For quite a few years now, Java Post Production has produced the opening videos that "start up" the SaskTel MaxTron big screens at Mosaic Stadium before each Saskatchewan Roughrider home game, about 35-40 minutes prior to kickoff. If you've ever come early to a Saskatchewan Roughrider game in Regina, you probably have seen one of these videos. This CFL season, SaskTel asked us if we…

While Java Post Production UAV aerial photography pilot, Jack Tunnicliffe (in orange shirt), and photographer, Tom Davidson (behind the camera), were out the other day shooting aerial scenes for Corner Gas: The Movie, they encountered a unique roadblock in rural Saskatchewan. It all ended peacefully and the horses and Java Post crew members went on their merry ways, each with a cute story to tell…

To paraphrase the old Three Dog Night song: "Well, I've never been to Spain, but I kinda like this video." Described by its creator, UK-based filmmaker Rob Whitworth, as "a fast moving short film," this video is really something to see. It involved 75 hours of logistics and travel time, 31 hours of location scouting, 78 hours of shooting, and 179 hours of post…

A flashback to 2007, this was a little company demo reel intro video, inspired by (read: totally ripped off from) the movie "Snatch," directed by Guy Ritchie. The video was a quick, fun way to introduce the Java Post Production staff, circa 2007. The overriding theme, naturally, was coffee. We're not called Java Post for nothing. Please excuse the standard-definition letterbox. It…

This video for the Mosaic Company's solution mining potash plant located near Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, celebrates the plant's 50th anniversary. Using a combination of archive images (still and video), new video footage (including aerial footage from our "javacopter") and interviews with current and former Mosaic Company employees, this production looks back over 50 years of…

Okay, so "Stop motion in the Name of Lentils" was never a big Diana Ross and the Supremes hit. But it is a way to segue into a recent animation project. Java Post Production created a series of show-specific introduction animations for the web series "Lentil Hunter," hosted by Chef Michael Smith. Each animation featured a map of the specific country being showcased in that…

For those of us old enough to remember, the host of the TV game show Family Feud would always shout "Survey says!..." just before revealing all the answers. Well, if you need 3D Survey Mapping and Georeferenced Orthophotography of your farmland, industrial site, municipal roadways, waterway, environmentally sensitive area or any other area, Java Post Production has the answers for you.…