August 19th, 2022
Big well done to Spencer MacDonald, whose cut for Swiss Tourism ‘Even If It Takes A While’ will wear a coveted Best of the Year badge, within the Best Branded section.
The film follows Ivano as he goes hiking. It’s all about how important the natural world can be to help escape a busy mind.
Watch all Best of The Year Staff Picks HERE
Watch ‘Even If It Takes A While’ HERE
August 19th, 2022
We’ve been overwhelmed with questions about how we pulled the HATE video off, so we pulled together a BTS video and had Greg add a little commentary of what went on behind the scenes, which you can read below…
Watch the BTS film on our Instagram HERE
First, it’s worth saying that we wanted the camera enclosed inside the car until the film’s last scene. To do this, we had to CUT a side of one of the cars, and given we were using Loyle’s Dad’s car, Hugo, we needed to get a replica!
The film comprises four unbroken shots, and we broke it up on the day into four sections; First was 1:45 of unbroken performance. We had to time out the entire journey for the low-loader so it would perfectly hit an exact spot for the motion control to be able to take over seamlessly. We had to choreograph the movements of oncoming stunt cars and the antagonist driver off camera, so it will give them the impression he’s getting pissed off by this aggressive driver. We made it difficult for ourselves, though, as we started the shooting day with the Motion control first, meaning we’d have to hit the 1:45 mark where all our Moco shots had already been filmed – it was terrifying.
So, we started with the Motion control. We needed ten accurate passes to get Loyle to leave the car and appear in all three other seats (outside the vehicle and background cars). Let’s say Jim from No.8 helped us nail this here – as we have bright sun for one plate, then rain and clouds for the other 9.
We always planned that the moco arm would whip back to the front, and we would hide a cut into the second verse. From here, Todd hand held the camera, as we wanted a super intuitive and dynamic camera within the car – Todd nailed this with the other three ‘Ben’s’ tussling for control for real in the vehicle as it moved along the road.
The fourth section was the most intense of the day because we’d almost lost all the light and the camera team ran to attach the camera to the pursuit vehicle.
Watch the video for Hate HERE
July 27th, 2022
The film is nominated in the ‘Best film for positive change’ category.
Ogilvy, Hogarth & Mayor of London collaborated on the campaign to create positive change from the outset, and we’re overwhelmed by the amazing response to the film. We hope that the industry recognition translates into real-world impact.
June 14th, 2022
Molly Burdett has won a Glass Lion at Cannes with her film ‘Have A Word’, made in partnership with the London mayor Ogilvy & Hogarth. Glass Lions are know as ‘The Lion for Change’, and are awarded to work which sets out to positively impact ingrained gender inequality, imbalance or injustice. ‘Have A Word’ has also won two silver YDAs: one for Best Commercial and the other for Best Charity Commercial.
We’re really proud of Molly and hope that since its release, the campaign has helped to stop men normalising misogynistic and inappropriate behaviour against women and girls.
May 6th, 2022
Milo Blake chats with Shots about some of his favourite music videos, how the industry has changed, where he sees it going and more.
Click HERE to read the full article.
April 22nd, 2022
Our Head of Music & New Talent Nosisa Majuqwana takes part in a Q&A for the Shiny Network aimed at young filmmakers called ‘How to stand out to reps & production companies’.
April 22nd, 2022
We’re all immensely proud of Molly Burdett who took home the top award in the Young Emerging Talent category, with her beautiful and heartbreaking debut commercial ‘Respite’ for Women’s Aid. The film was a labour of love and collaboration between Engine London, No.8 and us. Big thanks to all the great people who came together to make it.
Molly brings passion, craft & real storytelling to everything she makes and we’re over the moon for her. She deserves everything that comes to her!
March 22nd, 2022
Huge congratulations to Milo Blake for winning at Kinsale Sharks with his promo for Lava La Rue ‘Magpie’.
‘Magpie’ is a celebration of London sub-cultures, and was awarded in the Best Music Video For Low Budget <£10K international category. We’re super proud of Milo and everyone involved.
January 27th, 2022
Spindle welcomes Lou Gagen & Emily Jordan-Wilson to the team, joining as Executive Producer and Head of New Business respectively.
With a strong desire to find and nurture the best directors working today, and Fifteen years of experience in film production, Lou will work closely with Emily to head up the commercials division at Spindle continuing to build on the brilliant output of 2021.
Emily joins from Stink films, where she headed up sales in their commercials division. It’s clear that she wants to make not only great creative work but to produce films in a way that aligns with Spindle’s values and ethos. Emily will be key to finding opportunities for our growing roster of directors. We’re super excited about the year ahead!
Both Lou and Emily’s knowledge, enthusiasm and extensive span of experience marries with Spindle’s vision and ambitions perfectly.
January 12th, 2022
Big well done to Molly Burdett and Milo Blake for being featured in the PromoNews Best Music Videos of 2021 lists.
Molly’s film ‘Hope’ for Arlo Parks was featured in the Pop and R&B list. Starring Bafta-winning actor Molly Windsor and shot by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Robbie Ryan, Hope is a tender portrait of youth that explores the highs and lows of adolescence, loneliness and friendship.
Milo’s promo for prxz, ‘Child In Red’, was featured in Hip-hop, Rap and Grime. In this stark and visually-striking film, Milo creates an abstract and unsettling dystopia to compliment PRXZ’s first release from his upcoming self-titled debut.
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