In July of 2011, Eric Giesbrecht and I left a Registration Office with a newly minted certificate of incorporation in hand. We had officially started Mediapop. Over those 11 years we saw a constant rise in production, working with some amazing brands and creating videos that have stood the test of time. Eric was a...
This week’s Friday Like is a bit of an inside like. Last summer, Revv52 held a series of outdoor concerts after over a year of no in-person concerts. Our job was to live-stream and film the concerts so folks at home could watch, but those in the audience could also get a unique view of...
Welcome to the inaugural “Friday Likes” post where we share film, streaming, brand and music video projects that we came across during the week. These projects caught our attention and deserve a place on the Friday Likes page because they were masterful in their execution, totally entertaining, left us breathless, or we just wanted to...
It’s happening! We’re officially in Pre-Production on my next revenge/thriller short-film “Going Down” Story: After losing her child at the hands of a Multi-National Dairy Conglomerate, Michelle takes justice into her own hands when the Justice System fails her and her daughter. “Going Down” takes on Injustice in the Justice System, especially if you are...
MEDIAPOP Films’ Co-Founders Ryan Northcott and Eric Giesbrecht are elated to share that two short-films produced by our production company have been chosen as Official Selections of the Calgary International Film Festival and the Edmonton International Film Festival :) “Once Upon a Pandemic” is an Official Selection of the 2020 Edmonton International Film Festival. It’s the...
What can we say about the COVID-19 global pandemic that hasn’t already been said, it’s been a very strange and unknown time for us at MEDIAPOP. We’ve been navigating through everything like everyone else, washing our hands until they’re desert dry, wearing masks, social distancing, having moments of existential dread, and keeping creative (our Co-Founder...
The blown out window. The noisy under-lit shadows. The weird angles that aren’t flattering. The dark circles under our eyes that aren’t from lack of sleep. These are just a few of the things that make us hate shooting video with our devices at home. “This looks like garbage” you think, “do I look like...
Who would have thought we’d be where we are right now, at home in self-isolation dealing with the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. As a creative and extrovert, it’s especially hard to create in any way, but when you’ve got the gear and the experience you can make something meaningful like the short...
The first question we get when someone has decided to engage us in a video production is “How much will it cost?” The general assumption is that you can produce a video, or a series of videos, for a number that you have in your mind. Because everyone does it when they’re purchasing anything, heck...
You’re probably asking yourself how it’s 2020 already or if you’re reading this later you’re probably thinking 2019 seemed like a decade ago. With that comes a new set of goals for your business or brand that you’ve already strategized; selling a product, service, communicating key messages, bigger brand awareness, driving people to your website,...
Influences in the way we shoot our productions range from directors we like, movies we cherish, and math. Math? Yes, math. If you’re not familiar with Leonardo Fibonacci, he was an Italian mathematician born in the 12th century. He is known to have discovered the “Fibonacci numbers,” which are a sequence of numbers where each...
We didn’t start MEDIAPOP to fill up an award shelf or be showered in accolades. We founded it because we wanted to produce projects that made an impact on the viewer, represented our clients’ goals, and did it with style and substance. Those were the most important aspects, and since then we’ve been honoured to...
In the world of creative and video production every so often we are asked to respond to an RFP (Request for Proposal). To break it down a company is seeking to find a vendor to do work for them, be it architecture, web-design, creative services, and video production to name just a few. Generally companies...