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| STYLE - Official Video |
| A 21 day shoot, averaging only 12 seconds a day. Two weeks in Post Production, five full sized sets in freezing East End factories, four different animatronic models of a strange green beetle. Classical actors spending hours on each shot. All this to provide visual accompaniment to a beautifully simple 4 minute track composed on a Stylophone by Orbital. |
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Style
follows the fascinating journey of a beetle through the labyrinthine
interior of an apartment block where he meets the bizarre inhabitants.
The story is by Director Luke Losey, with nods to middle European
cinema, Bagpuss, the novels of George Perec and Franz Kafka and
the films of Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick and Nic Roeg. The promo
stars top Welsh thespian Sian Phillips playing a character who
tries to squash our beetle hero with a rolled up newspaper. Sian
found she had to act at one-twelfth normal speed to get the effect
Luke wanted. Style also features the slow motion acting talents
of veteran Shakespearean actor Leader Hawkins playing the Old
Sea Dog, Nicole Belcher as the Tricycle Girl and Lucy Benson playing
the Prune Lady.
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Co-Director
Jonathon Charles took responsibility for the animation. Jonathon
says "Style gave me the opportunity to experiment with the combination
of ideas. We used elements of traditional stop frame animation
with live action, pixilated human actors, puppeteering and special
effects to achieve a seamless film". Jonathon's previous work
for his production company D Fie Foe include commercials for Wotsits
and Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles and the Orbital promo for "The Saint".
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The
filming technique relied heavily on the expertise of Cinematographer
Jonathon Collinson Bloom, who has worked on short films with the
renowned Brothers Quay and adverts for Nikon among others. Style
was made using a new piece of camera technology which adapts an
Arri 435 movie camera allowing the shutter speeds to be programmed
and varied from stop frame to 300 frames per second. The camera
was a prototype flown over from Canada by Joe Dunton at JDC specifically
for this project.
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Designer
Doriegen Hammond spent several days at the V&A and Natural History
Museums researching the beetle. Having created the design she
then worked closely with model maker, Paul Jomain to construct
the four beetle models (called inevitably John, Paul, George and
Ringo). The beetles are different sizes and each functions in
a different way for different shots. Tim Sykes designed the life
sized sets and stocked them with the most outlandish props. Jes
Benstock the editor at Technobabble had the tricky task of matching
the different beetles in the Avid.
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All
the Post Production was handled by Soho 601, supervised by Post
Producer, Dougal Glanville. Martin Goodwin piloted the Henry and
looked after the online. Advice and help was offered by these
two during their regular set visits, which made the final composite
much more achievable. The promo was graded shot by shot by colourists
Andrew Clarkson and David Hughes.
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