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Objectified
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, [...]
The Next: Creative Catalysts
Miles recently had the wonderful opportunity to work with The Next Institute, who’s goal is to be a catalyst for creative and sustainable enterprise. Companies like The Next Institute understand the market and growing need for designers in a leadership position.
Miles helped The Next Institute create and conceptualize pitches, while providing post production design services. [...]
Vincent Laforet Explores the New Canon 5D
Many POD members are avid photographers so we have been intrigued by all the buzz around HD video capabilities in SLR’s. Most of the attention has been directed towards the release of the new Canon 5D Mark II and the video REVERIE, an independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet. Since the release of [...]
Battle of the Bands
After pitching, hiring and establishing a mograph team at Riptown it was time for the Art Director & Motion team to take a big bite by creating a title sequence for “Bodog Battle of the Bands.” The Art & Design team did an amazing job with the visual treatment and pacing. The project was a [...]
Riptown Redesgin: Bring your Passion to work
Miles spent the weekend working on a Riptown SLAM project. SLAM Projects also known as Deep Dives (made famous by IDEO) are projects in which you are given extremely aggressive time lines to accomplish huge amounts of design work. They are usually 2 -3 days in length.
Using this as our inspiration we decided to have [...]
Sea to Sky
An RFP project for Tourism BC. MIles created a 30 second commerical piece that highlighted many of the outdoor landscapes available to the people of the Vancouver area. It was created as part of a pitch to land a potential contract from Tourism BC.
Process: To capture footage of at least ten outdoor areas along the [...]
"Wanted" : BCSPCA
Miles and a group of colleagues to on the challenge of creating a 30 second commercial piece for the BCSPCA that they could use a part of their current campaign: Prevention of cruelty against animals. The commercial was to address neglect and animal cruelty. We where asked to put a specific emphasis on the long [...]
Bushido
Bushido
The goal of this project was to promote a short movie titled Bushido and have it accepted into a Film Festival; concentrating our efforts on a Film Festival that celebrates Japanese styles. We facilitated this by designing a press kit produced to current professional standards that was consistent in reflecting the director’s message.
Solution: Design a [...]
The Power of You
Miles created the Brand / ID & Commercial for You H2O, A vitamin water energy drink
Collective Members: Miles Nurse
Role: ID / Motion Designer
Your Key to Sexual Safety
Contest Winnder – Blood Guts and Gore Horror Fest
Challenge: To create a 5 – 6 minute short horror movie within 48 hrs, that would be judged on four different categories. Use of Gore, Story, Prop, Originality.
Process: We wanted to maximize the resources and strengths of the team by shooting two scenes with an animated [...]
Six Phases of Design
Adobe Showcase Piece
Uses the new seamless Adobe Creative Suite, Miles created a 60 second commercial piece that was an emotional representation of the design process.
Process: Explored the challenges of working in 3D space within Adobe After Effects. Using graphics and text to represent various emotions a designer experiences progressing through design challenges from anticipation to [...]
Shark Re-brand
Shark Awareness – Non -Profit
The goal of the Shark Project was to Re brand the shark species and to try to influence the public to take action and protect the sharks role within the sensitive marine ecosystem.
Our approach was to make three compelling videos that would take the audience through journey that would lead them [...]
Alarium DVD
Created DVD and case for the short movie Alarium, which was created by Vancouver Film School students Dan Lee West and Jay Law through the VFS Film Production program
Collective Members:
Miles Nurse :: Role: DVD Author
Annika Newell :: Role Producer
Free Dive: Explore Your Potential
Challenge: To shoot and produced underwater video highlighting the Canadian Free Diving team and best dive sites in the BC Gulf Islands. Video was used to help secure the 2005 World Free Diving Championships.
Process: Shot and edited footage of the Performance Free Diving Team as they trained in the southern Gulf Islands of British [...]
Marine Conservation: BC Dive Sites
As part of my commitment to promoting the underwater world I created this motion piece to highlight some of the best dive sites on the coast of BC. My hopes in the future are to land media grants so I can produce future documentaries. This would include effects of commercial fishing on artificial reefs. Declines [...]