Denise Gallant, Producer/Editor/Founder
Through her work with a host of SGI companies including Discreet Logic and Chyron/CMX, Denise played a key role in training broadcast professionals on using cutting edge special effects, graphics and animations for their productions. As an editor at NBC, she was one of the first women to break into the male-dominated world of television production. She has taught 2D and 3D video graphics, editing, filming, and production to studio professionals all over the world.
She is a graduate of the UCLA film school and a founder of the Visual Music Alliance. Denise’s credits include:
Network Television
NBC News LA (Editor)
NBC Sports with Bryant Gumbel (Editor)
CBS New York / Los Angeles (Editor)
ABC New York (Graphics for the live broadcast of the 2000 Presidential Election)
1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona (Editor and Graphics for Spanish and English Broadcasts)
ABC Sports / ESPN (Graphics - Monday Night Football)
Fox Sports (Graphics/Animation)
CNN (Graphics/Animation)
Globo TV (Graphics/Animation)
Film
Brainstorm (Special Effects with Boss Films - Doug Trumbull)
Lifeforce (Special Effects with John Dykstra)
Jupiter Menace (Film Special Effects)
Music Events and Video
Live Aid (Editor / Graphics)
Music Videos and Album Covers for: MCA Records, Warner Records, Chrysalis Records, A&E Records, CBS/Sony (Japan)
Artists Roster: Supertramp, Grateful Dead, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel, Wall of Voodoo, Mark Mothersbaugh, Tangerine Dream
NAMM Show TEC Awards (video backgrounds and graphics, video bios for artist nominees and Hall of Fame Inductee video bios, 360⁰ show coverage)
Documentaries
The Dixie Hummingbirds (Co-Director, Editor) Concert, Music Video and Documentary for the oldest living music group in America History.
The Catalyst (Co-Director, Editor) 40 Year old Music Venue in Santa Cruz.
"Dream a Little Dream" with Denny Doherty of the Mamas and Papas (Created two hour video for the live theatre production.
Mini-docs for the AES and NAMM Tech Awards for T-Bone Burnett, Linsey Buckingham, Ray Benson, Al Kooper, and many others.
Kevin Monahan, Audio Engineer/Sound Designer/Co-Founder
Through his work at E-MU Systems Inc., Kevin Monahan played an instrumental role in bringing digital audio and sound design into modern music and film. Kevin’s sound design wok can be heard on Michael Jackson’s album Thriller, and the film Ridely Scott film Blade Runner. He holds three patents on sound design from his time with E-MU. He has also worked with many high profile musicians and artists including Peter Gabriel, U2, Yes, and Herbie Hancock. His credits include:
Walt Disney Imagineering
Advantage Audio
E-MU Systems, Inc.
Creative Labs
Artists:
Peter Gabriel
Herbie Hancock
U2
Yes
Genesis
Frank Serafine
Steve Porcaro (Michael Jackson, Don Henley, Toto)
Jeff Berlin
Ronnie Montrose
Max Mobley, Sales and Marketing
Max Mobley has over fifteen years of entertainment industry experience, both on-camera and behind the scenes. As a demo artist and clinician, Max has traveled the world teaching and demonstrating innovative high tech products including digital audio workstations and software samplers. As a Product Manager and Marketing director, Max has defined, developed and launched products for E-MU Systems, Lenovo, and Sony. Max has also written extensively about the entertainment industry via Crawdaddy Magazine, and Premier Guitar Magazine. A recent addition to the V4C team, Max has taken the reigns of biz-dev and marketing for the company, allowing V4C’s creative team to focus on production. Max’s credits include:
E-MU Systems
Digital Delivery Networks (Sony, Lenovo)
Antares Audio Technologies
Artists:
Danny Elfman
No Doubt
Counting Crows
Teddy Riley
Bill Withers
George Duke
Peter Rodgers - Producer/Art Director/Branding/Web Designer
Peter Rodgers has a long history in the music and audio industry, including launching the Zoom company brand and products in the US market (guitar and digital audio products), serving as National Sales and Marketing Manager for Zoom Corporation of America. He then formed Montara Creative, a branding and integrated marketing agency that specializes in designing identities and campaigns for clients in art, music, financial, real estate, legal and hospitality markets. See www.mcreative.com for more of our collaborative videos.