My Favorite Director? Chuck runs Amok!
Whenever conversation lulls on the production set or at parties or at pre or post shoot meals with clients, I am invariably asked the [...]
Bank spots that don’t break the bank.
When you think about bank commercials, huge campaigns with massive TV production budgets come to mind. But community banks need to be more frugal, [...]
Please, Not a Funeral Home Commercial!
My writer friend Becky said she was sending me boards for series of low-budget funeral home spots. I had managed to get through thirty [...]
Digital Cameras or Digital Hype?
Digital still cameras, aka DSLRs are all the rage for shooting commercials, music videos, and even feature films. The excitement surrounding these cameras comes [...]
Good Scrooge, Bad Scrooge
Late in 2010, I teamed with Sunrise Advertising creating several commercials for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park holiday production of ‘The Christmas Carol”. [...]
Verisign Video Made From Still Pics… 15,000 of ‘em!
It’s the facility that connects all of us to the internet. Secure… Powerful… State of the art. Who better to tell the story of [...]
Mastman Goes Global with Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin needed a spectacular way to proclaim their leading edge technologies, such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and their Aegis Missile Defense System. [...]
Real Lesson From The Old Spice Campaign… Cajones!
I put the Old Spice campaign at the top of my “man, I wish I worked on that” list. I recently re-tweeted an article [...]
My Son, the Director
I told him to get a real job, like at a bank or a car factory, but he wouldn’t listen. My son Kevin Mastman [...]
Zieg wins first Sandlot Pictures Facebook contest
Crack Art Director/Creative Director and noted man about town, Steve “Zieg” Ziegelmeyer, has taken home first prize in Sandlot Pictures’ inaugural Facebook contest. Contestants [...]