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BP Summer Big Screens 2010 entry Carmen June 4, 2010

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Every year the Royal Opera House organizes several free open air broadcasts on big screens in London and other cities in the UK, sponsored by BP (…) in an attempt to make opera more accessible and popular. It’s basically a huge picnic while watching opera :-)

Part of all the festivities is a competition to create a really short film inspired by one of the operas. This year it is Bizet’s Carmen. The form can be really free, it’s really up to the maker to be creative, and that’s a brief which gave me the excuse to sink my teeth into something new; I decided to create an animated short that tries to convey the meaning of Carmen by using key text and graphics whizzing by. In order to realize this silly animated promo I taught myself the basics of After Effects, resulting in the following:


(click on the youtube logo to see the promo in glorious 1080p HD!)

The good news is that my short will be shown on the big screen at Trafalgar Square and other locations prior to the start of the opera!

Busy february February 19, 2010

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February is turning out to be a productive month!

I’ve worked as a camera and sound assistant on a (non)corporate video for the NHS, shooting a series of testimonials and short videos based on actual case studies that have to do with the intersection of HIV/AIDS and high risk groups / ethnic minorities.
It is one of the best projects I’ve had the pleasure to work on in the last few months, because it deals with a topic that matters, working with two film mates that I trust and whose company I enjoy, with lovely and committed NHS staff to support us, and with fascinating lunch and dinner conversations to top it all off.

I also helped out on a short film by other LFA graduates. They were selected in the first round of a short film competition and received some money and a small amount of time to create a new short for the next round.

Next week I am working as 1st AD on another short film, about superheroes with useless superpowers :-) The director will pitch this idea as a tv series to the BBC, and the short film will be shown as an example of the characters and their universe. Everyone involved of course hopes that both the film and the pitch will turn out well and will lead to new opportunities. That aside, it is a well-oiled production, making me look forward to what will hopefully be a smooth shoot.

At the same time I am about to produce a handful of tv documentary episodes to be shot in the second half of March. This mainly involves organizing and accompanying the shoot so that the (foreign) tv anchor and director can fly into London and do several interviews with “famous guests”. Target audience are viewers in the Middle East.

As if that is not enough, I am exploring the offer to produce another documentary, about a recent controversial topic (can’t be more specific for the moment) targeted towards the English and American market. It looks like a big chunk of potential work for me. In the coming days we will have to figure out what the production aspects will entail, and if that promises to be something that I believe I can and want to do.

Oh and then there is still this other documentary that I hope to be involved in on a creative level… Exciting times!

MOFILM commercials October 29, 2009

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The results have been announced for the MOFILM 2009 London Film Festival competition. Our two Nokia commercials unfortunately did not win any awards or a mention on the shortlist. Still, two good efforts from our team with virtually no money and very little time. Judge yourself.

MOFILM Nokia – Treasure hunt
Credits: conceived, produced, directed and edited by Amélie Chicoye & Alice Caronna. Assisted by Mete Yilmaz and Joost Zoetebier.

MOFILM Nokia – Moments
Credits: conceived, produced, directed and edited by Mete Yilmaz and Joost Zoetebier. Assisted by Amélie Chicoye, Alice Caronna.