Teah Strandjord

Executive Producer | Post Production

Client: Walt Disney Studios

Production Company: Blue Giant Entertainment

Category: Studio theatrical marketing, DVD bonus, doc-style

TRT: 9:41

Disney set me loose in San Francisco and I papered the town looking for our shoot locations. I oversaw creative development, production, and post production. In the end, the studio was so happy with the piece they used it as their marketing materials for the Academy Awards and the piece made Deadline. This is a cutdown of our 20-minute doc made for the DVD bonus features.

Executive Producer

Client: Walt Disney Studios

Production Company: Blue Giant Entertainment

Category: Scripted, studio theatrical marketing

TRT: 1:25

For this piece, Blue Giant scripted, story boarded, and produced this idea for producers at Disney who wanted to re-create an iconic scene from Maleficent but at a little girl’s Disney princess party. I played a fun part in brainstorming the idea, coming up with ideas such as the three fairies on balloons and an overly zealous Dad excited to dress up for the costume party, and continued my role through physical production, post production, and delivery. As I oversaw several productions at this time, I brought on a talented line producer to pull off this very elaborate shoot. In the end, the piece was a hit with Disney and it got over 4 million views on Facebook in three days. Hard to go wrong with Disney Princesses!

Producer | Assistant Editor | Editor

Client: Walt Disney Studios | Marvel

Production Company: Blue Giant Entertainment

Category: Studio content, run & gun

This is a sorta “trailer” for a 3-day series we shot at Comic Con with Disney & Marvel. We called it “sorta live” as we had an edit bay set up at our hotel and a 24-hour cycle that found us shooting at Comic Con by day, then editing and shipping by night. Sleep? Forget about it. During the day I played producer in the field, and in the wee hours of the morning I was the relief editor, post producer, online editor. Oh, and yes we pulled off “run & gun” with a 1,000 pound sushi bar & fresh A-List worthy sushi, plus a vintage ice cream cart full of frozen (but quickly melting) sorbet. Check :)

Executive Producer

Client: Walt Disney Studios

Production Company: Blue Giant Entertainment

Category: doc-style, studio theatrical marketing, trailer, DVD bonus features

Disney had just purchased Lucasfilm, JJ Abrams was set as director, the biggest film release in decades was eminent, and Lucasfilm needed to generate enormous buzz without sharing details of The Force Awakens. The plan was to create compelling new digital marketing content to help stoke fan anticipation.

Together with Lucasfilm and Disney, we created 2 six-part series based on episodes I – VI, titled "Star Wars: Conversations" and "Star Wars: Discoveries From Inside", and filmed on location at the fabled Skywalker Ranch.

In the end, the pieces were watched and approved by Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy, which added a little pressure to the process. Picked up by every major entertainment news outlet, Star Wars: Conversations and Star Wars: Discoveries From Inside were shared by millions of fans around the world, and was included in the DVD/Blu-Ray releases of Star Wars I – VII.

On the vendor side, I served as senior producer responsible for pre-production, production, post production and delivery of all 12 parts in this series, collaborating with and reporting to the producers in the home entertainment department at Disney.

For this piece Disney producers wanted a re-cap of the first 6 Star Wars films in different categories such as weapons and battles written for Bill Hader. And of course, we had a tiny amount of time. So I hired a room full of writers that consisted of two UCB comics and a TV punch-up writer, I paired them with an editor who was a Star Wars whiz kid, and I locked them in a room for a week with every Star Wars book and an endless supply of pizza. This series was the result, which lives on the Star Wars website.

Post Producer | Assistant Editor | Editor

Client: Walt Disney Studios

Production Company: Blue Giant Entertainment

Blue Giant did all the post production on all the bonus features for Disney’s Maleficent, for which I served as post supervisor, assistant editor, finishing editor, and did some additional editing.

Director | Producer | Editor

Client: Thrivent Financial

Production Company: W2Films

DP: Erynn Patrick

Category: Doc-style, interview, portrait, long form, low budget, storytelling, people

TRT: 2:03

Thrivent Financial asked W2 Films to capture a series that humanizes their Financial Professionals, so we packed our film gear and jet across the US in search of the stories that make Thrivent people relatable and reachable. In Colorado Springs CO we found Zac Kibby and his love for family. And I discovered the discomforts of a Black Widow spider bite (while crawling around in the bushes looking for the perfect photo).

What makes these productions truly unique from a director’s POV is the very low budget and the limited time - we have a matter of hours with our subjects and not much time with boots on the ground. The challenging aspect to this production style is that … well … it’s hard. The wonderful aspect is that it really stretches the creative muscles, to see a story on the spot and capture it, to march in sans much plan and never miss an opportunity to capture. It is certainly a chance to learn, hone, develop, and eventually master.

Editor | Producer

Client: Dr. Brandt

Agency: Schoolhouse

Production Company: Definite Films NYC

Category: Commercial, scripted, Instagram, short form

TRT: :15

I produced a multi-part multi-media series for Dr. Brandt, including video for social media, Sephora brand essentials and web; product photography; and still photos for social media and web.