Thor, who is represented in the U.S. by www.madheart.com.>Madheart, has directed a new spot for Czech car maker Škoda and Leagas Delaney, Hamburg, in which a couple goes on a fantastic drive through an urban jungle. The spot, produced by Germany’s TempoMedia with production support in Madrid from The Mamma Team, shows the couple behind the wheel of a Yeti on a city street. When the woman presses the car’s off-road button, the environment around them is magically transformed with a waterfall cascading down the side of a building, tropical birds filling the air and ghostly elephants blocking a street. Another touch of the button makes the wild apparitions disappear.nnThe spot features a highly unusual and difficult to pull of blend of live action and 3D projections. For Thor, the compressed shooting scheduled was challenging due to the number of plates that needed to be shot for visual effects purposes. The production was further complicated by the arrival of a violent storm, but Thor took it all in stride. “We were running two units, one for principal photography and one for the car shots,” he recalls. “I was setting up shots on the fly while running between the two units and dealing with small issues like the windows of our camera car fogging up in the pouring rain.”nnVisual effects for the tour-de-force piece were performed by London’s Absolute.nn
nnwww.madheart.com.>Madheart is based in Los Angeles. For further information, call 213.995.4555 or visit www.madheart.com. The company is represented on the West Coast by Lisa Gimenez Toliver (lisa@lisareps.com), Catherine DeAngelis (Hot Betty) in the Midwest (cat@hot-betty.com) and Dana Dubay on the East Coast (dana@dubay.tv). nnCreditsnTitle: ProjectionsnProduct: ŠkodanAgency: Leagas Delaney, Hamburg. Hermann Waterkamp, executive creative director; Patrick Plogstedt, producer; Florian Schimmer and Michael Götz, creative directors. nProduction: TempoMedia, FrankfurtnDirector: Thor nDirector of photography: Baldur EythorssonnPost: Absolute, London.Lisa Phillips www.madheart.com.>Madheart Executive Producer 213 995 4555 Contact Lisa via email
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Goldcrest Post Speeds Delivery of “Severance” Season Two
The New York Times recently wrote that the just-released Season Two of Severance will “blow your mind”—and we couldn’t agree more. Created by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller, the Apple TV+ drama is smart, spellbinding, distinctly original and packed with surprises. For those who aren’t already devoted fans, the show centers on Mark Scout (Adam Scott), leader of a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a “severance” procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. Goldcrest Post provided post services for both seasons of the show, including picture editorial support, sound editorial, ADR and sound mixing. Editorial for Season One began in 2020. Due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, Goldcrest supplied both onsite production offices and edit suites, and remote editing systems for individual editors, with everything linked to a central server. "Mixing at Goldcrest with our team has been a great experience,” says Stiller. “Bob and Jacob are in sync with our creative process and so good at what they do that the experience is always one where it's about how we can enhance the creative vision, with a baseline of knowing everyone is totally committed to making something as good as it can be." Diana Dekajlo, the show’s co-producer, says that the arrangement worked so well, they chose to continue the hybrid approach for Season Two. “We’re a remote friendly show,” she explains. “Whether we’re at Goldcrest, our studio in the Bronx or at home, our workflow is seamless. I conduct remote daily meetings with my immediate staff, and weekly meetings with editorial and VFX, and we talk to each other as if we were just down the hall. It makes for great staff... Read More