Zombie Trash The Dress

Nothing says “I love you,” like a Zombie ridden honeymoon, with heads exploding, and body parts dragging…right? Well, it does for our married couple Alex and Bill McCoy. Professional make-up artists by day, and Zombie hunters by night, this couple has an affinity for the supernatural. After spending their early married years as lead makeup artists for Europa parks Horror Nights, the couple wanted to make their “Trash the Dress” session even more memorable than ever. With the help of our inspired and talented couple, friends and volunteers, we were able to create this amazing rendition of the walking dead—breathing new “life” into the phrase “Till death do us part.” bitly.com/vOb8yS

We were approached by Rich Johnson of RJ + CJ Studios to partner with a Trash the Dress session.
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Thank you to Rich Johnson & his wife Caressa for the concept and all the talent. Also to the beautiful Bride Alex McCoy and Groom Bill McCoy.

Zombies:
Andy Howard, Luandra Whitehurst, Krystine Lopez, Kellie Murphy, Matt Chiriboga
Guns: Collin Courghenour
Behind the scenes: David O'Connell

Thank you to Eric Fabra for all the post help and the looong night! (honorable mention to Andrew Boyd with zombie voice foley)
Shot on the 5D M2 with cranes, sliders, rigs and a beautiful sunset.
Music: Hugo Steurer - 99 problems

Pixel1080 is a 2011 Telly Award Winner!!

Pixel1080 was proud to be a part of the Production and Post Production for CaerusPoint - producer of the unique education-based video series Major Decision. Their goal is to create a spark of interest in high school and college students for further education and professional careers – was recently awarded nine (9) Telly Awards at the 32nd Annual Telly Awards Program for 2011. 

The nine awards include four Silver Telly’s (the highest honor) for Use of Graphics, Art Direction, Lighting and Set Design in the Non Broadcast Production category, and five Bronze Telly’s in the Education (for academic use), Cinematography/Videography, Use of HD, Editing and Sound/Sound Design also in the Non Broadcast Production category.

“It’s an honor to be awarded something as prestigious as eight Telly’s, especially when you know you are evaluated with such a high standard of excellence,” said CaerusPoint CEO Kobie Pieterse. “It really puts a smile to your face when you are holding a 4 ½ lb statuette that was designed by the same firm that makes the Oscar® and Emmy®.”

Major Decision is an education-based series of entertaining videos (appealing to a diverse audience) that dissect each highlighted career in less than a half hour in the form of an up-beat hosted show, and feature an informal in-depth interview of a professional in that specific field. This offers a high school or college student an accurate “day-in-the-life” depiction of a career in an exciting and positive platform. The series provides present-day, real world guidance from an expert within his or her area of expertise. The Major Decision career guidance video library spans twelve popular industries showcasing multiple careers within each industry.


The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the web. The program has been running since 1978, and judges sift through thousands of entries from all 50 states as well as five continents. The Telly is one of the most sought-after awards by industry leaders.

Photoshoot With Pro Event DJs

Matt Rothlein of Provocative Productions approached Pixel1080 to design his CD cover of his soon to be released CD project he has been working on for over 5 years. We decided to start the project with some photography. Do some amazing and different techniques and a few locations to get the creative juices flowing.

Our first location was at Kraft Azalea Garden in Winter Park at sunset. The technique is to "paint with light". Using our  Canon 5D M2 with a couple of wide angle lenses, 5-8 second exposures and high f-stop settings for maximum open shutter time.  We had some of our crew and Matt's crew run around the trees with flashlights waving their arms around while we did a dodge and burn with one of the lights on Matt as he stood very still. Here are a few shots of the outdoor garden session.

Second location was the alleyway between the Studios of Pixel1080, downtown Orlando (corner of Wall St. and Orange Ave).  Smoke machines, lasers and flashlights were used to achieve the effects.
With an occasional wandering street person in and out of some of the shots we pulled it off without too much attention and our improperly parked cars.

Wave 3 Production Completed - on to Post!

We have just completed our 3rd wave of careers for CaerusPoint, LLC. Schuyler Osborne was director this time and C. Douglas Howard was Director of Photography. Devindra Ramdehal - second camera, Seth Cohen and Kat Small - 3rd camera, Rick Alexander & Lee Day - audio, and Kari Larsen of About Face Design Team & Kat Flynt did our location makeup.
Some fun challenges with lighting on these careers, and we were in a couple louder settings with the Veterinarian and the Bio-Medical Engineer adding a little more ambience. It is time to start editing all this juicy footage and bang out some HD!

We shot mostly in the Orlando area and a Bio-medical shoot in Atlanta.
Here are a few shots of the different careers.

Janette interviewing a Banker of Seaside Bank

Michael interviewing a Transportation Manager of CHEP

Janette and a Veterinarian

Michael and PR Executive Mark Jerkins of Higher Advertising

Michael and our Bio-Medical Engineer