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    inMotion announces acquisition in Western Canada

    07 Feb 2012 in News

    inMotion is pleased to announce the acquisition of On3 Media, a production house located in Calgary, Alberta. On3 will be renamed inMotion West and will introduce Hollywood experience to inMotion’s award-winning pool of Canadian digital media talent.  inMotion West will be managed and operated by partners Steve Dierkens and Dave Barton, formerly On3 Media Co-Presidents. Dierkens’ experience includes post production credits with Disney (The Lion King franchise), MGM (The Magnificent Seven), Dreamworks (Anchorman), and Fox (Family Guy). Barton is an... Read More...

    inMotion Launches Microstock Venture inStox Media Labs Inc.

    02 Feb 2012 in News

    (OTTAWA) inMotion is pleased to announce the launch of inStox Media Labs Inc., a microstock company, responsible for the sourcing, managing and licensing of production-quality video. inStox is the next step of inMotion’s strategy to expand and diversify its business operations. The microstock industry has grown dramatically, fueled by the rise of new media and by production teams looking to augment their overall production while saving time and money. inStox services this market with a growing library of stock footage... Read More...

    There’s a New Intern in Town.

    20 Jan 2012 in Blog

    By Brandon Rushton Entering the professional world in any field is a scary thing.  The fear (mingled with excitement) is heightened in the film or multimedia industries, where you must prove yourself at every step. A good way to combat this fear is to become the dreaded Intern. For people like myself, though, being an intern is a freedom unlike any other.  It’s a privilege to be taken in and shown the ropes from industry professionals.  In my case, these... Read More...

    Unleashing the Audiophile

    20 Dec 2011 in Blog

    I was squished in a van filled with my siblings and cousins, heading back to Ottawa from a trip I cannot remember.  It was a crisp night and I was fast asleep, snuggled between my brother, Cung, and my sister, Nicky.  My brother impishly tickled my nose with a piece of white polyester stuffing from his winter coat, waking me into a grouch.  Once Cung was scolded for waking me and I knew that my cousins had failed to convince... Read More...

    From Behind the Lens: Making Jeff Callery’s “Long Days”

    19 Dec 2011 in Blog

    When we heard the news that we would have the opportunity to work on a music video for “Long Days” by Jeff Callery, the entire production team immediately went to work. The ideas in our minds quickly unfolded into visions of scenery, camera settings and angles. We are very fortunate to have the best tools in the industry to produce our projects. The Arri Alexa can record images in a similar way celluloid film behaves under a scanner. This means... Read More...

    Preparing for the inMotion Party (or: Revisioning Woolf)

    07 Dec 2011 in Blog

    In Mrs. Dalloway, the masterpiece-slash-doorstop (depending on your point of view) by Virginia Woolf, readers hang out with the heroine and her entourage as they prepare for a party. As you might know, we, too, are preparing for a party, and you are invited. Wherever she is, toying with the rocks in her pockets and looking down upon us, I think Virginia would approve. We are following her criteria, after all. Like Clarissa Dalloway, we have to-do lists and cleaning... Read More...

    inMotion Profile: Megan Findlay

    14 Oct 2011 in Blog

    As part of our ongoing series of family portraits, we present you with inMotion writer and producer Megan Findlay. We thought it fitting that she participated in this interview, which took place in inMotion’s sun-soaked kitchen on a quiet afternoon, exactly one year to the day after choosing to join forces with inMotion. To learn more about the people you’ll work with when you work with inMotion, visit our first profile piece. This series will be updated regularly, so don’t... Read More...

    Though we still retain an air of mystery

    07 Oct 2011 in Blog

    For a long time, we’ve simply been “the black building at the end of the street.” It’s what our clients heard when they asked how to find us, and it’s what we saw when we arrived each morning. This was not necessarily a bad thing. How often does a video producer get to feel like a secret agent? Lurking around unmarked buildings and such? Conducting classified business? [I dropped in at the vet hospital right across the street last week... Read More...

    Accent Welcomes Third and Fourth ARRI Alexa

    21 Sep 2011 in News

    Accent Production Services, a subsidiary of inMotion, announces the arrival of its third and fourth ARRI Alexa Digital Cinema Camera systems. This is the latest in a series of ambitious acquisitions for Accent, located with inMotion at 891 Boyd Avenue, in Ottawa. “We are responding to a growing need, not only in the Ottawa-Gatineau region but across the country,” says Patrick McGowan, President of Accent and inMotion. “Thanks to these cameras, Accent can now put the world’s best cinematic tools... Read More...

    inMotion Profile: Greg Pilsworth

    12 Sep 2011 in Blog

    As a handsome prime-time Mad Man once said, change is inevitable.  It’s how you react that determines success or failure.  At inMotion, we are reacting by blogging!  Our team is expanding, our building is buzzing, our cameras are flying off the shelves.  Pat McGowan, company prez, is leading this evolution with deft precision.  To celebrate his vision and bring us closer to each other as colleagues and friends, we will document part of this change through bi-monthly profiles of inMotion... Read More...

    Inside a Director’s Mind

    06 Sep 2011 in Blog

    Since the birth of my career nine years ago, each location, set, cast and crew has been different. Nothing is ever the same. Perhaps this is what attracted my ADD self to the industry in the first place. But there is one constant I can always rely on: the inevitable insomnia on the eve of principal photography, which is a common burden among film people. The morning before our CAA shoot, Producer extraordinaire, Sarah Fodey, and I hopped into a... Read More...

    Giving Up Words

    26 Aug 2011 in Blog

    I was standing in the inMotion kitchen, examining an infant’s plastic spoon. One unanticipated by-product of having a place that’s jammed with extra staff is the dishwasher effect: how quickly it fills, how often it runs. The after-lunch devastation to our cutlery supply is dramatic. A package of drinking straws, two corkscrews, and my plastic spoon, rolling alone in the bottom of the drawer as the dishwasher chugs through its work.  This leaves slim pickings for a girl who’s hungry but late to the... Read More...

    The Zone of Uncertainty

    24 Jun 2011 in Blog

    There’s a concept in high-level thinking about measurement called the Zone of Uncertainty. It’s the turning point that signals a scale’s movement from one graduation to the next. When things start to get a little heavy, your bathroom scale crosses the Zone of Uncertainty and springs from 130lbs (weighing myself) to 131lbs (weighing myself while eating a pound cake). It’s as simple as that. And delicious. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere, and I’ll be darned if I’m not going... Read More...

    inMotion featured in Ottawa Business Journal

    10 Jun 2011 in News

    The OBJ visited inMotion in May for a photo shoot and feature interview with company prez Pat McGowan.  That spread is schedule for release in their print edition at the end of June, but they’ve posted an online article ahead of the presses.  Read it here! Read More...

    What does an inMotion Creative Director look like?

    08 Jun 2011 in News

    inMotion announces new acquisition signaling continued growth and expansion into the Toronto marketplace. (OTTAWA, June 8, 2011) inMotion is pleased to announce it has acquired Capricorn8, a VFX and Motion Design boutique with a strong high-end interactive background based in Toronto, Canada. The acquisition will see award-winning and Gemini-nominated Rafael Ludwig, principal of Capricorn8, heading up inMotion’s production team as Creative Director. “We’re thrilled to have Capricorn8 as part of our inMotion brand,” says Pat McGowan, President of inMotion. “Rafael... Read More...

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