Dances with Light
  • HOME
    • BIO
  • TV and Web Ads
    • Metamorphosis
    • THE WATER MOVIES
    • Phoenix Cyberknife
    • Solar City
    • California Medical Weight Management
    • Moskowitz LLP
    • Sleeping Cutie: IndieGoGo Campaign
    • Commercials from the 80s and 90s
  • Music Videos
    • Jane Siberry: Mimi on the Beach
    • Laurie Lewis: "Hartfordtown 1933"
    • Tragically Hip: "Little Bones"
    • Bare Naked Ladies: Lovers in a Dangerous Time
    • Robert Priest: "Congo Toronto"
    • National Velvet "68 Hours"
    • Autumn Leaves
    • Bus # 9
    • Kim Michell: Might as well go for a Soda
    • Good Brothers: High Rollin' Heart
    • Picture Comes to Life: "No Words, No Speak"
    • Cindy Valentine : Victim of love
    • Chicago Girl
    • Murray McLauchlan: Me and Joey
  • Corporate
    • Charlie Levin Promo
    • UC Santa Cruz
    • Graham Tree Services
    • Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation: "All Ways Welcome"
    • St Mary's Center for Cancer
    • Coco's Dog Litter
    • Children of Alcoholics: "Tell Someone"
  • Drama
    • FEATURE DRAMA REEL (16x 9 format)
    • DP Drama Reels (TV FORMAT)
    • Sniff the Movie (Trailer)
    • My first Film : DOG
    • CLEAN-RITE COWBOY
    • Trigger Itchy FInger
  • Documentary
    • Kim Webster: Glass at the Autumn Lights Festival
    • Trailmix: Geese hand puppets
    • PlayGround
  • Dance
  • Animation
    • Eccolo Media Animation Demo
  • Contact
Twenty one spots form the 80s and 90s.   Every one with a great back story.   Some with a budget most of them not.

I was making my own short film on the streets of Toronto and this guy came up to me  and asked me if I made commercials so I said yes (of course).   Turns out he had twenty people cold calling businesses and selling them airtime, and if they bought his package that got  a free commercial.   So I (and a couple of other lads) trotted round with a thousand dollars and told the new client that we were going to write the spot there and then. I would make it as written, any changes they paid for, mistakes we're on me.   The trick was to sell them a better idea and "boost" the grand.

Ridgways Tea, number three, is one of my  favorites.  The actor with glasses, Jonathan Barker, ended up running the OFDC for a while, was my best man,  and now runs an IMAX production company. 

Mighty drop is fun.   We animated the  bottle over some slides. 

CKLW was thirty seconds 35mm stop motion straight form the camera. 
  • HOME
    • BIO
  • TV and Web Ads
    • Metamorphosis
    • THE WATER MOVIES
    • Phoenix Cyberknife
    • Solar City
    • California Medical Weight Management
    • Moskowitz LLP
    • Sleeping Cutie: IndieGoGo Campaign
    • Commercials from the 80s and 90s
  • Music Videos
    • Jane Siberry: Mimi on the Beach
    • Laurie Lewis: "Hartfordtown 1933"
    • Tragically Hip: "Little Bones"
    • Bare Naked Ladies: Lovers in a Dangerous Time
    • Robert Priest: "Congo Toronto"
    • National Velvet "68 Hours"
    • Autumn Leaves
    • Bus # 9
    • Kim Michell: Might as well go for a Soda
    • Good Brothers: High Rollin' Heart
    • Picture Comes to Life: "No Words, No Speak"
    • Cindy Valentine : Victim of love
    • Chicago Girl
    • Murray McLauchlan: Me and Joey
  • Corporate
    • Charlie Levin Promo
    • UC Santa Cruz
    • Graham Tree Services
    • Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation: "All Ways Welcome"
    • St Mary's Center for Cancer
    • Coco's Dog Litter
    • Children of Alcoholics: "Tell Someone"
  • Drama
    • FEATURE DRAMA REEL (16x 9 format)
    • DP Drama Reels (TV FORMAT)
    • Sniff the Movie (Trailer)
    • My first Film : DOG
    • CLEAN-RITE COWBOY
    • Trigger Itchy FInger
  • Documentary
    • Kim Webster: Glass at the Autumn Lights Festival
    • Trailmix: Geese hand puppets
    • PlayGround
  • Dance
  • Animation
    • Eccolo Media Animation Demo
  • Contact