The Film Strip Blog
Film releases, awards, news and comment from Rubberductions - get it here first
Prisoner of Love
Posted 26/08/08
We're busy brewing up some new work. But in the meantime, this just came through on the C21 newswire:
"Love is on the air for Holland's ex-convicts.
Dutch pubcaster Avro has greenlit Prisoner of Love, a controversial reality show in which women go on blind dates with newly-released criminals - not knowing what crime they were jailed for."
Check that out! That's like something we'd have written as a joke! The future is scarier than the past, and not only because its infront of us and we can worry our stupid little heads about it. Also because it involves prisoner love-ins.
'The Harvest' launches...
Posted 04/07/08
Our latest little film - The Harvest - has launched. Documenting the production process of a South West based Creative Farm, the film was shot for the South West Creative Growers Association through sister agency RubberRepublic . Its another of our occasional but historically very successful forays into factual programming.
New Sony Promo live
Posted 26/06/08
Following on from our award winning Sony Playstation 2 promo last year, we've just finished a second global promo for the same Buzz game series, this time on the PSP. The film revisits the concept of the previous promo, but slaps a garden location into the mix. Watch the Buzz PSP promo here
Sustrans "Change Your World" promo
Posted 23/06/08
We've whipped up an animation to support cycling charity Sustrans' "Change Your World" campaign which is live now! Sustrans aim is to get people to swap one car journey in the first week of July for a more environmentally friendly form of transport (cycling, walking, public transport etc). For more information on the change your world campaign click here . To see our animation click here.
Second Pint Shot Riot music video complete
Posted 20/06/08
The second promo for Pint Shot Riot's new single Start Digging is now up. The video was shot in North West London, directed by Matt Golding, and produced by the marvellous Jess at our friends Between The Eyes.
IVCA Win
Posted 05/04/08
Rubberductions picked up a Silver award at the IVCA's last night for our Sony Playstation 2 promo. The award was in the "Sales of Products and Services" category and we attended with our production partners on the job from Between The Eyes & Prime Focus. Thanks to all who worked on the film!
Microsoft Windows Vista films live
Posted 04/04/08
The films we shot for Bristol digital agency Mason Zimbler for the new Microsoft Windows Vista site are now live. They require Silverlight to view on the site. We'll post quicktimes on the site here very soon.
Comedy Series passes 3 million views
Posted 04/04/08
The Kensington Report films we made for Heavy.com have recently passed 3 million views, which is great! Watch The Kensingston Report here.
Microsoft Web Films
Posted 24/01/08
Rubberductions are in the midst of post production on a large Microsoft web promo, featuring Windows Vista and Windows Live, for Bristol-based digital agency Mason Zimbler. The project was shot on a variety of High Def cameras during a four day shoot just before the Christmas break. The result will be a music driven, multiple character storyline based website - in Microsoft's new Silverlight web video software - with Ferrari driving action. The website will be live in early March.
Video feeds for blogs
Posted 07/01/08
Time and again we get asked this question: why would bloggers want to show videos from viral marketing campaigns to their users? The explosion in use of video feeds for blogs, and the ease with which it can be done, has shown that there is an enormous appetite for this online content as it represents a free and entertaining way of showing relevant content to readers and using films created specifically for viral marketing campaigns is an extension of this. Often the content is of a high quality, and is designed to engage and entertain people. Additionally, in this world of Web 2.0, lots of viral content is designed to integrate into your site design seamlessly and work in partnership with the main social network sites. With such good content available so readily, the question is: why wouldn't bloggers want to use viral marketing films to engage their readers?
Short Film in final of Eurostar Film Festival
Posted 06/12/07
Oedipus - the BBC award winning short film by directing collective RONG - co-produced by Rubberductions - has reached the final ten of the Eurostar Film Festival. The finalists are all top short films that we've seen on the circuit previously as winners of numerous other festivals - so we're pleased to be a part of such a stellar line up. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Paris tonight which one of our production team is attending.