Cape Town is a legendary place for production, gypsy house music, kiteboarding with sharks, paragliding to the bar, and of course giant sprinting chickens. If planning a trip there, please call Sniper Twins and we will come along as your body guards. You may need us at night.

There is another, even more epic, version of the above commercial but its not quite ready yet so please enjoy the lite version.

Commercial created for BBH Singapore and Mentos.

Agency: BBH Asia Pacific
Creative Director: Steve Elrick / Ashidiq Ghazali
Art Director : Adrian Chan
Copywriter : Douglas Hamilton
Agency Producer : Kristin Armstrong

Production Company: Independent
Director(s): Sniper Twins
Producer: Dickie Jeffares
Executive Producers: Jani Guest/Dan Dickenson
Service Production Company: Monkey Films

Director of Photography: Terence Maritz
Editor: Luke Luke Apteker @ Priest
Original Music: David Perlick-Molinari @ Youtoocanwoo
VFX/Flame: Black Ginger, Cape Town

To promote MTV’s foray back into scripted comedy, we created a campaign referred to internally as “The Moment of Awe.”  The spot show’s the show’s lead character, RJ Berger, having his pants yanked down in front of the school and all the reactions from the cast in super slow motion.  We were so lucky to get the whole cast for the shoot.  It took a lot of prep to block it all out, and we shot during one 14-hr day.  If you prefer bigger size, here’s a larger Quicktime.  And here is the 30-sec version and the 45-sec version.  It was a really fun project, thank you everyone involved.  Enjoy all the project details below and for background and behind the scenes of the show visit the Hard Times home page.

Credits:
Director(s): Sniper Twins’s Barry Flanagan & Seyi Peter-Thomas
Producer: Caroline O’Hare
Production Supervisor: Christopher Daviau
Director of Photography: Chuck Ozeas
Production Designer: Dan Butts
Gaffer: Chris Conway
Key Grip: Jeff Beebe
Wardrobe: Nancea Ceo
Editor: Kim O’Donnell
Original Music composition [on 30sec & 45sec]: David Perlick-Molinari
Color Correct: Lenny Mastrandrea @ Nice Shoes
Visual Effects & Flame: Mark Szumski @ Click3x

Additional Shoot Info & Extra Material:
Initial pitch
First boards
Animatic
Bird’s eye view [made with army men.]
Script supervisor’s boards
Set Photos
Camera: Phantom 65
Lenses: Hawk V-Series Anamorphic

Awards:
Promax DBA – Gold
Creativity - Gold

Press:
People Magazine
Ads of The World
The Creative Brief
Advertolog

About a year after Computer Friends we finally have a follow up video we’re proud of.  Shot in Hershey PA at the Hershey West Factory with real Hershey employees [some ex execs, several factory workers, and some corporate folks as well.]

Lyrics:
Sniper MySpace Blog

Notable Press:

Patriot News
VideoStatic
Tubefilter

Full Cast & Credits from the video:

Written/Directed/Musicted by
Sniper Twins

Produced by Big Producer Money Man
Adam Palmer

Hershey’s Visionary Geniuses
David Forney
Christine Wiker

Lyrics & Other Words written by
Sniper Twins
Rob Collier - A.K.A The Head Chocolate Inspector Man

Photography Directed by Director of Photography
Jason Vandermer

Edited by Editor
Adam Robinson @ The Whitehouse Post / NYC

Insane 3D Visual Effects
Spek Studios NYC
Rene Avalos
Dasm Diaz
Rene “Ronin” Lesmes
Chris Monaco
Federico Rohas Lavado
Fernando Reyes
Camilia “Coco” Wycoco
Navjit “Nahgee” Saini
Daniel “Dred” Marques

Colorists
Matthew Rosenblum
Fernando Reyes

Wizard of Audio Engineering/Sound designing/
Audio mixing/Mastering/Additional musical elements
David Perlick-Molinari @ You Too Can Woo / NYC

Soothing Femme Vocals in Chorus Provided by
Deidre Muro

Factory Crew
Head Factory Big Boss Chief
Philomena Krosmico
Versatile Jack-of-all-Trades Helper Galore
Maureen Kepner

Prop Support
Ken Espenshade & Manufacturing Staff
Built the Chocolate Shooting Canon
Tom Smullen
Wrapping Signs
Jon TenBrock
Mike Smotherman
Terry Gingrich
Rob Collier’s Hershey’s Shirt
Karen Bingaman

Cast
Exec chocolate boss – Bill Keena
Exec right hand man – Craig Schott
Exec purple shirt – Al Leininger
Exec in red tie – Tony Pingitore
Exec tall man – Tom Szeltner
Exec front right in rolling chairs – Brenda Albright
Exec in beard net – “Super” Pete Arbogast
Exec furthest right in boardroom – Angela Williams
Exec 2nd furthest from right in boardroom – Joanna Ardrey
Exec red sweats – Carrie Custer
Exec grey suit – Kathy Hostetter
Exec holding foil in last shot – Michelle Peters
Head of Security – John Baker
Male Factory Onlooker – Gary Calloway
Female Factory Onlooker – Cheryl Cramer

Strong Steadicam man
Philip Martinez

1st AC pulling focus wirelessly
Gordon Arkenberg

Key Grip
Matt Staples

Gaffer
Derek Gross

Swing
Kyle Simmons

Full Throttle Production Assistants
Gavin Compton
Vanessa Edberg

Big Thanks to…
HERSHEY’S
for supporting creativity!

Special Thanks
Young woman who asked for our autographs
All the Hershey West Factory workers who were so kind to allow us to shoot while they worked
Executive cast who came early, wore a suit, but didn’t get on camera [Lauren Lacey, Angela Mitchell, Rick Russell]

Camera (Varicam) provided by
Abel Cine Tech

Expendables provided by
Wits End

We created this “viral” for the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world.  It was quite a wacky and fun project to work on.  See below for all the behind the scenes footage on how we did it, and all the credits and special features.

Special Features:
View Large Quicktime
Behind the Scenes Shoot and CGI [coming soon...]
Sniper Twins Interview about this “Viral” [coming soon...]

Press/blogs:
Gothamist
AdFreak

Credits:
Producer: Adam Palmer
VFX: Spek Studios
Actress: Paula
Fillipio: Grant Anderson
Camera: Jason Vandermier

Special Thanks:
Christine Wiker
David Forney

The music video has received 750K+ views and counting on Youtube.   Thank you all of our loyal friends who helped make it happen, and thank you to the hundreds of blogs and commenters online that talked about it so positively and helped spread the word. Lyrics can be found on our Myspace page. High-res video can be purchased at stackthememory.

Notable Press:
Tech Crunch
Geekologie
Hypebot
Sonic Scoop

Interviews:
Quirkee Interview
Globo G1 Interview (Brazil)

Notable Response Videos:
Best Buy Geek Squad Video Response

Credits:
Directed/Shot/Produced: Sniper Twins
Music/Beat: Sniper Twins
Lyrics: Sniper Twins & Rob Collier
Edit: Adam Robinson @ The Whitehouse / NYC
Assistant Edit: Travis Shrader
GFX in cyberworld: Michael Klausmeier
GFX in officeworld: Sniper Twins
Color Correct: Sal Mafitano @ The Mill / NYC
Music Production/Sound Design: David Perlick-Molinari @ YouTooCanWoo

Cast:
—-Office Personnel—-
Devon: Terrance Maddox
Headset dude: Matt Jablin
British man w/ mug: Seyi Peter-Thomas
Only femme in whole video: Elizabeth G. Wilson
White shirt w/ black Hair: Michael Bellino
DMV’s neighbor: Evan Silver
White shirt w/ blonde hair: Eric Bert
Head in cubicle: Taylor Black
Boss: Chris Snyder
—-Tekserve Personnel—-
Salmon shirt: Rob Erickson
White shirt: Thomas Arnold
—-Cyberworld Adventurers—-
Umbrella man: Gary Clark Jr.

Camera Package: Panasonic DVX100a

Locations:
Former mtvU office space
Former mtvU studio space
Tekserve

Winner of Cable POP Award for Outstanding PSA Campaign. Here is a little press about it.  And click the thumbnail below for a link to the other spot from the campaign.

DP: Maryse Alberti
Edit: Tim Kafalas
Audio: David Hnatiuk
Prod: Jere Orlandi
Actors: Jonesy