Ferris Wheel

On the Ferris Wheel at Harvest on Saturday.

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.