10 Mar Line 21's Client Highlights
As we mentioned in our last post, this month is Line 21’s 18th Birthday.
We’ve stayed in this business for as long as we have because of our clients. Over the last 18 years, our clients have made our hectic schedules and hard work worthwhile. Here are some (but by no means all) of the highlights:
First Client: Four Force Entertainment
Our very first project at Line 21 was a HandyDART PSA for Four Force, and we still get to work with them to this day. We have a framed copy of invoice #1 on our wall in the office.
Series Clients We Love: Omni & Paperny Entertainment
To us, Force Four, Omni Film and Paperny Entertainment all deserve special awards of honour for consistently generating fun, entertaining, smart, and interesting TV—from factual to reality to dramatic. We’ve sincerely enjoyed it all, from You, Me, and the Kids, Kink, and Champions of the Wild to Million Dollar Neighbourhood, Eat St., and Buffalo Air. Much love.
First Drama Series: Lonesome Dove
Those of you who have known us long enough will remember that in the days of hardware encoders, we carried our own smart encoder around between Vancouver post houses. For the first episode we did of Lonesome Dove, Carolyn delivered the entire captioning station and encoder (all the way down to the mouse!), to Jon Robertson at Post Haste (now Technicolour). Total weight of approximately 80 pounds, now, of course, all done in software.
Clients We Miss: Haddock Entertainment, Stargate
We are superfans of all our dramatic series. We miss Beggars and Choosers, which we thought was hysterical, Dead Like Me, (likewise, hysterical), Robson Arms (hysterical…), and maybe most of all, the Da Vinci/Da Vinci City Hall/Intelligence series’.
And, of course, no mention of dramatic series’ in Vancouver can be made without Stargate. Between the original series, Stargate SG-1, and then Stargate: Atlantis, and Stargate: Universe, there was 10 seasons, plus 5 seasons, plus 2 seasons (plus movies) of great TV to watch and work on. This was followed by Sanctuary, which has had 4 seasons so far and we are hoping for season 5!
Unsung Heroes: Front Street & Brightlight
Front Street and Brightlight are film and made-for-TV movie producers in Vancouver. We have huge admiration for how they manage their many movies per year to broadcast schedules, and they’ve always been great to work with.
And for all the clients we don’t have space to mention, thank you for your dedication and support over the last 18 years. Here’s to 18 more!
Carolyn and Kelly, 2012
