About Fire Force Media and Design
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Fire Force
Fire~Force
Ta Yu
Radiance+Energy
Power to realize
Perspective and Approach
Fire Force
Fire Force is Scott Stearns and a closely allied network of artisans, technicians, thinkers and makers forged over decades of creative high adventures wherein passions, values and systems have been tried and tested.
We work to stay agile and strategically peripatetic - ranging across disciplines to track trends and assess new concepts - in order to identify key pathways that will insure change remains an ally, and a source of opportunity, in the the fields of media, communications, information science and design.
We consider both the context and the content of our assignments, and see each as an opportunity to combine constituent elements into an integrated response. We try to add some delight and wonder when possible, or afford a reflective pause, while focusing on finding a satisfying and effective solution to the core challenge.
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Founder - Creative Director
Scott Stearns
Founder - Creative Director
Scott Stearns
Whether working behind a camera, or editing scenes, drafting designs and writing code at a workstation, Scott cares about patterns that connect, juxtapositions that reveal shades of meaning, and combinations that can illuminate the contours of a space or an idea.
He came up through film and video production crafts, then began exploring computer-based disciplines in the 1990s with an Avid Media Composer and applications like AfterEffects and HyperCard.
Along the way he formed a film lighting company, Fire Blossom, built a sound stage, Red Star, and became further immersed in both web technologies and cinematography.
By 2004, the parent company of Fire Blossom and Red Star, had evolved into Fire Force Media and Design as it began to offer web and graphics services as natural complements to film and video.
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Dialogs: Short Takes
On-camera Interviews
Capturing Eddie 'The Chief' Clearwater
Dialogs: Short Takes
On-camera Interviews
Capturing Eddie 'The Chief' Clearwater
"I have a neighbor, Eddie Clearwater, a man well known internationally in the blues community and a man of humility and grace. I had the good fortune of being present when Scott visited Eddie to conduct a video interview.
Being able to read behavioral cues to move an interview along comfortably and naturally is an art. Observing Scott do that while maintaining and tweaking the recorded image and sound was watching an artist at work. There are excellent interviewers and there are talented camera and sound technicians. To witness those skills in one individual is a rare experience."
- Nic Dasovich
