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We produce commercials, virals,
music videos, long-form drama
and documentary projects.
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nrma . effortless . behind the scenes .
Human, Sydney
This was a great script from Human which had set design written all over it, and we were determined to get the spot as a one-take to make the most out of the effortless idea. We had just nine days to design and build the moving set, transforming the couple's station wagon to their living room, to a hire car and back to the (now-repaired) station wagon again. Rear-projection was just one of a number of approaches we ended up using, including forced-perspective set builds, printed flats, miniatures and real props.
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levi's . curve id . directed by andrew lancaster
Host, Sydney
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nrma . effortless . directed by scott otto anderson
Human, Sydney
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solo . lucky undies . directed by scott otto anderson
BMF, Sydney.
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sbs . tour de france . getaway . directed by matt kamen
US, Sydney
SPECIAL PROJECTS
the girl of the golden west . visual design by scott otto anderson
OPERA AUSTRALIA
Scott has just completed the video component for a vast Puccini opera
The Girl of the Golden West, which opens at the Sydney Opera House tonight. Though one of his lesser known works, Puccini felt that this epic opera, set in the goldmining wild west of America, was his finest. Opera director Nigel Jamieson asked Anderson to make his vision come to life turning the opera into a cinematic homage to black and white film and spaghetti westerns. Anderson's video 'trailer' for the overture opens the opera and his video is present throughout the show using front and rear video projections across the walls, ceiling, floor and furniture to transform the set, befitting the onstage melodrama whilst also playing with tricks of forced perspective and illusion.
The Girl of the Golden West runs at the Sydney Opera House from July 14th to the 6th August.
For more information, please visit:
Sydney Opera House WEBSITE
SPECIAL PROJECTS
a foreign light becomes freedom in flight . video art by husein alicajic
Creative Sydney, VIVID festival
This unique project saw Husein Alicajic join indie supergroup Parades, performer Flutter Lyon, THE NOISE string quartet, and new media artist Harriet Birks in a unique performance event at the Museum of Contemporary Art for Creative Sydney / Vivid festival 2010.
The conceptual basis of this collaboration 'A Foreign Light Becomes Freedom In Flight' explored the contrasts between foreign and familiar - notions defined only by knowledge and perception level. The film made by Husein specially for the evening, featuring high-contrast, mesmerising experimental footage, was projected large scale throughout the live performances by the musicians, with real-time audio interactive effects and live mixing by Birks.
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snugglers . lawyer . directed by matt kamen
Ogilvy & Mather, Sydney
Ogilvy & Mather recently approached Matt Kamen to direct this irreverent and cheeky spot for Snugglers nappies. The creative team on the job Cameron McDonald and Dan Staudinger were sick of the lawyers rejecting their scripts, so this is what they came up with to settle the score.
photoplay films . sydney film festival production partner
PHOTOPLAY is pleased to announce its partnership with this year's Sydney Film Festival.
For more info on the festival, please visit
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL website
VIEW PROMO - click on image above.
Directed by Husein Alicajic & produced by Photoplay Films.
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honda crv . around & about . directed by scott otto anderson
DraftFCB, Melbourne
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accidents happen . feature film . directed by andrew lancaster
DIRECTOR: ANDREW LANCASTER
EP: HEATHER OGILVIE
PRODUCER: ANTHONY ANDERSON
WRITER: BRIAN CARBEE
Photoplay is excited to represent Andrew for commercial projects, and his feature film ACCIDENTS HAPPEN, starring Academy Award®-winner Geena Davis, is just about to open in cinemas nationally.
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN is a brash and moving comedy about family, fate and misfortune in American suburbia. The manicured lawns of 1980’s New England imply an order that simply doesn’t exist for the Conway family, headed by razor-tongued Gloria. Youngest son Billy has been a witness to a series of tragic accidents, including one that fractured his whole family. Always the good boy, Billy takes up with the neighbourhood troublemaker in acts of delicious delinquency in a world already spinning out of control. The ensuing collision of guilt, truth and self discovery may be just what his family needs to move on.
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN premieres in Australia on April 14th 2010, and in the USA in August 2010.
DOCUMENTARY & TV / IN DEVELOPMENT
triple j radio & abc tv . live music tv for 2010
PHOTOPLAY is pleased to announce our partnership with ABC TV & Triple J radio. Over the next year we will be producing more than twelve TV programs covering all of the Triple J music concerts across Australia for ABC TV. The first of these will be in the red centre for Triple J's ONE NIGHT STAND concert... John Butler Trio will be headlining the show, and joining him on stage Alice are Gyroscope, Bluejuice and Washington. This will be the largest music concert ever seen in Alice Springs!
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starburst . colour fight . directed by husein alicajic
Clemenger BBDO, Sydney
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robbie williams . you know me . directed by diamond dogs
EMI, UK
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nokia . bear . directed by matt kamen
JWT, Sydney
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myer . spring shower . directed by scott otto anderson
Badjar Ogilvy, Melbourne
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sydney dance company . be transformed . directed by husein alicajic
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express post . bigfoot . directed by matt kamen
Badjar Ogilvy, Melbourne
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lexus . left to right . directed by scott otto anderson
Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney
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myer . here comes the sun . directed by scott otto anderson
Badjar Ogilvy, Melbourne
the black hole . a short film . directed by diamond dogs
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maximo park . apply some pressure . directed by diamond dogs
Warp Records, UK