Brockwell Lido Wednesday afternoon

New website under construction

I'm in the process of creating a brand new shiny website. Looking forward to unveiling it very soon.

Young and High Club

I am really excited to have my work on the Young and High Club website in their Artwerrk section:

'No Bullshit. Just the best new unsigned music.'

I'm looking forward to collaborating with them on some exciting projects in the future.

Vitamin Water : Cannes Video Contest 2011 prizewinner

I am pleased to announce that I won a top 10 placing in the Cannes Lions 2011 Glacéau Vitamin Water video contest run by Mofilm. 

The brief was as follows: 

Vitamin Water wants a short ad that brings it's new creative campaign 'hydration only better' to life in a witty and surprising way.

My video Garden is a 60 second animated spot in which I created a fresh, modern and fun animated world influenced by the Glacéau Vitamin Water palette of vibrant colours; graphic patterns and Busby Berkeley-esque symmetry. The music that I have chosen, I think, enhances the colourful, ‘fruity’ theme and cheeky personality of the piece. I imagined a better, enhanced version of a garden. A magical place where Vitamin Water makes all the plants spring to life in a more exciting and dynamic way. I made the video on my own over a period of 4 weeks.

Update

I have been pretty busy these past few weeks, so I thought that it was time for an update!


Recently I met up with the lovely Dani from Young and High Club. We had a coffee and a chat about my work. I am happy to say that some of my stuff will be gracing his website very soon. It's a very exciting place with lots going on so take a look. I am really looking forward to any future collaborations there.



I am also pleased to report that I have been shortlisted for the Divine Chocolate competition:

'To celebrate one hundred years of International Women’s Day and women’s empowerment among the cocoa farmers of Ghana – Divine Chocolate is joining forces with Birds Eye View to promote a wonderful opportunity for women film makers (professionals and amateurs) to create a short film about Divine'.
  
So I'm about to start story boarding and developing the idea further.



Last week I finished directing an entry for the MoFilm Cannes competition. I made a short animated commercial for Vitamin Water. 


I am also waiting to see my Straight8 film for the first time. If you don't know about Straight8 check it out here. 


So there's a lot of waiting to do! 


Dum, di, dum....

My work on Vimeo

I now have a shiny new Vimeo page! Please go to www.vimeo.com/rebeccamanley to view my directing portfolio including commercials and short films.

Straight8 2011

This year I have once again entered the weird and wonderful world of Straight8 www.straight8.net

My brother Ben and I co-directed Birdman for the competition 7years ago and were ready to give it another try. This time we are co-directing again, and as always taking on multiple roles - Ben writer/actor, me art-director/model-maker.

It has been a hectic few weeks of preparation but it's also been very exciting. We shot the film this weekend (5th-6th March) thanks to a great team of people (full credits, production stills etc. coming soon) who all gave their time and expertise for free. Thank you, we couldn't have done it without any of you.

The film has been delivered so fingers crossed, and watch this space for more news!