http://www.transistorstudios.com Transistor Studios Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:33:07 +0000 http://www.transistorstudios.com en http://www.transistorstudios.com/Saturn-Trails http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Saturn-Trails Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:33:07 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117456 ________________________________________________________________________________ Saturn drivers where looking for vehicles that fitted into their lives. A key component of this was a sense of environmental responsibility. Transistor was looking to hang out in the forest for a few days on bikes and shoot a Pro BMXer messing about. It was a perfect fit. http://www.transistorstudios.com/Sonos-Egg http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Sonos-Egg Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:56 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117484 ________________________________________________________________________________ Often times here at Transistor the first thing we say upon reading a script is '...and they are going to pay us to do this? For real?'. That was definitely the case when our friends at 72andSunny came up with an idea for an opera singing egg for their client Sonos. The egg and face were shot as separate plates and then composited together. This was necessary as we found a couple of great Bluegrass and Soul singing eggs, but we couldn't track down a single Tenor egg. We really do need to get a better casting agent. http://www.transistorstudios.com/HTC-Evo http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/HTC-Evo Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:50 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117453 ________________________________________________________________________________ Kids these days. They love using their phones to do all sorts of things. Taking photos, texting, shooting video and sharing things across social networks. I'm not sure if we should tell them but you can actually making telephone calls on those things too. To emphasize all that the HTC Evo offers we shot it on set running through it's passes with some of the most handsome hands we've ever seen. I mean really, look at those things. There is a lot of love in those hands. http://www.transistorstudios.com/Mediawise http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Mediawise Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:49 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117446 ________________________________________________________________________________ Video game violence is such a part of our culture that we often forget what kind of message it sends to those of us that can't separate the physical from the virtual. To tell such a brave story we wanted to focus on the banality of everyday life and juxtapose it with the brutality of video game violence. We shot the live action in a New Jersey suburb using a real mother going about her day. It's the very ordinariness of the scene that helps make the message so confronting. http://www.transistorstudios.com/Sonos-Explosion http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Sonos-Explosion Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:42 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117483 ________________________________________________________________________________ There is something hardwired into the human brain that just loves watching destruction. The only thing better than watching it is causing it. And so it was for this spot we directed for Wireless Stereo company Sonos. What better way to show the highly evolved nature of the new Sonos Play3 than to blow up antiquated hi-fi equipment? The future is here, and it likes to take things out to the desert and blow them up. Thats a future we can all believe in. http://www.transistorstudios.com/Sonos-Melt http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Sonos-Melt Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:39 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117486 ________________________________________________________________________________ Clowns are so weird. Stephen King and John Wayne Gacy ruined them for everybody. It really is about time somebody did something about it. Thankfully we were on board to direct this shoot for Sonos and strike back on behalf of regular folk everywhere. The idea is, obviously, that the Sonos Play3 creates face-meltingly good sound. The reality is that it is so good that it will actually melt the entire body of any edible clown. Now if only we can create a way to get rid of the non-edible ones too. http://www.transistorstudios.com/Sonos-Grinder http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Sonos-Grinder Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:38 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117346 ________________________________________________________________________________ The new Sonos Play3 needed a strong, simple metaphor to explain that it really is the natural evolution of the hi-fi experience. To tell this story we created a grimy butcher's back room, cast a genuinely grubby English man to play the butcher, and destroyed a few pieces of antiquated technology in his meat grinder. We shot him up close and personal with a wide lens to capture the grit and texture of his skin. You can almost taste the sweat and the smell of rotting meat. Delicious. http://www.transistorstudios.com/Soup-to-Nuts-Production http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Soup-to-Nuts-Production Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:37 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117534 ________________________________________________________________________________ <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/15849/2117534/live_image.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="279" width_o="640" height_o="279" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/15849/2117534/live_image_o.jpg" align="left" /> We are specialists in the area of what some folks call 'soup to nuts' production. This means we direct and produce all our own live action work from pre-pro through to delivery. For us it's a very natural evolution of our design obsession. In it's purest form design is about controlling the details, so we love to turn our eye to shooting to make sure a project reaches it's potential. To make it easy to find this work we've bundled it together. Check it all out in one spot here. http://www.transistorstudios.com/Porsche-Antique http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Porsche-Antique Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:31:20 +0000 Transistor Studios 2117472 ________________________________________________________________________________ This is a real story we directed about Andy and his gorgeous Porsche Speedster coupe. As you can see Andy takes pride in finding beautiful objects from the past and giving them new life, and he uses his Porsche as his pick up truck. It's a simple metaphor for the evolution of the Porsche brand but it works because it's honest. If you see a guy driving around Southern California with a bed frame hanging out of a beautiful car, tell Andy we said hi. http://www.transistorstudios.com/Steelcase http://www.transistorstudios.com/following/transistorstudios.com/Steelcase Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:22:20 +0000 Transistor Studios 1604464 ________________________________________________________________________________ Steelcase makes kick ass office furniture. We made this video for the 10,000 odd folks that work for Steelcase to excite them about the future of designing and building things that make work not feel so much like work. To communicate this, agency Kantorwassink asked us to create evolving geometric forms that highlight the relationship between space, architecture and design. We had such a good time doing it, especially working with the very kind well-spoken folks at Kantorwassink, that we're contemplating moving our studio to Grand Rapids, Michigan and working exclusively in pentagons, hexagons and pyramids. There's just something about easygoing Mid-western folks and polygonal modeling that makes us smile.