Client: OzeaDerma, France
Directors, Cinematographers, Edit/Color Grade/VFX: Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Helpr is a new advice and information online marketplace platform, set to launch in 2018.
We were commissioned to write and direct three virally friendly, Internet comedy pre-roll spots, each aimed at a different demographic among Helpr's potential target markets.
This one is aimed at adult men.
Credits:
Art Director: Sarah Hadid
Stylist/Wardrobe: Karine Dashney
Makeup/Hair: Marianne Caron
Production Manager: Maxime Forget
Sound Recordist: Ian Elemo
Sound Design: Matt Russel
Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Editors and Visual Post:
Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Helpr is a new advice and information online marketplace platform, set to launch in 2018.
We were commissioned to write and direct three virally friendly youtube pre-roll spots, each aimed at a different demographic among Helpr's main target markets.
This one is aimed at single women.
Credits:
Art Director: Sarah Hadid
Stylist/Wardrobe: Karine Dashney
Makeup/Hair: Marianne Caron
Production Manager: Maxime Forget
Sound Recordist: Ian Elemo
Sound Design: Matt Russel
Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Editors and Visual Post:
Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Helpr is a new advice and information online marketplace platform.
We were commissioned to write and direct three virally friendly youtube pre-roll spots, each aimed at a different demographic among Helpr's target markets.
This one is aimed at a young male audience.
Credits:
Art Director: Sarah Hadid
Stylist/Wardrobe: Karine Dashney
Makeup/Hair: Marianne Caron
Production Manager: Maxime Forget
Sound Recordist: Ian Elemo
Sound Design: Matt Russel
Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Editors and Visual Post:
Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Client: Ultra Music
Concept, Directors, Cinematographers, Edit/Color Grade/VFX: Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Steadicam Op: Amber Lomer
Client: SR Music Publishing, Italy.
Concept, Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, Color: Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Steadicam Op: Amber Lomer
Starring: Katy Daly, Michael Madsen, Malcolm McDowell, Daniel Baldwin.
Directed by Nathan Oliver
Cinematography, Color Grade/VFX and visual design coordination by Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo.
Steadicam Operator: Amber Lomer Camera Operator: Robert Ruffo
In this dark comedy horror feature film, Ella, a seemingly innocent, girl next door, is obsessed with her mother's collection of vintage fashion magazines and 1980s music video VHS tapes.… And murder.
We and the director aimed for an often otherworldly feel to evoke the hyper-glossy media Ella so deeply loves, and so desperately hopes will help her connect with her cold, rejecting mother.
Great care was taken to make many of the real locations look like unrealistic studio sets, with some of the outdoor backgrounds resembling matte paintings rather than real places.
As a result, the murders feel like blissful and possibly imaginary ballets rather than grim realities with real consequences. We are left to wonder what is real and what is merely her fantasy world, as she becomes increasingly unhinged.
Client: BreakMates LLC
Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Edit/Color/VFX: Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
These are two of a series of dark comedy spots we created for BreakMates, "The Future is Now" and "Up Your Game".
Since the younger target audience is very media savvy, a meta concept that laughs at itself was chosen.
This test of the evocative potential of motion control was sponsored by a Canadian sportswear company who were looking to get into the lingerie market.
Concept, Directors, Cinematographers, Edit/Color/VFX: Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo.
Client: The Ultimate Fighting Championship
Cinematographers: Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Director, Edit, VFX: Carl Gauvin
Financed by the Australian Film Fund, "Passages" in an experiment with using the language of editorial fashion photography to tell a narrative story.
Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Edit/VFX/Color Grade: Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Steadicam Op: Amber Lomer
Client: Linda Singer Management Group
Concept, Directors, Cinematographers, Edit/VFX/Color Grade: Amber Lomer and Robert Ruffo
Steadicam Op: Amber Lomer
We have taken still photographs for a variety of clients, from fashion brands to high tech manufacturers, from skin creams to hotels to music labels – we even helped McGill University with their re-branding efforts.
What we always strive for is a cinematic feel: the sense of looking at a single moment within a larger dramatic context.
Our specific look is achieved through careful study of the stories evoked by the brands we serve, coaching the models as though they were actors, with character backstories and motivations, and by using precise film lighting techniques rather than photography strobes.
We also apply the same meticulous planning and pre-visualization to photo shoots that we do for our video work.
We have recently begun using our Red Epic to pull ultra-high resolution stills from video. This results in photos that feel even more like a slice of active human life, with the keen sense that something has just happened, and something else is about to.
All of these factors also make it easy for us to time-efficiently shoot stills and video on the same day.
