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Our latest project for Ridgeview Wine with Yesmore Wine Marketing Agency is in the news!

Yesmore developed a 'Bring Celebration Home' campaign for Ridgeview Wine to increase awareness of English sparkling wine for celebrations, and they asked Other Brother Studios to produce the videos. Created remotely during the second UK lockdown with a crew of 1 and a cast of 18, it was a challenge thinking up ways to film with such restrictive measures, but we worked it out and had a blast making 4x celebration videos.

🎥 You can watch the 4x videos in a playlist here: https://lnkd.in/d4tYjby

It’s lovely to see this campaign getting attention. Click on the images below to read the full articles.

A busy Autumn

Whilst Summer this year was quiet due to COVID, Autumn proved to be quite the opposite!

Adopting APA Shooting guidelines, we have been able to instil confidence with clients on location, making sure that we are filming safely to a high standard. It helps that we are a small production company and can utilise smaller crews.

One of our favourite shoots was a TV promo with Seljan Nasibli, a Soprano opera singer, who we filmed with Stingray Music in St Pauls Church in Chiswick. It was such a delight filming live music again, especially after lockdown. Seljan was accompanied by pianist Nico De Villiers.

Strictly following APA guidelines for COVID shooting, we kept the crew to a minimum of just 3!

The film is currently in the edit suite with Stingray. Below are a few graded stills from the shoot. Thank you Stingray for getting us involved, and Seljan for your incredible performance.

A very exciting project for Other Brother Studios, has been a gigantic edit for our good friend Tommy Oswin Williams that we have been working on this year. Tommy climbed Aconcagua last summer and documented the trip. The mountain stands at 6,961 metres in the Andes mountain range in Mendoza Province in Argentina. It has been amazing to sit through all of his incredible footage and craft together a film worthy of his experience. Here are a few stills from the edit:

Our latest project for Ridgeview Wine with Yesmore Wine Marketing Agency was created completely remotely during the second lockdown. We ‘shot’ 4x celebration moments with 20 participants, from the comfort of their own homes. The videos were recorded by the participants on their phones and directed over Zoom and Skype! The clips were sent to us and then edited our side. A first for Other Brother Studios, but a great experience! With a happy client and agency we are very much looking forward to those videos being released soon.

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We have also had a fantastic time shooting with Andrew Mills over at School Reel, who we have been working with for 4 years now! School Reel makes promotional films for schools and whilst the pandemic certainly threw up something interesting challenges on set, we have been able to film safely in lots of schools, still to a really high standard. It’s been lovely to shoot this autumn at Honeywell School in Clapham, The Cumberland School in Newham, and Hornsey School for Girls in Crouch End. Firstly some BTS photos, followed by graded stills from the films.

Other Brother Studios Film Fund winner 2020

We can announce the winner of Other Brother Studios Film Fund 2020 is SLICE RIGHT.

SLICE RIGHT written by Georgia Clarke-Day and Ruby Bentall tells the story of two friends who accidentally, and unfortunately, murder an internet date and need to clean the blood off their beloved taxidermy cat. Oh, and get rid of the body.

Congratulations to the team! It was a brilliant pitch with a superbly written script. We are thrilled to support your film!

SLICE RIGHT will be directed by Sara Joyce and produced by David Frias-Robles of Myriad Entertainment, Alexandra Agoshkova and Syd Heather.

Pre-Production is underway, with production currently planned for January 2021.

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Escort nominated at the 2020 L.I.M.P.A awards.

Other Brother Studios funded film Escort, directed by Gyulyara Meliki has been nominated at the 2020 L.I.M.P.A Awards. Escort is nominated for ‘Best Fiction Short Film’.

This nomination comes off the back of a growing list of festival selections and award nominations for Gyulyara’s short, including:

  • 2020 London Lift-Off Film Festival

  • BAFTA qualifying 2020 Carmarthen Bay Film Festival

  • 2020 Russian International Horror Film Awards

  • Arkie Reece Best Actor nominee 2020 Annual Movie Awards

  • 2020 Unrestricted view Film Festival

  • 2020 New York Lift-Off Film Festival

  • 2020 BELIFF - Be Epic! Film Fest London

  • 2020 British Urban Film Festival

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Filmmaking training

Occasionally we run training days with budding filmmakers, wishing to learn the basics or expand their knowledge with production and post-production.

A lovely couple of days were spent with Jess covering camera basics and lenses, lighting and sound recording. These skills were then integrated into a classic interview setup and b-roll shoot in Greenwich Park. We also covered post-production grading.

Get in touch with us if you need some training, we cover all bases and disciplines from beginner to professional standard.

Seljan Nasibli

We were asked by Stingray Music to film a TV promo for soprano Seljan Nasibli in a St Paul’s Church in Chiswick, London. It was such a delight filming live music again, especially after lockdown. Seljan was accompanied by pianist Nico De Villiers.

Strictly following APA guidelines for COVID shooting, we kept the crew to a minimum. Thankfully we had plenty of time to setup for the session and interview as we brought a lot of equipment! Matthew was on DOP duties - camera wise we brought 2x C300mkii’s with a set of C-NE primes. Louis was gaffer - lighting wise we had an ARRI M18 1.8k HMI pointed through a silk with negative fill to shape the shadows, a junior boom for a Dedo hair light and 4 or 5 other Dedo’s placed as backlights for Seljan and Nico or as backdrop lighting for the church. Additionally we used our Rayzr7 300 bi-colour when we shot the interview part, as we wanted something more intimate with the lighting. Sound wise, Joe brought his incredible new setup, the mix has never sounded so good!

The film is currently in the edit suite with Stingray. Here are a few stills from the shoot.

Thank you Stingray for getting us involved, and Seljan for your incredible performance.





Hornsey School for Girls

Another school shoot, this time with Hornsey School for Girls in Crouch End.

BTS shots, with the C300mkii, Rayzr7 300 bi colour and flag kit:

And some graded images:



The Cumberland School

We had a great time filming with The Cumberland School in Newham, London.

Here are some BTS images of the interview setup using our Rayzr-7 300 Bi-colour LED fresnal and various silks and negative fill to shape the light.

And some final graded images from the shoot:

New Other Brother Studios Ident

So pleased to share the new Other Brother Studios ident with the world!

🖥Animated by our long time collaborator, the amazing, talented Chloe Rodham.

🎵 Music by Joe Bulmer & Matthew Lawes Wickwar at City Sessions Studio.

Can’t wait to get this on the big screen, hopefully at a cinema near you soon! 🍿 🎥

New work: Forget-Me-Not Visitors

Forget-me-not Visitors work with people living with dementia in a medical setting. 

Suffolk Artlink’s Forget-me-not Visitors are professional artists who pay regular visits to older patients at West Suffolk Hospital.  Through the use of music, poetry, reminiscence and sensory resources, the Forget-me-not Visitors help patients to relax in an unfamiliar setting, easing fear and confusion.

600,000 views in 24 hours for LEGO time-lapse video.

We created a time-lapse video of Tommy Oswin Williams building the Tower Bridge LEGO set in front of the real Tower Bridge.

LEGO thought it was so good they hosted it on their Instagram and Facebook channels on Thursday. In 24 hours the video gained over 600,000 views!

New work: Roundhouse Studios re-edits

Back in 2013, Other Brother Studios were commissioned to create an animated fly-through of the Roundhouse Studios in Camden. That video has been used ever since, playing on all the screens around the Roundhouse, both in the 11-25s studio as well as the main space.

Recently we were asked to revisit the videos to provide two cut-down edits with fresh music, to better suit the Roundhouse’s current social media channels.

30 second edit:

60 second edit:

7 Planets: Full festival selections

2017 Other Brother Studios film fund winner Milda Baginskaite continues to charm audiences internationally with her short film ‘7 Planets’. Here is the trailer with a full list of festivals to date.

7 Planets is continuing to show internationally at film festivals in 2019.

Other Brother Studios 2019 film fund is open now, click here for more details: http://www.otherbrotherstudios.co.uk/film-fund…

OFFICIAL SELECTION Ibiza Cine Fest, 2019

OFFICIAL SELECTION Femme Fontera Filmmaker showcase, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION East Coast Film Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Tacoma Film Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION St Louis International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Detroit’s Trinity International Film Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Sose International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Athena Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Hastings Film Fringe, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Vasteros Filmfestival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Gozo Film Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Citizen Jane Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Watford, Short Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Ennesimo Film Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Olbia Film Network, short film market

OFFICIAL SELECTION FerFilm International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Manifesto Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Exit 6 film festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION goEast, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Tuzla Film Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Moscow Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Innsbruck Nature Film Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION 3MIFF, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Two Riversides Film and Art Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION The Short Cinema, Leicester International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION MFW, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION London Rolling Film Festival, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION The Shortest Nights (Short Sighted Cinema), 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION LA1 Shorts, 2018

OFFICIAL SELECTION Farcume: Festival internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Faro, 2018

New work: Tom Raffield film

We were asked to create a film for furniture designer Tom Raffield. Tom is an artist and designer maker who works with wood using the method of steam bending. His incredible house that he built was featured on Grand Designs.

Film on location in Cornwall, we documented Tom and his team creating a bespoke desk for the Institute of Physics in London.

It was a fantastic project to be a part of. Here’s the film:


Other Brother Studios Film Fund - 4 months until the deadline!

Other Brother Studios film fund deadline is 4 months away, we have already received some great pitches and looking forward to receiving more as time progresses. 

We have been very fortunate to have the film fund listed on Shooting People's website under their Funding page, something which has undoubtedly led to more interest and submissions. So make sure your idea is a great one as we are expecting more submissions than ever! 

We caught up with 2017 film fund winner, Director Milda Bagiskaite, to ask her about the film fund and what it meant to her:

'Being a young filmmaker, let alone being young, is not easy. There are lots of us out there, trying to get our films made and a lot of us have good ideas too, I believe. The film being a collaborative affair, we need more people than just ourselves believing in our stories to get them off the ground.

Other Brother Studios, first of all, has given me so much confidence in the project, supporting and understanding the story I wanted to tell. From early preproduction until the late distribution stages of 7 Planets, Matthew has given us great advice and provided us with technical support whenever needed. At the same time, our team was given lots of freedom to make our own decisions and creative choices. The challenging budget limitations and a set timescale to produce the film have worked out for the better for us, as any kind of limitations make one think creatively and improvise. With a budget of £500, we managed to have over 20 schoolchildren and a rocket launch in our short. There should exist more creative schemes like Other Brother Studios Film Fund to help and support young creatives make their first steps into the wide, scary and unknown film industry world.'

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Milda's short film, 7 Planets, is currently being shown internationally at film festivals, we are very proud to support Milda and wish her the best of luck with her film! You can find out more information on 7 Planets at the film's website here: https://7planetsshort.com/

You can see the film's trailer here: https://vimeo.com/248242398

To all 2018 film fund applicants - best of luck and make that idea a great one! 

Other Brother Studios - 2017 year in review

What a year 2017 has been. Thank you to all our collaborators, clients and to you for watching, sharing and recommending our videos and production services! We created 33 films, worked with 24 clients and 6 collaborators, all helping us to create our best content yet. It's always daunting entering year two of a production company; can we capitalise on the first year push, can we sustain and grow in year 2, can we maintain and increase the levels of production for our clients and, most importantly, can we have fun doing it along the way. Well we did and we are mightily proud of year 2 of Other Brother Studios. Here's a little taster of what we got up to:

It all started with an animated video for Nissan to celebrate 10 years of their Qashqai range.

Our short animated film 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' stormed the international film festival circuit, showing at 45 film festivals all across the globe. We picked up 15 nominations en route and won a staggering 8 awards. Which made working on it for 6 months worthwhile!

We had a very successful premiere at Warner Bros Soho Studios on 13th June (to coincide with w.b.yeats day) with friends, family, and crew. It then had an online release that evening and continues to do us proud, having just picked up a distribution deal in Japan. The film is still available in all other territories, if you are a distributor or interested in any aspect of acquisition, then please get in touch with the films producer at Ex-Animo Foundation, Marlena Hellebø: info@exanimo.org.uk

We went on to produce lots of films for various schools throughout the year, working in collaboration with production company School Reel. We made 11 films in 2017 for Andrew and his team and it was fantastic fun, working with great schools and children! Even the school dinners were good (how times have changed).

We made 2x live session films for Ticketmaster, featuring Mariana's Trench and..........STEPS! 

It's hard to pick a favourite shoot of the year, but just pipping the others at the post has to be a film we made for Cooper King Distillery in Yorkshire. Gutsy, determined and talented duo Abbie Neilson and Christopher Jaume are in the process of setting up the smallest distillery in the UK. We followed them at the start of their journey, meeting lots of their collaborators along the way. We are very excited to see the next steps guys! Cheers! 

We were then asked to make another film for Nissan, this time for their Micra range and a new Colourbot that has been launched! We jumped at the chance.

Towards the end of the year, we made 4x films for Insight, a technology solutions company. We went up to Manchester to film their Technology conference and CXO Summit as well as delve deeper into future technology trends and digital transformation.

We shot a fantastic motion controlled time-lapse video for Tommy Williams, where he assembled the Tower Bridge Lego set in front of, you guessed it, Tower Bridge. The video was featured on Time Out London, receiving over 800,000 views in a week! 

Well, it's been an excellent year for Other Brother Studios! We would like to raise a large glass to everyone who has worked with us, supported us, had fun shooting with us, liked, shared and watched our videos this year! 

Wishing everyone a fantastic 2018!

 

Grading - Other Brother Studios

Grading is difficult. It's not as simple as adding an Instagram filter to something (however popular this approach might appear with so many filmmakers), its nuanced and very technical. I want to get better at it.  And to get better you have to show people work and ask for feedback. So here is a sample of work over the last year that I have shot and graded, using Final Cut Pro X to edit and Koji Advance to grade. I have placed the ungraded image on top of the graded image for easy comparison.

I have split the grades into the following sections: Landscapes, Interviews, Details and People.

Everything shown is lit using available light, with some artificial spill from light in rooms, although that was mostly avoided.

Let me know what you think in the comments section below! 

Landscapes:

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Interviews:

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Details:

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People:

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