Behind the Visual with Mark Hanson
This is a podcast that interviews the people responsible for creating many of the images and videos you see in your world every day. It is a behind the scenes look into what it takes to bring these amazing visuals to life. With interviews from advertising and design agency creatives, producers and owners, to Actors, fashion designers, model agencies, photographers, photographer agents, directors, hair and makeup artist, clothing stylist and more. You will hear about the work it takes to transform an idea into the final visual.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 119
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 79 - Guto Araki – Chief Creative @ Big Family Table – EVP Exec, CD Deutsch L.A.
Have you seen the Tom Brady Hulu Ad, or the Baker Mayfield, Saquon Barkley deep fake Hulu ad, or the Taco Bell moon campaign? If you have, then you know some of Guto Araki’s work. Guto and I talk abo…
Episode 78 - Carmen Roselles – Sr. Project Manager at Hot Dish Advertising
What do you do when the model misses her flight, doesn’t tell you until the morning of and doesn’t show up for the shoot? Carmen can tell you what she did. She can also tell you how to handle a styli…
Episode 77 - Toby Kaufmann – Creative Director at Facebook
Did you know that Facebook has Creative Directors, and at least one amazing Creative Director. If you didn’t know that, or even if you did, you should listen to this episode. Toby and I discuss the t…
Episode 76 - Forest Abruzzo – Sr. Art Director MullenLowe U.S.
Want to know what it’s like to work with Bad Bunny and Snoop Dogg and Zoe Saldana, Forest can tell you. He can also tell you about working with Rick Ross and having deep conversations with celebrity …
Episode 75 - Kim Gougenheim – Photo Editor at the New York Times
You want to know what a Diva, Hand Models can be? Listen to this episode with New York Times editor, Kim Gougenheim. Kim and I discuss, hand models, shooting on the set of Sesame Street, meeting and …
Episode 74 - Ryan Hose – Creative Director, FCB Health, New York
Ryan talks about a dinner he had in London where a couple of famous artists, asked him to go out and party with them and then asked him to attend one of their showings. Find out who they were and wha…
Episode 73 - Krystle Mortimore – Executive Producer, Brand Lead Nike at Wieden and Kennedy
This is one of my most interesting episode, so definitely check this one out! Krystle and I talk about the time she played HORSE with Kobe Bryant and it wasn’t easy, for him! We discuss working on sh…
Episode 72 - Tim Dillingham – Creative Director, Dill Advertising and Design
Tim tells us about what it was like to work at McCann Advertising as his first job, how things go down in meetings where the agency is presenting Photographers and Directors to their clients. We also…
Episode 71 - Nathan Richards - London Fashion Photographer
In this episode Nathan and I catch up on how his career has exploded since he moved to London and lockdown has ended. We discuss how he has been getting jobs, the benefits of constructive criticism, …
Episode 70 - Melissa Melvin – Stylist & Owner at Melissa B. Melvin Fashion, Events and Production Services
Melissa talks about traveling with Super Model Claudia Schiffer, working with Tammy Faye Baker, renting tigers from The Tiger King, having a late-night meal at The Waffle House with Kristin Davis fro…
Episode 69 - Elle Sullivan Wilson, Executive Producer at ESW Productions
Have you ever been on a shoot where an 18 wheeler overturned right on your set location, or a shoot that takes you all over the world, even to the top of a glacier, while dragging a large piece of fu…
Episode 68 - Joel Johnstone, Actor - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Astronaut Wives Club, Newsroom, etc., etc
Joel and I discuss the time he walked the red carpet and thought the paparazzi was going crazy taking his picture of him holding up his award and pumping his fist, only to find he wasn’t what they we…
Episode 67 - Milisava Tertovich, Producer/owner Tenjune Productions
Milisava and I discuss the time a certain photographer had a model swinging naked from a chandelier (and it wasn't part of the shoot). We also discuss the shoot where they had a taxidermied cat for a…
Episode 66 - Bryan Reynolds, Makeup Artist
In this episode Bryan and I discuss the celebrity who found out he had once had a crush on her and then proceeded to harass him about it for the next few days. We talk about what Jason Bateman is lik…
Episode 65 - Liz Miller Gershfeld, VP, Executive Art Producer at Energy BBDO
In this one Liz and I talk about one of her first shoots with a certain photographer who also happened to be casting for another shoot at the same time. He was casting Celebrity look alike drag queen…
Episode 64 - Jim DeBarros, Artist and Creative Director at UM Worldwide
Jim and I discuss why the band Pantera nicknamed him “Wild Jim”, the shoot he turned down that ended with a machete fight just off set, working with famed photographer David LaChappelle as he shot Ja…
Episode 63 - Stephen Kunken, Actor on Billions, The Handmaid's Tale, Wolf of Wall St. and a lot more.
On this one, Stephen and I talk about the what Steven Spielberg told him, Tom Hanks, and another actor when it was just the four of them in a room. He shares some stories about working with Martin Sc…
Episode 62 - Eric Ortega, CGI Producer/Project Manager for Digital Giant
Eric and I talk about the time Polish Nationalist threatened to kill him and his band, he was 19! We also discuss what it’s like touring the U.S. and Europe, sleeping on venue stages and taking cold …
Episode 61 - Me, Photographer Mark Hanson
In a change of rolls, I go from interviewer to interviewee! My friend and Co-Founder of Good Brand Company, Jason Neman, flips the script on me and he asked me questions. We discuss how I got started…
Episode 60 - Pete Favat, Creative Chairman at Deutsch L.A.
In this episode Pete and I talk about the difference between Creative Directors in the 80’s and now. Let’s just say, back in the 80’s you needed to talk with them before lunch. Pete tells me about th…