Director Bram Coppens of production house Caviar, with shops in Los Angeles, Brussels and Amsterdam, breaks the ice in “Cayman,” a :30 for Q-Music out of The Ideas Unit, Amsterdam.
The commercial features the reverse explosion of a Porsche Caymen–made entirely of ice–as an attention-grabbing means to promote the Dutch radio station’s “Win a Cayman” sweepstakes.
Danny Pauwels was creative director for The Ideas Unit.
Kato Maes executive produced for Caviar with Bo De Group serving as producer. The DP was Patrick Otten.
Koen Timmerman of Caviar, Brussels, was offline/online editor as well as colorist. The audio post mixer was Yves De Mey of Soniville, Brussels.
SOC HOPS TO HONOR ITS PEERS, SUPPORTERS
The Society of Camera Operators (SOC) will honor its peers, supporters and industry heavyweights at the annual SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Leonard Goldenson Theater of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood on Feb. 21.
The SOC President’s Award will be bestowed upon Mole Richardson executive Larry Mole Parker in recognition of his efforts to support the education of the entering filmmakers and the enduring culture of the members of the SOC.
Longtime member of the SOC and Panavision exec Andy Romanoff is set to receive the Society’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition for his support and hard-working dedication to motion picture camera crews and cinematographers during his professional career.
Honoring the Lifetime Achievements of the following crew members, the SOC will present its “CAMMY” award to: Camera operator Michael Scott, SOC (Donnie Darko, Speed); camera technician Bob Hall (Dark Knight, The Pursuit of Happiness); still photographer Ralph Nelson (Frost/Nixon, Eagle Eye); mobile camera platform operator as helicopter pilot Al Cerullo (Spiderman, I am Legend).
Recognizing Technical Achievement the SOC honors George Paddock, Chris Haarhoff, Mark O’Kane and David Emmerichs of GPI for the PRO Camera Stabilization System.
And Douglas Trumbull will be recognized for his Technical Achievement and awarded for the development of the slit scan photographic process in motion picture photography as featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as well as many other film projects.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS…. Director Steve Carr, whose filmography spans music videos and feature films (including the recently released Paul Blart, Mall Cop starring Kevin James), has joined the commercials roster of Buck Boys Productions, bicoastal and Chicago….McCann Worldgroup San Francisco has named Mike Windsor executive VP, executive director of integrated operations. Windsor will oversee the advertising agency’s technical group as well as its production and studio operations. Windsor will also be charged with evaluating process flow through the agency, working with key stakeholders across the San Francisco units of McCann Erickson, Universal McCann, MRM and Momentum. For the past year, Windsor has been a consultant to McCann Worldgroup. Previously, he was with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Beverly Hills, as head of its corporate consulting practice, working with such clients as Abercrombie & Fitch, Coca-Cola, Hasbro, Procter & Gamble and Starwood Hotels. Prior to that he was president/CEO of Ogilvy Interactive. This was after his tour of duty with Anderson & Lembke. He joined that agency’s San Francisco office in ’94 and in ’97 became global CEO overseeing offices in S.F., New York, Amsterdam and Hong Kong…..
