Chris Giammalvo

I have designed dozens of projects for Nickelodeon promos. We have built slime waterfalls, pirate ship interiors, bedrooms, offices, classrooms and the occasional 'backstage' dressing room. Fun and always crunched for time the producers and directors trust me to come up with extraordinary visuals as well as execute network doctrine.

We built a replica of Don Drapers office, a preschool classroom and shot an interior home as a CSI spoof. This sketch comedy pilot was produced for NICK MOM.

I designed dozens of cross brand promotions for Spike TV including spots for Papa Johns, H&R Block, KFC, Dominoes, Kay Jewelers, Dairy Queen and others. We built and dressed numerous sets, rigged effects, and generally made it happen with limited means.

Working with the same production team as LWBC we were able to meet the challenges of this wonderful script. Numerous locations were dressed and several exterior facades were altered to accomodate the story line.

Dozens of locations needed to be dressed for this project which shot in 14 days. The extremely compressed made the multiple locations around LA and Malibu a challenge to prep, shoot and strike. All done with a smile and the undying gratitude of our production company.

The challenge before me was to make socal look like NJ. I worked closely with the director and producers to ensure that this project completed on time and on budget (for art department at least).

We took the pre show set to the next level. We included an 8'w river of slime, a 30'w waterfall and a plexi glass bridge that talent stood on. I also designed the set for nick online, a crows nest that had a birds eye view of the orange carpet.

I designed an oversaw the build of the pre show set for the KCA's 2009. We had a 24' wide logo that dripped slime.

I was tasked with taking a raw warehouse space and converting it into a weapons testing facility. I designed several areas that the hosts and guest could work using different weapons. I designed the mechanical rigs that were used in our dojo. The network brought me back for season 2.

This mockumentary was shot in a practical location that we dressed to suit our needs. For season 2 we expanded the areas of shooting and had to build some false walls within the location to give us more coverage.

I designed this period feature with a modest budget and 18 day shooting schedule. Set in 1960's LA we re dressed existing locations and added various custom built elements to match the period.

This was the first feature film I designed. We shot for 30 days around LA. I had a modest budget that we managed to stretch to give this film a great look.