Towards the end of last year hellofuture did a little jaunt around Australia filming a multifaceted piece for a small multinational friend of ours. We travelled all over this wide brown land of ours from Pyrmont Bridge in Darling Harbour to the alien landscape of WA’s Pilbara region. It was hot dusty dirty work up in the Pilbara but made fun by a lot of “big boys toys” in the form of multiple helicopters, massive locomotives and monster diggers. Awesome.
Choo-Choo-choose this one.
Our DOP Callan Green not looking phased as our “shakey” helicopter pilot looks up a couple of things in the instruction manual.
Hele-Trainspotting.
Air-Conditioned loco cabin goodness.
Stencils, stencils, stencils.
Note: Almost all of the industrial locations we filmed had rather strict OHS workplace uniform safety guidelines. Steel-cap boots being the one constant throughout, our hipster loophole was of course the “Dunlop Volleys” Workwear Edition. The rest of the crew sensibly chose the black varient… guess who chose white?
Shoot Day One: Rain.
Shoot Day Lost Count: Hot,Hot, Hot.
Stay Tuned for the reel thing.
Hellofuture.tv were super excited to be engaged to produce a series of branded content educational films for this years Telstra Beach to Bush program. The program is a joint initiative between Telstra & Surf Life Saving Australia, it involves experienced surf lifesavers going out into rural Australia to teach school kids beach and water safety. We produced a series of films to promote and help as an educational tool for the program.
The films consisted of an intro film about the program (see above) and a series of five topic educational films (see below) on such things as sun safety, beach safety, rips, wave types and things that sting.
Our approach was make the films from the point of view if kids the same age as the program but who live at the beach. And who better to help us out with that message than a bunch of Nippers!
So huge thanks goes out to the guys from Manly Nippers who spent a whole Saturday at the beach going through surf safety drills for us and showing us what they learn by being a Nipper. Whilst the beach looks pretty warm that day it actually was pretty chilly.
Another big thanks goes to some slightly older Nippers in the form of six time NSW Iron Woman Champion Naomi Flood and Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Ironman Hugh Dougherty who feature in the films as well.
And a big shout out to the Manly Life Saving Club for letting us camp out for a couple of days (not a bad office) and the guys from Surf Life Saving Australia for all their logistical, technical and Nipper wrangling skills!
The DOP was the talented Dan Trapp who despite just hoping off a flight from London and making his way to the beach was able to weave his magic without missing a beat.
To check out the rest of the films visit telstrabeachtobush.com.au or hellofuture’s vimeo channel.
Did you really do an unboxing of your business cards?
Yep.
Really?
Yep.
Why?
We though it would be funny.
Looks like you took it a little bit seriously.
Not really. We just got our first business cards back from the printer and…
And?
And we have a brand new camera (the new Sony NEX-FS100) and we can’t stop… we’ve been filming everything.
Everything?
Everything.
