) the MFA in Design Criticism at SVA. He is the editor of VOICE: The AIGA Journal of Design [...]

Paul Budnitz, has always had one foot in art and the other in technology. The son of a nuclear physicist and a social worker, Budnitz grew up in Berkeley, California, and began programming computers at an early age. By the age of 17 he was writing code for both safety analysis programs for nuclear power [...]

Kelly Dobson grew up in a junkyard. From the age of four she was doing odd jobs such as smashing windows and hauling machine parts from one area of the yard to another. Later, studying medicine and art, Dobson became focused on alternative approaches to machines ­ approaching them as relational and reflective objects. Working [...]

Originally from Canada, Tobias Wong studied art at Cooper Union in New York City, where he graduated in sculpture. Veering across disciplines and materials, Wong has created an oeuvre that is immediately accessible, yet contentious. He pursues his own brand of conceptualism, the self-coined “Paraconceptual,” and “Post-interesting,” and uses design as a medium, as he [...]

We put together this new business reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids to potential client TRU, better known as Toys R Us.

When Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest,” TH Radio’s Jacob Gordon suggested that we get in touch with Kenny Luna the man behind Mr. Luna’s Bright Idea.

Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest.” This video shows off the simple yet amazing patented idea some NYC high school students had for a new kind of compost box. The spot was shot by George Spyros in 24p standard definition to mini DV tape using the Panasonic DVX camcorder.

Sundance Channel invited folks to upload vids with their “big idea” for improving the state of the environment — and with $10k on the line for the winner. So, Sundance Channel invited Big City Pictures in partnership with the gang at TreeHugger to produce three sample videos for the contest.

Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest.” This video features the kids of the Lafayette Street School in Newark, New Jersey who were taught using curricula found on the Rainforest Alliance Learning Site. This spot was shot by George Spyros in 720p HD to P2 cards using the Panasonic HVX camera with b-roll overcranked for slow-motion at 48-frames-per-second coupled with a Century Pro Fisheye Lens and lit entirely with 2 ft. 4 bank Kino Flo units articulated on c-stands.

We put together this new business reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids to potential client TRU, better known as Toys R Us. Edited on Apple’s Final Cut Pro platform.

We provided editorial for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster on these full-up spots. The Tub Time Curious George toy commercial was edited on the Avid Media Composer.

We put together a reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids.

We provided editorial for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster on this full-up spot. The Tub Time Curious George toy commercial was edited on the Avid Media Composer.

BCP will be doing a multicam shoot for Corbis-owned client Veer later this month. Titled An evening with Rian Hughes: Design, Tea, and Biscuits the live event will be held at the Art Director’s Club in New York City, a location with which we are intimately familiar having shot an offsite event for Core77.

BCP produced, shot and edited the winner of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 7 for The CW and Reitz Lange. DP Marcus Burnett shot winning fashion model CariDEE English in 24p using the Panasonic DVX100 in The CW Lounge (aka a room in the W Hotel in mid-town Manhattan). The judicious use of china balls did the trick to provide some soft, beauty lighting.

Short-format Production & Post-Production
Basically a footage-ectomy wherein we extract the desired bit, maybe slap on a white-on-black title card and some lower-3rds and beam this little space soldier directly to you or a video-sharing site of your choosing. We’re talking about two to three hours of a la carte post production labor here, so if [...]

Your project has been green lit and A-list talent has been attached both in front of as well as behind the camera. You’re shooting on Hi-Def, Film or digital 2k/4k. The ranks of production and post-production staff are flush along with all the gear to do the job effectively and exquisitely. You’re paying premium industry [...]

Short-format Production & Post-Production
An á la carte item broken out from our popular NYU package covering the production costs of shooting based on a 10-hour day.
Producer/Director $650
Camera Dude or Dudette $550
Production Assistant $200
Camera Package $650
Lighting Package / Studio $400
Insurance, Overhead, Management fee $300
Related Á La Carte option:
The NYU Edit – Priced at $1500 [...]

Short-format Production & Post-Production
An á la carte item broken out from our popular NYU package covering the of editorial based on a 10-hour day.
Editor & Workstation $650
Assistant Editor $175
Post Producer $450
Insurance, Overhead, Management fee $225
Related Á La Carte option:
The NYU Shoot – Priced at $2975 »

ALL PACKAGE PRICING for Big City Products & [...]

Short-format Production & Post-Production
An á la carte item broken out from our popular Indie package covering the of editorial based on a 10-hour day.
Editor & Workstation $800
Producer $500
Assistant Editor $200
Overhead & Operating Costs 15% = $225
Insurance 2.5% – $50
ALL PACKAGE PRICING for Big City Products & Services

Short-format Production & Post-Production
Similar to tubers found in nature, this one in potato-like fashion is a little clunky or just kinda lays there with a bit of girth around its middle. “Quick-n-Dirty” this guy basically has no coverage to speak of and has straight cuts for edits just to trim out a bit of [...]

Short-format Production & Post-Production
An á la carte item broken out from our popular Indie package covering the production costs of shooting based on a 10-hour day.
Pre-pro (Subtotal $700):
Producer/Director prep-day $250
Production Coordinator half-day $225
Transportation, meals, messengers, etc. $225
Production (Subtotal $4400):
Producer/Director $750
Camera Person $850
Lighting / Grip Person $500
Audio mixer guy or gal $500
Production Assistant $200
Production vehicle, transport, [...]

Playing in the big leagues now. Your project is going to be seen by lots of people as well as some important people so you can’t afford not to have full-up, professional production values. You’ve projected your ROI and are committed to apportioning the resources to bring this baby to life. To deliver the goods while shooting Hi-Def, Film or digital 2k, you’re prepared to cover all the bases with top-notch crew and gear. You’re prepared to pay industry standard rates, but why spend more than you need to? Hey, you know what this stuff costs so we provide you with detailed budget estimates which you approve before any work commences. As the needs of your project shift, we keep the dialogue rolling and issue you with Project Change Notifications (PCNs) to make sure we’re all functioning like a team to make sure the results of our efforts hit it out of the park.

Short-format Production & Post-Production
Shot with The Flip pocket camcorder or something like it. A one-person team shooting with a mini camcorder or smartphone camera. We then chop it together with simple title cards here and there. Voila!  Post it to the web! Just give us a few simple notes and leave us to do [...]

Short-format Production & Post-Production
It’s got to have production values but your project doesn’t play by all the conventional rules. Given your concept’s edginess, the funky green screen compositing you want to do, the über-nicheness of the content vertical, the run-and-gun unknowns of a doc style etc., you know there’s a little bit of risk [...]

Short-format Production & Post-Production
As with any student film, your project has great expectations on a gritty budget. It needs to bring on board a proficient shooter while not bulking-up on additional crew. It requires a multi-day edit best overseen by a preditor. Every key point is crafted, illustrated or explained (for example [...]

Short-format Production & Post-Production
Ok, so you didn’t get in to NYU Film School, but you can still be a weekend filmmaker. Bigcitypix’s lean, mean two-person team shows up to shoot, and then and then one of our ace-in-the-hole preditors knocks out a cut in all its beauty just for you. Upon hiring us, please [...]

Part of Wellspring’s distribution campaign to market a demanding art-house release.

A series of behind the scenes commercials showing director Tarsem at work, broadcast in ten European countries. Fully posted in-house, including graphics, in PAL format. (30 seconds) Produced for ad agency Amster Yard.

By focusing on the thriller elements of an intriguing but slower-paced French-language film, this 30 helped to make Under the Sand Wellspring’s top-grossing theatrical release of all time.

Montages conceived, designed and edited in-house paying tribute to Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Pierre Leaud. Both pieces screened at the NYC opening gala of Wellspring’s major Truffaut retrospective.

Avid offline and Flame supervision on these long-running spots.

Avid offline and Flame supervision on these long-running spots.

Called in to rescue two 30 second spots, Big City’s edit, music overhaul and Flame supervision turned the tide, garnering a 1998 AICP/MOMA award and a place in MOMA’s permanent collection. Companion spot Static here.

Montages conceived, designed and edited in-house paying tribute to Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Pierre Leaud. Both pieces screened at the NYC opening gala of Wellspring’s major Truffaut retrospective.