In this TV spot for New Balance, TALCO goes face to face with Canadian olympic tennis star Milos Raonic. We teamed up with a New York based company hscusa.tv to bring Milos to life in full HD, high speed, glory. Filmed at frame rates upwards of 700 FPS using a Phantom HD camera we...
Big things are coming for TALCO lighting in the first part of 2013. We are upgrading to a 10-ton truck with a larger box which allows us to double the size of our pre-loaded truck package. A 1985 Kenworth K100 Cabover (COE) diesel from a nostalgic era of trucking to deliver the following improvements to your...
A true indie experience, last September we were in Calgary for 3 weeks working on a film with local cinematographer Aaron Bernakevitch. The experience re-equainted us with filmmaking outside of Vancouver, where the dream is still very much alive! In fact, local businesses were friendly and the city was inviting. It appears that without...
This was a roofing safety video for WorkSafe BC. We filmed in the pouring rain. We needed to get a large rain cover safely in the air above the set which was built 8 feet off the ground to simulate a rooftop. We built a “fly swatter” by rigging a 20×20 clear to the...
Behold some of our finest work on a skeleton crew — Mirza 2012: The Untold Story. The film which was sold out opening weekend in Canada and caused a huge stir in India. It stirred us up in Vancouver as well because of the magnitude of the lighting setups we were able to achieve...
This time lapse from the first portion of a 6 day film shoot at VFS with director Michael Chayse — Head of Production for VFS Entertainment — shows what can be done with TALCO’s 5-ton lighting and grip package truck out of the box. Vancouver Film School’s equipment was booked...
TALCO was DOP for a Trevor Linden television spot introducing the Captain Canuck as the new spokesperson for Clearly Contacts. The commercial was created by the good people at GiantAntMedia.com with Cinematography by TALCO’s very own Josh Alkoff .. The graphics were done by Faction Creative. This 30 second spot promotes Clearly Contacts as a source for low cost eye...