Jack gives back.

Spoke Director Jack Laurance has just completed this Christmas viral for Armoury.  It is about giving back and features young people for all over the city including Hackney, Tottenham and Croydon.


Hats off to Jack for creating a great piece of film.
To watch it click here

Charles Barker earns his Stripes

                                       

Spoke director Charles Barker, in partnership with post-production company Stripe Media, produced a TV commercial to inspire members of the public to join Team Macmillan and take part in a challenge to raise vital money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Barker used five top photographers stationed across the iconic 26-mile London Marathon course capturing in excess of 10,000 images in order to create a film featuring a 3D environment populated with Team Macmillan runners and cheerers. 

Charles Barker says:

‘We set about crafting a piece to celebrate the stars of Team Macmillan – the runners – that was suitably innovative to do them justice, and make them feel a part of it. We wanted to create something visually striking – a film comprised entirely of stills taken at a live event, the London Marath­­­on.

Elements of the film were incorporated into Macmillan's Facebook page which allowed Macmillan participants and their supporters to upload and comment on their own experiences during the event.

Great work Charles and a great cause!

Moose on the Loose

Internationally noted and multi award winning stop-motion and animation house Loose Moose have moved into our building.  Amid much clattering of hooves the moose have settled into their new environment and have not roamed far at all from their traditional habitat.

Spoke Films and Loose Moose  are pooling our resources to offer a wider choice of directing talent and a wealth of experience to our clients (live action, stop-motion, CGi, design).

Have a look at Being Bradford Dillman animated by rising star Daniella Orsini.  http://www.loosemoose.net

Stills production - Spoke Cape Town

Stills and tvc producer Barry Bezuidenhout joins our expanding team in the Cape Town office. 


With 15 years experience Barry's personal attention to every aspect of each project ensure's that his vast knowledge contributes to every projects success.


Barry was born in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He attempted to read Law at the University of Port Elizabeth, but jumped ship after a few months to go and play professional cricket in the UK. A few years of traveling opened his eyes and he has not stopped trying to escape the city ever since. At home in his truck driving through Africa, meeting people and learning about the really important things in life. 


Like water. 


Soon to be married to his beautiful partner, Annaliene (the sane one). He also has a 9 year old daughter, Eugenie, who keeps him active and fit.

Seeing Red, well, 2 x Epic cameras actually.

Spoke's office in Dubai has taken delivery of two RED Epic cameras which have been put through the mill by our director Jac Mulder who just loves them!
Working with the Epic, ever enthusiastic Jac says:
"The camera has opened up so many more opportunities than I could have ever imagined" 
 and
"Some days the camera was rolling at 5am and being turned off at 2am, these particular days were in freezing cold conditions, the camera was so solid..." 
Jac has been shooting like a loon and is very keen to spread the word on how excellent these cameras are.  He recently had an article published in Reduser, if you would like to see the whole piece click here.

Spoke goes (Middle) East.

The recent launch of Spoke's office in Dubai has been a great success with scripts being quoted and our team busy shuttling between Dubai and our satellite office in Cape Town.
The Middle Eastern market is growing year on year and with our existing roster of talent including 'newbies' for M.E rep, 
Jac Mulder, Omar Hilal, Devon Dickson and Richard Oliver, with our production experience and knowledge of the local market we can offer a clear and concise way of dealing in an environment that is different to the one we traditionally know.

Omar Hilal director signs up for M.E rep.

Following our global expansion, renknowned Egyptian director Omar Hilal has joined Spoke for representation in the Middle East.  

Omar graduated from the American University in Cairo, and went onto become Creative Director at both Leo Burnetts and McCann Erickson.

Speaking fluent English, Arabic and Italian ( having lived in Saudi Arabia, Canada and Italy ) he is now based in Cairo with his wife and young daughter.

One of the most talented and charming directors around, he still writes copy if the agency requires, and is often asked to help bring the clients ‘concept’ to life.

Omar has vast experience with shooting all over the Middle East and has had huge success winning many awards including the Grand Prix Dubai Lynx and the Grand Prix Mena Cristals.

Football is his greatest passion ( and cooking Indian food apparently, although we have no proof of this as yet ! ).

More Spokes

Spoke Films is launching offices in Dubai and Cape Town due to the increasing demand for directors with production experience and knowledge of local markets.  We are delighted to have Spoke's new 'International producer' Colin Cash on board who will run the new operation from Dubai.  South African Colin has established himself as a producer with a terrific client base and a reputation of getting the job done with minimal fuss.

Our base in Cape Town will give our clients from the Middle East the choice to shoot in a cost effective environment with more assets at their disposal.