Pull in Emergency

Just a quick post to let you know that the promo I recently edited for up and coming band Pull In Emergency who are signed to MUTE, is up on the NME site. Take a look and check out their blog. In other news we're doing some more work for the Tate in combination with Grama Film. We'll hopefully be able to post some more info about it soon.

No Soul For Sale

In May the Tate Modern celebrated it's 10th birthday by having an arts fair in the famous turbine hall. Loads of artists from all over the world came down to exhibit. The video we edited and help film is up now on the tate shots site.



We've been doing quite a bit more work through Grama for the tate, and we'll post it up as and when it's done.

Finding time

We've been doing some more work with Grama Media this past week, filming a discussion panel in the turbine hall at the Tate Modern talking about the relevance of public art Nick's cutting it now, and It'll be on line to watch in the near future.

Meanwhile I got round to finally finishing the grade on the video I made for Acer Maple last month. I shot it with Phil Michael Lane at a recording studio in Shoreditch called Treacle, which is a great little location/studio.

Here's the finished version

Acer Maple - 'This is' from matthew scholes on Vimeo.

30

We really are pretty bad at posting updates at the moment. We do have the excuse of working about 30 days straight though (and me having a 30th birthday). We've also been working together through Grama Media on a few projects, which has been good fun. As well as this, I recently directed a live performance promo for Acer Maple which i'm currently grading, hopefully it'll be done in the next week or so, in the meantime here's a little book trailer I recently put together for Picador.



Matt

love at first bite.

hello! so here was something i shot for the doritos competition.

doritos - love at first bite from nick aldridge on Vimeo.

i think matt has been in an edited for about three months, hence his lack of posting. i'm doing another project with ex-offenders starting this week...so might be getting a bit behind with updates myself. nick.

Latest work and a bit of an update.

hello! sorry, we are managing about one post a month. really busy at the moment, been shooting for hsi, a couple of virals and lots of stills commissions for sony.

anyway, here is a link to something we've just filmed and edited a little film celebrating the anniversary of the magazine The Pavement. it is written for the homeless, helping them find services and information on issues affecting their lives. we didn't have any lights for this by the way...which hopefully explains why the interviews look the way they do.

Pavement magazine, 5 year anniversary film from nick aldridge on Vimeo.

(belated) update.

apologies for the lack of posts - we've both been crazily busy, having just shot the Pavement documentary, which we're now editing. We're also starting work on a 'making of' a commercial for HSI very soon.

will keep you updated as and when we can...

What we're up to...

...just finished doing quite a lot of stills work, hence the lack of posts.

we've just been commissioned to shoot a documentary celebrating the anniversary of pavement magazine, a charitable publication for the homeless. should be finished some time in march.

we'll keep you posted (excuse the pun).

Box to box

Quick update. Here's a new video I edited. It's for the new remix of Booka Shade vs M.A.N.D.Y.

Finally

Finally managed to get a chance to post something. Here's a cut down version of an epk I shot in Brighton just before christmas, for the author Peter James, in which he talks about the inspiration and location for his upcoming novel. It was the first chance I've had to test out a dslr to film with. I used a Canon 7D, and am getting another chance to use one of these tomorrow as I'm filming something else for Pan Macmillan.

Untitled from matthew scholes on Vimeo.

what we're working on...

Happy New Year! - we're pretty busy at the moment. We're currently editing a viral we've directed and produced together whilst Matt is also putting the finishing touches to something he's just shot for pan macmillan publishing.

we'll try and keep everybody updated as and when we can...

Seasonal

Apologies for the lack of updates, as everyone tries to get things done and dusted before christmas we've been no different. Nick flew off to Spain yesterday to do some filming, I'm off to Brighton for two days to film an EPK for Peter James' novel, then next week we're both off up north to direct a promotional video for an upcoming online sports game. Between all this we've been writing like mad on a number of potentially really exciting projects, so our christmas break is going to be well earned this year.

Old work

Just a quick note to say that we've put some more of our older work up today, and soon we'll be posting directors cuts of a couple more M&S videos.

Wall of Sound documentary.

Matt and I have been doing some filming for a documentary on the 15 year anniversary of record label Wall of Sound, including performances by Royksopp and Reverand and the Makers. There are also some backstage bits with Ash, Robyn and Steve Lamacq. Should be out in a month or so.

M&S TV sees sales rise by 90%

Following on from our work for M&S TV, a recent article reveals that the 'click through to buy' ratio through the M&S online TV channel are now as high as 30%, with increased sales of some products reaching 90%.

Marks and Spencer's Christmas TV channel goes live

We've just finished directing a series of online videos for Marks and Spencer, which will be featured on their M&S TV channel to launch their 2009 Christmas campaign. The films range from a lingerie buying guide to gift ideas for the kids, and were produced through Adjust Your Set.

About half of the films we made are up on the site now, and the rest will be appearing over the next few weeks, so we'll keep you updated.