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Summers here already
It’s been some time since our last post and thankfully this is as a direct result of being busy. Certainly a welcome change from the latter half of 2009. This year has seen us involved in a range of projects from live action and animated corporate production through to broadcast development and production management.
The longest project started at the tail end of last year and was a series of four animated films produced with the help of a group of young people aimed at young people. The series is yet to be launch and unfortunately until that time we’re unable to give too much away. The concept was to use a simple 2D animated solution to tackle a range of issues from teenage pregnancy through to depression. This was a great project to work on as it saw us working once again with one of a favorite and funniest Producers.
We’ve also been involved with collaborating with long term friends here in Bristol who already enjoy an international reputation within the Natural History program making genre. We’ve been pleased to assist with the production management of a stunning new two-parter commissioned by National Geographic which shows in graphic representation some of the more unusual aspects of the worlds oceans. More details to follow.
We’ve been pleased to have been involved in the return of the renowned Bristol Animation Festival as part of the Encounters Film Festival this year. The line up promises to be a stunner and there’s still time to take a look and get involved.
Like kids in a sweet shop the upgrades to some of our favourite software has been too irresistible with Smith Micro Software really cranking up the competition with version 7 of Anime Studio Pro our favourite 2D animation software. Powerful features such as a bone rigging system, integrated lip-synching, 3D shape design, physics, motion tracking and more make life just that little bit easier. We’re pleased to have supported this from it’s earliest beginnings.
Our live action, corporate output has seen us working on subjects as diverse as student volunteering programs to high end motor vehicle marketing.
Latest Project
Back in December Green Lit Media where commissioned by the leading integrated advertising and marketing communications agency in the South West, McCann Erickson Bristol to create a series of in house films for iconic furniture manufacturer G Plan upholstery
The overall message for the client was ‘Great Past. Great present Great future’. The brief was to break this down into three separate films to highlight the heritage, craftsmanship and actual comfort of the clients products. The final creative solution was to amalgamate some of the beautiful and iconic images from G Plan’s great past as well as the modern designs now available. in addition we also went into the studio for a shoot for additional material. It was genuinely useful working with a great client team who understood the disciplines available to us. The whole team put in a lot of effort to produce the films to the client’s requirements within an ‘interesting’ schedule.
Steve & Amanda (Cameraman & Photographer)
Tough day for Sarah
The real star of the show
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from Green Lit Media from Pete Levy on Vimeo.
Well, nearly time to pack up for 2009. The year got off to a credit crunch induced slow start but thankfully picked up a full head of steam. We have enjoyed working with our existing clients as well as working with some new ones. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of them for trusting us with their work. We’ve enjoyed working on both broadcast and corporate projects this year from live action to animation. From Scrapheap Challenge to educational films for schools to commercial promotional material. 2009 also saw our two short films do well in the short film festival circuit around the world and pick up some awards along the way.
We’ve welcomed the opportunity to pitch for a number of high profile projects, some we won and some we didn’t. For those pitches we lost we know we always gave a good account of ourselves and are thankful that at least we lost to great competition. To those companies who pipped us to the post, all of whom are our friends here in Bristol we would like to say ‘well done and good luck’. Here’s to us all pitching together again in 2010.
A huge ‘thank you’ to everyone with whom we’ve worked this year and to everyone who supported us.
All that remains is to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very happy New year.
Green Lit produced film wins Gold
Best Event – Gold Award for Tenderstem® broccoli ‘The Tenderstem® Story’ film event
Green Lit Media produced film directed, shot and edited by Andy Purnell on behalf of Pam Lloyd PR won a Gold Award at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ 2009 PRide Awards. As the first of its kind in the food industry, this film premier for Tenderstem® broccoli attracted an impressive audience of consumer and trade journalists, and retailers.
Strap on Owl Beak
Well ere ’tis!
Following the response for our little ‘tease’ of our cracking short film ‘Strap on Owl beak’, written and Directed by Daf Palfrey and starring Richard Harrington. We’ve now put it on line for everyone to enjoy. So grab a coffee, sit back and prepare to laugh out loud. Hope you enjoy watching it half as much as we enjoyed making it.
Watch the film here.
