Inspired by images of classic pin-up girls and sex-kitten Brigitte Bardot, we designed a sexy opening title sequence for Pamela Anderson's new reality show, Pam: Girl On The Loose. Produced for World of Wonder and E!, the titles have a cool, retro vibe that stays in line with the stylized look of the series.
We coordinated production and post on two promotional spots for Kimberly Clark's Huggies Cleanteam. The playful videos incorporate both live-action and animation. In addition to appearing on the Huggies website, the videos screened in film theaters in conjunction with the release of the animated feature, Horton Hears A Who.
We were thrilled when Michele Gondry approached us to design titles for his latest film. In addition to the main title sequence, we created playful text graphics, which were incorporated into the film's narrative.
From The New York Times, February 22nd, 2008:
In its sweet, lackadaisical way, Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind illuminates the pleasures and paradoxes of movie love. Its two main characters, a pair of Passaic, N.J., loafers named Mike and Jerry, are devotees of the Hollywood mainstream, paying tribute to well-worn classics like Ghostbusters, Driving Miss Daisy, Rush Hour 2 and The Lion King. The way they express this affection lands Mike and Jerry in a spot of copyright trouble, but they (and Mr. Gondry) provide a welcome reminder that even the slickest blockbuster is also a piece of handicraft, an artifact of somebody's nutty, unbounded ingenuity and the potential object of somebody else's innocent, childlike fascination.
A.O. Scott
We had a blast designing a show open for the latest installment of Bravo's Real Housewives series. Using a combination of stills and CG, we constructed a fully animated cityscape. Rather than gritty or industrial, the New York City of the Real Housewives is glossy and pristine, becoming as much a star of the show as the women themselves.
Edgeworx is delighted to have been the graphics partner on NOVA's Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial which is the proud recipient of a Peabody Award.
The two-hour special, which aired on PBS, captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in one of the latest battles over teaching evolution in public schools.
We were hired by writer and co-director Joseph McMaster to help visualize the ideas and science behind the theory of evolution.
We crafted the metaphorical "Tree of Life" to showcase the relationships between all living species; meanwhile taking an explicitly representational approach to present scientific evidence from some of the latest research in the field.
After collaborating with Edgeworx on The Kid Stays In The Picture, Brett Morgen came back to us with his latest documentary. In addition to overseeing the film finishing and archival transfers, we designed the titles and composited the animated sequences.
From The Los Angeles Times, February 29th, 2008:
What constitutes a documentary and what doesn't is a subject that's been hotly debated in the last decade or so. Whatever the merits of each side of the argument, it's undeniable that the genre has changed radically, with the most interesting docs filling the gap in the public discourse between straight news and opinion. Are they tendentious? Absolutely. But they back up their arguments with eloquent images. Their mission is to contextualize, make connections, draw conclusions and, ideally, spur action. Brett Morgen's unapologetic Chicago 10 is a sterling example of this kind of filmmaking. The film is a reconstruction of the events surrounding the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicagofrom the Yippie festival in Lincoln Park to the police riots that followed and the conspiracy trial, a year later, of the activists and protesters known as the Chicago 7. Morgen weaves the two components of the narrative together from archival footage and animated segments voiced by actors (the trial sequences were adapted from court transcripts) and underscores them with '60s protest music and more recent tracks.
Carina Chocano
We were honored to have been a part of the creative team on Richard Robbins' Oscar nominated documentary. We used cutting edge graphic and animation techniques to make visual the personal accounts of American soldiers stationed in Iraq.
From Variety, February 8th, 2007:
Structured around the poetic, comic and chilling writings of men and women posted in Iraq, Richard Robbins' docu, like The War Tapes and other recent attempts to directly channel the experiences of combat soldiers, studiously avoids discussion of the rightness of the conflict. Excerpted interviews with WWII and Vietnam veterans suggest that every war is hell, yet it is the specificity of the Iraq War combatants' reminiscences that makes their writing resonate so profoundly. Poignant docu, opening Feb. 9 at Gotham's Film Forum, should travel further before airing on PBS' America at the Crossroads.
Ronnie Scheib
Edgeworx worked on titles, visual FX and graphics for five feature films, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Gail Levin cut her series, The Naked Campaign, in our state of the art editing facilities. The short animation and verite videos follow the machinations of the 2008 presidential campaign through the pen of caricaturist and campaign veteran, Steve Brodner. The series can be viewed on The New Yorker website.