Small design boutique seeks to add to its team a full time designer. The candidate will have a strong sense of typography, a minimum of 1-2 years professional work experience in coming up with original concepts and ideas for boards, and motion design projects. The candidate will be familiar with current trends; but able to think past and focus on new and original ideas. She or he will be interested in hand made design, photography and illustrations and have the ability to visualize and verbalize ideas clearly.  The ideal candidate is comfortable to take direction for the Creative Director and work in small teams. The potion includes, but is not limited, to the following tasks; logo design, conceptualizing and designing style frames, and develop boards.  Minimum skills required, Photoshop, Illustrator, the ability to illustrate, use After Effects, design 3D frames, and use Indesign is a plus. Fluent in English a must. If interested please send us a link to your work at jobs at newspeak.tv

Searching a candidate that is detailed oriented with excellent writing and communication skills, fluent in English, comfortable with email, Internet,  and using a Mac and Pc. Interested in learning about the motion design/ creative industry. This is a part time position (around 25h a week) which easily can grow into a full time position. The right candidate is comfortable to work for a small company and be flexible, as the candidate will mainly act as an office assistant to the executive producer. The right candidate can grow with the position. Email us at jobs at newspeak.tv

Congratulation to our amazing staff, and all the people that have work on the music video.

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A terrible bang was heard as well as what sounded like large rocks pelting the building. Everyone’s armhair was standing on edge and we could feel electricity in the air. The ground vibrated again, followed by a second large bang. A steady stream of water began to flood in from the ceiling, as a sort of “controlled chaos” took hold. Our crew was quickly moving all of our equipment out of harms way as shouts of “the roof might collapse!” was heard. After all the equipment was secured, our group cautiously ventured outside.

Trees look like they were ripped out of the ground and tossed aside by an invisible hand. The second bang we heard was a large tree, which was hit by lightning, crashing into the roof of the theatre. Drew somehow climbed to the roof and started cleaning away some of the debris, as an employee from one of the local businesses gave us a tarp to cover the gaping hole caused by the impact of the falling tree. We later found out that a tornado ripped through the area, knocking down power lines and leaving destruction in its wake. After the situation was under control and the fire department gave us the green light to continue our work, we began the shoot in earnest. The intensity of the moment got everyone in a fired up mood, and it showed in the day’s performances and enthusiasm from the crew.

After the excitement of the first day of shooting, everyone was all in for “the tub scene.” Anne, our Production Coordinator, knows where to find any prop you would ever need, no matter how obscure. For this scene, we needed the perfect cast iron tub, which she managed to secure. The only problem was getting to the site of the shoot, which was a riverbed a quarter mile from the nearest road. We drove as close as we could get, and carried it across a field and into the center of the river. Erik was in the water with a gigantic grin on his face. We wrapped the scene up, and dragged the tub back the same way we came in.

For the next few scenes, we moved back to the theatre, and prepared to shoot the climactic scene of the video. JW, our antagonist to Sarah, was called to drag her on the floor to a cot. As JW nears the cot with Sarah in his grasp, he swooped down and quickly lifted her in his arms and placed her on it, a totally improvised move.

“Did we get that!?”, asked Erik.

“YES!!”, Drew said excitedly.

The next scene called for Sarah to be approached by JW, who was wielding two jumper cables attached to a car battery. Sarah was lying in the cot, and as Al, our Gaffer, was making sure the car battery was out of juice, he touched the jumpers together and an arc of electricity shot from one to the other. The look on Sarah’s face went from interest to fear, and was perfect for setting up the mood for the scene. We’ll scratch this one up as a happy accident.

We would say that this was the most exhilarating and adventurous shoot we have done to date, as the team was passionate going in, but the events and unpredictability added intensity to the shoot. Sarah adds:

“I got lifted by a Marine, almost electrocuted by the car battery, a tornado hit us, lightning fried us, but we all fought to make it great and it worked like a charm. There is no substitution for an amazing team, and in case anyone had doubts art is still alive.”

We look forward to showing you the final video, but we wanted to tell you what goes into a Newspeak/Hooligan and Co. shoot.

Artist: Sarah Fimm

Director - Erik Montovano

Executive Producer - Andreea Prichea

Writers - Erik Montovano / Andreea Prichea

Director of photography -Drew Ravani

Assistant Camera - Violetta D'Agata

Gaffer - Al Rivera

Best boy grip - David II

Make Up - Lucia Aloi

Wardrobe - Andy Star

Production Coordinator - Anne Leal

Photographer - Heyrick Chassé

Behind the scenes Video - Heyrick Chassé

Actor - JW Cortes

Actress - Sarah Fimm

WHAT ARE WE WORKING ON:

Newspeak has been busy. We are working on two music videos, a couple of show opens and promos; soon we will be able to share them with you.

WHAT TO LOOK AT:

In the mean time feel free to browse through our newly reorganized website, we have minimized the number of clicks needed and introduced a more rapid and direct way to access samples of our work. This is to minimize the amount of browsing time, as I know that most of us are daily bombarded with sites to check out, and information to read.

WHAT'S COMING UP:

At the end of July, 2011 we will send out our quarterly Newsletter [Nr.5] that will highlight recent projects and new additions to our team.  

Newspeak and Hooligan&Co. enjoyed working with Mr. Oliver in directing and shooting him for the second season of his anticipated Comedy Central JOHN OLIVER'S NEW YORK STAND-UP SHOW.

The show started airing on COMEDY CENTRAL in March if you'd like catch an episode check out the 

show's schedule:

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/john_oliver/index.jhtml

On occasions Newspeak likes to send quick updates to clients and prospective clients. We understand that everyone in the industry on a daily basis gets inundated with emails and Newsletters, we try to keep to  a minimum the number of Newsletters and emails we send out.

The first project mentioned in the Newsletter is a graphics package Newspeak created for MTV's new docu-series titled “I USED TO BE FAT,” the show started airing on December 29th, 2010. To see some of the work Newspeak did for the package click HERE, if you are interested in learning more about the docu-series you can visit the show's website at http://www.mtv.com/shows/i_used_to_be_fat/series.jhtml. 

Other projects mentioned in the Newsletter are two Co-Branded (OLD NAVY AND HERSHEY's) promos we completed for "VH1 Divas Salute the troops."

 To view the promos click HERE,  to learn more about VH1 Divas please visit. http://www.vh1.com/shows/events/divas/_2010/.

Cover Art for Sarah Fimm New Single "Soul Let Swim"

To purchase go to http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sarahfimm4

Summer 2010 has been pretty productive for Newspeak. Newspeak latest summer project is creating a music video for SARAH FIMM.  We filmed Upstate New York over a period of three days.

Currently we are in post production.

Here are some amazing photos  Heyrick Chasse took on set.