Selected Works

  • Music // Pop/Music // Rock
    Clement Marfo & The Frontline
    WATCH THE VIDEO

    WATCH THE MAKING OF

    PROJECT: MUSIC VIDEO // CLIENT: WARNER

    What a lot of fun this was just before Christmas! A full-on high-energy performance video, with a twist, for the fantastic Clement Marfo & The Frontline, featuring Kano.

    Known for their energetic and irrepressible live shows, last year saw CMFT gain early radio support from Zane Lowe, Huw Stephens and Semtex. They were also selected for MTV's 'Brand New for 2012' list and played live with a wide range of artists including Plan B, Example and Florence and The Machine.

    This year the guys have already been nominated for T4's 'Rising Stars 2012' so keep you're eyes peeled and remember, you heard it here first!

    Thanks to Sandra Ciampone for the great production stills. www.meorme.com

    Director: Mike Sharpe
    Production Co: The Found Collective
    Producer: Sean Stuart @ NTSH (London) Ltd
    Commissioner: CJ Hassay
    DOP: Tony Miller
    2nd Unit Director: Marcus Moresby
    2nd Unit Cam Op: Joe Dyer
    Editor: Tom Carter @ The Family
    Colourist: James Tillett @ MPC
    Art Director: Monica Black
    Make Up/Hair (Band): Candy Alderson
    SFX Make Up: Harriet Thompson
    Stylist: Chloe Richardson
  • Sony PS3 Video Store
    PROJECT: PROJECTION MAPPING // CLIENT: SONY ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK

    Making of



    We are very proud to bring to you a whole new batch of projection-mapping videos as part of our collaboration on the ongoing Marshmallow Laser Feast projects.

    This time it was a project for Studio Output and their client Sony Playstation.  

    We wanted to push video mapping on from anything that has been done so far. Using live puppetry, 3D tracking, pyrotechnics (and a whole bunch of our friends' spare time) we transformed a room into three different vignettes. Can you guess the films?!

    It was all lots of fun!  A very big thank you to all our friends and Studio-Output for their support and putting their trust into our maverick efforts!

    Agency: Studio Output
    Agency Producer: Ian Hambleton

    Directed by MarshmallowLaserFeast
    Mehmet Akten (MSA Visuals)
    Robin McNicholas (Flat-E)
    Barney Steel (FND)

    Produced by The Found Collective

    Post Production Producer: Ian Walker
    Production Assistant: Nadine Allen
    Production Secretary: Kavya Ramalu

    Cameraman/Steadicam/AR: Thomas English
    Focus Puller: Richard Bradbury
    Camera Assistant: Celia Clare-Moodie
    Assistant Director: Jonathan Stow
    Digital Imaging Technician: Philip Davies

    3D Artist: Jools Peacock
    3D Artist: Dirk Van Dijk
    3D Artist: Raffael Ziegler
    3D Artist: Alex Trattler
    Programmer: Tobias Barendt

    Art Department Director: Neil Lambeth
    Art Department Assistant: Elise Colledge
    Set Construction: Oli van der Vijver

    Assistant Director: Robert Pybus

    Actor: Gareth Cooper

    Puppeteer: Kimberly Morrison
    Puppeteer: Rhimes Lecointe
    Puppeteer: Jen Bailey-Rae
    Puppeteer: Tashan
    Puppeteer: Ralph Fuller
    Puppeteer: Frederick Fuller
    Puppeteer: Jane Laurie
    Puppeteer: Sandra Ciampone
    Puppeteer: Robert Pybus

    Runner: Daniel McNicholas White
    Runner: Maddie McNicholas
    Runner: Nick White
    Runner: Rosa Rooney

    Photography: Sandra Ciampone
  • Brand Films/Corporate
    This is Great Britian
    PROJECT: BRAND FILM // CLIENT: MOTHER

    A brand film for Mother. Produced by Joyrider.

    It was a quick turn around project for The General Assembly NYC, we had to shoot a conversation with Sir Paul Smith and animate his thoughts around him.
  • Cher Lloyd
    PROJECT: MUSIC VIDEO // CLIENT: SONY/SYCO

    Our second video on the trot for Miss Lloyd and this time there's a "whole lotta love"!

    Shot in a single day in the heart of London City with two camera units and some lovely VFX work from our friends over at Mainframe, the video features thousands of balloons and inflatables as well as a rooftop performance from American singer/songwriter/producer Mike Posner.

    Produced & Directed @ FND.

    Director: Mike Sharpe
    Producers: Phil Tidy & Kwok Yau
    DOP: Dan Trapp
    Comissioner: Mike O'Keefe
    Editor: Mike Prior @ NTSH (London)
    Colourist: Thomas Urbye @ The Look
    Art Director: Louise Corcoran
    Post VFX: Mainframe
    2nd Unit Directors: Marcus Moresby & Barney Steel
    2nd Unit Cameraman: Deane Thrussell
    Photography: Sandra Ciampone @ www.meorme.com

  • Live Action/Music // Pop
    Cher Lloyd
    PROJECT: MUSIC VIDEO // CLIENT: SONY/SYCO

    Our first big pop promo for Cher Lloyd's all important debut single, "Swagger Jagger". It was a highly ambitious project for what was Cher's first ever solo music video, with several different setups and locations, choreographed dance routines, breakdancers, green screen performances, a huge location shoot and a whole heap of CGI madness!

    Working closely with Cher's brand/art directors Studio Output, we teamed up once again with our good friends at Mainframe who worked on a multitude of animations and visual effects to help us create Cher's 'urban wonderland'.

    Directors: Mike Sharpe & Marcus Moresby
    Production Company: FND
    Comissioner: Mike O'Keefe
    Producer: Sean Stuart @ NTSH (London) Ltd
    Animation/VFX/POST: Mainframe
    Post Producer: Emma Phillips @ Mainframe
    Editor: Mike Prior @ NTSH (London) Ltd
    Grade: Thomas Urbye @ The Look
    Brand & Art Direction: Studio Output (UK)
    Additional Animation: FND
    DOP: WIll Bex
    Steadycam Op: Thomas English
    Production/Location Manager: Elliott Tagg
    VFX Supervisors: Liam Chapple/Chris Hardcastle @ Mainframe
    Production Designer: Monica Black
    Stylist/Cher: Ayishat & Louise
    Hair/Cher: Louise Teasdale
    Make-Up/Cher: Lucy Bridge
    Stylist/Dancers & Extras: Joseph Crone
    Choreographer:Tommy Franzen
    Documentary Directors: Barney Steel/Sandra Ciampone
    Stills Photography: Steve Glashier @ NTSH (London) Ltd and Sandra Ciampone @ www.meorme.com
  • Concert Visuals/Installation/Live
    Saatchi & Saatchi
    PROJECT: LIVE/INTERACTIVE // CLIENT: SAATCHI & SAATCHI

    The Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase is one of the highlights of the Cannes Lions Festival. Their senior creative team, Jonathan Santana & Xander Smith, came up with the initial concept. ‘Hello Future’ - a dark, retro-futuristic setting with a ‘HAL-like' host.

    We teamed up with our good friends and longtime collaborators Memo Atken (MSA Visuals) and Robin McNicholas (Flat-e) to direct the visual performance. We also created graphics for the ‘HAL’ character, the titles, and various other ‘interludes’.

    We worked closely with Aaron Meyers who developed the kinect performance software for Jamie Lidell's section, and the stage, lighting and sound designers to pull together the overall look and feel.

    We had a very interesting process for the creation of the content which was created on what we call 'the HAL Rig'. It is a very analogue process utilising found objects such as a step ladder, a couple of broom sticks, rear projection perspex, large metal bowl, bin bags, gaffer tape and glass prisms. These were then filmed with a handheld pointgrey dragonfly2, sending this live feed into a laptop running modul8. We then played with a few midi sliders and knobs to deform and affect the images in realtime which we then project onto perspex and film.

    It was truly an amazing collaboration between so many talented people and we were lucky that the client had full faith in us to allow us to go as crazy as we wanted.

    Behind the scenes documentation, videos and images coming soon...
  • Commercials
    UBS
    'The Line' is our latest animated commercial for UBS and is a montage of various classic F1 circuits from around the world, see if you can spot 'em all!

    The commercial was produced by Joyrider for Publics and was designed and animated along with the extremely talented boys over at Mainframe. Check out the second movie clip to see a breakdown of some of the pioneering techniques they employed to pull off what we needed.
  • Live Action/Commercials/Corporate/Installation/Live
    Vodafone
    PROJECT: PROJECTION MAPPING // CLIENT: VODAFONE

    Shot in a single take, popular mobile handsets were spray-painted white and brought to life with 3D projection mapping techniques that appear like a hologram on a flat plinth surface.

    The 3D effect was enhanced by a roving "sweet spot" that had to be matched precisely by the camera for the illusion to work.

    We got all our favourite people in on the act and spent a month experimenting and discovering just how far we could push the illusion. Good fun!

    Thanks to Sandra for documenting the whole merry shindig. (www.meorme.com)


    CREDITS

    Directors:
    Barney Steel (FND)
    Robin McNicholas (flat-e)
    Senior Art Director:
    Jamie O'Brien (TBG)
    Art Director:
    Alex Hill (TBG)
    VFX Artists:
    Murat Pak (UNDREAM)
    Matthias Müller
    Svenja Frahm 
    Robin Mcnicholas
    Barney Steel
    Rob Pybus
    DOP/Steadycam Operator:
    Thomas English
    Studio/Techincal Supervisor:
    Memo (MSA Visuals)
    Projector Rig Creation:
    Phil Mayer (Gaianova)
    Production Assistant:
    Dan McNicholas White
    Documentary Photography:
    Sandra Ciampone - www.meorme.com
  • Music // Pop/Music // Rock
    The Wombats
    PROJECT: MUSIC VIDEO // CLIENT: WARNER MUSIC

    We received a locked-down signed-off edit of live footage that had been rejected by the label and were asked to process and stylize it. We worked with Memo Akten at MSA Visuals to create a custom openframeworks app that we used to process the rotoscoped edit.

    Director:Barney Steel
    Compositing/Post:Raoul Paulet, Barney Steel & James Medcraft
    Software development:Memo Akten
  • Depeche Mode
    PROJECT: MUSIC VIDEO // CLIENT: MUTE RECORDS

    The video uses a series of different graphical techniques including some custom software made by our good friend Memo. Written with C++/ openFrameworks the software allowed us to feed our Red camera footage through it to generate some incredible real-time HD particle effects.

    Video Commissioner: John Moule
    Directors: Barney Steel & Rob Chandler
    Producer: Sam Brown