adidas World Cup: Zizou-Zela
So we made a Zizou-Zela. Not time to make it superstar amazing, but it looked cool nonetheless. Cool enough to make the front page of The Times and cool enough for Zinedine Zidane to get it personally couriered to his house in Madrid. ta
adidas World Cup: What’s the score Ezekiel?
Ezekiel drove a truck around Jozi letting everyone know the scores. This is his film. He is awesome.
adidas World Cup: 3 fans
South Africa v Mexico For the opening game adidas created an enormous South Africa jersey to celebrate them as hosts, it was 50×50 meters. So I invented the idea of 3 Mexicans who brought with them a tiny jersey as a symbol of good luck. No money for castings meant I found these guys in [...]
adidas football: F50 adizero launch
I worked on the following films for the release of the F50 adizero football boot. The one above was directed by the talented Superfad. Made this little film and the gents at Creative Review picked it up.
adidas football: Steven Gerrard
adidas: Steven Gerrard ‘Kick’ from Dan Brooks on Vimeo. It’s cool just seeing the simplicity of an athlete demonstrating great technique. Steven Gerrard is one of the world’s finest strikers of the ball.
adidas running: Super 7
In build up to the world championships in Berlin. We found a little insight and flew to LA to shoot the athletes. 7 spots in 2 days meant we achieved our own little medal of honour.
EA Games: Pro Street Romania
So Lee and myself went to Romania and almost got killed. Everything you see is real.
Channel 4: Conservative Party
One of three spoof election party broadcasts. Commissioned by Channel 4, they made no difference to the result. The Times newspaper did say that it contained the ‘most arresting party political imagery ever’. Which was nice.
adidas World Cup: UMU Belief
This film is real in every sense. The construction workers broke into song spontaneously, Bolo takes his TV out whenever there was a game for the local community, all of the shots was us as a crew documenting what was around us. Just before the final game for Bafana Bafana. I wanted to create a [...]
adidas World Cup: Being Petr
So we attached a camera on Petr Cech’s head. Then we talked penalties as the World Cup in South Africa moved into the knockout stage.
adidas football: Keeping Messi Waiting
We had about 8 minutes in a Hotel room with Messi. He was doing a LIVE Q&A on Facebook after winning the FIFA World Player of the Year. This was the driver to the interview.
Keane: Sound Collider
Ok so we created a big sound collider, same as a particle accelerator but it smashes sound waves together. Actually, it did fuck all apart from look yellow. Keane were fun and played along with it all.
GSK: Restless Legs
Look, it took two fucking days to shoot this. We employed the services of a props house, we filmed it in 3 sections. We did it before Guinness, Lee and I wrote, directed this and it was our first job when we set up Lee&Dan. I think its fucking awesome.
