Seljan Nasibli on Stingray CMusic

We are thrilled to see the interview and sessions Other Brother Studios filmed with Azerbaijani opera star Seljan Nasibli are up on Stingray CMusic now.

Celebrating Women’s History Month this March, Seljan talks to CMusic about her exciting album ‘Femmes Fatales - Soprano Heroines from the Orient’, her musical inspirations and much more.

'Quando m'en vo' from her album 'Femmes Fatales - Soprano Heroines from the Orient' (Naxos Records). Accompanied by Nico de Villiers on piano.

Puccini's 'Tu, che di gel sei cinta' from Turandot, accompanied by Nico de Villiers on piano.

Other Brother Studios is 5 years old!

Other Brother Studios is 5 years old!

Many thanks to all our clients, crew, cast, film fund applicants and winners, friends and audience for 5 fabulous years of filmmaking fun! Here are a few of our favourite projects.

Rich Webb - Let It Rain (Music Video, 2018)

The Song of Wandering Aengus (Short Film, 2017)

Lego Time-lapse (2018)






Hello 2021

Well here we are, it’s 2021!

We are looking forward to lots of exciting projects this year, with brilliant collaborators. Here’s our new showreel with some recent work sprinkled in for good measure.

If you see something you like, get in touch!

Let’s do this!


Honeywell Infant & Junior Schools

Another shoot with School Reel, this time at Honeywell Infant & Junior Schools in Battersea. Here’s Andrew with his best attempt at a subtle pose:

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We shot the film on the Ursa Mini Pro. Here is the film, edited by Andrew:





New work: Ridgeview Wine with Yesmore

YesMore Wine Marketing Agency developed a 'Bring Celebration Home' campaign for Ridgeview Wine to increase awareness of English sparkling wine for celebrations, and they asked Other Brother Studios to produce the videos. Created remotely during the second UK lockdown with a crew of 1 and a cast of 18, it was a challenge thinking up ways to film with such restrictive measures, but we worked it out and had a blast making 4x celebration videos.

RIDGEVIEW WINE - BRING CELEBRATION HOME

 

CAST

Jezz Archer, Katharine Archer, Paula Lindblom, Alice Lawrence, JJ + Justine, Phoenix Finlayson-Pugh, Jet Tu, William Derrick, Harriet Hodgson, Megan Monaghan Dickson, Sophie Hughes, Joe Bulmer, Sam, Cara, Chenoa Finlayson-Pugh, Simon Bloch, Matthew Lawes Wickwar, Jezz and Katharine’s dog.

 

CREW

Directed / Produced / Edited by Matthew Lawes Wickwar

Creative Harry Holgate

Agency Yesmore, Tom Harvey and Jessica Shirling

Client Ridgeview Wine, Mardi Roberts and Jemma Montuschi

We're in the news...

Our latest project for Ridgeview Wine with Yesmore Wine Marketing Agency is in the news!

Yesmore developed a 'Bring Celebration Home' campaign for Ridgeview Wine to increase awareness of English sparkling wine for celebrations, and they asked Other Brother Studios to produce the videos. Created remotely during the second UK lockdown with a crew of 1 and a cast of 18, it was a challenge thinking up ways to film with such restrictive measures, but we worked it out and had a blast making 4x celebration videos.

🎥 You can watch the 4x videos in a playlist here: https://lnkd.in/d4tYjby

It’s lovely to see this campaign getting attention. Click on the images below to read the full articles.

A busy Autumn

Whilst Summer this year was quiet due to COVID, Autumn proved to be quite the opposite!

Adopting APA Shooting guidelines, we have been able to instil confidence with clients on location, making sure that we are filming safely to a high standard. It helps that we are a small production company and can utilise smaller crews.

One of our favourite shoots was a TV promo with Seljan Nasibli, a Soprano opera singer, who we filmed with Stingray Music in St Pauls Church in Chiswick. It was such a delight filming live music again, especially after lockdown. Seljan was accompanied by pianist Nico De Villiers.

Strictly following APA guidelines for COVID shooting, we kept the crew to a minimum of just 3!

The film is currently in the edit suite with Stingray. Below are a few graded stills from the shoot. Thank you Stingray for getting us involved, and Seljan for your incredible performance.

A very exciting project for Other Brother Studios, has been a gigantic edit for our good friend Tommy Oswin Williams that we have been working on this year. Tommy climbed Aconcagua last summer and documented the trip. The mountain stands at 6,961 metres in the Andes mountain range in Mendoza Province in Argentina. It has been amazing to sit through all of his incredible footage and craft together a film worthy of his experience. Here are a few stills from the edit:

Our latest project for Ridgeview Wine with Yesmore Wine Marketing Agency was created completely remotely during the second lockdown. We ‘shot’ 4x celebration moments with 20 participants, from the comfort of their own homes. The videos were recorded by the participants on their phones and directed over Zoom and Skype! The clips were sent to us and then edited our side. A first for Other Brother Studios, but a great experience! With a happy client and agency we are very much looking forward to those videos being released soon.

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We have also had a fantastic time shooting with Andrew Mills over at School Reel, who we have been working with for 4 years now! School Reel makes promotional films for schools and whilst the pandemic certainly threw up something interesting challenges on set, we have been able to film safely in lots of schools, still to a really high standard. It’s been lovely to shoot this autumn at Honeywell School in Clapham, The Cumberland School in Newham, and Hornsey School for Girls in Crouch End. Firstly some BTS photos, followed by graded stills from the films.

Other Brother Studios Film Fund winner 2020

We can announce the winner of Other Brother Studios Film Fund 2020 is SLICE RIGHT.

SLICE RIGHT written by Georgia Clarke-Day and Ruby Bentall tells the story of two friends who accidentally, and unfortunately, murder an internet date and need to clean the blood off their beloved taxidermy cat. Oh, and get rid of the body.

Congratulations to the team! It was a brilliant pitch with a superbly written script. We are thrilled to support your film!

SLICE RIGHT will be directed by Sara Joyce and produced by David Frias-Robles of Myriad Entertainment, Alexandra Agoshkova and Syd Heather.

Pre-Production is underway, with production currently planned for January 2021.

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Escort nominated at the 2020 L.I.M.P.A awards.

Other Brother Studios funded film Escort, directed by Gyulyara Meliki has been nominated at the 2020 L.I.M.P.A Awards. Escort is nominated for ‘Best Fiction Short Film’.

This nomination comes off the back of a growing list of festival selections and award nominations for Gyulyara’s short, including:

  • 2020 London Lift-Off Film Festival

  • BAFTA qualifying 2020 Carmarthen Bay Film Festival

  • 2020 Russian International Horror Film Awards

  • Arkie Reece Best Actor nominee 2020 Annual Movie Awards

  • 2020 Unrestricted view Film Festival

  • 2020 New York Lift-Off Film Festival

  • 2020 BELIFF - Be Epic! Film Fest London

  • 2020 British Urban Film Festival

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Filmmaking training

Occasionally we run training days with budding filmmakers, wishing to learn the basics or expand their knowledge with production and post-production.

A lovely couple of days were spent with Jess covering camera basics and lenses, lighting and sound recording. These skills were then integrated into a classic interview setup and b-roll shoot in Greenwich Park. We also covered post-production grading.

Get in touch with us if you need some training, we cover all bases and disciplines from beginner to professional standard.

Seljan Nasibli

We were asked by Stingray Music to film a TV promo for soprano Seljan Nasibli in a St Paul’s Church in Chiswick, London. It was such a delight filming live music again, especially after lockdown. Seljan was accompanied by pianist Nico De Villiers.

Strictly following APA guidelines for COVID shooting, we kept the crew to a minimum. Thankfully we had plenty of time to setup for the session and interview as we brought a lot of equipment! Matthew was on DOP duties - camera wise we brought 2x C300mkii’s with a set of C-NE primes. Louis was gaffer - lighting wise we had an ARRI M18 1.8k HMI pointed through a silk with negative fill to shape the shadows, a junior boom for a Dedo hair light and 4 or 5 other Dedo’s placed as backlights for Seljan and Nico or as backdrop lighting for the church. Additionally we used our Rayzr7 300 bi-colour when we shot the interview part, as we wanted something more intimate with the lighting. Sound wise, Joe brought his incredible new setup, the mix has never sounded so good!

The film is currently in the edit suite with Stingray. Here are a few stills from the shoot.

Thank you Stingray for getting us involved, and Seljan for your incredible performance.





Hornsey School for Girls

Another school shoot, this time with Hornsey School for Girls in Crouch End.

BTS shots, with the C300mkii, Rayzr7 300 bi colour and flag kit:

And some graded images:



The Cumberland School

We had a great time filming with The Cumberland School in Newham, London.

Here are some BTS images of the interview setup using our Rayzr-7 300 Bi-colour LED fresnal and various silks and negative fill to shape the light.

And some final graded images from the shoot:

New Other Brother Studios Ident

So pleased to share the new Other Brother Studios ident with the world!

🖥Animated by our long time collaborator, the amazing, talented Chloe Rodham.

🎵 Music by Joe Bulmer & Matthew Lawes Wickwar at City Sessions Studio.

Can’t wait to get this on the big screen, hopefully at a cinema near you soon! 🍿 🎥

New work: Forget-Me-Not Visitors

Forget-me-not Visitors work with people living with dementia in a medical setting. 

Suffolk Artlink’s Forget-me-not Visitors are professional artists who pay regular visits to older patients at West Suffolk Hospital.  Through the use of music, poetry, reminiscence and sensory resources, the Forget-me-not Visitors help patients to relax in an unfamiliar setting, easing fear and confusion.

600,000 views in 24 hours for LEGO time-lapse video.

We created a time-lapse video of Tommy Oswin Williams building the Tower Bridge LEGO set in front of the real Tower Bridge.

LEGO thought it was so good they hosted it on their Instagram and Facebook channels on Thursday. In 24 hours the video gained over 600,000 views!

New work: Roundhouse Studios re-edits

Back in 2013, Other Brother Studios were commissioned to create an animated fly-through of the Roundhouse Studios in Camden. That video has been used ever since, playing on all the screens around the Roundhouse, both in the 11-25s studio as well as the main space.

Recently we were asked to revisit the videos to provide two cut-down edits with fresh music, to better suit the Roundhouse’s current social media channels.

30 second edit:

60 second edit: