Longleat - Call Of The Wild

We all remember that first trip to the safari park, warm jam sandwiches, hot cartons of umbungo ("they drink it in the Congo") and Dad furiously trying to persuade a monkey not to have sex with the windscreen wipers. Good times.  Well, I think Johnny Maginn and Kev have different memories, all together much darker, moodier memories of that time. This piece for Longleat Safari Park, mixes some stunning shots of the English countryside with a soundtrack you will not be expecting. Be careful out there.



Director: Johnny Maginn @ Mustard London
Editor: Kevin Palmer

Welcome to tenthree - Mark Burnett

G’Day mate, strewth who’s that? That my antipodean friend, is Mark Burnett and we are very proud to say he is joining us at tenthree.

After a successful career in his native Sydney Mark came to London to join Speade for four fabulous years and has already amassed a varied and high quality body of work with directors like Jim Hosking, thirtytwo, Finn McGough, Matt Dilmore and Hamish Rothwell. In 2012 he completed the critically acclaimed doc Shut up and Play the Hits with thirtytwo, which premiered at Sundance.

tenthree's hard graft over the last three years has seen us expand our roster of talented editors and double the size of our digs at Newburgh Street. At heart we're still exactly the same - no job too big or too small and no cake too tough to bake. Mark's laid back easy going nature made him the perfect "dood" for tenthree and we feel bloody lucky to have him.

Strongbow - Earn It

This month sees the release of one of the most eagerly awaited collaborations since Adam and Eve back on that fruitful day in the garden of Eden. No I'm not talking about Batman and Robin, that's been done. Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole? I hear you asking yourself....

No and no. This is an extra special collaboration that was born right here at tenthree and that is...Dom and Ed! In a series of 3 films to promote Strongbow's 'Earn It' campaign, Director Si Allen explores the metaphorical to convey those feelings of nerves, anticipation and fear when entering into a challenge. Edited by Dom, Strongbow were in need of a right arm medium pace bowler to be the star of the '12th Man' film so Ed stepped up to the plate. See for yourself as we showcase the first 2 of 3 films. Special mention for Sam Ashwell at 750mph who did the sound design.

Director: Si Allen
Producer: Alan Traquair
Agency: St Lukes
Editor: Dominic Seymour

Why Do We Run?

Why do we run?...If I could understand Spanish, I might be able to tell you the answer. That's not because all the answers to life are written down in Spanish, but because in this latest spot for Nike by Director Joan Cobos, he gives us a metaphorical insight as to why? Why do we run? At least I think he does but it's in Spanish?.... and like I said, I don't speak Spanish.

Regardless of why we run, this is a beautifully crafted little film, which features David Bustos, the best young spanish athlete of 2012 and former Team Nike runner. Cut by Quin

Director: Joan Cobos
D.O.P: Juan Gonzalez
Editor: Quin Williams

Well Done Chris!

Under normal circumstances, if a grown man spends a week of his life playing with teddy bears night and day, you'd get a little worried about him, maybe de-friend him? Especially when he's making them act out a series of sick, gruesome murders involving guns, saws and grenades. However, this is just how life goes for Director and great friend of tenthree, Chris Ullens. He did all of the above to create this amazing stop-frame animation music video for Amin Tobin's Two Fingers. Edited by Jimmy, It's a masterpiece and we'd expect nothing less from Chris. So we were even more chuffed to hear that he'd won Best Animation and the Los Angeles Music Video Festival. Double thumbs up!

Director: Chris Ullens
Producer: Adam Farley
Editor: James Wright

The Answer To Everything

It's not too often we get serious at tenthree but last year when Rupert Jones approached us to get on board with a project for Charity Streetwise Opera it was an offer we couldn't refuse. Streetwise Opera runs weekly music programmes for homeless people culminating in a large-scale annual show.

That culmination came last week at the BFI with 'The Answer to Everything', which is perhaps uniquely, part opera, part film and part sales-conference in which the film Rupert created was part of an interactive performance featuring 50 Streetwise performers and professional performers. The film received 5* reviews in The Time and The Guardian.

Below is the trailer for the film, which was cut by Quin, Kev and Becs.

To learn more about the great work Streetwise Opera do go to their website. http://www.streetwiseopera.org/

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Go Compare & Ben Wheatley

Over the weekend you may have seen the latest GoCompare ad in which Gio Compario - the worlds most annoying opera singer - doesn't sing! Instead, the brand's mascot is seen pitching new advertising ideas to his GoCompare colleagues with a somewhat less than enthusiastic reception. This is the first in a series of new ad's from the price comparison website in which Gio takes on a more comic role.

The agency behind the campaign (Dare) have enlisted the expertise of multi-award winning Director Ben Wheatley to direct the spots and we were delighted to have him at tenthree for the duration. Ben is considered by many critics to be one of Britain's most significant directors. After directing comedy series Modern Toss for channel 4, he wrote, produced and directed his first feature film, Down Terrace (2009). He shot the film in 8 days and it went on to win the Jury Prize at the Raindance Film Festival. More recently, he's had huge success with horror feature Kill List (2011) and Sightseers (2012), a dark comedy about a couple on a caravan trip, which have both earned him numerous awards.

Cut by Quin, here's 'Double Dog'. In 2 days it's already got over 250,000 views on YouTube.

Director: Ben Wheatley @ Moxie Pictures
Producer: Claire Jones
Agency: Dare
Editor: Quin Williams