Directed by Matthew Fife for NBC-Universal, House Productions, Fox.
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Directed by Matt Fife, Cinematography by Predrag Dubravcic, Steadicam by Kevin Rafferty, Music by The Dead Weather (Shot on the RED ONE). On an ambitious afternoon between Chinatown and Alphabet City, Lower East Side, we set out to capture Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in a New York “state of mind.” The show’s production was shooting [...]
Terra Nova- Director’s Shoot Cut
Director/Producer: Matt Fife, DP: Bob Humphreys, Philip M. Cross,Production Company: Moving Parts Inc./Walkabout Films, Music: “The Daily Mail” by Radiohead. (Shot on the Alexa and Phantom camera). This piece represents my director’s cut from the Terra Nova shoot I completed this past July in Brisbane, Australia. It was an “impossible” single day of coverage with [...]
Prison Break – Super Bowl Spot
Directed by Matt Fife, Cinematography by Gale Tattersall (Shot on 35mm). Shooting a Super Bowl commercial can often translate to mass hysteria and runaway budgets. We did see a long day of shooting, but kept the budget lean and mean as we recreated a prison escape in the underbelly of the Rose Bowl. I formulated [...]
Drive – Shoot Launch (Dir Cut)
Directed by Matt Fife, Cinematography by Ramsey Nickell (Shot on 35mm, MiniDV, HDCAM). Driving scenes directed by Greg Yaitanes. DRIVE told a story of ordinary people chosen to drive in an illegal cross-country road race. Some drivers volunteered for the high stakes while others were forced into the race through circumstance or extortion. This tease [...]
Fringe Music Video
Directed by Matt Fife, Cinematography by Theo Van de Sande (shot on Panavision 35mm). The mysterious and meticulous storytelling in FRINGE encouraged us to explore an abstract representation of the series premise and cast. The material I directed over two days in Bayonne, New Jersey, would function primarily as commercial packaging elements for the series launch. [...]
Lone Star – Shoot Launch (Director’s Cut)
Director: Matt Fife, Director of Photography: Todd Somodevilla. This was a gauntlet shoot that was characterized by losing a full day to weather and making it all up in an even shorter day. This cast were some of the nicest people I’ve ever worked with, and Jon Voight, a first class gentleman. I used a conference [...]
House “Churrup” Super Bowl Spot
This was a great chance for me to work with Greg Yaitanes again, director and Exec Producer of House. I met Greg years ago when I directed the tease campaign for Drive, which he was directing and producing. Together with DP Gale Tattersall (with whom I directed a Prison Break Super Bowl commercial), and Hugh [...]
Glee “Self Esteem”
Directed by Matt Fife, Cinematography by Crash (Shot on 35mm). Immediately following the preview pilot episode of GLEE, Fox began a media blitz to support the new season launch four months later. Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) was the designated antagonist of the show and I was tasked with directing a commercial campaign that highlighted her [...]
