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 and digital content creation. 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 Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Maya, Cinema4D and After Effects, and we finish with color grading using DaVinci.
Our work succeeds because we craft unique and memorable productions for our clients, realizing and executing our projects with cinematic finesse from conception to completion and embracing all styles.
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 production company overhead. This is why Legion Media has always been able to provide project-based costs centered on flexible rates. It was this belief in high-quality 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 with degrees in Motion Pictures and Economics before moving to Los Angeles. At the start of his career he worked directly with legendary film producers Mario Kassar and Roger Corman, followed by additional work experience culminating at E! Entertainment. Cohen moved to Pittsburgh to achieve his goal of producing creative, exciting and noteworthy productions, and since that time he has become active in Pittsburgh's professional organizations while continuing to strive to keep Legion the city's premier creative media provider.
James Stranahan, Director
James Stranahan directs all creative and technical aspects of Legion Media's projects, 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 striking, comical, detailed and surreal, while always memorable and unique. His use of light, sound and art direction has led Legion Media's commercial projects since co-founding the company with friend and producer Brian Cohen.
Before establishing Legion Media, Stranahan was employed as 1st Assistant Director to John Pytka of Pytka Productions in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, one of the leading commercial directors in the country and responsible for hundreds of widely recognized ads. 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.