week 18 - it's over...

edit of material about bijenkorf christmas decoration


having worked only two days this week, i haven't done really much. i finished the edit of the video you see above. it's an impression of what happened intrducing christmas in the bijenkorf. tomorrw is christmas eve, so i decided to end my intership now, so i can travel to bochum on time tomorrow, to spend christmas with my parents.
also a little goodbye and christmas party was held for me, with cake, i got a nice present and afterwards we went to a bar and had a couple of drinks. that was fun.
only that i had planned to take the last train to gronau, which didn't work out that good. i missed it, and had to take one in the morning instead. whatever.
in conclusion, i am really happy about having done that internship. i learned really a lot, not only about working but about myself aswell. also i am sure now that a job like that is right for me an that my chice of studies were good. a more detailed report will follow!
merry christmas and a happy new year everyone!

week 17 - the end is near

promo for the film love actually

my internship is nearly over. that is sad. it was really great to work here. but i am aswell looking forward to seeing all friends at aki again :)
one of my last jobs was the sms promo above. its for the film love actually, and the whole film was given as material for it. making the edit was fun, and the graphics aswell. i did it completely on my own, auke only helped me fine tuning it a little in the end.
i also made another splitscreen thing and some bijenkorf pages, like last week, but that isn't that interesting i guess.

week 16

this was the week of the splitscreens. splitscreens is, when a show is about to start and people force you to see another advertisemnt before. so first you see a short trailer of a show, then the ad-spot and then the show starts. all in 20 secs. it's kind of new for hollandcentraal, because before rtl used to make them on their own, but now let a third party make it.
the only more or less creative thing about making such a split screen, is the short trailer. you have to make that ten second edit yourself, from the whole show. for the one above for example, the whole two hour film was given and i should make the trailer from it. the rest is just filling in the title, putting the whole thing together with the ad and get it on a tape.
i think i made three or four of these commercials this week. the one above is just an example.

week 15

this week was busy busy busy. i worked on the bijenkorf-animations, but they stil aren't final so it's gonna be next week i guess.
also there was another promo for rtl boulevard to be made , what was my job aswell, because they liked the previous one i made (about that "body of lies" movie) so much, that they want all promos in that style from now on. that is good.
i thought it was simple to just pick the old one and change it little to fit the new topic, which is a britney spears concert in london, but it wasn't that simple. there was only extremely few material to make an edit of, so i had to fill nearly the whole clip with vector illustrations, to match the rtl boulevard style. but i am really satisfied with the result, and so is rtl. watch it above.

week 14

promo for christmas episode of nigellas kitchen




christmas is about to come, or at least that's how it seems, because now we already got a lot of christmas assignments. for example the one you see above, a christmas-style sms-promo for the tv show nigellas kitchen. was fun to do that one. auke helped me a little with that one. biggest problem with that one were those bowls that stick in each other, expand, and go back again, because there was only one picture of them, showing them put together. thanks to my incredible photoshop skills i managed to recreate them apart from each other ;)
also there are new "bumpers" (something like trailers) for the upcoming christmas styling of the bijenkorf to be made. i already started with that, but i'm gonna upload the results, when they are all done, next week or so.
and then, end of the week something special i was looking forward to all the time happened, COMPANY OUTING! YYAAAAY!!
we were wondering a lot what to do this friday, but then we concluded that it would be the best to go to HOLLAND CASINO IN AMSTERDAM!! it was just great. additionally nils came along to visit hollandcentraal and joined in going to the casino. it was so much fun. paul invited us to the casino, we were introduced in black jack and roulette by a personal attendant, and had a starting capital of 30 euros in chips. just great. afterwards we went to eat togehther. great start into the weekend.