Bright Shadow Films

Just got back from a massive shoot at the Cannes film festival but there is no time to relax as it’s none stop with another big shoot in Shanghai.  But what an experience Cannes was seeing it all through the camera lense on the front line rather than through photographs and TV screens. We were producing a number of commercial videos for one of our major clients, which had to be uploaded every day during the festival. The Flip cam (http://www.theflip.com/en-us/) was a lifesaver – its what they use to get the outside car shots in Top Gear and it worked wonders on the red carpet to get even closer than the big HD cams can get from the sidelines making our videos as good as if you had been there yourself.

Its amazing what you can see when you are part of the TV press.  We had many funny moments for example when Clovis Cornillac came on the carpet with his girlfriend. After posing for the first wave of press he made the mistake of giving his partner a small peck on the cheek. After that the photographers went wild every new set he would approach they would scream “the kiss, THE KISS!” So he was forced to put on a show for the raucous crowd with each new clinch getting steamier and steamier until at the top of the stairs his response to what had almost become a chant – “the kiss, the kiss, THE KISS,” he took his girlfriend in his arms, leaned her right back and gave a true Hollywood kiss on those iconic steps of Cannes, the press and I imagine his girlfriend loved it!

There were embarrassing moments though for example when Aishwarya Rai took to the carpet, the photographers geared up for a photo frenzy but just as she was posing two women cut in front, not seeing the Indian beauty posing for the flashing camera.  Assuming the photographers wanted to take their picture they stopped and gave their best Hollywood dazzle only to have the photographers scream “get out the way!” Turning they spotted Aishwarya standing patiently behind them – there were two very red faces as they scuttled away.

I also never realized just how tiring it is for the cameramen who are responsible for all that equipment.  I have often seen them slouched on the sidelines, sitting on the steps in their tux and I have to say I used to think how awful that looked but having experienced it first hand I can tell you after hours in the heat with that heavy equipment you rest when you can.

Anyway it really was a great experience and we got some amazing shots, talent looked stunning and the client was very happy – so we look forward to next years festival but now its back to Shanghai to shoot with an army of extras on the biggest stage the city can offer and believe me in China we are talking massive!!!  More of that to come…

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• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• We are hiring!

We are growing a little bit, so we are looking for more people to join us for 2011!

Position: Office Administrator
1) He/She speaks&understand good English.
2) Experience in Chinese accounting, at least 2 years
3) Patient, nice personality

Position: Camera man for News Channel

1)He speaks&Understand English,

2) Experience in operating the HDV camera,

3) Experience in news before

4) Familiar with the Video editing in FCP

Drop your resume here: clark@brightshadowfilms.com

• A new look
• Foosball in the Office Now!
• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• Bright Shadow does Cannes

Hey everyone, it’s been a great year, Shanghai had a 3 hours snow session this year which is actually rare. It’s a good sign for the next year according to the Chinese tradition.

We hope all of our clients, friends, have a great Christmas and happy new year, regardless the business interest or any commerical interest, we only wish that all of you can have a good health, good fortune next year!

• A new look
• Foosball in the Office Now!
• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• We are hiring!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• Bright Shadow does Cannes

It’s finally a wrap for EXPO, after 6 months of crowds flooding in the EXPO playground, this event made the record of EXPO history.

Yet, we are busy in the EXPO too, did we tell you we were working on Canada, Belgium, Mexico, Chile, Iran pavilion as well?Apart from the Chile pavilion’s background music support, we also provide the rest pavilion with their videos and some of the event coverage work.

Enough Expo for now, we had a shooting which sent Clark, Diana, Charlie to three different cities in one day, and finished in 2 days, Clark was sent to Shenzhen for a shooting in one day, Diana was sent to Vietnam, Charlie was sent to HK and then Japan.

You wanna get a idea of what’s it like? Diana shot a travelling video for this trip during her time in Vietnam, and it is right here:

In the end, we managed to finished a 4 cities shooting in 3 days, sounds crazy huh?

Continue with the Clark’s documentary project, he did his 15 days documentary shooting with a foreign crew in Beijing, Xining, Golmod(West bay, Wu Dao Liang, Tuo Tuo River etc), high altitude and poor facility made this trip a rough shooting, but eventually crew finished everything successfully.

Here are some pics taken during the trip by Clark and it’s got some clicks on Flickr!

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• Foosball in the Office Now!
• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
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• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• We are hiring!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• Bright Shadow does Cannes

It’s been a while since last post from us, we know and now we gonna change this.

Clark our production guy has been to Lhasa for a project for 11 days now, not like any other place in China, Lhasa got the high altitude and different culture, he is going to be there for another week, if you keen to see what’s going on in Lhasa, Clark is updating his Flickr nearly everyday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuntium/

Holidays in Sep is wild, Middle Moon Festival, National Holiday really make everybody in the office excited, can’t really say if it’s a great thing for our client, but hey, we still on demand for your job!
One great news that our accountant Stella is getting married in National Holiday, so great wishes to her and her husband!

EXPO is coming to and end next month, but well, we are still busy with some clients in the EXPO, we got some great goodies to show you after it’s finished, so stick around!

• A new look
• Foosball in the Office Now!
• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• We are hiring!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Bright Shadow does Cannes

Ever since Sony says HD gonna take over the place for Film, the production industry has been focus on the “film” replacement camera.

Red One is popular, 5D MARK II is popular, Sony hasn’t been able to offer a decent solution for the same level of camcoder, now they have one: SONY NEX- VG10.

It’s pretty impressive when you see the tech info:

interchangeable-lens video camera; 1920-by-1080 AVCHD video capture; 24mbps bit rate for video capture; Exmor APS HD CMOS; E-Mount lenses; 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 zoom lens; 1.5X focal length; 14-megapixel still images and offers a 7-frame-per-second burst mode; 97x132x294mm; 1.3kg

The E-Mount Lenses thingy allows you to use the Sony DSLR camera lense and fit on the camera, so you can simply create those nice effect for a more reasonable price.

What do you think of the future would be then? Tell us what’s the best camera you like to use and what’s the best thing about it.

Check out the comparison video here:

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• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• We are hiring!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Bright Shadow does Cannes

Today by some accident, Bright Shadow Films got mentioned in a high school examing test, this is funny and nobody really knows why this could happen…..

Isn’t it cool?

You can find the original link here

• A new look
• Foosball in the Office Now!
• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• We are hiring!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Bright Shadow does Cannes

Our website hasn’t been updated for a while, thanks for the great work of everybody in the office, now we are one step away from the new website online, the new website looks neat and nice, moreover it’s going to provide more infomation to our dear visitors.

In the new website we are going to focus on the following parts:

1) The business range we focus on

2) Showreel page, Yeah!

3) News Update

4) Solution of different end clients

5) Company&Staff Bio

etc

Did you know our website is based on CSS? It’s truly a difficult language for a beginner, but the page it creates is great.

Here is a pic of the draft.

• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• Foosball in the Office Now!
• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• We are hiring!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Bright Shadow does Cannes

It might be a surprise for you but honestly it was a surprise for all of us, one of our client decided to give us this foosball table in the studio, we managed to get everybody in the office have some fun, what else? A box of beer!

Thanks for Ying and Heinken, now in the studio, you can find two teams already: Bright Shadow Films VS Simply Sound studio.

Bright Shadow Films VS Simply Sound Studio

• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• A new look
• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• We are hiring!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Bright Shadow does Cannes

It might has nothing to do with the company but it’s still cool because it was did by me, I went to Beijing with the NIKE 6.0 BMX crew for two days, did some filming about it as well.

Beijing is called the center of film&art, most expats there enjoy the Chinese culture and old Beijing enviroment, with the Olympics, the government is trying to refresh this city with some new elements, it does make this city much cooler.

Here is a video made by me two days ago about the BMX trip.

• Bright Shadow Films is now in High School Examing system
• A new look
• Foosball in the Office Now!
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• New Sony NEX-VG10 Rules!
• Lhasa, Holidays, EXPO
• We are hiring!
• Merry Christmas Everyone!
• Oh, A Busy October!
• Bright Shadow does Cannes