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directors

Jens Wirtzfeld - director + dp

Neil Burger - Food Director

Neil Burger - Food Photography

Morgan - People & Pet Director

Beverage Focused Work

prod services

complex shoots

Production Menu

photography & retouching

our stages

post production

a remote post production co

Derek Goldsmith - EP Post

Jon Jamison - CD & VFX Sup

about

who we are

clients

crew & reel submissions

behind the scenes

contact

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Powered by CMP

directors

Jens Wirtzfeld - director + dp

Neil Burger - Food Director

Neil Burger - Food Photography

Morgan - People & Pet Director

Beverage Focused Work

prod services

complex shoots

Production Menu

photography & retouching

our stages

post production

a remote post production co

Derek Goldsmith - EP Post

Jon Jamison - CD & VFX Sup

about

who we are

clients

crew & reel submissions

behind the scenes

contact

MENU

who we are

Food director chicago — Neil Burger aka 🍔 Food Director

Neil Burger (aka 🍔) is the go-to Tabletop Director in Chicago for any motion and stills. VFX Driven? Pretty Food? Designer Drinks? Recipe Videos? 1:1’s,9:16’s & 4:5’s?

Jon Jamison

Head of Post + Technical Director
Capturing his imagination in visual forms of storytelling and animation became Jon Jamison’s passion from a young age. His experience and skill sets earned him positions on feature film productions and post-production heralded by Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros., 20thCentury Fox, and Sony Imageworks. His craft in Visual Effects has been seen by millions on projects such as four time Academy Award winner Life of Pi, the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series Sense8, and the international box office record break hit Captain America: Civil War. The experience garnered from working in the film and commercial industry over the last decade, in all facets of the production process, has helped hone and shape his ideas for innovative original content.

Derek Goldsmith

Owner and EP - CMP was started as a solution for our design and vfx studio calls that asked for us to shoot more of the content for them. The real “nerdy and tricky stuff” was our bread and butter and to this day we push the limits on-set and in post. We love efficient methodology and investing in whats on the screen.
Executive Producer with 10+ years running live action production that focused on designed and vfx focused creative. I’ve had the opportunity to produce over 1000 commercials and three feature movies in the 900k to 4M range (VFX Post Producer) = live action and/or post production.
Myself and CMP love producing, problem solving, bidding, strategy and being on set with the crew. We have a passion for creating and growing our crew with diverse tech jobs and a healthy encouragement to grow them into DP’s, Directors, Art Department Rock Stars, etc.

Jens Wirtzfeld

Jens Wirtzfeld aka “Ze German” is a breakout young director + cinematographer with a healthy obsession in pre-visualization and advancing the creative idea. Hope you enjoy his work and seeing the brands through the lens of “Ze German”.

tabletop drinks director chicago — Neil Burger - Beverage Director

Neil Burger (aka 🍔) - the food director you know, is ALSO the ***go-to tabletop director for beverages***. Beer, new spirit brand🍸, craft cocktail as a GIF and 1:1mp4? Recipe & mixology videos? - lets make something cool! ***And these shoots are so fun!***

Photography & Retouching

We specialize in matching the best still photographer with our motion shoots so you can tackle the print needs at the same time. After the shoot we can help with creative retouching, CG for Print, Prototypes & Banners.

female pet director chicago — “MoMo” - Pet Director

MoMo is the #1 director for pets! Why? MoMo’s always loved two things; film & animals. Mo’s also great at collaborating with the client and agency creatives to make sure we ***individualizing the work*** for this pet brand so they ***own*** that category and look. Might be locations, pet, color of art dept, post partners, colorist selection, dog and breed training work - lets geek out! She also continues to collaborate into editorial, color, and post. #freethework

Rent Stages in Chicago for Video Production and Tabeltop production. Live Action. — Stages
N🧭W!

The Pet Set - CMP **Stage North**
The Tabletop Stage - CMP **Stage West**
Just email us if you need one of our stages. We’re happy to also discuss opening the stage doors to your VFX or Food team if we’re able - just call and we can geek out.

Started in Chicago, CMP is an award-winning Chicago production company that has been at the forefront of digital video, animation, design, vfx driven and photography productions for over twenty years. We’re a full-service video production company that provides a distinct advantage to clients through our creative process. We pre-visualize the project with storyboards, cg, design style frames, animatics or whatever makes sense so we’re over prepared and ready on your shoot day(s). Also diversity and inclusion are very important to us at CMP. Moreover, we feel diversity brings out creativity and it’s valued and cherished at Collective Media Productions and our valued partners we select in post.

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