Each client is different.
Each story is different.
Shouldn't each production be different?
Legion Media thinks so, and that's how we operate. We're a creative, innovative, and advanced media company with experience at all levels of commercial video production. From product marketing in Japan to the Nike LIVESTRONG campaign, clients have ranged from local advertising agencies to the Major League Baseball Network.
We shoot our productions at 4K or 4.5K with RED digital cinema products, enabling image quality four times the scope of High Definition. We edit with Final Cut Pro, Maya, Cinema4D, and After Effects.
The reason our work succeeds is because we craft unique and memorable productions for our clients. Legion realizes and executes its projects with cinematic finesse from conception to completion, and our work has embraced all styles of production.
So, why wait? Give us a call, let's talk about your story.
Brian Cohen, Producer
Brian Cohen manages Legion Media's business operations while producing its projects with an eye for detail and respect for its clients. With a solid background in both business and production, Cohen knows that a budget is best used on screen where it will benefit the final product, and not tied up in the overhead of the production company. It was this belief in high-quality, low-cost production that led Cohen to found Legion Media with his friend and director James Stranahan in May of 2007.
Cohen graduated from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida with degrees in Motion Pictures and Economics before moving to Los Angeles. At the start of his career, Cohen worked directly with legendary film producers Mario Kassar and Roger Corman before additional work experience at various talent agencies, business offices, and ultimately E! Entertainment. Cohen moved to Pittsburgh to achieve his goal of producing creative, exciting, and noteworthy productions, and since that time he has also become active in Pittsburgh's professional organizations. He continues to strive to keep Legion the city's premier media production company.
James Stranahan, Director
James Stranahan is in charge of all creative and technical aspects of Legion Media, and his goal has always been to realize and lead a strong creative collective in his home city of Pittsburgh. Stranahan's work has been called hilarious, comical, bizarre, sardonic, and surreal, while always memorable and unique. His use of light, sound, and art direction has lead Legion Media's narrative and commercial projects since co-founding the company with friend and producer Brian Cohen.
Before starting Legion Media, Stranahan was employed as the 1st Asst. Director for John Pytka of Pytka Productions in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, one of the leading commercial directors in the country. He is also a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and Carnegie Mellon University.
Charles DeGroot, VFX
A Pittsburgh native, DeGroot studied Digital Media Production at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh before beginning his professional career in the production realm as an animator and visual effects artist. His skills have added immeasurable production value to Legion's work since starting with the company in 2010.
In addition to his VFX work, Degroot has written, produced and recorded music for the past 10 years, garnering attention from A-list producers and gaining national radio play. This experience has also allowed him to apply these skills to the audio production of Legion's commercial and narrative projects.