Zebra Crossing Creative Media » Video Production

Zebra’s Summer Showreel

Carl Winberg — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:18:54 +0000

We’ve been very busy over the last year and now, in full colour and stereophonic sound, we give you the glorious beast that is our new showreel.
It includes both our original commercial and corporate productions as well as some of our vast amount of reversioning work.

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HP – Global Viral Fun

Carl Winberg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:01:58 +0000

TelecomTV commissioned Zebra Crossing to create three ads for their client HP (Hewlett Packard, not the brown sauce). The brief was to create a unique set of global ads that put HP at the cutting edge of communications.

“Woodstock”, “Rocket Man” and “Lost Tribe” were written, directed and produced by the zebra team of Nic Franklin, Mark Dymond and Luke Hammersley.

A massive thanks goes out to all involved:

Joel Anderson was our lens master, and as always brought magic to the photography; Amanda Linke simply did wonders in make-up. Not to mention Nathan Bayliss & Michael Ho (Soho Editors) for their After Effects wizardry, Ben Rogers (Glassworks) and Andrew Daniel (Molinare) for their delicate touch on the color grading balls, Marcus and the team at The Mews and a terrific sound mix by Nick Murphy at The Sound Company.

The ads were shot on location across three continents; in Charlottesville (Virginia, USA), London, Devon and Cape Town (South Africa).

‘Twas good times and everyone seems to have their favourite ad, which is yours?

Woodstock

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Lost Tribe

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Rocket Man

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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.

Found: Brilliant Make-up Artist

Nic Franklin — Sun, 14 Jun 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.

Billy Bragg – What a gent…

Luke Hammersley — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:15:50 +0000

I wouldn’t ordinarily write a post about a specific part of a project before it’s completed, but our interview with Billy Bragg is worth mentioning, for several reasons.

Firstly his thoughts on the closure of the London Astoria for our ongoing documentary project were fascinating – he shared his memories of the beginnings of the ‘Love Music Hate Racism’ movement, which were launched at the venue, his early career playing The Astoria back in the 1980′s on to his last appearance there with Kate Nash.

We met Billy at the opening night of a series of gigs for the charity he is involved in – Jail Guitar Doors. Taking it’s name from a Clash B-side, the charity works in prisons and young offender institutions, donating guitars and teaching songwriting to inmates. The audience heard songs written and performed by Billy and singer/songwriter Kieran Leonard along with one of the former beneficiaries of the programme, Jonny Neesom.

A very worthy organisation, we at Zebra Crossing fully support the work these guys do and are very grateful to Mr Bragg and his colleague, Alan Miles, for their time.

Corporate Sales Video for Tetley

Carl Winberg — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:30:41 +0000

Tetley commissioned a video for use by their salespeople in Russia and the CIS area. Our editors, animators and compositors used existing stock footage and TV commercials to produce a rather marvellous little piece of video.

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Philips: Outdoor Marketing for Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Carl Winberg — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:21:25 +0000

As part of the work we have been doing localising global sites for Philips, their agency DDB London asked us to produce a 10sec ad for outdoor display in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Zebra Crossing’s Flash designers reworked the existing creative to adapt it to work in this medium.

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Online Commercial for The Smoodyfruit Company

Carl Winberg — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:46:20 +0000

Zebra Crossing were commissioned by the Smoodyfruit Company to create a 60s commercial for web to introduce their new alcoholic fruit juice Twisted Core. Produced by Luke Hammersley and written and directed by Nic Franklin, it was filmed in day at a show-home in East London.
For the final reveal actors were shot on bluescreen, the visual effects for this were added by Duncan Elms from Soho Editors.

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STEEL – The Digital Communications Agency

Carl Winberg — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:33:27 +0000

Zebra Crossing were commissioned by STEEL to produce a business-to-business marketing showreel of their services.
Messages were carefully constructed and delivered by key staff on Stage 5 at Ealing Studios while additional footage was captured over two days in STEEL’s Wandsworth studio and around the capital.
Directed by Nic Franklin and produced by Luke Hammersley, the film was shot on HDCAM by Joel Anderson and Marc Cayford.
An original score was composed by Luke Hammersley, and to give the track a contemporary and urban feel we decided to record the track with the addition of The Standards.

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Zebra Crossing at the Barcelona Film Festival

Carl Winberg — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:53:47 +0000

We’re all smiles this week; it could be down to the summer weather or to the fact that the promo we shot for The Standards, “Needless to Say”, is being screened this Friday at DiBa, the Digital Barcelona Film Festival. In their words: “A selection of the best video clips of the year: samples of talent that break with the established rules. The most innovative and surprising music videos compete to win the DiBa Club award”. Giddyup.