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Hi. I'm Jon Flahr. I'm a Film and Commercial Director. I'm also an owner and Creative Director of Noravera Visuals.
Here's some of my work.
Dance your pants off.
The dancers and I coordinated everything on the spot, and managed to pull off two different 30 second spots in one day. If you're into tech stuff, we shot everything natively in camera at 21 frames a second instead of the standard 24 to exaggerate the speed and movements of the dancers.
Fun fact: The office scenes were filmed at Kit and Ace's actual office and all the background people are real Kit and Ace employees all trying to get their work done while our dancers danced all over their desks. Sorry!
The hail mary.
We made this POV (point of view) TV spot for the BC Lions to try and show the experience of going to a Lions game from a fans perspective. Filmed during a real game, we needed to make sure we had a few rows of our own extras filling the seats around the actors that were willing to cheer on command, take after take. I managed to entice my friends with free tickets to the game in exchange for their unbridled enthusiasm.
Fun fact: With the Lions down by 4 points and only 90 seconds left on the clock, the energy from the crowd was all but gone, and I was still missing the most important shot- the big ending where the crowd goes wild. Things were looking bleak when all of a sudden the Lion's QB throws a hail mary into the endzone and they win the game at the buzzer. Needless to say, we got the shot.
Team Building with Dennis Rodman.
A throwback to 2012, my directorial debut... a baby-faced Jon Flahr has 7 hours to direct Dennis Rodman in 3 different ads for a mobile game app called BigWin Basketball.
Fun Fact: Rodman's money suit wasn't supplied by my team, he just happened to have it laying around and decided to bring it.
A bears best friend.
The best part about directing inanimate objects is that they always do you what you tell them, as long as you're telling them to sit there and don't friggen move.
Fun fact: We coined the camera mounting system to get the "ride along" shots of the bear the TeddyRig 4000... but if you could see the way we had to secure the bear in place, TortureRig 4000 seems more appropriate. Movie magic!
This is real life, people.
Comedian Andrew Barber introduces the world to subways new paninis. Well, maybe not the world, but definitely Coal Harbour.
Fun Fact: People are more willing to eat random foods they're given on the street if cameras are involved.
