Pet Vet Star Contest Finalists
We love working with Pet Vet Star. Good people and animals? What more could you ask for! How about a campaign to launch the brand locally? Cool Hand Look provides turn-key marketing solutions. We do the work to make you look great. To see the o4 ther contestant videos go to www.petvetstar.com
Find Bob Book Promo
This was a 2-day turn-around from writing the script to delivering the finished spot. Finding Bob is a blast. Cool Hand Look has been involved in this project since virtually the beginning. 38K views in 3 days ain’t too shabby!
4 Minutes with a Miler Ep. 1
The goal of this project was to develop an introduction and template for future episodes of ‘4 Minutes with a Miler.’
Leo Manzano is one fast dude. He’s run the mile in 3:50.64! Check out the Cool Hand Look treatment from the ground up.
Bring Back the Mile Commercial
This project was a blast! 100% guerilla production with a 24 hour turn-around. This project took 9 hours and 47 minutes to complete. Client shot the video clips on his iPhone 4s using a small Steadicam Smoothie. Sometimes the best projects aren’t the ones with the biggest budgets… sometimes the magic just happens! BRING BACK THE MILE!
Alycia Nichole Album Release Party Web Stream
On November 18, 2011 Alycia Nichole released her anticipated debut album and she partnered with Cool Hand Look to produce the release party. The release party was held at Playback Recording Studio and included a live performance of the album and a web stream. Cool Hand Look brought in a streaming sponsor and pushed the event out to the World. Alycia Nichole stunned audiences with her soulful tone, uplifting lyrics, and unbelievable vocal range. Check out this clip from the event.
New Noise SB Commercial #1
New Noise SB is Santa Barbara’s answer to South By South West. The music conference came to us with a VO and a treatment and asked us to produce two seperate 30 second commercials. We love this project! We had a lot of fun while both meeting the client’s deadlines and staying within budget. As a part of the project, we rebuilt the clients logo and applied an audio trigger animation to give it that extra flare. Client was thrilled with the completed spots, so are we.
New Noise SB Commercial #2
New Noise SB is Santa Barbara’s version of SXSW. The conference handed us a hard drive with content, a VO, and said “go to work.” We had a lot of fun with this project, beat our deadline, and came in under budget!
“Stop Measure T” Commercial
Clients approach Cool Hand Look to produce a series of political commercials to air in Santa Barbara County. This project included script, voice over recording & editing, directing, editing, graphics and motion video development. This project was completed in 24 hours from start to finish. The resulting commercial was aired on FOX News, National Geographic, and Discovery Channels in Santa Barbara County. Effective? We defeated Measure T by 61%! In your face Don Francisco and Michael Self!
“Letter To Whoever” by Courtney O’Donnell
Client asked us to film two music videos in a 10 hour period, we shot this one and another entitled “Just Pretend” in 9 hours! From the original treatment to the finished product, Cool Hand Look delivered on-time and under-budget. Concept, directed and edited by Luke Archer. Director of photography, Andrew Dale. Lighting by Mike Brannigan.
“Day By Day” by Junior Reid feat. Briana
Director Joe Trivigno, from the Musical Circus, produced this video and approached Cool Hand Look to do the post production. The video was shot in Kingston, Jamaica on a DSLR camera. The raw footage was shot run-and-gun guerilla style and need a complete color treatment and gamma correction. It reggae, what can you say? Love it or leave it alone. We love us some good reggae.
Courtney O’Donnell “Just Pretend” Music Video
Tall order once again from Courtney O’Donnell…shoot two music videos at several locations in a 10 hour period. We love these sort of jobs that push the envelop and challenge our team. This video was shot at two locations; Java Stations and Playback Recording Studio in Santa Barbara, CA.
Treatment, directed and edited by Luke Archer. Director of Photography Andrew Dale. Lighting by Mike Branniger.
Mike Shinoda’s Glorious Wemix Contest
Mike Shinoda and Ludacris started a website for emerging artists called Wemix. They contacted CoolHandLook to produce a series of viral videos to promote their brand online. This video was a turnkey production from start to finish including directing, lighting, sound, editing, motion graphics, and animation.
ASWAD “African Children” Live Production
Working for NaturalVIP, Inc., the owners of Cool Hand Look brought the truck in for this event, produced an 8-camera live HD mix ,and captured 48 tracks of live audio. This event is fire by extinct, no rehearsal, lay it down on the spot and broadcast it out to 30,000 thousand fans. After the show we took 25 of these unedited video clips posted them to YouTube and developed a podcast on iTunes. The RESULTS have generated millions of views online for the event.
Ludacris Wemix “Max Payne” Viral Video
Wemix approached us with a concept to create a viral video featuring Ludacris to promote his role in “Max Payne.” The catch? We had to shoot the entire piece in 20 minutes and turn the video around in 24 hours. We stepped up to the challenge and delivered on-time and under budget. Directed, filmed, lighting, sound, editing, compositing, graphics, and animation by Cool Hand Look. The client was thrilled with the results, and given the time frame, so were we.
Julian Marley “Boom Draw” Music Video
One Friday night we were approached by Julian Marley’s management and asked to shoot an impromptu music video for his song “Boom Draw.” The song was controversial and had already been banned from the airways in Jamaica. The video attempts to tell his side of the story. The RESULTS paid off big with over 3 million views! Type in “Julian Marley” on YouTube.com and see the results.
Dr. Laura Ciel Calling Card Video
Dr. Laura (no, not that Dr. Laura) approached us to develop a calling card video for her new business consulting venture called 1One World Leadership. Cool Hand Look worked on this project from start to finish. The end result is a graphically rich video that we shot on the green screen in order to give us the flexibility to match the clients look and feel of her website. Cinematography by Dana Marrow of Road Show Media. Lighting and sound by Mike Braniger.
The Wailers “A Step for Mankind” Music Video
We were contacted by the management of the Wailers to produce this video to support the United Nations’ World Food Program. We were tasked with making a music video out of a live performance which we filmed at the Wavehouse in San Diego, CA. The project needed to tell the WFP story and integrate facts and figures about World Hunger. It is a huge problem that can be solved if we band together. We chose to collaborate with our partner Hagoth Aiono on the filming of this project. Concept, directing, filming, editing, graphics, and animation all done in house at Cool Hand Look.
Courtney O’Donnell “Traffic Lights” Performance Video
Independent artist Courtney O’Donnell approached us to produce a performance video for her song “Traffic Lights.” This project was shot at Playback Recording Studios in Santa Barbara, California. Directed, lighting, and editing by Cool Hand Look. Videography by Andrew Dale.
Gentleman “Celebration” Live Production
Another 3-day 8 camera live broadcast clip from Reggae Rising. Part of series of clips on YouTube channel and on aiTunes podcast that continue to generate millions of views for the event.
Solution For Dreamers 3 EPK
Client needed a video to promote the release of a benefit compilation album to support the World Food Programme. Cool Hand Look took up the challenge and produced this spot for Oniric Records from start to finish. As with many of our non-profit clients, this job was done on a shoestring budgest. Luke completing all phases of the project from start to finish, including treatment, directing, filming (3 cameras at once), editing, motion graphics, sound & lighting.
Babatunde Lea EPK
Motema Records contacted us to produce an Electronic Press Kit for their artist Babatunde Lea. Baba was on tour with an all star jazz band doing a tribute to Leon Thomas. This project required us to do solo crew working sound and lighting, film both the interviews and show (2 cameras at once), all while directing. We collaborated with Christopher Jenkins and Natural VIP for the post production of this video. Good job Chris.