Random yesterdays
for tomorrow.
I am proud to be speaking about my work at the Future Film Festival in Bologna Italy this coming Sunday and also at the Athens International Short Film Festival during the following week!
Recently I directed these spots for long time collaborator and friends The Visionaire Group in LA. Created for a new mobile phone entitled Else Mobile they are intended as a half viral, half official website campaign. The concept came direct from client and was heavily influenced by their concept of a new mobile phone revolution with some sci-fi influences thrown in for good measure!
Check out the Main Spot “The Time Has Come” here and then 5 other spots combined into one quicktime here and the main Else site here! Shot over 4 days in downtown LA and somewhere between LA and Palm Springs, the entire campaign was 85% shot with a RED ONE with the remaining 15% on a Canon 5D.
Directed, Edited, Composited and Graded by Rob Chiu. Producer Maria Park for The Visionaire Group, Production Company The Visionaire Group, Director of Photography Eric Koretz, 1st Camera Assistant Rob Kraetsch, 2nd Camera Assistant Dave Edsall, Gaffer Henry Dhuy, Grip Aryeh Kraus, Creative Director Jeff Lin for The Visionaire Group, Animators (for TVG) Chris Wang, Francisco Camberos, Anthony Possobon, Score and Sound Effects Ben Lukas Boysen, Storyboard Artist Jason Badower.
‘Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption’ is an exhibition hosted by the Lazarides Gallery on Greek Street in Soho, London. My short film – Black Day To Freedom is playing as one of five films curated by the One.Dot.Zero. team for the exhibition.
The exhibition runs from 6th to 30th November. For more info go here and here.
Another crazy composition by Ben Lukas Boysen aka Hecq for our latest work for Else Mobile Phones. Click here for a larger image. I still think my After Effects file is crazier right now though :)
FINALLY! The Fear/Love trailers are now online! Special thanks to The Mill NYC!
Directed, Written and Edited by Rob Chiu. Produced by Lincoln Waldron. DoP Paul O’Callaghan. Graded by Jamie Wilkinson @ The Mill NYC. Soundtrack by Ben Lukas Boysen + Lucio Amanti. Starring Lani Jackson, Fraser Everitt & Anthony Edwards. Casting by Susana Santos. Produced for the I Care Revolution.
Synopsis: Three lives, three identities, three points of view. Set against the harsh backdrop of inner city London, Fear/Love interweaves the lives of three adolescents as they struggle with who they are, who they want to be and who they are becoming.
Coming Soon.
I am by no means a professional colourist but after GreenPeace showed me the footage shot on a Canon 5D MkII for a viral campaign and asked me to grade it I couldn’t resist! Above are a few of the frames from the beautifully shot piece! Keep an eye out for it entitled Delhi – Voices for Change. The short piece can now be found here. Shot by DP Phillip Bloom and produced by GreenPeace’s Lucy Campbell-Jackson.
Forgot to post this but I recently completed Main titles and End titles for a soon to be released documentary film from Danish Director Kaspar Astrup Schröder entitled The Invention of Dr Nakamats! Find out more about Nakamats himself here! Further updates on the release dates to follow. Now online here!
Eulogy for Things Left Unsaid is now available to watch and comment on, on the BBC Film Network.
I’m proud to say that my work is now represented worldwide excluding North America and Canada by London based Stink!
Also another bit of news… Adobe recently featured me as one of their customer profiles! Check it out here!
Fear/Love is a new short film I have been working on for the past couple of months. We recently completed a hardcore 3 day shoot using two Red One cameras. Currently in post production Fear/Love is a story of identity, fear, and self destruction. Written and directed by Rob Chiu, produced by Lincoln Waldron with an original soundtrack by Ben Lukas Boysen aka Hecq. Coming Soon!
UPDATE. Check out here for some stills from the shoot!
