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another example of my professional work i am able to share.
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this is a 30 second commercial for John Deere. it features a new generation of lawn mowers.
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and here is the result:
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the crew consits of the models Linda, Rita, Yasmin, Stefan, Nico, Sven and Gerald.
my assistant was Remi Urbaniak
make-up artist was Lena Gehrig (she’s brilliant, if you need a make-up artist, contact her!!! – www.lenagehrig.com)
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the spot was entirely made with the Canon 7D with various lenses.
i edited it with Avid MC.
the spot was produced by MÜller & Friends GmbH (www.mueller-and-friends.com)
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starting point for the development of the story was the claim “costs less than the neighbours might think”, given by John Deere.
in early february we got a inquiry for the production of a commercial spot. i sat down an worked on a couple of ideas, presented them to John Deere, they liked one of the ideas, i made a storyboard and after five weeks we began with the pre-production.
but in march you cannot find any propper lawn to mow in germany. so the decisin was made, to shoot the spot in southern portugal, at the algarve.
we had only about ten days from the beginning of the model-casting to the first day of two days of shooting. also the location has to be rented. so these were a very stressful and intense days, as you can imagine.
when we arrived at the location, the lawn was as terrible as in germany – dirt with some green blades. so we had to search for a second location for the mowing scenes. luckily we found that second location, but my plan to film over noon to have similar lights and shadows was garbage because after i did my shots on location one we had to transport all the gear to location two and set up the crane and so on. but we managed it quite well.
i filmed with three models this first day and planed to shoot with four other models the next day.
and then came the strike at the frankfurt airport!
the flights back of the models down ther in Portugal were cancelled. also the flight of the models from frankfurt to faro. then they were booked on another flight to lisbon and finally managed it to get one from lisbon to faro and arrived at the hotel at 2 a.m. – without their luggage wich contained also the costumes.
it arrived at about 10.30 on the airport at faro, they informed us at 11.30. meanwhile we’ve tried to buy something for the models, but nothing fits. so they had to drive to the airport to get their luggage – which wasn’t easy and finally arrived at 2 p.m. at the set where is was able to begin shooting at 2.45. that means about four hours of daylight left! what followed was a race against time to get everything done. but we also managed that.
a huge thank to my team! they were brilliant!
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here are some fotos of the location and the production:
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the villa
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the pool – you can see the poor lawn at this location
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the garden
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Lena at work
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Nico and Remi, my ac
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everybody liked to drive the lawn mower!
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hope you like it!
tom

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