Porsche Club of America
I love cars, especially Porsches, so creating these films for Porsche Club of America and Panorama Magazine has been incredibly gratifying. Here's what I've done for them so far...
Porsche 911 Classic Club Coupe - Conception to Reality
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics
Atlanta Unit//Shama Mrema, Will Driskill, Adam Daughhetee, Justin Nix, Chris Freeland, Stone Foster
Amelia Island Unit// Brian French, Rachel Summers, Will Driskill, Clint Davis
Germany Process Footage provided by Porsche AG
PCA’s description from Damon Lowney:
The Porsche 911 Classic Club Coupe just may be the ultimate 996: a 1998-build Carrera that was resto-modded by Porsche Classic in Germany. With a 996.2 GT3 drivetrain as well as exterior and interior enhancements that improve looks and function, there's no better factory-built 996. Watch this video to learn how Porsche Club of America, Porsche Classic, Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur, and Porsche Cars North America conceptualized the Classic Club Coupe and painstakingly made it reality.
(Off)Road and Track: Owning an E1 Porsche Cayenne S and 996 GT3
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics
Assistants// Will Driskill, Brian French, Alex LaCasse, Adam Daughhetee
Additional Camera Ops// Brian French & Rachel Summers
PCA’s description from Damon Lowney:
If you could own just two cars, what would they be? Jason M. makes a compelling case for a first-generation Porsche Cayenne S and a 996-generation 911 GT3, as the combination covers daily driving, back road driving, track duty, and off-roading.
Karma Carrera - Featuring Rock Legend John Oates
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics
Assistant Director// Sam Snelgrove
Additional Camera Ops// Brian French & Rachel Summers
Atlanta Footage// Sixth Studio Co
Auction Photos// Darin Schnabel © 2020 Courtesy RM Sotheby’s
PCA’s description from Damon Lowney:
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist John Oates is a car aficionado just like us. In fact, he tends to gravitate to Porsches, having owned many over the years. In our latest video, John and his wife Aimee tell the story of their 1984 911 “Karma Carrera” and the importance of giving back.
Canepa and his 800-horsepower Porsche 959 SC
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics // Assistants - David Ho & Miles Caliboso
PCA’s description from Damon Lowney:
The Porsche 959 was the greatest supercar the world had seen when it was first put on sale in the mid-1980s. Yet here in America, it wasn't possible to buy one — at first. Enter Bruce Canepa. With help from a friend, Canepa was able to purchase one and drive it in the states on a tourist Visa, and the rest is history. Following that fateful year, he embarked on a journey to federalize the 959 with customers including Bill Gates, and since then has worked tirelessly to make 959s legal here for whoever can purchase one — and also modify them to be the best that they can be. Canepa talks about what he did to bring the 959 onto our streets plus what he is currently doing to boost the power output while keeping them street legal. Watch what it's like to be the forerunner on the Porsche 959.
Not Like Everybody Else: An introduction to Bruce Canepa
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America
Client // Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics // Assistants - David Ho & Miles Caliboso
PCA’s description from Damon Lowney:
You've probably heard the name Bruce Canepa if you're a fan of Porsches or vintage racing. You've definitely seen him on track at Porsche Rennsport Reunion. Yet you might not know much else about the man outside of his racing activities and affinity to the Porsche 959. That's why we decided to visit his massive shop and showroom and find out what makes him tick.
911 GT2 RS Clubsport vs. 991.2 GT3 Cup at Road America
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics // Tommy Schwendler - Everything else
In 2018 we pitted the most ridiculous street car ever produced by Porsche, the 700HP turbocharged 911 GT2RS, against a legit 911 racecar. In 2019, PCA upped the ante by putting the GT2RS Clubsport, a Gentleman Driver version of the streetcar, against a 911 cup car. This project was the coolest track related shoot I’ve ever done. :D
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PCA’s description from Damon Lowney:
Porsche has been deepening its GT line of sports cars and race cars recently, and one of the latest is the 700-horsepower 911 GT2 RS Clubsport. Fortunately for us, a PCA member received an allocation and offered the car up for a track comparison against a 485-hp 991.2 GT3 Cup. With professional driver Leh Keen at the wheel, we find out whether the Clubsport, a street car made into a race car, can beat the Cup, a car built from the ground up to race. The track of choice is Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where we compared a GT2 RS street car and 991.1 GT3 Cup last year with pro racer Bryan Sellers at the wheel. In that comparison, we wondered if the GT2 RS, which wore Pirelli Trofeo R street tires yet had a 240-horsepower advantage, would be able to beat the GT3 Cup, which wore Pirelli DH slicks and was set up specifically for the track. As we found out (click here to watch the video), the GT3 Cup’s stickier tires, lower weight, and aggressive aero were enough to lay down a time that was several seconds faster. This year, the playing field is more even. The Clubsport and Cup are both wearing Pirelli DH tires, and both cars are set up for Road America. The Clubsport weighs in at about 3,100 pounds compared to the Cup’s 2,646 pounds. Do you think horsepower will win the race this time around? Find out by watching the video above.
The Screamer: A $200,000+ Porsche 944 Turbo
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics
The 944 is my favorite car - period. So making this video on a guy starting from scratch to make the best example of the 944 ever was a real treat.
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PCA Hurricane Region Member Steve Bastian has loved Porsches since the 1980s, and instead of pouring his automotive passion into just air-cooled or rear-engined cars (he has those, too), his pride and joy is a highly modified 1989 944 Turbo that he lovingly refers to as a "944 RS." We saw it at PCA's Werks Reunion Amelia Island this year, and when we learned Bastian and the previous owner had more than $200,000 invested in it, we had to find out more. Bastian's 944 Turbo is a far cry from how it rolled off the factory line, with the inline four bored out to 2.7 liters and 400+ horsepower plus braking and suspension upgrades to match. The exterior color is a custom formulation based off of Porsche Fashion Gray, and the interior has been spared no expense. Watch the video above, and be sure to read the in-depth article in the December 2018 Porsche Panorama - Damon Lowney, PCA
The White Collection
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics
In the hyperactive/hyper-competitive Porsche world, it can seem like there’s nothing truly new under the sun — no car undiscovered, no collection so obscure as to be unknown, and no collecting theme unexplored. Having said that, walking into one of the largest and most secretive Porsche collections in the world is a surreal enough experience, until the realization that nearly everything in it is white. It may be the closest vision of the ideal Porsche afterlife extant — the cars are white, the building is white, the walls are white, the floors are white, the furniture is white. If you make it past the front door — a feat in itself — you’re given two options: Wear socks, or cover your shoes in protective booties (white, of course). You’ll also have to drop your cell phone in a bucket until you leave; that’s white too, by the way. - Damon Lowney, PCA
Street vs Race
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics
Steve Dimakos, the owner of a new Porsche 911 GT2 RS, had a burning question: With 700 horsepower, how well would the lap times of the most powerful road-going 911 do against his 460-hp 991.1 911 GT3 Cup race car at Road America? Fortunately he had a winning combination on his hands, with an upcoming track day and PCA Club Race there and a friend in professional race car driver Bryan Sellers, who agreed to drive both cars in this challenge. When Porsche Panorama was offered to cover the story, we jumped in right away. In the video above, we document how this intriguing track test came about, how the GT2 RS and GT3 Cup were prepared for it, the fastest lap of each car with Sellers at the wheel, and pre and post-test commentary.
Teaser - Porsche 911 GT3 Cup vs. 911 GT2 RS
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics
Porsche Panorama visits Road America with a member's Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car and a 911 GT2 RS to find out which one is faster — and by how much. Professional race car driver Bryan Sellers sets the fast laps.
Happy Holidays from Porsche Club of America
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Colorist, Graphics
Edit// Sam Snelgrove
Generation Gap
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Main Camera, Editor, Colorist, Graphics
The 944 is my favorite Porsche of all time because my dad drove one when I was a still small enough to fit in what they call the "backseat" of that car. Damon Lowney made my dreams come true when he asked me to head up this production.
Norman Mayersohn, as seen in the video, wrote a piece for the club’s publication Panorama Magazine and knocked it out of the park.
Featured in Autoweek, The Drive, Motor1, In Auto News
Leh Keen's Porsche Safari 911
Project // Supplemental video for article in Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Leh Keen is a pro driver whose taste in cars and the ability to drive them is personified in his custom Safari 911. Panorama Magazine makes their online video debut with Leh escaping Atlanta to shred dirt trails in the North Georgia mountains.
Featured On Porsche Club of America, AutoBlog, Jalopnik, Car and Driver, MAXIM, Road & Track, duPont Registry
Porsche Panorama: Presurrection
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Panorama Magazine, Porsche Club of America
Production Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
I love working with PCA/Panorama. They basically let Clint Davis and I take creative control of the project with minimal input - the definition of a dream client. The only regret I have is that we didn't get to do any shots closer to sunset. The owner had to get home before it got dark due to the dim headlights.
The owner, Henry Wilkinson, was a natural on camera and so easy to work with!
How a pro photographs a priceless Porsche 917
Project // Featured Youtube video for Porsche Club of America & Panorama Magazine
Client // Porsche Club of AmericaProduction Company // Will Keown, Cinematographer + Photographer
Role Details// Director, Cinematography, Editor, Colorist, Graphics // Assistants - David Ho & Miles Caliboso
PCA’s description from Damon Lowney:
On top of running a restoration shop, Bruce Canepa sells very nice cars. To sell them, he needs very nice pictures. That's why he has a photography studio in his shop. Porsche Panorama photographer Michael Alan Ross held a workshop there a while back, where attendees learned photo techniques on the 1970 Daytona 24-winning Porsche 917K — the first Porsche to win overall in a 24-hour race — among the many other vehicles at Canepa. We speak to Bruce about the 917 and the photo studio in this video, as well as watch some in-car vintage race footage at Laguna Seca. Following that, we learn a few photography dos and don'ts from Ross. We think this is the best way to get a lesson in history and photography, Porsche 917-style.