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Fashion, films and camping

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

It’s been a busy month at Creative Nation, who said August was quiet???

This week sees us in post-production of our promo for up and coming fashion label e.g fashion. We had a fabulous day shooting their beautiful clothes alongside some beautiful people and are very excited to share this with you next time!

We have also had the pleasure of contributing to Jack Bond’s film ‘Waiting for Charlotte’ which is to be screened for the first time on French Cinema channel Cinemoi this coming weekend with several scheduled repeats.

The film sees Charlotte catching up with her old friend Jack Bond (Director, Separation, 1967) on a beautiful spring day in Paris. They discuss her love of French cinema, her films including Georgy Girl, The Swimming Pool, The Damned and The Night Porter, whilst taking in the sights of Paris from the Jardin de Luxembourg to sunset over the Seine. It is a truly beautiful and intimate portrayal of one of our finest actresses.

Creative Nation provided the sparkle with the colour grading and sound mix. You can watch the trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7GFzEoS2jU

We have also been creating a Brand I.D for a music events and promotions company and meeting all kinds of talented and wonderful people and companies with plenty of exciting collaborations and projects on the horizon! We are also compiling recent projects for our new showreel which we will introduce shortly.

It’s no wonder that we also needed some R&R and so decamped for 3 days to the beautiful Graig Wen B&B and campsite in Snowdonia (www.graigwen.co.uk). We spent a night under the stars in a beautiful bell tent, falling asleep to a lullaby provided by owls, waking to the hills and the Mawddach Estuary. We ate breakfast with a woodpecker and went exploring the wonderful Portmerion (backdrop for The Prisoner), part folly, part idyllic seaside town. Night 2 saw us move into the 4 star B&B, where we enjoyed the incredible views from our rooms, the luscious baths with champers in hand and the most blissful night’s sleep. If you love your outdoors with some luxury and glamour thrown in, we cannot recommend it enough!

Until next time, enjoy the sunshine!

Summertime!?!

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Hello from aboard the good Ship HMS President, which is currently rocking in the torrential rain, although we have also been enjoying lovely sunny evenings on deck this month, oh, and hailstones!

In spite of the changeable weather, since our last blog we have busy with a diverse range of clients and projects including;

•    preparing to shoot a promo for our new friends at e.g fashion who are an up and coming fashion label,  with gorgeous clothes which are designed and made in London! We have produced the creative, crewed the project and are shooting in August… watch this space!
•    preparing a post production team for an absolutely stunning documentary film that is heading to the Sundance Film Festival, more on this next month…..
•    we have completed an internal communications project for Aegis Media which entailed our filming workshop and training activities, then making the content globally available online for their staff and clients, all within 48 hours!
•    creating branding assets for a groovy bespoke events company…. And much more!

We feel the tide is turning (this may be literal, being as we are on the Thames?!?) and in our conversations with broadcasters, agencies and companies out there we are finding lots to be positive about! We have even succumbed to twitter, although not obsessively yet- find us at www.twitter.com/creativenation.

As ever, we have also been engaging in fun and games. Many of you will have already had a giggle at the promo we made with The Gents in support of and making maximum use of The Street Pianos Project. The guys were such a success that we were invited by our friends at Sing London to join in the grand finale. The pianos were literally being taken from the streets of London, and it was pouring with rain, but we had an amazing time! See the promo here…

Our favourite find this month was the eternal moonwalk project in memory of Michael Jackson. We feel this represents all that is lovely about the fact that anyone can make short films now, and that the internet enables us to share them with the world. Check it out at www.eternalmoonwalk.com and see if you can find our contribution, although they chopped the best bit off, we forgive them as it’s such a beautiful thing!
Happy Summertime!