O2 / Nike+ 'The Circle'

Back in May we had the pleasure of working with (whatup)AG Rojas (& producer Shirley O'Connor) on a hush hush project. Now the secret is out and O2 / Nike+ have launched Priority Sports. Featuring an omnipresent blue circle and an authentic blend of cool kids and olympic athletes, AG has created something both intimate and epic. More crucialy, AG passed the Peanut test and the two became fast friends.

Director: AG Rojas @ Caviar Content

Agency: VCCP

Editor: Dominic Leung

Guinness "Paint The Town Black"

Daniel Wolfe & Dominic Leung have teamed up once again, this time to tackle the rich legacy of Guinness ads. This "Wolfian" update was filmed on location in Transylvania with a cast of 350 locals and 2000kg of black goo. Beautifully shot by by André Chemetoff and energetically soundtracked by Fanfare Ciocarlia, the film tells the story of a town that paints itself black in celebration of Arthur's Day. Here we proudly present the directors cut.



Director: Daniel Wolfe @ Somesuch&Co.

Producer: Dougal Meese

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi London

Editor: Dominic Leung

Feel Better Energy

Dominic Leung and director Nick Gordon have come together once more for the latest uplifting EDF campaign thats got everyone cooing, because of a dancing blob. We love the ad but even more we love these youtube comments:


"That poo has the skillz to pay his edf energy bills!!"

"It's not a turd lol its a flame as its an energy ad :)"

"the cat is all like wat da fuck?? whys my shit goin past me? i left dat shit in my kitty litter :S"

"If yr feeling down just watch this ad and it makes u smile, i think im addicted to watching it lol."

"omg i love this advert ive watched it like 500 times crnt get enough of it! lol its joke want one of thoes keepon tings blud!!"

"GOD I FRICKIN LUV DIS !"

Director: Nick Gordon
Producer: Lucy Kelly
Production Company: Somesuch & Co
Agency: AMV BBDO
Creatives: Andy Booth, Jim Seath
Editor: Dominic Leung

One Shot Wonders

An Editors dream job, some might say. A 'cut with no cut' a 'ride with no bumps' a 'baby that doesn't scream' and ' 'a boozy night with no hangover', ok maybe not quite, but you get my drift. Here's a collection of delightful one shot wonders from the past year, cut by Tom, Dominic and Paul with our lovely directors Adam Berg, Arno Salters, Kim Gehrig and Tim Hope.

We like these jobs, give us more.



If 'Pool'
Director: Adam Berg
Production Company: Camp David
Producer: Rickard Edholm
Agency: Forsman and Bodenfors
DP: Linus Sandgren
Editor: Tom Lindsay




If 'Toy'
Director: Adam Berg
Production Company: Camp David
Producer: Rickard Edholm
Agency: Forsman and Bodenfors
DP: Linus Sandgren
Editor: Tom Lindsay




Ebay 'My One For All'
Director: Arno Salters
Production Company: Stink
Producer: Swantje Rummel
DP: Olivier Cariou
Editor: Dominic Leung




New Look '100 Days of Summer'
Director: Kim Gehrig
Production Company: Somesuch & Co
Producer: Tania Kane
Agency: Mother
Editor: Dominic Leung



Mercedes 'Passing Through'
Director: Adam Berg
Production Company: Smuggler
Producer: Cory Berg
Agency: Merkley and Partners
DP: Max Malkin
Editor: Paul Hardcastle




Comcast 'Moving Rooms'
Director: Tim Hope
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Russel McLean
Agency: The Martin Agency
DP: Dan Landin
Post: MPC
Editor: Paul Hardcastle

Missing Our Deals Will Haunt You

Dom was recently re-united with his buddies Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith (Hammer and Tongs) to cut this beautifully shot hair-raising ad for Phones 4 U. Sadly it's proved to be controversial as the bored sector of the British public have been wetting their pants over it, because its just too damn scary...boo hoo. Little do they know that the ad had to be re-shot as the original spot was deemed too horrifying by the client (I'll leave it to your imagination). Keep an eye out for another upcoming cinematic ad from the 'Incredible Three'.




Director: Garth Jennings
Production Company: Hammer and Tongs
Producer: Nick Goldsmith
Agency: Adam and Eve
Creative: Aidan McClure and Laurent Simon
TV Producer: Leila Bartlam
Post Production: Prime Focus /MPCVFX
Producer: Tareq Kubaisi

Carousel

This beautifully shot (Chris Doyle) and enchanting extended spot for Nationwide was directed by the lovely Eric Lynne and cut by Dominic Leung. It's certainly the most exciting bank ad we've seen in ages!

Whats more exciting though, is the number of avocados that were consumed by Eric Lynne over the course of the edit. I can confirm that out of all the directors that walk into Trim HQ, no doubt he has the best sheen and his digestive system is probably in good order too.





Director: Eric Lynne
Production Company: Partizan
Producer: Miranda Johnstone
Agency: 18 Feet and Rising
Creatives: Johnny Leathers, Matt Keon
DP: Chris Doyle
Editor: Dominic Leung
Post Production: MPC

Leung Not Cheung!

T Mobile's latest ad 'Angry Birds', directed by Greg Brunkalla (of Legs) has had a whopping 5 million hits already on Youtube, whilst defaming poor Dominic's name. Its Leung, not Cheung, dammit!

Anyway, the ad's a brilliant real-life re-creation of the popular Angry Birds game, set in Barcelona and shot with 8 different cameras. Whilst Dom was busy scouring through the extensive footage to create his masterpiece, the lovely Greg Brunkalla kept busy at Trim by perfecting his pronunciation of the delightful English word 'bollocks'. Over and over again he tried, yet failed to sound like anyone but Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Good times- bowlux.





Director: Legs – Greg Brunkalla
Production Company: Rokkit
Producer: Kate O’mulloy, Jennifer Kennedy
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, International
International Creative Director: Jason Romeyko
Art Director: Luca Pannese
Editor: Dominic Cheung@Trim (haha)
Post-Production Company: Rushes

100 Days of Rendering

Imagine making a salad without actually cutting any vegetables. So maybe you have to do a bit of flattening, mushing and careful arrangement to pass it off as a salad. That's my bad analogy for Dominic Leung's complex handiwork for Kim Gehrig's luscious New Look ad. With no apparent cuts, the 'camera' seamlessly pans across 30 layers of HD footage, creating a canvas of summertime girliness. Very impressive.

Director: Kim Gehrig
Production Company: Somesuch & Co Producer: Tania Kane
Creative Agency: Mother
Creatives: Brik Hedman, Julia Stenius, Sarah Byre, Stephen Led Ger-Lomas
Editor: Dominic Leung

Pulse Of The City

Range Rover have launched a Pulse of The City project to launch their new Evoque. The project involves an iphone app (of course) that maps out your personal journey through the city, leaving you dumbfounded at the highly unexcitable generated image. The ad however is exciting. Directed by Bob Harlow, edited by Dominic Leung and shot by Steve Annis, the spot's rhythmic tempo, colourful characters and sharp sounds evoke the feel of each city beautifully. Yeeha!

Director: Bob Harlow

Production Company: Somesuch & Co
Producer: Nicky Barnes
Exec Producer: Tim Nash
Agency: The Brooklyn Brothers London

DOP: Steve Annis
Editor: Dominic Leung
Post: MPC

Girls, Girls, Girls

Over christmas, Trim had the pleasure of messing around with five dancing girls by the names of Zuzanna, Tati, Mariacarla, Kinga and Arizona (seriously we're not making the names up). And by messing, we mean some jolly good, clean editing, 'Consequences' style (remember that game?!) by Paul Hardcastle, Dominic Leung and Leila Sarraf.

Keep you're eyes peeled, as there are more dancing prada dada videos to come!

Creative Direction: DJA

Producer: Naz Foroodian

Editors: Dominic Leung, Paul Hardcastle, Leila Sarraf

Pg Tips 'Ahhh'

Following on from the oh so Christmasy 'Stocking' ad, Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith (Hammer and Tongs) continue their story of 'Al and Monkey' with this deeply satisfying spot. Thanks to Dom's seamless editing and rhythmic sound effects, Al and Monkey once again manage to cheer up our gormless January selves.






Director: Garth Jennings
Producer: Nick Goldsmith
Production Company: Hammer and Tongs
Creative Agency: Mother
Post: Jon Trussler and Tareq Kubaisi @ Prime Focus
Editor: Dom@ Trim Editing

Gurn Baby Gurn

Lets take a trip down memory lane, back to the early 90's, when acid house was cool and pills were dropped like candy. The maestro of the year, Daniel Wolfe has re-created this blindingly authentic messy rave for Chase and Status's new fookin brilliant tune 'Blind Faith'. All those years of jaw grinding for Trim's Dominic Leung finally paid off, as Wolfe insisted he was the only man fit for the job. Boy done good....real good.

We think both this video and song are gonna go down a storm, bringing nostalgic tears to everyone in their late 30's and making all the 20 year old trend setters swap their hareem pants for a Gio Goi getup!

Update: We are no longer allowed to show you the directors cut.

The record company have pulled it (no explanation). So in the meanwhile please enjoy the shorter (compromise) cut or even better, follow us on Twitter, then direct message us saying 'I have to watch the Chase and Status directors cut NOW' and we'll send you a secret password so you can access it on vimeo!

Director: Daniel Wolfe

Production Company: Somesuch & Co

Producer: Tim Francis

DP: Lol Crawley

Editor: Dominic Leung@ Trim

It's Christmassssss- lets drink tea

Vegas and Monkey are back on form, getting all giddy about the mini Monkey puppet giveaways with every pack of Pg tips this Christmas!

Directed by Hammer and Tong's Garth Jennings and edited by long time affiliate Dominic Leung, this ad is bound to inject a bit of festive cheer in all the scrooges scuttling about this season.

Come on guys, play that carol and eat that mince pie, it's Christmassssssssssssssssss, lets get fat and merry!

Agency: Mother

Production Company: Hammer & Tongs

Director: Garth Jennings

Producer: Nick Goldsmith

Post Production: Prime Focus

Grade: Tareq Kubaisi

Editor: Dominic Leung @ Trim

Made of Meaner Stuff

Cars made out of cakes, sweets, chocolates and meringues....eurgh, how pathetic. A car constructed from snake venom, crossbows, bones, skid marks and the tooth indentations of a fat skin head is way cooler!

The new Skoda Fabia ad created by Fallon, directed by Nick Gordon of Somesuch & Co and edited by Trim's Dominic Leung is a hardcore head thrashing 'piss off you pansy bakers' commercial and we love it! Plus it was great fun having the Somesuch gang in the Trim house!

Agency: Fallon

Agency Producer: Angus Smith

Creative Director: John Allison, Chris Bovill, Augusto Sola

Creatives: John Allison, Chris Bovill

Director: Nick Gordon

Production Company: Somesuch & Co

Producer: Sally Campbell

Director of Photography: Mattias Montero

Post Production: MPC

Editor: Dominic Leung@ Trim

Congratulations to Daniel and Tim! (and Dom!)

More awards news; Daniel Wolfe snagged Best Director and Tim Francis Best Producer at this year's UK Music Video Awards.

Dominic Leung joined Hammer&Tongs' Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith onstage, to collect the Icon Award for their work in creating some of the most loved videos of all time.

Daniel and Tim have had a stellar year, producing a string of top quality videos for Plan B. Daniel's filmatic style has won him rave reviews from the 'Tube to Antville to Promo News. And for some reason this all feels like just the beginning...

prayin

There's no stopping Daniel Wolfe, as he unleashes his 4th chapter to the Strickland Banks cinematic saga. Another breath-taking tune matched with an epic and unprecedented video, its no wonder Mr Wolfe's previous Plan B videos have received a whopping 11 nominations for the Music Video Awards this year!

'Recluse' is also Daniel's penultimate at Partizan, as he has recently moved to the new production company Some Such & Co along with his long time producer Tim Francis, whose also up for Best Producer at the MVA's this year.

Director: Daniel Wolfe
Production company: Partizan
Producer: Tim Francis
Exec Producer: Sasha Nixon
DoP: Robbie Ryan
Production Designer: Sam Tidman

Telecine: Simon Bourne at Framestore
Effects: Gus Herdman at Trim
Commissioner: Tim Nash

Editor: Dominic Leung at Trim

Albion Cafe- Local to Trim

Albion's open plan kitchen. Picture copyright Albion.

A friend who lives in Bethnal Green described Albion as "That English place selling English stuff, in England', which, in a funny way, sums it up. Albion on Boundary street serves up the best of British, with the kind of flair commonly reserved for foreign delicacy. The shop attached to the cafe sells Bovril, Marmite and porridge oats on fancy rustic displays next to freshy baked goods. The caff is the best thing about this Conran owned gaff because it really does offer tasty food at value for money. My personal fave is the cream tea for £6. Far from being a measly scone and a cuppa, this is a feast I struggled to finish despite my best efforts. Faultless scones; two of them, huge with jam, butter and cream, sat beside beautifully moist fruitcake, some amazing shortbread and a slice of perfect sponge, all washed down with a pot of tea. I say all washed down, but in truth I had to smuggle the shortbread away in my handbag for later because it was all too much. Easily enough for two and delicious.

And all this only a few minutes walk from Trim's cutting rooms....

MAP- CLICK HERE

Albion Cafe
2-4 Boundary Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DD 020 7729 1051

Whilst you are contemplating cakes, please spare a thought for Trim's very own editor and running champ Dominic Leung, who this weekend takes on Berlin at the Marathon. No cream teas for him until after! And if you haven't had a chance to sponsor the excellent charity he's running for please take a moment to follow the link and sling him a few pennies, or better still some pounds.

http://www.justgiving.com/team-G-B

Klaxons "Echoes"

Saam's latest vid for Klaxons track "Echoes" has something of the oldskool about it. There are some serious rock staples here people; sunset, the desert, fire, lens flair, slow-mo, men with guitars standing on phallic pillars of earth. Nice.

Great work from Dom on the editing front. And it's been fun having Saam around again.

Enjoy.

Director: Saam Farahmand
Prod co: Partizan
Producer: Ben Sullivan

Commissioner: Ross Anderson
DoP: Magni Augusson
Editor: Dom Leung

Gil Scott-Heron "I'm New Here"

Gil Scott-Heron's new album "I'm New Here" takes it's name from the Smog track he has so competently covered. This is a version that's delivered with a balance of seasoned authority and humility. We think Dom's cut does this simple performance video justice; with it's roomy lingering shots and sensitive treatment none of the tracks artisty or regretful tone is lost.

Directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard said of the video:

"We wanted to shoot something bold and direct, that captured something of Gil's remarkable presence and the raw power of his performance. We filmed him the day before walking around his neighbourhood in Harlem then on the day we returned with Gil to the studio where much of his new album had been recorded. There's no narrative here, this is a deliberately simple video for a deceptively simple and beautiful song."

Watch it exclusively on the Guardian website: HERE

Directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.

Produced by: by Dig for Fire

Editor: Dominic Leung, Trim

Colourist: Vic Parker, Prime Focus London

Dom's D&AD Editing Nomination

Plan B's "Stay Too Long" video directed by Daniel Wolfe and edited by Dominic Leung has been nominated in the D&AD awards editing category.

Trim's had an ongoing involvement in the Daniel Wolfe/ Plan B partner ship, and between us we've cut 3 videos and one live performance piece. We're pretty blown away by the talent that is Plan B, and are always up for seeing what he does next.

For those of you who missed our blog entry about the video back in December, you can watch it here:

Director: Daniel Wolfe Editor: Dominic Leung

If you'd like to see all the nominations, here they are:

http://www.dandad.org/?page_id=3437