Hiep Vu Stills + Motion

Photographer, Director, DOP

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Canadian Cycling Magazine Gift Guide 2017

Canadian Cycling is Canada’s premier resource for cycling enthusiasts. Their gift guide needed photos that would communicate the variety and diversity of products that are geared towards people who love bikes. Here are some shots from the guide this year that I shot for the wonderful gang over there.

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LCBO: Holiday drinks

LCBO is one of the largest alcohol retailers in the world and as such they endeavor to inspire their customers to be inventive in their making of fun and delicious beverages. We were commissioned along with Hogtown Films to produce a series of instructional videos on how to spice up your holiday staples. Working with director Serge Constantinou, I shot these lovely ways to spice up the Gin Martini and the Black Russian.

Director: Serge Constantinou

Production company: Hogtown Films

Client: LCBO

DOP: Hiep Vu

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Allseating - You Chair

Allseating is one of the leading office and chair manufacturers in the world. Their chairs feature ergonomic and adjustable options for any task. Their You Chair is one of their best sellers and can adjust to fit just about any person. I shot the latest promo for the new version for Parcel Design recently and it was super fun testing out all their products. They really are super comfortable.

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Bacardi - Untameable ft. Sarah Parniak

Bacardi has always been very supportive of the mixology culture growing across the globe. As part of that initiative the Untameable program is looking to promote passionate drink makers that are building and sharing that culture of fine spirits and fun times. I have been DOP’ing a series of spots for this program through Hogtown Films. In the video below we profile the beautiful Sarah Parniak of Peoples Eatery in Chinatown Toronto. She is a passionate advocate of having fun with your mixing and trying new things. A veteran of the bar tending world she is also known as a prolific writer on drinks culture. Cheers.

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Arlene Dickinson (Dragon’s Den) for Venture Communications

I got a chance to shoot spots for Venture Communications last fall. As you may know the CEO/CD of Venture Comm is non-other than Arlene Dickinson of Dragons Den. As part of that shoot we shot Arlene for the spot and I just noticed that they are using some of the photos on their web site as you can see here. Venture are a great agency with offices in Calgary, Toronto, and Ottawa with clients from around North America. Here’s to seeing what Arlene gets up to post Dragons Den. http://www.venturecommunications.ca

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David Myles 'It's Christmas' Video + Cineplex Ad

Our frequent collaborator David Myles has release a wonderful new Christmas Album entitled 'It's Christmas'. We were asked to create some ads for him to send to Cineplex for theatre spots for him, and in the process we extended the spot out to a full music video for the title single.

Director: Hiep Vu

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SONY BRAVIA - Hockey Like You've Never Seen It Before

This is a director's cut of a spot we produced for SONY earlier this year. 

I've spent my fair share of time on cold rinks shooting and casting but this one wasn't so bad. Generally after 8 hrs on ice you can't feel your extremities anymore but this one kept me running. Filmed at the beautiful Brampton Powerade Centre. I wish I could lace them up for a game there!

Director: Hiep Vu

Producer: Serge Constantinou

DOP: Marc Pierce

Props: Kara Dillon

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SONY BRAVIA Hockey Celebration

As a commercial photographer sometimes you get to see your photos in the real world. If you are lucky you can look up and see a big billboard or in the newspaper one day. With things increasingly digital and media buys being so targeted you never know when you might cross paths with your own work. I think I've previously tweeted about seeing this SONY Bravia ad  on the mobile app TSN GO. I ran across it again today on the BestBuy site (this time a bit bigger so you can see it better). Happy Black Friday shopping everyone!

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Canadian Cancer Society Donations Project

The Canadian Cancer Society, the largest cancer charity in the country asked us to work on a project to help them drive people from all over Canada to their donations campaign, and we were more than happy to help out with such a great organization. We photographed and recorded 10 people representing different ages, ethnicities and provinces from across Canada. We also got them dressed in the official colors of the Society, blue and yellow. The result is a vibrant tableau of faces, representative of people from across our great country.  Here is an example of one of the uses of the photos and videos we created. 

You can donate or see more images and videos at www.cancer.ca

Please donate.

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JBL Horizon

We've been working hard for JBL this year, shooting all their personal audio products and it's exciting hearing the technology and checking their designs. Here is a peek at one of their speaker alarms clocks, the JBL Horizon.

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Measha Brueggergosman/Royal Wood Duet

In the run up to the release of Measha Brueggergosman's new Christmas album we have been doing extensive videography of the recording of the album and the musicians involved. We like to link you to a video about the making of the original duet that is on the album between Measha and lovely singer Royal Wood, Let Joy Reign.

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Measha Brueggergosman New Christmas Album Cover

We've had the lovely opportunity to work with the hyper-talented and smart opera star Measha Brueggergosman. She has been releasing jazz and pop albums along the way as well and we are proud to announce that we have shot the cover for her new Christmas album. Mixing originals, with classics, and even some little heard gems, the new album is a fresh blend of her amazing voice and her breadth of music knowledge. It's available now on iTunes and in finer stores across Canada.

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Recycle Everywhere Campaign

This May we teamed up with The McKim Group to tackle a huge project for Recycle Everywhere. They were looking to create a series of ads that would fool you into thinking that you were looking at a category beverage ad, the categories being Water, Juice, Citrus, Cola etc. The punchline being that the ads would be about recycling the bottles and containers the drinks came in. We were tasked with making compositions that would be instantly recognizable as a beverage ad of a certain type. We spent most of May and some of June completing seven executions for the campaign as well as collateral for a TV spot. The layouts spanned product shots, models, table top, action, and tons of complex retouching. This is some of the best stuff we've done in a while so I'm proud to present the first couple of shots here.

Agency: The McKim Group

CD: Ron Sawchuk

AD: Tom Boresky

Print Producer: Gary Gobeil

Photographer: Hiep Vu

Retoucher: Dave Jackson

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FREE MONEY! Joshua Van Tassel finds out how hard it is to give it away.

Music videos cost money. They can cost as much as commercials sometimes and can run into the hundreds of thousands in Canada and into the millions elsewhere. When Joshua Van Tassel was given a small amount to make a video for his song 'I Think You're a Salesman' (ft. Kate Rogers), he teamed with us to do something totally different. We took almost all the money and decided to give it all away, and the video would be about that. What we thought would be a mob turns into something slightly different. It's not as easy as you would think it to be. So on a snowy day in January, we tested our theory.

Joshua Van Tassel 'I Think You're a Salesman' Featuring Kate Rogers

From the album 'Dream Date' available from Forward Music.

Director: Hiep Vu

Editor: Graeme Ring

Camera: Darrin Klimek, Hiep Vu

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SONY VAIO Flip- CGI Spot

We finally get to show off this great spot I produced and directed for SONY. The VAIO Flip is a really cool laptop that turns into a tablet and a viewer with the 'flip' of a switch. The transformation is so quick and easy that the spot is all about how easy it is. The idea behind the spot is about how computers have changed over the years and how small, light and powerful they are now. The animation is inspired by papercraft and origami and we tried really hard to keep a organic feel to the whole piece and make the transformations as fun as possible. Big shout out to Playfight VFX who were amazing in pulling off this difficult animation and putting so much production value into the project. Here are some stills from the project and at the end is the final video. 

Director: Hiep Vu Production Company: Hiep Vu Stills + Motion (hiepvu.com) Producer : Hiep Vu Animation house: Playfight VFX Titles : Serge Constantinou Sound : Resolve Audio Art director: Hao Huang Writer : Ben Scotland Client : SONY Canada

SONY VAIO - Papercraft from Hiep Vu on Vimeo.

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Measha Brueggergosman - Tour Finale Show

Measha Brueggergosman is one of the most talented singers in Canada. And she just happens to be from the same town as me, Fredericton, NB. I was lucky to be asked by Kelp Records to shoot her tour finale show in Markham this past weekend. This show was a solo performance with a piano accompanist. Opera to start and then finishing strong with her unique twist on some contemporary artists and classics. 

PS. You should also check out the video for her single 'Whole to My Half' which I directed last year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyqDa-pul6E

Here are a couple of shots from the show.

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JBL - People

Along with the tabletop shooting we did for JBL, they asked us to conceive some shots showing their products being used by people. This is what we came up with.

Client: JBL

Photographer: Hiep Vu