DAFT PUNK - Digital Love
With record companies eagerly releasing new albums on DVD with visuals for each track, the problem is maintaining quality and unity. Daft Punk and Virgin France have cleverly sidestepped the issue by getting legendary Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto to create 14 episodes of a sci-fi anime series. In this age of Final Fantasy CG, it's nice to see animation that doesn't attempt to ape reality, while still wowing with colour, style and energy.
Record Company: Daft Life/Virgin France
Commissioner: Daft Life
Production company: Toei Animation Company
Hahuko Building
5-7-11 Shinjuku
Shinjuku-Ku
Tokyo
Japan
t: +81 3 3535 7621
Director: Leiji Matsumoto
Producer: Daft Life
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Channel Tooth
Rather than use stock footage to get the message across, new agency devilfish took an oblique approach. The client's point of difference from rival the Discovery Channel was its dedicated team of explorers and scientists and their research charity origins. In 'Tooth', a repairman puzzles over a mauled video camera, pouring water out of it and then extracting a shark's tooth. The implication is clear - the cameraman has gone above and beyond the call of duty in search of the shot.
Product/client: National Geographic
Agency: devilfish
121 King Henry's Road
Primrose Hill
London NW3 3RB
UK
t: +44 20 7419 0446
f: +44 20 7419 0446
email: richard@devilfishonline.co.uk
Creative Director: Richard Holman
Writer: Richard Homan
Production company: Rogue Films
70 Mortimer Street
London W1N 7DF
UK
t: +44 20 7907 1000
f: +44 20 7907 1001
email: charlie@roguefilms.co.uk
Director: Johan Tappert
Producer: Libby Davies
Director of Photography: Baz Irvine
Post-production company: The Moving Picture Company
127-133 Wardour St
London W1V 4NL
UK
t: +44 20 7434 3100
f: +44 171 287 5187
email: mailbox@moving-picture.com
Editor: Tim Hardy; Cut and Run
Sound Design: Scramble
THE GREAT - Sneezer
This typically outlandish Czech animation features a pair of hapless thieves, who steal a reanimated alien mummy which sneezes diamonds. There is great detail in the expressionistic sets and the action is well handled, particularly when the Sneezer comes to life at the end. Drziak was recently signed to Stink's new animation offshoot, Skunk, having just graduated from prestigious Prague film school FAMU.
Production company: EALLIN @ Skunk
41 Great Windmill St
London W1D 7LZ
UK
t: +44 20 7734 0404
f: +44 20 7734 4454
email: info@skunk.tv
Writer/Director: Noro Drziak
Producer: Martin Hovorka
Director of Photography: Jiri Livanec
Post-production company: FAMU - Film & Television School
Smetanovo nobr. 2
Prague 116 65
Czech Republic
t: +420 2 2422 9176
f: +420 2 2423 0285
email: senat@f.amu.cz
Editor: Sarka Sklenarova
Music: Emil Viklicky
Sound Design: Guillermo Teillier
BMW - Engineers
S,C,P, F's latest offering in its "Love to Drive?" campaign for BMW Spain takes a more bizarre route than the two previous spots ('Hand', shown in ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Screen Issue 16 and 'Sleepyhead' in Issue 18). 'Engineers' marks the Spanish launch of the Compact, aimed at younger drivers. With this in mind, we witness a group of BMW Engineers attempting to shun their staid lifestyles. Director Pep Bosch instils a surreal and stylish quality.
Product/client: BMW Compact
Agency: S,C,P,F
Calatrava 71
Barcelona 08017
Spain
t: +34 934 34 34 34
f: +34 934 34 34 35
email: prouger@scpf.com
Creative Director: David Caballero
Agency Producer: Ana Perez Cela
Art Director: Myriam Maneiro
Writer: Breno Cotta
Production companies: Lee Films
Juliana Hernandez, 25a
Madrid 28043, Spain
t: +34 91 721 8794
f: +34 91 721 8770
Microscope SL
Plaza Sant Josep Oriol 4 2o 4a
Barcelona 08002
Spain
t: +34 6 29673268
f: +34 93 412 6887
email: julia@microprods.com
Director: Pep Bosch
Producers: Julia Carrasco, Angel Recio
Director of Photography: Manuel Ruiz
Post-production company: La Truka
C/Portbou 6
08028 Barcelona
Spain
t: +34 93 339 4500
f: +34 93 491 1716
Editor: Joan Janer
Music: Chupi (Toni Saigi); Montaje de Mozart
Flame Artist: David Munoz
Sound Design: Montaje de Mozart
BACARDI - Ice
'Ice' stars footballer-turned-Hollywood actor Vinnie Jones. The spot, directed by 26-year-old Brian Beletic, wasn't cheap. The scene where Vinnie's speedboat is ripped away meant writing-off five of them to perfect the shot. The pandemonium comes to an abrupt end as the ice block smashes into a house in the 'Latin Quarter' where, naturally, a party is in full swing - at least they have ice ...
Product/client: Carta Blanca/Bacardi
Agency: McCann-Erickson
36 Howland Street
London W1A 1AT
UK
t: +44 20 7580 6690
f: +44 20 7323 2883
email: Deborah_Hale@europe.mccann.com
Creative Director: Jeremy Perrott
Creative Team: Jeremy Perrot, Luke White
Agency Producer: Petrina Kilby
Production company: Satellite Films
16 West Central St
London WC1A 1JJ
UK
t: +44 20 7395 4155
f: +44 20 7240 0355
email: post@academyfilms.com
Director: Brian Beletic
Producer: Erik Liekefet
Post-production company: The Mill
40-41 Great Marlborough St
London W1V 1DA
UK
t: +44 20 7287 4041
f: +44 20 7287 8393
email: info@mill.co.uk
Editor: Hank Corwin; Lost Planet Editorial
Music: Ben Moy
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