Slip Sliding Away

We had loads of fun today using Floatcam's new Dolly/Crane. Just adds so much quality to the shots.

A very big house in the country.

We got a call from the lovely Jo at freud communications on Tuesday, it was a classic "Is this crazy idea even possible with such a short turnaround time?  Only you guys can help!" type of call.

Naturally, everything is possible ;-)

Alex James has been a cheesemaker for over 10 years (I felt a dope when it seems everyone knew this but me).  He's launching a range of new cheese products at ASDA in the next few weeks and they need some UGC style promos for the ASDA consumer site, plus an interview & B-roll for broadcast on the Gino & Mel TV show next week.

We rolled to Alex's farm in the Cotswolds and spent the day chatting about melting cubes & bread-shaped ketchup-flavoured slices, epic cheese made by silent monks & Alex's crazy tomato plants.  It was a cool day, we had fun messing about with Alex and his kids and the shoot was smooth as a nice piece of Gruyere.

We shot the interview & B-roll on a Sony EX3 XD-CAM, and we took the 5D for the online stuff, it looks pretty.  Delivery is today & tomorrow so we're slaving over a hot edit suite right now.

I'll hook up a link when we have a draft approved.

Hot Cross Bun

Hey,

the, 'When God Was A Rabbit' trailer is now number 7 in the most viewed chart on Amazon! We're very pleased.

Overheard in the office...

Nick: "Let's make a film!"
Jim: "We need to get more work!"
Paul: "Look at that cat!"
...

Still Re-defining Fairtrade!

Lorna Thorpe guardian.co.uk

Cafédirect (almost our oldest client) has won the category of Social Impact in the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2011.  The Guardian writers have done a lovely job of summarising the overall business model.

Here's a little animation announcing the award to their Youtubers.

Winning!

Aurora Orchestra in 1 Minute

Had a handful of stills, a bit of footage and some help from Basil Brush to create a quick snapshot of the diverse work and outstanding performances that make the Aurora Orchestra so popular.

The short film was created to play at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards where the orchestra picked up the award in the ensemble category.

Congratulations!

4 Seasons in 1 Day

Had a great day filming yesterday at Paul Merrett's restaurant The Victoria. Food and wine critics including Peter Richardson from Saturday Kitchen and Sarah Jane Evans, BBC Good Food were there to give their opinions on which wines from the Chilean winery, Cono Sur should be paired with which seasonal produce.

Paul Merrett provided some delicious seasonal favourites from the simple English strawberry with Cornish clotted cream to the most sumptuous grilled aspargus, grown in Norfolk. Lovely restaurant, great food and a really good bunch of people. I totally recommend a visit!