Zebra Crossing Creative Media

Philips – Cinema Commercials for Europe

Luke Hammersley — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:46:44 +0000

We worked with DDB to reversion and distribute the amazing ‘Carousel’ commercial for the Philips 21:9 format television. Going out to cinemas across Europe, the commercial by Stink’s Adam Berg is probably the most fun you can have with a menacing clown suit on.

See the whole thing at www.cinema.philips.com.

Zebras are migrating!

Carl Winberg — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:21:55 +0000

Just a quick note to say that as of Monday the 2nd of October Zebra Crossing will be working out of our nice new offices at 74 Berwick Street, W1F 8TE.

Just upstairs from the dentists.
Just across the road from Sister Ray Records.
Just up the road from The Blue Posts.

Exciting times.

16:9 Spoils the Cinema Experience

Carl Winberg — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:01:16 +0000

Went to see The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus at the Putney Odeon recently, and as the commercials finished I kept waiting for the curtains to open up and give me the full Gilliam experience…
But no, the whole film was shown on the paltry screen in a livingroom-inducing aspect of 16:9.
Surely there must be better standards in British cinema?

It’s All Relative – The Billion Dollar Gram

Carl Winberg — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:27:35 +0000

For those who haven’t seen it, InformationIsBeautiful have created a brilliant piece of data vizualisation that explains what is happening around us in a, well, beautiful way. Have a gander here.

Found: Brilliant Make-up Artist

Nic Franklin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:07:32 +0000

Just have to say a quick word about our latest find on the crew side; on two of our latest shoots (which we’ll write about in due course) we were lucky enough to have a new (to Zebra) make-up artist on board. Michelle Jackson, who somehow had managed to elude us during her years of working, did an exemplary job both on a four-person corporate film and a glamour-model shoot.
Anyone who needs a make-up artist, send us an email at the usual address and we’ll put you in touch.

Just make sure you don’t book her when we need her. That would annoy us.

Video and Audio work for Amnesty International

Carl Winberg — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:00:13 +0000

We were recently pretty damn excited to be commissioned by Amnesty International to produce a set of audio and video for their annual week-long International Council Meeting in Antalya, Turkey.

The work comprised a 3-minute and a 30-second video, created mainly from AI’s own library footage, which was played at the opening of the meeting. We also produced a 3-minute audio loop for playing during recess and after closing each evening.

With the video and motion graphics edited in-house at Zebra, Sound Design was completed by Dan Darriba & Eddie Stevens at RMS and Dom Boucher at The Sound Company.

A Threadless Zebra and A Spiral Tree

Carl Winberg — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:35:21 +0000

We’re suddenly all t-shirt crazy here at Zebra as our very own Chris Trotman (aka Dexter Spandex) has submitted a rather awesome design to threadless.com. Go to the site, gawp at the design and score it a nice big 5. You won’t regret it.

Zebra Crossing and The Spiders From Mars

Carl Winberg — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:59:36 +0000

Just randomly came across a list of classic album covers and their shoot locations, apparently Zebra Crossing’s very own doorway is on the cover of David Bowie’s seminal ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars’. Wicked.

‘Running Late’ Screening at BAFTA

Carl Winberg — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:58:12 +0000

Last night saw the screening of Leo Poloniecki’s short film ‘Running Late’ at BAFTA. The film went down a storm with the 200+ friends, family and industry movers and shakers, as did the cold beers on what was reportedly the hottest day of the year.

Co-directed by Leo and Joel Anderson, Zebra Crossing handled all post-production on the film, from the offline edit to the telecine grade at TKone. Big thanks to John Penn at Dubbs and Alf Penn at TKone for all their help.

New Website for the London Advertising Softball League

Luke Hammersley — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:34:16 +0000

We are delighted to have been asked to redevelop the London Advertising Softball League website once again – this time to create a much further-reaching site.

The new site includes forums, news weblogs, feeds from several other websites and Video and Photo sharing delivered through integration with YouTube and Flickr.