Jason Maris Film & Photography Blog

Art Director:  Mike White

Creative Director:  Brad Hanna

Retouching: Gretchen Hilmers

Art Director:  John Gregory

Creative Director:  Jim Spruell

Associate Creative Director:  Mike Betts

Retouching: Gretchen Hilmers

Creative Director: Justin Baum

Art Directors: Pedro Gonzalez, Ted Harbourt

Director-Nick Ingkatanuwat
Producer-Lear Bunda
Line Producer-Michael Seminer
DP-Jason Maris
AC-Danielle Bernstein
Grip-Mike Stippich, Timmy Smith
Editor-Dave Willis
Actors:
Shane Smith
Sarah Blackman
Davi Masi
Alyson Mull

ALTERNATIVE EDIT:

Another spot with Lear Bunda and Nick Ingkatanuwat for Adult Swim – Thanks to all involved!

30 Second cut:

15 Second cut:

Shake N’ Bake, round two!

Here are eight ridiculous, verging on strange, candid shots of me with some of the NASCAR drivers taken during a recent Coke assignment.  We were capturing the drivers for standees, in store life size cardboard cutouts, using the 60 megapixel Phase One camera. If you could not tell by the images, these guys are very fun, I look forward to working with them again!  Thanks to everyone at Momentum and IMG for a great shoot!  Click To Experience!

This is the ‘director’s cut’ of the Robot Chicken Season 5 DVD & Blu Ray spot featuring more footage of actor George Erdner selling his intended on the virtues of Robot Chicken.  The official spot, with actual footage from the program, should be airing on Adult Swim soon.  Thanks to director, writer and editor Nick Ingkatanuwat, producer Lear Bunda, our man Keith Roberts, wardrobe and stylist Morgan Lee Kestner and George Erdner; it was a blast, can’t wait for the next one!

Here’s the 30 second edit of the Travis Manion Foundation 9/11 Heroes Run that I shot for JWT.  I am very pleased with the results and with everyone involved.  It was a large undertaking – ten locations with multiple actors to be completed in two days! -  and I couldn’t be happier with how smoothly everything went and how wonderful everyone was to work with; seriously, a great experience!

30 second edit

Agency JWT: Rick Hill – Art Director, Matt Berger – Copywriter, Khia Banks and Brad Steinwede – Agency Producers and Tessa Rogers – Account Exec!

Director,DP and Producer was Jason Maris. Brad Kaye was AC. Keith Roberts was Camera Operator. Morgan Lee Kestner did Styling, Wardrobe and Make Up.

Editing by: Jeff Tober of the Bandito Brothers.

Actors in order of appearance:  Mickie Pollock, Raina Ferguson, V.C. Fuqua, Orlando Vargas, Stephanie Ray, Rosanna Chan.

UPDATE:

Extended Edit

Actors in order of appearance:  Mickie Pollock, Raina Ferguson, V.C. Fuqua, Joseph Shepherd, Michael Williams, Owen Jones,  Raymond Hampton, Jarret Davis, 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, Brian Marshall, Orlando Vargas, Stephanie Ray, Rosanna Chan.

Great news for all involved – the National Peanut Board: Peanuts – Energy For The Good Life campaign that I shot for Lawler Ballard Van Durand made it into this year’s Communication Arts Photography Annual!  As I’ve said here before, we couldn’t have done it with the awesome staff at LBVD – Steve, April, Gene and Rachel; hope we can do it all again sooner than later!  And, of course, the models – Beth, Jessica, Landon, Mike, Wayne, Emma, Eli, Madeline, Maya, Trevor, Rosanna, Porchea, Nyleta and, of course, Pete.  Thank you so much.  Click to experience.

The National Peanut Board campaign I shot for Lawler Ballard Van Durand continues to roll on through the web, popping up when least expected – most recently on the highly popular ‘cool internet’ art, photography & curiosity blog FFFFOUND!  Being a regular visitor to the site (which has the habit of being very addictive, you have been warned!) this was a particularly satisfying event.  Big thanks to Jeff Harter who spotted it first, and of course, Steve, April and Gene at LBVD for bring bringing me on board in the first place – let’s do it again, real soon!  Click the image to be taken to the actual piece!