Clifford Chance

 

A thank you to Clifford Chance for using us for two days at their Xmas party.

Getting the gear up 30 floors in Canary Wharf was actually easy thanks to Kevin who organised the whole event.

The setting was incredible and we were kept busy green screening everyone all night on both nights.

The most popular backdrop was our magazine cover themed to match the Jack Frost styling.

 Click below to see the thank you video we made for Kevin


Clifford Chance

Green Screen photography at the Chronicles of Narnia premiere

Another interesting green screen job for us. We were invited to cover the opening of Sky's new Screen 11 at the O2 arena. This is the biggest 3D cinema screen in Europe and is absolutely stunning!

We were setup in the VIP area with our green screen studio and instant printing kit. We had worked with 20th Century Fox on the original posters of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader as this film is titled. They provided us with layered artwork and we set it all up so we could put kids into the main ship or the smaller boat.

We automated the whole process for speed using a batch file to combine the layers into a composite image. This gave a great effect and the kids were amazed to see photographs of themselves on the Dawn Treader or in the smaller boat with the actors!

The whole process was so fast we didn't even have a queue so we were getting people from the face painting and magician queues and photographing them. Again brilliantly organised by Tania and Emma. We even had time for a meal at the O2 before packing up and getting home.

Capital Radio Jingle Bell Ball

A very busy weekend at the Capital radio Jingle Bell Ball sponsored by Microsoft Windows 7 at the O2 arena. We had to provide two pods to entertain guests before and during the concert. So one was set up for Green Screen, the other for Video.

Early start Saturday as I had the scarey job of photographing the stage. Scarey because I had the whole arean watching me and had to direct the lighting and get the big screens fired up to show Windows 7 and Capital FM's logos. Those screen refresh slowly so it was a tricky shoot in low light but the Nikon D700 coped as usual by cranking up the ISO, didnt even use a tripod! 

On the Green Screen pod we had a huge dressing up box and a couple of electric guitars. We photographed kids and sometimes parents in front of the Green Screen, then dropped them onto the concert stage with an overlay of a cheering crowd. Then we printed and mounted a photograph for each of them. These will be up at www.capitalradio/windows7.

The video pod was to celebrate MSN's 15th birthday, we filmed guests dressed up again in all manner of weird costumes wishing MSN a happy birthday. The best one gets to be featured in their advertising. It was a hard weekend, but great fun and well organised by Jeremy, Tania and Emma.

On the Sunday evening our crew were all allowed in to watch the concert whilst I volunteered to guard the equipment.