Sam Leinen

Fall 2011 Reel

Sam — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:19:41 +0000

Haven’t updated this site in ages. Behind the scenes there’s a brand new site coming but of course it’s not ready yet. I’ve cut together a new reel though and did want to get it up here so take a looksie.

Along the Way Graphics for Under Armour

Sam — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:13:26 +0000

I recently had the opportunity to animate some titles and on-air graphics for a new branded entertainment show Along the Way for Under Armour. Working from designs by Second World Design out of Boston, Massachusetts I was able to quickly turn out some simple, clean and effective motion graphics. The show is due to launch later this month and I will update with clips once they’re released.

The Integrated Design Wheel

Sam — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:51 +0000

My involvement in the Integrated Design Wheel project at CK spans over a year but the project as a concept is years older than that. In my time it took the form of being purely a website, then a Flash website with animation and voice over, purely a video, and then finally where it is now as a combination microsite, Frontline-esque documentary. The website is launched at designsynthesis.betterbricks.com and is slowly beginning to be promoted.

I shot the footage with a small crew, lit with 2 Diva-Lite Kino’s and for being talking head footage I’m very happy with how it turned out. Follow the link to see it all but I’ve pulled a few of my favorite clips here.

Low Budget Clean Rivers

Sam — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:18:49 +0000

As part of Coates Kokes’ work with Clean Rivers and Streams we manage their social media program – releasing little around the house tips and tricks for keeping a healthy water system. We proposed a series of low budget videos that we’d shoot on a Flip camera and then release via Twitter and Facebook. It’s an ongoing project but I wanted to share a couple.

Metro Recycling Hotline “Garage” :30

Sam — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:04:57 +0000

My first opportunity to shoot on the RED camera, this was conceived as a single shot that with it’s stark simplicity would feel unique and grab some attention. Of course it was far more complicated to execute than it appears. Shot off speed first full of stuff with the door closing, then multiple takes with the beach ball that was eventually slowed to 80% full speed, then much later in the day shot with the garage empty.

Creatively, once I was brought into the project as the director I realized in order to really sell this as being one moment we had to have some element carry over from the full garage to the empty. We shot a few different elements but ended up using a rubber ball.

Karl, the copywriter on the project, and myself shot a behind the scenes video walking through some of the complicated compositing we pulled off.

B&W I

Sam — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:37:45 +0000

There are a series of photos I’ve never posted up here for lack of having somewhere to actually put them. At some point I’ll need to come back and reorganize these but here are 2 from a series of 6 I shot back in 2007.

As with any of the images on the site just click on the image to see it larger.

Tunnel

Sam — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:28:35 +0000

Had always meant to shoot a little something down this tunnel near my apartment. Just for fun went down with a couple friends and shot a few images.

Tobacco

Sam — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:14:26 +0000

Just because I haven’t posted in a while here are a couple images I shot for some comps for Tobacco Prevention here in Oregon. Just placeholder to get the ideas across.

Hawaii in December

Sam — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:47:03 +0000

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Portrait of an Agency at Work

Sam — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:33:40 +0000

The task was to show the principles of Coates Kokes at work, highlighting the capabilities of the agency. I tried to stylize it and give it some personality and pop, bringing some light on them to try to highlight the thinking that goes into the process of working through a creative problem.