Two of the banners that we produced for BBH London / Barnardos won last night in Canne!
(I hope the banners got a lot of champagne).

http://work.canneslions.com/cyber/entry.cfm?entryid=15370 & http://work.canneslions.com/cyber/entry.cfm?entryid=15371

The Jury's definition reads:
”The 2009 Lorens price goes to a producer who has created and been a part of a platform that takes Swedish film to a new level”.

The prize is awarded to Erik Hammendorf for the films ”De ofrivilliga” and ”En enastående studie i mänsklig förnedring”.

The prize, as established by STOPP, consists of the free development of the winning producer's next film which is estimated at a value of 500 000 kronor. The winner will be chosen from a list of 2008 Swedish feature films.
The Jury will be looking for ambitious producers with high economic and artistic vision.

The jury consisted of: Tony Forsberg (Photographer), Petra Ahlin (Editor), Reza Parsa (director), Jesper Bergom-Larsson (producer), Ali Boriri (film lab director and filmmaker).

Stopp Digital Lab will provide our clients with:

* Workflow Supervision
* On-Site Supervision
* Data verification and Safety Archiving of the Data files.
* Transcoding Camera files for Offline
* Transcoding Camera files for Online / Telecine.

The Digital workflow will be supervised by our experienced Colourist for the best quality surveillance.

Edward, Martin, and Eric former Housework will join the Stopp's team. We are also welcoming Ida who will be producer at Stopp Sound.

Integrated campaign: Försvarsmakten post production on the TV Commercial, produced by Camp David.

TV Commercial: Post production IQ produced by MFL.

Internet campaign: Björn Borg, we did the post production for the content produced by Colony Agency Productions Services.

The Lorens Award is so named after the legendary Swedish film producer
Lorens Marmsted.

The aim of the award is to encourage further development of the role of
producer within the Swedish film industry - with special regard to high ambitions
both in financial and artistic terms.

The Lorens Award is to take the form of film laboratory developing for the
producer's next feature production; it is estimated to be worth roughly half
a million Swedish kronor - about fifty-five thousand Euros.

Jurys's satations reads:

For his persevering, creative work in producing the 2007 most exhilarating project.

The jury has decided to present the 2008 Lorens Award to the producer of the
film "Darling" - Fredrik Heinig.

The commercial entitled “The chase” demonstrates how Saab drivers using the BioPower 2.3t engine can enjoy the benefits of increased power and performance while having a greater regard for the environment. Saab is pioneering the use of bioethanol in premium and luxury cars and by driving a car with 85% bioethanol and 15% petrol the driver can reduce fossil fuel based emissions of Co2 by up to 80%. The commercial opens on a moonlit landscape and shows a Saab driving through the forest at night. It cuts to an animal that sees the car and chases it. After a speedy chase through the undergrowth, the animal, which is revealed to be a lynx, is forced to give up while the Saab drives on with the strapline, “Introducing an even more powerful force of nature.”

Gold - Best TV Commercial
Title: "Säg emot"

Silver - Best TV Commercial
Title: "Forever Young"
Title: "Fotbollen"

However, this is no ordinary fashion show as the focus is not on the models but on the phones they are holding. This is achieved by dressing the models in black and having a black background so that the phones stand out brightly against them. The atmosphere is further enhanced by the lighting and music which gives the campaign an overall high-tech feel.

Stopp’s team worked closely with the clients to ensure the end result was an impressive, feature rich, flash animated mini-site. Peter Marin supervised and managed the project, coordinating with the clients every step of the way to build the mini-site from scratch. The team designed a male and female character, the proportions, suit texture and lighting scheme. They had to realistically animate the characters to produce six unique dance moves, one for each phone they represented. They also had to model and shade the six phones so they could be used in high resolution print, the animations and the interactive close-ups in the site. Arvid describes what the job entailed, “The agency contacted two skilled and famous dancers and decided on their moves and poses. We then used a fibre optics-based motion capture system to capture their dances, whilst also filming from different angles with two HD cameras for reference. After importing all motion data into our 3D package Softimage XSI, we collaborated with the skilled editor Johan Wik and ‘shot’ a wide range of angles of the animation inside the 3D software. Johan edited the six animations to the six different styles of music that had been previously determined. After all six edits were approved by the client we proceeded to cleaning up the motion capture data and refine the animations”.

The commercial is part of an extensive campaign and features a model of a Ford Mustang car given pride of place on a shelf in the family’s living room. The car mysteriously continues to grow and the family have to keep moving it until it’s of such enormous proportions they have to drive it away.