MERCURY LABS

Directing the Narrative Short Film

Production Still from How to Kill a Pitch short film

Having just wrapped post-production on our short film “How to Kill a Pitch,” I’ve spent some time (mostly in a dark edit suite) thinking about narrative filmmaking and how it’s different than a lot of the flashy, graphics-heavy commercial work that we often produce for advertising and marketing campaigns. Technically, narrative filmmaking refers…


For Free or Not For Free

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

For free, or not for free: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to endure

The slings and arrows of outrageous deadlines,

Or to take arms against a sea of clients,

And by opposing end the work you do for them?

To eat: to drink;

No more; and by not eating to say we end

The misdirection and the panic

That paid clients…


Account Side Photoshop Tennis: A Video You’ll Love

Account Side Photoshop Tennis

Our friends from ad agency Boxing Clever came to us with a video project. They wanted to take a popular design game - Adobe Photoshop Tennis – and adapt it for the account side. Why should creatives have all the fun, after all? Of course, we were more than willing to throw in lots with them and help make a demo video to bring the idea to life.

The result…


Join the RED Revolution

 RED Revolution Logo

With the RED ONE digital cinema camera, Mercury Labs has brought a bit of Hollywood to St. Louis. St. Louis has been on the map before with Judy Garland staring in the classic musical "Meet Me in St. Louis", with St. Louis actress Annie Wersching starring in “24”…