Video

Photo shoots are not glamorous.

Video shoots aren’t either.

Our latest adventure for Turtle Wax UK was a prime example.

The client insisted that waxing your car in the rain is actually the best time to do it.

The film crew didn’t agree.

But nevertheless we muddled through.

In and out of the showers.

Shooting when we could.

Helen managed to enjoy herself.

She got to drive a shiny new BMW.

Whilst drooling over our male model.

“Would you like another cup of tea Kevin?”

“Ooo let me just tuck your shirt in Kevin.”

“Oh Kevin have you been working out?”

(Ok I made the last one up).

By 6pm it was a wrap.

Which is pretty lightweight compared to other shoots we’ve done.

Two weeks later we had our video.

An instore promo for the Turtle Wax ICE range.

Translated into 5 languages and rolled out across Europe.

Many thanks to our model Kevin Harris.

Our film crew at Visual Concepts.

And to Ruth’s parents for letting us use their driveway and buying us biscuits.

The Roundhouse in Camden holds almost legendary status as a cultural and historical melting pot, most famously known as a music and performing arts venue. To name but a few, it plays host to the iTunes Festival, Electric Proms and recently solo greats such as Smoky Robinson and  Bob Dylan (of which I was lucky enough to get a ticket). However it isn’t just a venue, it’s a charity that prides itself on its strong youth focus with its doors open to 11-25 year olds who are free to use and encourage the learning of TV, Radio , Music and Media Production in any of the 24 state of the art studios that reside underneath the iconic, acoustically prolific upper performing space.

30 seconds in Wales
(17 hours behind the scenes of our Welsh TV commercial)

We all met up in a dark underpass in Cardiff one chilly evening in May. Our star actress, the lovely Ffion, had to walk back and forth for about 5 hours with a scary guy stalking her and we soon attracted a row of onlookers gathering to watch what was going on. We were all very impressed by the girl who turned up at 8pm and stayed all night long watching, she almost felt like one of the crew in the end! I was glad I’d invested in some new gloves earlier that day as it did get rather cold, but our 11pm pizzas kept us going till about 1am before we packed up all our equipment and went back to the hotel.