showcase south africa issue 790

Mar 2020

Hoops Productions: Cape Town PHOTO & FILM PRODUCTION

''Every so often Hoops gets asked to produce somewhere else in the world, this season was no exception with two adventures up North with our good friends at Go Outdoors and photographer Justin Badenhorst. In July we travelled to Iceland with its black volcanic beaches, impossibly green vegetation and out of this world rock formations carved by centuries of ice flow. 

Keeping the epic theme we headed to Switzerland in September, shooting skiwear on the spectacular Matterhon Glacier in Zermatt, postcard picturesque perfect!

We were tourists in our own backyard with Tourlane, shooting on top of Table Mountain, The V&A Waterfront and at various wine farms, followed by a road trip through Knysna to shoot the beautiful Garden Route and all its offerings. 

Recent productions include:

• Schneider Electric with The Creative Lab shot by Alistair Hood.
• Skate Groms with photographer Casey Bertie.
• Ellesse & Nautica with Focus International shot by Rick Whittle.
• Ellesse Kids with Focus International shot by Casey Bertie.
• Signia with Ogilvy London directed by Dougal Paterson and DOP Sacha Specker.
• Fat Face shot by Sean Cook and art directed by Phil Hobbis.

Follow us on Instagram for regular updates or check out our website.''

Steel Productions: Cape Town PHOTO & FILM PRODUCTION

Steel Productions has 20 years of production experience producing stills and motion projects in Cape Town as well as the rest of Africa and beyond. Their attention to detail in putting together super-smooth productions ensures that each project with Steel is always a creative success and an exciting, enjoyable experience.

Steel has worked on a number of diverse and exciting projects this summer:

• For Merck the team went globetrotting to Johannesburg, Rwanda, Tanzania and India with DOP/photographer Josh Tiger Rowe to capture both stills and motion.
• For Vero Moda Steel transformed the city to a riot of blooms with photographer Matteo Montanari.
• For Bayer the Steel team worked with Germaine Walker and photographer Hanna Maule Ffinch to capture pharmaceutical advertising with feeling, casting locally for multiple territories.
• For Accessorisze, Steel joined forces with their friends at Fuse Prod to shoot campaign and still life in a record turnaround time with local photographers Nadia von Scotti and Frances Marais.
• For H&M Home Steel visited an all-time favourite home location with photographer Erik Lefvander and once again the creative team worked their magic to create the spaces we all dream of.

The best weather of the Cape Town summer falls over the next few months so Steel encourage you to get in touch and make the most of the beautiful late summer sunshine!

EuroConnection South Africa: Cape Town PHOTO & FILM PRODUCTION

''We provide full production services from conceptualisation to realisation for motion and image shoots, offering our professional film services from small to large-scale productions in South Africa. Whether it’s on set or through remote production assistance, Euroconnection's focus is on anticipating clients' needs and providing a “stress-free” production experience.

The company is constantly expanding its horizons and producing shoots in Lisbon during the months of June/July, August and September to May in Cape Town, South Africa. We have an extensive online library of locations, enabling clients to access thousands of location ideas to realise their concepts, and provide them with treatments.

Our goal is to accomplish the creative vision of our clients. With over 20 years of film production experience in South Africa and understanding the importance of the creative process, our experienced team make the magic of your production come alive.

We are based in Cape Town and operate internationally, creating custom-made shoot packages to suit your specific requirements and thinking out of the box to keep your budgets as cost effective as possible. Being one of the first European Production service companies based in Cape Town, we’ve built a strong network of the best professionals to work with.

Follow us on Instagram or check out our show reel online.''

Prinz Productions: Cape Town Photo & Film Production

Prinz Productions is a service production company with a ''no problems, only solutions'' approach. Cape Town, South Africa, is home to a highly developed production industry, with ample equipment houses, cast agencies and prop warehouses. Hotels and restaurants are some of the best in the world and local crew are world class.

Unrivalled location diversity, value for money and also sharing the same time zone as Europe, makes coming to South Africa the obvious choice.

''Sabic - We proudly cast 57 roles, including Arabic, Caucasian, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Hispanic and Black ethnicity groups in Cape Town. Creating 11 iconic shots for this global campaign shot in 5 days. From finding floating solar farms, a glass-walled swimming pool for underwater shots, science labs, tomato farms to tunnels for seedling growing.

Texman - As a service company, longstanding clients are always appreciated. We look forward to the next one.

Weleda - Our dedicated locations scout Allan James Lipp found the perfect Cape nature for this beauty campaign. Facilitating video for TVC usage, and running concurrently the stills and a pack shots team.

Union Investment - Sailboats, airports and big set build. It's what we do. We love the art and work of creating images for a campaign."

NODOP: Cape Town PHOTO & FILM PRODUCTION

NODOP is a full-service production company for stills, video and TVC. Their South African base in Cape Town is a perfect location for all your summer SS productions. Their extensive local knowledge and location database stretch out in the entire Western Cape and up to Namibia.

NODOP embarks on adventures all the time, big and small, approachable and remote, tropical and polar. They work with teams from 10 to 100 people on set and for long hours at a time. The teams they work with are always away from home and the state of comfort while working becomes the main focus. 

NODOP provides well-being to their teams: the time to let them focus on their purpose, the support that makes sure all practical needs are met, the space, location best fit for the job and the food - "Happy tummy, happy team" is one of NODOP' slogans.

Alain Proust: Cape Town advertising photographers

"My location work is counterbalanced by technical studio photography, like pack shots and liquid in motion photography which are very challenging but satisfying experiments.

Advertising work is intense and very demanding but short-lived especially these days, for social media productions. As a creative person, I’ve had to find a way to express myself on a longer-term and have longer-lasting projects. That is how I found myself an author (photographically) of around 30 publications on different subjects (cookbooks, colonial architecture, Winelands etc..).

I am sometimes asked if I intend to retire and my answer is: retire from what? I am living my passion and it has been a fantastic journey so far. Why end it?"

Carla McMahon Photography: Cape Town still life photographers

Carla is a still life photographer focusing on food, beverage, product, interiors and advertising.  She is equally at home, working from her studio in the beautiful Robertson Wine Valley, South Africa or on location anywhere in the world.

Carla loves to create movement in an image, whether it be liquid splashes, billowing smoke or objects flying through the air, and she aims to bring life to each of her still life images. She is a skillful retoucher and is able to take an image successfully through the stages of conceptualisation to completion.