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MOFILM commercials October 29, 2009

Posted by joost in : commercial, directing, london , comments closed

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.

Rule 2 festival news October 29, 2009

Posted by joost in : LFA, festivals, film , comments closed

I’m still sending out my graduation film “Rule 2” to festivals. Recently I received exciting news from Iran, my film has been selected for the Tehran 14th International Short Film Festival! Their website is a bit outdated, but there’s a general news announcement here.

This means so far the film has been shown at the following festivals:

Next up: American film festivals!

MOFILM ad competition October 6, 2009

Posted by joost in : directing, producing, work , comments closed

One of the many things budding film makers do in order to get noticed, to get some practice or to get some money in the bank for future projects, is participating in film related competitions. MOFILM is an example of one of them.

Me and three fellow film academy graduates decided to give this one a go. Biggest challenge was that we were all out of the country until late September, leaving us exactly seven days to come up with a concept, work on the script, find props and locations, and then shoot and edit the commercial.

We brainstormed and worked on several ideas for the first two days, with two viable and promising concepts as a result. Since our team consisted of four people, we decided to appoint two “team leaders” for each concept who would be in charge of realizing all that needed to be done. The other two would then have a supporting role for the other commercial, and vice versa.

We spent the next days on storyboarding and preparing for two days of shooting. In general we followed the “work with who you know, what you have and what you can get” principle – a motto that every guerilla filmmaker will recognize.

The two days of shooting the commercials were good fun. We acted ourselves, ran around in London and shot on some great locations. This left us with plenty of material and exactly one day to edit. We pulled an all-nighter and exported both commercials around 7am Monday morning, with a whopping five hours left to submit them before the deadline :-)

The shortlisted commercials for each brand will be announced really soon, next week already. They will appear online then as well. If they don’t then I will upload them myself for your viewing pleasure.

No matter the outcome, for us we have already succeeded; the manic week really got our creative juices flowing again so watch out for more viral videos, commercials and other visual gags by our team!