Ready to Run?

Bob Harlow has run back to Trim, this time working with Ross Hallard and his muse Peanut on a storming Adidas campaign. A moody piece that bursts into life and accelerates into oblivion with a great track. We likey.





Director: Bob Harlow
Production Company: Somesuch & Co
Producer:Rachel Dargavel
Editor: Ross Hallard

Big head Little Body

This hilarious music video for Beardyman's single 'Big Man' was directed by MindPenis, the brain/phallus combo of Chris Cairns & Ross McDowell. Trim's very own intellectual/imbecilic double-act, Gus Herdman & Ross Hallard, joined the duo in the cutting room to create this parody of tragic middle-class white kids playing gangsters, puffing on Bensons grasping their crotches - big balls and all that.

The video was shot on location in and around Chris' flat in Stokey and even features Trim's beloved horny bitch, Peanut. We especially like the exploding Trim sign in the titles, every post company's dream.





Directors: MindPenis - Chris Cairns and Ross 'The Boss' McDowell
Production Company: Partizan
Producer: Ben Murray and Chris Cairns
Edited by Ross Hallard and Gus Herdman@ Trim

Meerkat Love

Trim's had a long time love bond with the wonderful director, Darren Walsh of Passion Pictures. And our love child is Aleksandr Orlov, the weirdly charming, insurance-advertising Russian Meerkat (seriously who doesn't like him?!)

We love the Meerkat so much that three whole eager Trimmers Paul Hardcastle, Ross Hallard and Gus Herdman, were on board to cut a collection of lovely spots of Aleksandr Orlov handing out cute Meerkat toys to perplexed insurance purchasers - simples.




Director:Darren Walsh
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Russel McLean
Agency: VCCP
Creatives: Javier Romartinez, Stephen Misir
Editor: Paul Hardcastle




Director:Darren Walsh
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Russel McLean
Agency: VCCP
Creatives: Javier Romartinez, Stephen Misir
Editor: Ross Hallard




Director:Darren Walsh
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Russel McLean
Agency: VCCP
Creatives: Javier Romartinez, Stephen Misir
Editor: Gus Herdman

Icelandic Skillz

Earlier this year we showed you the trailer for Borkur Sigthorsson's gripping short thriller 'Come To Harm' edited by Tom Lindsay and Ross Hallard. Now the film is swirling the international festivals and causing a storm, already picking up best Short Film at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (hooray!).

Next up is a rendezvous at the Encounters Festival in Bristol (Nov 16-20), so if you live round there you'd be stupid not to go watch it! We love you Borkur and your coffee-nazi ways!

Move The Crowd

We love having Partizan director, Chris Cairns at Trim HQ. We're positive he's an actual-certified genius-brainiac, but more importantly we know he's an all-round good-egg. He's been here so much recently that we actually set up a desk for him, and we're still holding a couple of pairs of Converse in reserve too...

He's been here working on a triple-treat of projects with Ross (& Gus), some of which are still so secret, that if we showed you them we'd have to kill you.

Here is the first dance-tastic spot for Swatch. It's a chromatic frenzy pulled off with Chris' trademark technical panache, with effortless post, courtesy of our relentlessly superb friends, Time Based Arts.



Dir: Chris Cairns
Producer: Russell Curtis
Production Manager: Bonnie Anthony
Prod Co : Partizan
Post: Time Based Arts
Music: Trentemøller
Editor: Ross Hallard

The Kills 'Baby Says'

Ross' latest offering is a collaboration with the multi-disciplined director Ben Crook, of Skin Flicks. And boy, is this a "Skinflick"...

This music film for super-cool two-piece The Kills, is a character study shot in Barcelona in a verité style, using non-professional actors. Our "Baby" is a 6' 2" semi-professional Brazilian volleyball player and transvestite, who becomes nearly 7" with his heels on.

We love the track, the film, the incredible high-heeled backflip and the edit. Hope you do too. Nice work, Ben & Ross.






Director: Ben Crook
Production Company: Skin Flicks
Producer: Chris Massey
DoP: Stuart Bentley
Colorist: Simona Harrison @ Prime Focus
Commissioner: Fiona Ghobrial
Editor: Ross Hallard @ Trim

(The Iceman) Come To Harm

Here for your visual pleasure is the trailer for Borkur Sigthorsson's upcoming short film Come To Harm. Edited at Trim earlier this year by Tom Lindsay and Ross Hallard,

The film tells the story of Stefan (Björn Thors), whose life descends into turmoil, when he senses an intruder in his home and panic quickly turns to grim determination.

As usual, Borkur's skillfull characterisation and fantastic photography ignites the film and leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat!

Director: Borkur Sigthorsson
Editor: Ross Hallard and Tom Lindsay

Car Smut

Last month, Ford Focus launched a global campaign to pitch their latest car with its new extraordinary technologies, like parking itself..crazy huh. It was a colossal job involving 16 edits which resulted in approximately 500 total versions for across the world! Belgium based editor Martin Leroy set up camp at Trim working alongside Ross Hallard who cut the 60" and 30" versions.

If you get off on the porny macro shots , you'll probably like to know that they were achieved by slicing cross-sections of the engine and hand cranking the individual parts! Sex.




Director: Raf Wathion
Prod Company: Rokkit Producer: Luke Jacobs
Agency: Ogilvy
Agency Producer: Kim Parrett
Creatives: Greg (Oglivy Europe), Gary & Shakey (Ogilvy Detroit)
DOP: Patrick Otten
Editors: Martin Leroy & Ross Hallard
Sound Design: Ross Hallard

Trim in Majorca

Ross Hallard's editing milieu was perked up recently when he was flown out to the stunning Porto Pollenca in Majorca (miles away from the condom/grenadine saturation of Magaluf) to watch bikini clad supermodels hop about limblessly. As always he kept his professional stance and focused his sun blurred eyes on his laptop screen in order to cut several spots for German fashion brand, OTTO's Spring/Summer collection. Watch this space for the final ads!

Trim In Poland

Lots of lard, dumplings and animals were consumed when the infamous Trim bag ventured to the wild Tatra mountains of Poland, chaperoned by Ross Hallard, who was doing a spot of on-shoot cutting for Henry Mason's latest mobile phone commercial. Na Zdrowie!

Distressed Jeans

Fancy distressing and manipulating some sexy looking footage? 'err...what?' I hear you say, dont wonder, just head over to Wranglers site and get all interactive with their new online campaign

edited by Ross Hallard and directed by Petrovsky and Ramone of uber creative Stink Digital.

The Hunting Moon

Not so long ago, Ross Hallard had some serious, geeky editing fun, working on a new horror trailer for Culex Films release 'The Hunting Moon'.

Picture this; four British students travelling through Africa and up to 2000 people a day keep dying around them. The Sun says it's 'Absolutely terrifying'- no bleemin doubt it is, because it's actually TRUE. Culex is not really a film company, but a form of deadly mosquito that's eradicating lives throughout the continent. Created by Red Bee Media and directed by Robert Samuels (www.superrocketman.com), the 'Hunting Moon' trailer is a super innovative, online campaign for Malaria No More UK, that has been tweeted and web featured by the likes of David Beckham and Andy Murray.

Visit the website to find out more about this deadly killer.

Director: Robert Samuels

Agency: Red Bee Media

Producer: Sarah Caddy and Ann Marie Small

DP: Andrew Kuchanny

Editor: Ross Hallard@ Trim

Jamie Thraves' Feature Film Wins Dinard!

Over the past few months at Trim, Tom Lindsay and Ross Hallard have been industriously cutting together Jamie Thraves' new film 'Treacle Jr'. Starring Aidan Gillen and Tom Fisher, it's a buddy film of the highest order, following in the fine tradition of classics such as Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy. Time Out gave it a glowing 4 star review, calling it "Funny, touching and gritty, a coolly rendered observation on need and rejection [it] really is a Brit drama to shout about."

After a difficult experience on his last studio film, Jamie decided to produce the next one on his own terms. Re-mortgaging his house and pulling in friends, family and loyal crew; he made Treacle Jr at breakneck speed and for peanuts.

An amazing accomplishment in itself, but doubly rewarded by being a rather amazing piece of work too. It's classic Thraves in many ways; great performances, fantastic dialogue and a bitter sweet ending.

In a total shocker last week, Treacle Jr drew for top prize at the 21st Dinard Festival for British Film. Previous esteemed winners have included Shallow Grave, The Full Monty, The Girl With The Pearl Earring, London To Brighton and Billy Elliot

It is also playing at the London Film Festival from 21st October. You can book tickets here, though hurry it's almost sold out!!

You can check out pictures from the film and other info at its facebook page here.

A full list of credits can be seen here.

Ross cuts McLaren

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button display all the enthusiasm of little boys when they visit a McLaren storage facility jam packed full of racing cars. Director Henry Mason's use of subtle slow-mo enhances that dreamy 'can't quite belive I'm here' feeling. Ross, as ever, has delivered an effortless cut.

Director: Henry Mason

Editor: Ross Hallard

Producer: Rhun Francis

Production Company: Stink

Agency: Work Club

Any Murray- Street Tennis

Andy Murray's not much of a talker in this piece for sports label HEAD, but he sure can hit a ball.

We love that it was all shot in our hood around Shoreditch and East London.

Director: Henry Mason Editor: Ross Hallard Producer: Rhun Francis Production Company: Stink

Visit the HEAD website here.

Ross's Fanfarlo Edit

Director Jamie Thraves "Fire Escapes" video for Fanfarlo takes a small pinch of inspiration from the silent movie genre.

And it feels like there's a bit of French New Wave influence in there too. Surreal. beautiful, heartening, odd; these are all

good things.... Ross Hallard's cut does this cinematic piece justice we think.

Director: Jamie Thraves
Producer: Scott O'Donnell
Production company: Factory Films
DOP: Catherine Derry
Editor: Ross Hallard.

Dizzee's "Dirtee Disco" at No.1

Ross Hallard has just cut the video for Dizee Rascal's No. 1 hit "Dirty Disco", directed by Jamie Thraves at Factory. The simple premise, as Dizzee himself describes it in a making of vid on his Youtube, is of being able to have fun "anywhere". The idea makes for a joyful and celebratory video that defines the artist's intelligently tongue in cheek stance in the hip hop world.

While older people in videos have been known to give commissioners the heebeegeebees, Dirtystank records have taken the plunge here, and it really works. It's to Dizzee's credit that he's always been adventurous with his videos. The addition of DJ Derek, the infamous 68 year old legend who's been spinning vinyl for over 30 years at Glastonbury and all over, adds character and a bit of musical history to the mix.

Director: Jamie Thraves

Producer: Scott O'Donnell

Production company: Factory Films

DOP: Catherine Derry

Editor: Ross Hallard.

Ross Hallard edits "Mowzer" by Joshua J. Richards

Trim editor Ross Hallard cut Mowzer, a 12 minute short directed by Joshua J Richards.

A beautifully shot and highly visual film, Mowzer is autobiographical. Although it was shot in Cornwall near St Just, the atmospheric isolation in the film suggests a remote island. Originally there was a town scene as well, but Josh and Ross chose to cut this out. They both think the film is better for it . Josh says "It's visually much stronger. There are so many shorts out there. I always remember the most visual ones."

A charasmatic performance from family friend turned child actor Daniel Hoblyn is the lynchpin of the short. As a first time actor, Josh chose to direct Daniel in an inntuative style, revealing very little about the story or the emotional responses he was looking for. This almost documentary style approach meant that much of the film was edited from captured moments rather than acted scenes.

It seems that both director and editor enjoyed the editing process. Josh said of working with editor Ross: "Ross was legendary really. I doubt I'm easy to work with. He was very patient."

In a macarbe twist of fate Josh found one of the film's key props lying by the side of the road in the dead of night. It won't take you long to work out which piece of art department it was.

More of Josh's directing work here: (link to follow soon)

Written, Produced & Directed by Joshua J. Richards

Starring Daniel Hoblyn & Anna Munden

Cinematography by Edward Lovelace

Edit & Sound Design by Ross Hallard

Original Score Composed & Performed by Richard Durrant