The celebratory bells were ringing today at the Java Post Production office in honour of a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. Okay, the bells were actually our General Manager, Karen Plumb shouting "Ding Ding Ding!," and the once-in-a-lifetime occurrence was the official serving on the 15,000th cup of coffee from the Java Post office cappuccino machine. Fittingly enough, the lucky person to…

In Flanders Fields - by John McCrae, May 3rd, 1915 In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.   Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from…

Our Java Post Production Aerial Photography crew was out shooting aerial footage with our "Javacopter" UAV drone this past Saturday at the K+S Potash Legacy Project mine site near Bethune, Saskatchewan. And, while our pilot, Jack Tunnicliffe, and camera operator, Trevor Bennett, were being shown around the site by Destiny Pero from AMEC - one of the world’s leading engineering,…

From everyone here at Javampire Postmortem Production - including our office mascot, Georgy - we wish you all a safe and happy Halloween! Georgy is dressed as some kind of "airplane jet fighter in a party hat" sort of thing. Whatever that costume is supposed to be, you can tell that Georgy is just thrilled to be wearing it. And what would a day at our office be without a timely and…

UPDATE: The profile on Jack and Java Post Production will air on CTV Regina and CTV Saskatoon this Tuesday, October 21st at 6:00 PM and 11:30 PM, and then again Wednesday, October 22nd on the CTV Morning Live show and at 12:00 Noon.   Wow, it seems like we can't swing a coffee thermos in the Java Post Production office these days without hitting a CTV Regina news crew. This past Tuesday,…

For a news story about SaskPower utilizing drones for aerial reconnaissance of electrical lines, veteran CTV Regina reporter Wayne Mantyka was out at Java Post Production yesterday to interview company owner (and experienced drone pilot) Jack Tunnicliffe about the use of UAVs - unmanned aerial vehicles - for commercial purposes. As part of its full slate of production services, Java Post is an…

We are pleased to have Corner Gas: The Movie director, David Storey, and director of photography, Ken Anton Krawczyk, in the office today for final colour-correction & visual-fx approvals. Jack and our team at Java Post Production have been very busy the past couple months doing our part to get this soon-to-become Canadian classic movie close to completion and coming to a theatre near you in…

A "dronie" is a "selfie" taken with a camera mounted on a drone. A drone is also known as a UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle - or a UAS - unmanned aerial system. But, strangely enough, the phrase "UASie" has never caught on in modern slang. Hard to believe, I know. Anyway, here are three "dronies" our Java Post Aerial Photography crew accidentally captured…

Working with the Phoenix Group advertising agency, the Java Post Aerial Photography crew (Trevor Bennett and Jack Tunnicliffe, pictured left to right) was down in Southern Saskatchewan late last week at Grasslands National Park, shooting some aerial scenic shots for an upcoming Tourism Saskatchewan ad campaign. Shooting sunrises and sunsets (and lots in between) made for long shooting days, but…

We're putting on the party hats (well, figuratively and PhotoShop speaking) and eating hot dogs and cheese doodles (literally) because today is the birthday of our Managing Producer, Joan Speirs! Yay! Joan won't tell us her age but she does remember back when hot dogs were filled with actual identifiable meat.  Seated clockwise around the Java Post boardroom table starting in the…

The special visual effects work for Corner Gas: The Movie has been proceeding at Java Post for several weeks now and it's been fun to walk by the offices of our animators Kevin (pictured right) and Tomás (pictured left) to get a sneak peek at some of the hush-hush visuals that will be revealed on the big screen in a couple of months. I mean, when we saw the shot of Brent with…

Our Java Post Production team was recently out at the Mosaic Potash plant near Belle Plaine, shooting on the ground and in the air to document a big concrete project by Hipperson Construction. For 11 hours non-stop, concrete was poured onto 60 tonnes of rebar to create a massive foundation, 25 meters in diameter. Sixty-two cement trucks were called in from Regina and Moose Jaw, as 480 cubic meters…