Its been exceptionally busy with stills advertising and moving image projects but before I tell you about what we’ve been up to I’m very pleased to announce I have signed with top London agent Clare Fletcher , her reputation preceeds her and she needs no introduction. Needless to say we both look forward to working together and with you over the coming year. Clare will be representing me in the UK and Arnold Van Den Berg at Create Agency in the Netherlands continues to represent me in Europe. We also have arrangements in place for New York but clients from the USA and beyond are most welcome to contact Clare or Arnold, we have production capability all over the world. After Aston Villa we maintained the football theme with a shoot for Manchester United, they wanted to catch the true emotion and reactions of fans at actual games, very challenging but exciting and worked a treat! Attending two games we got up close and very personal with the fans and fortunately Man U delivered goal after goal and plenty of nail biting tension.
Amongst many shoots I particularly enjoyed this shoot for Bosch, to remind you to get the car ready for the winter so quite apt really. Wholly created in the studio, various snow effects, a sleeping beauty and snowy forest backplate completed the scene.
Our old friends Church End Brewery were as much fun to work with as last year with two new projects. The first timed nicely with the Olympics was the launch of their Sporting Gold real ale with a suitably sporting theme to the photography that saw us erecting larger than life perspex sports infographics icons into the local.
Staying with Church End another new ale Worlds End was born to ‘celebrate’ the potential end of time, according to the Mayan Calendar and ‘Wash Away Your Sins’ – luckily time didnt end but I’m sure our models enjoyed the attempted redemption, in the meantime meet Vicar Phil…. did you spill my pint?
Other shoots were for Panache, Squadkit and this very interesting moving image project for Drinkaware “Look After Your Mates” The title Next Saturday Night allows you to make choices as the movie progresses to alter the outcomes for you and your friends. This time I shot, directed and had even a small right hand acting role! You can fully personalise the story by logging in through Facebook to include your real friends or just watch it through the Next Saturday Night site or You Tube.
To round off a nice Christmas themed gig for Visit Birmingham, the team had a great time working on this one, lots of the lovely fiddly elements and technical bits that we just love getting our teeth into!
So its full steam ahead into 2013, some interesting projects, moving and still already in production so watch this space!