For our trade show appearance next week at the Canadian Western Agribition to promote our aerial photography services, Maureen Bennett on our staff came up with a neat idea to create little paper "mini Javacopters" to hand out to any kids who might stop by our trade show booth. Here Jack Tunnicliffe uses his iPhone to record Joan Speirs and Maureen as they test fly the paper helicopters.…

These three 15-second spots are a few examples of the commercials Java Post Production has produced over the past months for the SGI Road Safety Challenge, a multi-month campaign on both television and web that challenged drivers to improve upon different aspects of their safe driving habits. The advertising agency on this project was The Phoenix Group.

With the help of Java Post staff members Joan Speirs and Kevin Drysdale, we recently whipped up a quick, short demo for a client, demonstrating how shooting with our Blackmagic 4K Ultra HD camera allows you to push into the footage within a 1920 x 1080 HD frame. The Blackmagic camera 4K Ultra HD image is 3840 x 2160, so, when you get back into the edit suite, there's lots of extra room to zoom…

Just a few days ago in California, a man asked a woman to turn off her phone in the movie theatre and was hit with Mace. And, this past February, a Florida man was shot and killed in a movie theatre over a texting dispute. So, with Corner Gas: The Movie set to premiere on the big screen all across Canada from December 3rd to 7th, maybe it's time to review basic movie theatre etiquette, with…

(News story will automatically begin playing after a brief commercial message.) The UAV aerial photography side of Java Post Production was featured in a recent Global Regina News series entitled "The Rise of the Drones." Global Regina news reporter Teri Fikowski interviewed our company owner and certified UAV pilot Jack Tunnicliffe about how Java Post utilizes drone technology as a…

Because even the directors of instant horror/comedy feature film cult classics need to earn a living and pay the bills, here are a couple of SaskEnergy commercials - "Birthday Boy" and "Listen Up" - produced by Java Post and directed by "WolfCop" writer/director Lowell Dean, seen below centre on the "WolfCop" movie set. Although these commercials are just…

What a spooky coincidence! It's Halloween and we want to share a really cool video on the History of Horror, presented by those clever folks over at Filmmaker IQ. The video is about 30 minutes long and well worth savouring over a bagful of Halloween candy. Enjoy. Oh and Boo, eh?

CTV Saskatchewan recently did a video profile on Java Post's owner, Jack Tunnicliffe. Our thanks to CTV Regina reporter Darrell Romuld and CTV Regina photographer Gareth Dillistone for putting the video together. Below are a few screen-grabs. Our Javacopter UAV drone aerial photography platform is prominently featured on the video wall behind CTV Regina news anchors Dan McIntosh and Heather…