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Based in scenic Eagle Rock, offering services project-to-project in Los Angeles as a visual effects compositor with in-and-out-of-house tools like Flame, Combustion and After Effects. DVD demo reels are available for these job categories: (1) Director (2) Visual Effects Compositor (3) Editor. Looking forward to help facilitate, promote and collaborate on forward-thinking projects ie. independent news and media, marketing progressive solutions and green industry business, as well as helping create feature films, music videos, commercials, promos and special projects. For DVD copies, scheduling or general inquiries please free to e-mail or call Fran directly at (310) 351.7493. Stay tuned for more resource and site updates. Thanks for being here. Let's put some good ideas to work.

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(above, sitting at bottom right) projecting original works for ARRAYA- live at Dennis Rodman's in Newport Beach. Photo: Cuz
Rodman was so psyched he gave us a case of Heineken and a bottle of Krystal during our set and bought my screen after the show.

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shooting and recreating a verite punk rock moment with a video-to-gritty-film vfx experiment: NYC's ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN - live in OC

more QT web demo clips...

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VFX Compositor (montage) 39 MB - various compositing, tracking, paint, 2D/3D graphics and vfx animation

VFX Compositor (spots) 52 MB - WB, Volcom, Airwalk, Konami Sports, Kids WB, nea.org PSA, Swell.com

VFX Compositor (WB promo) 3.3 MB - After Effects, 4:4:4 HD keys, color-correction, particles and editing

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using Flame, Final Cut Pro and After Effects with 10-bit HDCAM SR action for hi-rez WB Image Campaigns and On-air Promos

Director - "An Expedition to the Cortes Bank" pt.1, 22 MB / pt.2, 30 MB - Documenting the first voyage 100 miles west of San Diego with Mike Parsons, Brad Gerlach, Peter Mel, and Ken 'Skindog' Collins surfing giant perfect waves in the middle of the ocean. This 10 minute action documentary premiered at Wavefest surf film festival in San Francisco and is also in Fran Battaglia / Surfline's Making The Call: Big Waves of the North Pacific DVD found here.

Mike Parsons' 66-foot wave of the day on January 19, 2001 (Cameraman: Battaglia)

Director (Airwalk spot/ Tony Hawk's first loop session) commercial spec spot 5.8 MB

Director (Swell.com spot) AMC Theaters / national commercial spot 5.1 MB

Work includes final composite shots in network promos, commercials, tv series and a movie called Kiss of Death with Nicolas Cage, as well as shooting, editing and / or directing various special projects ie. broadcast sports (WCT pro surf tour contests, Vans/Hard Rock Cafe Triple Crown of Skatebording events), Surfer Magazine's live Video Awards shows, a Sublime documentary, XXL Big Wave Awards, commercials for Volcom, Swell and Airwalk, a movie for Quiksilver and videos for Duran Duran and Electric Frankenstein. Non-profit clients include Surfrider Foundation, Waterman's Ball, United Way and American Cancer Society. Battaglia is currently freelancing in Los Angeles County and developing independent projects with Shuffle and friends in Venice Recently at the WB TV Network in Burbank, Battaglia used the new SRW-5000 (Sony's latest HD VTR used on Sin City and Star Wars III) with Final Cut Pro to digitize 1400 shots from HDCAM SR stock, and used After Effects to process and help facilitate a 10-bit HDTV (4:4:4) marketing presentation for a very large delivery at Madison Square Garden in NYC. After Effects was used for keying green screens and color correction and the results were amazing. Prior broadcast compositing and graphics experience at the WB has been in NTSC standard definition using Discreet Flame. An online portfolio is also available here. Don't forget to keep having fun :)

Kelly Slater in Indo from Director Brian Bleak / Quiksilver's Surfers of Fortune (On-Line Editor: Battaglia)