Jason Maris Film & Photography Blog

Retouching: Gretchen Hilmers

My thanks to everyone at JWT: Rick Hill – Art Director, Matt Berger – Copywriter, Khia Banks and Brad Steinwede – Agency Producers and Tessa Rogers – Account Exec,

Also to Jeff Tober of the Bandito Brothers for editing and Craig McCraw our location scout.

The crew:  Keith Roberts was Camera. Brad Kaye was AC.  Producer – Danielle Bernstein, Morgan Lee Kestner did Styling, Wardrobe and Make Up. Danelle Bernstein was the Producer and I (Jason Maris) was Director, DP Camera and Producer!

And, of course, the talent who made it happen:  Mickie Pollock, Raina Ferguson, V.C. Fuqua, Orlando Vargas, Stephanie Ray and Rosanna Chan.

I’d also like to thank the Marietta Police Officers who appeared – Michael Goins, Chris Bain, Grant Foster, Gretchen Ingram, Justin P. Rutland, Brian Keith Smith, Michael Gardner, Stephen Miller, Donald Bertolo, Don Smith, Steve Kish, Eric Henderson, Anthony Rashad, Chris Cannon, Kenneth Martin, Brian Honea, David Auld and Brian Marshall.

And last, but definitely not least, a thanks to the Dekalb County Firemen of Station 12 – Michael Williams, Owen Jones, Raymond Hampton and Jarret Davis.

Thank you all and CONGRATULATIONS!

HERE’S THE SITE

But, essentially, this is what you’ll see:

Be warned: Circus Music!

I was the Director of Photography on this. Shot at the Earl in East Atlanta, featuring Rick Richards of the the Georgia Satellites. Currently airing nationally. Well, needless to say this was a fun shoot! See more credits on the vimeo page. Thanks to everyone that helped make it happen! Click to experience.

60 Second:

30 Second:

Here are some portraits I shot earlier this fall for the Travis Manion Foundation‘s ’9/11 Heroes Run’.  Everyone involved was fantastic and I look forward to working with them again!  I’d like to give a shout out to Matt Berger, Rick Hill, Khia Banks, Tessa Rogers and Brad Steinwede from JWT; thank you so much for the opportunity to do this campaign, not to mention making it so easy!  Photographs retouched by Brad Kaye, Click to experience.

Directed by Adult Swim’s own Nicholas Ingkatanuwat, produced by Lear Bunda and shot by myself along with Brad Kaye and Keith Roberts. Styling by Abby Morris, wardrobe by Morgan Lee Kestner. Starring Andrea Young, Jessica Pack, Sarah Blackman, Bria Kaye and Beth Del Nero as the Five Footloose Female Carls. With a voice over by Carl himself (aka David Willis – the director of the Hayes Carll “Another Like You” video)!  We used two Canon 5D MKII’s to shoot it.

Hmmm, how to explain Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 to the uninitiated… it’s a crude, some might say ‘adult’ Saturday Morning Cartoon that airs really late on Sunday nights.  It’s a surreal, satirical, black comedy about a team of crime solving fast food items (follow me here…) that don’t actually solve – or even investigate- any crimes.  Rather, they just exist in a decrepit suburban house as the world outside goes to hell.  Carl – the character the dancers in the ad portray, is their long suffering, knuckle dragging, sweatpant rocking neighbor.  The show is simultaneously inventively brilliant and willfully stupid, has been on the air for over a decade under it’s original moniker, Aqua Teen Hunger Force,  and even had full length feature in theaters back in 2007!  For you boomers out there, AUPS1 and it’s ilk are this generations’ answer to underground comics and Fritz The Cat.

A great shoot and a lot of fun, particularly the segments when the ladies messed around in their solo spots with the product; some seriously warped behavior arose!

The 15 Second Version

The 30 Second version

Here’s the set that I did of blues rock / jamathon journeymen Widespread Panic for Eric Capossela (who also created the stained glass-eque font) and Atlanta Magazine.  Retouching by Bradley Kaye.  Real nice, down to Earth dudes. On the newsstands now!

Last night I had a photo shoot with Atlanta psych rockers N.E.C. (Natural Extension Concept, obviously).  A great time was had by all, so much so that we may be working on a few videos with the group as well – very exciting.  Awhile back studio manager Tony wrote an article about the group for the blog PBBI (Pushed Buttons Burning-In, obviously) which also has some music.  You can check it out HERE.  Photos by “Shaky” Emmons.

The following images are from the PSA & Enlisted Campaign for the USMC and JWT.  They were impromptu situations set up for content collection.  Retouched by our very own Brad Kaye. Click to experience!

Grab shot of an AAV Operator. Check out the effects of salt water on that helmet – that isn’t vintage!

Styling by Pedro

Beach Landing!

We are in the process of some final tweaking on the new website, it should be finished within the week!

www.jasonmaris.com will be super clean in appearance and easy to navigate, stay tuned. Hurray!

I like to visit the Library of Congress on occasion for inspiration. Here are a couple of links and some images to get you started. The pictures below are from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, and were captured between 1939 and 1943 throughout the United States.

Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange, Sheldon Dick, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott all shot for the Farm Security. Now go, Get Lost!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

http://www.loc.gov/pictures