Bruce St. Clair MAKING ADS

MAKING VODAFONE

witches on set

QUÉ SABE NADIE….

Literally means… “who knows what”…  It’s a famous song by a Spanish singer, Raphael. He’s as famous as Julio Iglesias, you can see his version of the song at the end of this post.

The key part of the spot, to introduce the viewer into the content that Vodafone will offer on their TV network.

Who knows about my desires… my lovers… my passion… my dreams and my nightmares….

To work around a song was like making a music video, with the hassle of the local talent not speaking even less, understanding what they had to lip sync!

The song grows and it’s very passionate, its also very Spanish.

Vodafone headquarters
View from Señora Rushmore
Madrid mid July
Xoan and Jorge on the Señora Rushmore terrace
Xoan, Sole, Jorge, Cristina and Nines
scouting the woods before the shoot
The inspiration for some of the witches
Matt EP and Theresa, line producer.
more ideas
Prepping the witches in the woods

DESIRES

Always wanted to shoot a zombie scene! I finally get to do it and I can tell you its not easy!

He actually didn’t take off his glasses for the first couple of takes!
Wardrobe fitting
Ildilkó wardrobe stylist checking out the horns
Diana the other half of the wardrobe stylists cooling off
………!
the Zombie set before the production designer had a go at it.

LOVERS

Loved shooting in Budapest fantastic crew totally commited to the job.

Theresa Lucas losing it.
the black witch
little Martin
another styled witch
remind you of snow white?

Light in woods is magical. What is it about the woods! truly magical.

PASSION…

Passion is what makes this job exciting. You can tell when a shot has been filmed with passion or without. I try to make the passion exude in each job I do and in particular this one where all the crew involved were really passionate about what was at hand.

we shoot flames against black screens to later use them for the dragon.
Prepping the witches in the woods
not all witches are dressed in black
these two guys are the FX team.
Xoan and Theresa in the van….we spend our lives in vans!
really cool makeup.

DREAMS…

keep on dreaming and the world will be your playground. It is.

The creative team, David and Pablo
Wait, its raining!
One of the witches
Ildilkó wardrobe stylist checking out the horns
Before and…
After….
Xoan, producer of The Gang
speaks for itself!
A witch getting her final touches
lost………
Luis 1st AD and Theresa (line Producer)
Ready to shoot

NIGHTMARES

When you are in the middle of a shot and the cell phone rings! or the kid gets camera shy, the animal won’t stop on its mark, it rains, its cloudy when it shouldn’t be, a million things can go wrong but we always make it work.

Fraser DOP listening to the very talented János
We had to obviously shoot the little girl on the Gnu against green screen
Extras sleeping…
We alsways shoot in empty stadiums at night.
my book.
The zombie set
zombie set

So, here is the final spot produced in 2 weeks which is amazing in this industry.

… and here is the one and only RAPHAEL singing the original version.