Motion Picture Production Services in Upstate New York
Ameriscope Pictures, LLC provides film and video production, art department, practical effects, animation, editing, and color grading. Ameriscope Pictures was founded by John David Vincent and Mike Boas, two filmmakers with decades of experience on feature films, commercial work, and industrial films.
Ameriscope Pictures offers:
- Feature Film Production: A Legacy of Experience. From Film to 4K Video.
- Art Department + Effects: Including practical effects for feature film and commercials.
- Animation: Decades of experience in Stop Motion, After Effects, and more!
- Editing + Color: Dot every I and cross every T. We get deliverables out the door.
Equipment Rental
We have lights, audio gear, camera, dolly, and other equipment available for rental. Contact us discuss.
About Us
John Vincent
Cinematographer. Fabricator. Animator.
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John began his film career at the age of eight years old. Starting off with an 8mm camera handed down to him from his grandfather, John animated small clay figures moving across his bedroom floor. John continued to make small films and study the art of filmmaking through his high school years. After studying animation at The Rochester Institute of Technology, he graduated from Monroe Community College with an associate’s degree in Liberal Arts. John attended Brooklyn College for one year in the Motion Picture Production School and began to work professionally in the motion picture industry afterwards. He began as a production assistant and soon elevated to higher positions, working in virtually every department in the business. John’s first screen credit appears on the low budget horror film The Refrigerator as part of the special effects crew. Since then, he has worked on roughly a dozen feature films and countless commercials and industrial films.
In 1989, John directed and animated a clay animated television spot at Animatus Studio in Rochester, New York, for the well known music store called The House of Guitars. It has been running every year at Christmas time, making it one of the longest running television ads in United States history.
In 1991, John moved from the east coast to Los Angeles and began working for David Allen Productions. David Allen was the creator of miniature and stop-motion animation effects. There John worked on low budget horror and science fiction movies like Freaked (a cult favorite), and Full Moon productions such as Robot Wars, Doctor Mordrid and Prehysteria.
Following his stint in California, John moved back to his home town of Rochester and founded Philrose Productions. He has since headed up art departments on productions in the upstate New York area. John was the effects supervisor After Image, starring John Mellencamp and Louise Fletcher, and Tommy Hilfiger Entertainment’s Proud, starring Ossie Davis. John also served as Art Director on Proud and Producer/Director of Photography on the feature film 3.14.
Most recently John directed and was cinematographer on the feature film Hero of the Underworld with Quinton Aaron, Catherine Mary Stewart and Nicole Fox. John also served as one of the producers.
Mike Boas
Graphic Design Artist. Animator. Editor.
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Mike Boas’ background is in art and animation, but also works as live action editor and producer.
He has created 2D animation and motion graphics for Animatus Studio, END Films, Red Shirt Productions, Wood Entertainment, and many others. His animation work has appeared in features, short films, advertisements, DVD/Blu-ray featurettes, industrial films, and at trade shows and film festivals.
Feature credits include AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE, THAT GUY DICK MILLER (each SXSW premieres) and QUENTIN TARANTINO: THE FIRST EIGHT. He animated the intro to the Rondo Award winning MEDIEVAL TIMES: THE MAKING OF ARMY OF DARKNESS. He contributed hand-drawn animation for the feature BUBBLE GIRL and assisted on stop-motion effects work for JOHNNY GRUESOME and WIDOW’S POINT.
His short film H.P. LOVECRAFT’S THE OTHER GODS has played in festivals on four continents. Boas designed and animated the Apex Award winning HELP MIKEY MAKE IT OUT, a fire safety game for kids, produced by Animatus Studio for the Prevention 1st nonprofit.
In the field of live action, Boas acted as editor and first assistant director on the experimental feature 3.14, which involved shooting in California’s Death Valley. For the drama HERO OF THE UNDERWORLD, Boas was producer, co-editor, and first A.D. He acts as consultant on documentary and narrative films produced by Espocinema, including BURY MY HEART WITH TONAWANDA, DIFFABILITY HOLLYWOOD, and CLOWNS IN THE WOODS.
