Baileys Christmas Nutcracker 2013

You can find the making of the Christmas ad here.

John Lewis Christmas Advert 2013 - The Bear & The Hare

Discover the making of heartwarming Christmas ad, John Lewis' The Bear and The Hare, here.

Olive Barnett Award 2012

Elena Antonovici - The Rising Hospitality Star

About a month ago I was asked by my close friend and colleague to help her with her application for the Olive Barnett Award. She's been working for Plaza Hotel in London for a few months now and she's been so great in her job, she's got promoted for a supervisor in a very short time and her manager suggested her to prove her abilities in the competition. There is no doubt her skills and ability to provide outstanding customer service should be appreciated and awarded and when there was a chance I could be a little help on her way to success, I couldn't hesitate for a second. 

So, I was hired as a Media Advisor with responsibility to film a short video where applicant could explain why does she think she is the next rising hospitality star. We could use Hotel Plaza facilities, such as beautiful and luxury duplex rooms, amazing spa centre, terrace with London attractions view and much more. It was amazing experience and great opportunity to meet new people and professionals.

Here is the video:

And last week I was happily surprised that my friend was successful with her video and she got to the next stage with (I believe) only other nine people. I am very happy for her, I really do hope she'll win the competition and I am so grateful I could be a little part of her success (:

Betty Wolfe

I was asked for help by one of Media Production Students from University of Bedfordshire, Ieva Kakite. They were working in groups on their final projects - short creative movies, and I was supposed to help Ieva's group with a set design, what I gladly did (: It was valuable experience for me to cooperative with these very creative people who were openminded to my suggestions. 

The movie is about an old lunatic lady who lives only with her trunk... I won't say more, so I won't spoil the movie for you ;) I'll just reveal one more thing - I will apear on the end of the movie among the other extras - try to find me ;)

Here is the video, please, watch and enjoy:

Writer/Director: Szabolcs Ruczui
Cinematographer/Editor: Zhaohui Zhang
Production Manager: Ieva Kakite
Casting Director/ Director Assistant: Janet Chance
Sound recordist/Sound Design: David Bohn Gonzalez
Sound assistant: Robert James Nolasco 
Composer: Jakub Rychlik
Production 1st Assistant: Lampros Papadopoulos
Production 2nd Assistant: LiChen Xie 
Production 3rd Assistant: Marcel Zeman 
Production 4th Assistant: Alena Boldisova

Starring: 
Betty Wolfe - Rosemary J. Smith
Jehovah Witness - Annie Lees-Jones

Look Around

As Level 2 students of Interior Architecture/Design in University of Bedfordshire, we were asked to create our own short creative movies. 

At first, we had to watch 6 movies from worldwide famous directors, such as: Hitchcock or Michel Gondry. After everybody chose 1 motion picture, which they were most attracted by, we grouped ourselves according the selected movie and we were advised to view it again together like zillion times! 

Finally, we identified our brand values carefully picked from the movie and subsequently created our own short movies with these keywords in our minds.

And here is the movie, my group, Look Around, created:

Writers: Alena Boldisova, Elena Antonovici, Anna Turczynska, Elina Ponomarjova
Director: Alena Boldisova
Production Managers: Alena Boldisova, Elena Antonovici
Editing: Alena Boldisova

Starring: 
Man - Adam Kypet
Woman - Elena Antonovici

Music: The Chemical Brothers - Surface to Air

I hope you enjoyed it ;)