Launched today at the Frankfurt Motor Show – The New Bentley Continental GTC

Launch film for the new Bentley GTC. Produced & Directed by mustard-berlin

The new Bentley Continental GTC offers a seductive combination of performance, style and exclusivity.

The Continental GTC represents a new pinnacle for the marque: it has been sharpened, refined and rethought in every detail. The result is a convertible sports car that offers supercar levels of performance together with luxurious accommodation for four people.

Martin Bennett and Stephen French just produced and directed a film project for Ford with agency The Blue Hive (AD Nick Hearne). The film shows of the new re-designed Ford Transit.

We shot the film over 5 days in and around London, Ramsgate and the wonderful Pinewood studios. This film tells the story of lighting engineer ‘Dave’ and his latest big project.  The film was shot on RED One MX and also on the Canon 5D MKII. In some instance we shot with a three 5D MKII cameras. The lenses were all Canon L series primes. 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm. The DOP was Dave Tree, with Simon Kennedy operating as 2nd unit and 1st unit assistant. Movement was brought to the piece by use of a Kessler cineslider and our superb Camera car  / Scorpion Crane team. Our Jimmy Jib material was superbly shot by Arun Taylor.

The lighting rig was supplied by Simon Alderman and his great team at Neg Earth Ltd.
The soundtrack was an original composition by Paul Stoney & Joel Cadbury and edited at Redworks, London by Russ Clapham.

Check out the film in the Media Gallery

Client: Ford, Europe
Agency: Blue Hive, London
Creative Direction: Richard Last
Copywriter: Peter West
Art Direction: Nick Hearne
Agency Producer: Yvette Colegrave

Production Company: mustard-berlin
Directors: Stephen French & Martin Bennett
DOP: Dave Tree
Composers: Paul Stoney & Joel Cadbury
2nd Unit DOP: Simon Kennedy
Editor: Russ Clapham
Set Art Director: Harry Pain
Hair & Make Up Designer: Tina French
Stylist: Lisa Payne

Post Production: Redworks

mustard-berlin are in the post-production phase of producing and directing a commercial for Wunderman & Ford. (CD Richard Last, AD Nick Hearne, CW Simon Kirkham)

We filmed on location in Brighton, at the Royal Pavilion and down on the sea front by the newly renovated Bandstand. We then relocated to the beautiful beach at West Wittering for a final shot at sunset. We had a great crew onboard for this project, were blessed with perfect shooting conditions and light so were totally over the moon as the footage is looking amazing!

The lighting setups were different at each location but Dave Tree, our DP used a mixture of daylight, Arri 2.5k MSR’s, bounce boards and black flags at each location. We filmed using the Canon 5D mkII at 25fps for beautiful HD images. For the final shot at West Wittering we utilised a Jimmy Jib from Joe MacNally operated superbly by Arun Taylor.

We’ll upload the final film in the near future so check our media gallery in the coming weeks.

UPDATE:

The Fiesta Facebook Hack version of the commercial is now on line. Click here to check it out.

mustard-berlin is producing and directing another project for Wunderman & Ford over at Park Royal Studios in North London. The project is a stills campaign for internet and print featuring the new Ford Galaxy. The campaign tag line is “First Class Travel”. Were shooting in collaboration with car photographer Graham Thorp. It’s a 3 day studio shoot and we will be lighting with a  mixture of flash and tungsten. Shooting on the Canon D1s mkII.

The hero shots from the campaign are being shot as lots of separate elements that will be brought together in post-production by Kai at The Operators.

We’ll upload the final photography in the near future so check our media gallery in the coming weeks.

UPDATE: The photos from the Galaxy shoot are now online. You can view them online on the Ford UK site or here as a slideshow.

Advertising photography for the short film “Twilight” directed by Marc Wilkins. Photography by Martin Bennett

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