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Syndicate 2019 Showreel.

Nice glimpse into a bright future Bjorn, congrats!!
 
Great job, Bjorn! I just have to know, though... what happens to the woman who turned on the fan?!
 
Thanks guys.

To me the coolest thing with this reel is the music.

Crazy little story, a few years back I gave my brother in law my old macbook and a usb guitar hero guitar to go with it for his 16th birthday. He did not really have any interest in music prior to that but, he looked happy about the gift.

Then when I met him like 3 weeks later, he had got himself a drumset and a real guitar and had some questions about the garageband app, I could not help him much as I have no knowledge of making music or any of that stuff. Anyway, a few months later. He tells me he decided to drop out of school and become a music producer. I tried to explain that a highschool diploma could be good thing to have even for people working with music but he did not listen to that and dropped out of school and started to build his little sound studio in his boyroom... I was like shit, what did I do. But now a couple of years later he has his own record contract and are producing songs for lots of different artists and scores for commercials I make and is on a roll, puts tunes like this together like it was nothing.

I´m like, - how did you learn to play piano? He, - looked on youtube... The Kid got talent. no doubt. :)
 
BrendanLeahy said:
Great job, Bjorn! I just have to know, though... what happens to the woman who turned on the fan?!
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I dont know...It was a strange film. She's on some sort of mysteryhunt for some scented glade candles. We decided to shoot those scenes dry for wet to make it look more strange. Possibly not the best of decisions. :)

https://vimeo.com/313341405

 
Bjorn,

You helped your brother find his "True Calling", some people are just naturally gifted. Loved the colors in the Glades commercial as well, what Red sensor, if any, did you shoot this with if I may ask?
 
rand thompson said:
Bjorn,

You helped your brother find his "True Calling", some people are just naturally gifted. Loved the colors in the Glades commercial as well, what Red sensor, if any, did you shoot this with if I may ask?
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Glade they shot on two alexas. A mini and a XT with cookes lenses if I remember correctly. But loads of the backgrounds are VFX set extensions built from plates that I shot on dragon with a Canon EF zoom, so quite a mix, most pictures are not one camera. Also the grade was a hellrace done in resolve and flame with agency people flying in from Chicago and poking colors around for something like a week and a half.
 
Thanks Bjorn for the detailed explanation! Damn! you can never really tell what goes into making a image look the way that it does.
 
Great stuff, Bjorn. Question: the "Michael Kors" video, what sensor, lens and lights were used?
 
Morgan Ryan said:
Great stuff, Bjorn. Question: the "Michael Kors" video, what sensor, lens and lights were used?
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https://vimeo.com/313347235

It was DP:ed by Daniel Landin with two alexas and the mid part with the flares etc was uncoated pancros if I remember correctly and lots of red filtered light in some built up red mirror box kind of set.

The packshot I shot with Helium in my flame suite while doing the post.
 
Björn Benckert said:
I dont know...It was a strange film. She's on some sort of mysteryhunt for some scented glade candles. We decided to shoot those scenes dry for wet to make it look more strange. Possibly not the best of decisions. :)

https://vimeo.com/313341405

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Bjorn how much of this is practical? And how many environments did you guys make? Honestly, it's hard to tell (kudos to you).
 
Nick Morrison said:
Bjorn how much of this is practical? And how many environments did you guys make? Honestly, it's hard to tell (kudos to you).
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The white corridor was like 5 door long and no ceiling.
All rooms where shot on location in Prage. The forrest room, water room and cloud room was actually on location in a castle in Prag, but but dressed up like crazy. SFX tree trunks in styrofoam carried up to like the third floor, walls repainted floors filled with like a meter of mud gravel and moss. The cloud room was a painted pink, it was an old church. we made the room bigger and taller in post the girl was jumping on construction scaffoldings and the clouds where actually built like gigantic cotton clouds shot as separate layers with helium in the same light and then animated to get movement in post. Water room was also redecorated but in the end almost all of that room is 3D projected reworked texture maps for the background as the girl could not really hang in the crane where we wanted her to be. So those backgrounds are also helium mapped plates and she is masked out and inserted onto those plates together with water EFX cg work.

The upside down stuff was shot in a university in Prage. And there we shot plates to extend the set with additional floors and set extensions to simply make it look more grand then it actually was.


The forest we later reused with the same director for this H&M Christmas campaign, where they made even more tree trunks and we used them against bluescreen.

https://vimeo.com/313342861

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[/url]image by Björn Benckert, on Flickr[/IMG]

more info: http://www.syndicate.se/hm-2017-christmas-campaign/

Another cool bfs from that H&M film is the intro shot... shooting summer for winter :)
IMG_4578 by Björn Benckert, on Flickr
 
Björn Benckert said:
The white corridor was like 5 door long and no ceiling.
All rooms where shot on location in Prage. The forrest room, water room and cloud room was actually on location in a castle in Prag, but but dressed up like crazy. SFX tree trunks in styrofoam carried up to like the third floor, walls repainted floors filled with like a meter of mud gravel and moss. The cloud room was a painted pink, it was an old church. we made the room bigger and taller in post the girl was jumping on construction scaffoldings and the clouds where actually built like gigantic cotton clouds shot as separate layers with helium in the same light and then animated to get movement in post. Water room was also redecorated but in the end almost all of that room is 3D projected reworked texture maps for the background as the girl could not really hang in the crane where we wanted her to be. So those backgrounds are also helium mapped plates and she is masked out and inserted onto those plates together with water EFX cg work.

The upside down stuff was shot in a university in Prage. And there we shot plates to extend the set with additional floors and set extensions to simply make it look more grand then it actually was.


The forest we later reused with the same director for this H&M Christmas campaign, where they made even more tree trunks and we used them against bluescreen.

https://vimeo.com/313342861

24946907858_5a65b376a4_o.png
[/url]image by Björn Benckert, on Flickr[/IMG]

more info: http://www.syndicate.se/hm-2017-christmas-campaign/

Another cool bfs from that H&M film is the intro shot... shooting summer for winter :)
IMG_4578 by Björn Benckert, on Flickr
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Amazing Bjorn, thanks
 
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