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Title: Showreel of Joseph Pole, 2011 Duration: 1:10 VFX Supervisor: Joseph Pole Compositing: Joseph Pole Music: Aphex Twin Music Title: Polynomial-C

Recently a commercial I VFX Supervised and composited in After Effects won the 2011 Promax BDA world gold awardfor the Best Program Promotion in the Entertainment category.

Well this is a proud day for me! The show 'The Block' became Australia's highest rating show of the year during it's final episode last night with over 3 million viewers resulting in an audience share of 42.2% Visual Effects Supervising and Art Directing the launch campaign was an enormously challenging task but the results couldn't be better. The show launched 15% up from 2010 and ended on this high note. Needless to say there was a celebration this morning!  

  These are the kind of images we'd throw together in a day or 2 for the approval process. After getting feedback and refining the image we end up with a picture like this at the end of the day. It is very rough but it gives the producer & creative director an idea of what the finished shot will look like before we start modeling in 3D. In the end this idea was dropped and we decided to use a CGI stadium tracked into 3 live action chopper shots. Once this is on-air I'll be at liberty to upload the result.

Title: Shot breakdown - Australian Logie Awards Duration: 01:00 VFX Supervisor: Joseph Pole Compositing: Joseph Pole Music: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Music Title: Rather Lovely Thing

Title: FINA World Swimming Titles Duration: 00:30 Client: Nine Network Australia. Channel Nine Art Director: Joseph Pole VFX Supervisor: Joseph Pole Producers: Uriah Blair Live Action Director: Uriah Blair Compositing: Joseph Pole 3D: Luke Dwyer Storyboards & Layout: Joseph Pole, Murray Charteris