stagereel

internship reel from Jan Reineke on Vimeo.

some sort of a compilation of work i did during my internship.

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.

week 13

video about to come

i started this week really nice. monday was the "NPOX Festival" (means something like "nederlands publieke omroepers crossing border festival"). it's a festival for people working for the dutch broadcasting television and radio, with a lot of lectures about for example new media, internet, and with dicussion rounds, and some other cool activities, like ...uhm... playing videogames and eating and stuff.
the reason for me to be there was that hollandcentraal had designed the forming of the whole thing, like posters, infographics and everything. my job was to film the whole thing, for hollandcentraal, to have a sort of registration of it for both archive and portfolio. i went there with frank and ... filmed. additionally i went to some interesting lectures about new "platforms" (media you could say) and there was a big party afterwards, with lots of free drinks and food. nice. let's just say i enjoyed myself.
the rest of the week, among other things, i made a short edit of all the material, trying to show most of what hollandcentraal had designed for the festival. it was not short enough so roy made the final edit and fine-tuned it. and that is what you see above.

week twelve

you'd better not send an sms by now, it'd be going nowhere...

again a rather calm week. but new for me was, that i could help colegue auke with a sms promo he was making for some show on RTL. it's for RTL Boulevard, where the intorduced the upcoming film "Body of Lies". the show also included one of these sms-lotterys, and that's what we had to make the clip for. auke had already made a short edit from a trailer of the movie, and my job was to make a short animation at the beginning of the spot, about the trip you're able to win. that was fun. you can watch it above. i tried to copy that shiny RTL Boulevard look, so that the promo ebeds in the show.
i'm looking forward to seeing my work on national television :D

week eleven

hm. nothing too special this week. happens.
i mostly made some of the bijenkorf pages, but it's strangely calm for this time of the year. i guess closer to christmas that's about to change.

week ten

making of "KUS - shaken, trillen, beven" - warning - LARGE file

the song you hear is what the video is for, you can see the result here


time goes by so fast here. really.
so, you could call this week the "aftermath" of last week. having shot the music video on friday last week, a whole lotta work results from that event. my main task this week was to edit the "making of" to the music video. it's probably just for holland centraal as a sort of recognition, but it's a nice job for me to do.
i also was busy with assorting the tons of photos i made at the video-shoot. i had to make one selection to be sent to EMI (sony music label, client), and one for the holland centraal family album, and of course, one for myself :)
for therest i did some of the usual stuff. pages and so.

week nine

FashionFlash

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Music Video Shooting







this week was great! really much nice things to work on. first of all this week, we filmed the bijenkorf oktober fashion flash was. every month the bijenkorf has somthing like that. it's a presentation of upcoming fashion for in-store tv's, you could call it some sort of moving catalogue. so on monday a model was there that we filemd wearing dfferent sets of clothes, in different poses. we did that in the office of holland centraal, they have everything necessary there to do so. light, camera, a treadmill... yeah right, a treadmill. they have that for these "catwalk-shots", like the model walking towards you and stuff. nice effect.
ok, so we filmed everthing on monday and i had time till thursday to make a montage of that. i tried to pretty much use the same style as in the catalogue itself. afterwards michiel added the text. the bijenkorf liked it and so did i.
and then came friday. after having done two music videos for that girl-band "lisa, amy and shelly" their managers (EMI, music label of sony), asked holland centraal to make a music video for "KUS", a somewhat more popular and further grown up group, and today was the shooting of their clip. and even better, i was asked to come and help! awesome!
the group consists of four nice girls from the age of about 24 (i guess), and the clip was shot in a big gym in amersfoort. that was one really great experience.
ok, most of the time i was busy carrying around lights and camera equipment, but having participated at all was and really good and informative for me. and one other task of me was to film the making of! so cool!
all the time i wasn't busy with carrying stuff around i filmed what was goining on, and if i wasn't filming, i was taking photos (brought my camera, naturally). i will also be the one mounting the making of, so the clip will follow as soon as it's done.
is also was one long day. a lot of work such a video shooting, that's for sure.

week eight

click it!

above you can clearly see what kept me busy this week. our account executive at the bijenkorf liked the countenance-clips i made for the three crazy days so much, that he offered me the job to make animations for the upcoming month theme. the bijenkorf has a certain theme every month, and for oktober it's "boys will be boys". i was given some illustrator files with graphics of cars, motors and other cool stuff that i shoud make some nice animations from. nice assignment i'd say.
i picked the three best of those files and started working on that. the problem with those vector artworks was, that they weren't made for being animted, they were only made for looking good printed. so i had to split them into groups layers and clipping masks in illustrator before being able to animate them. took a while, detailed as they are. and that created the next problem. i had only three days for all three of the animations. so i had to work the evenings aswell. but that's not that bad, if you work over regular time, you can eat on costs of holland centraal, and they make a good pizza on the opponent site of the street :P
my colleague auke also liked the graphics of the clip in the middle so much, that he wanted to participate in creating that clip aswell. so he made the intro where everything pops up and i made the sequence where the camera dives into the artwork.
it was really fun to do, and i am as happy with the results as the bijenkorf-people.
the rest of the wek wasn't too interesting, bijenkorf pages mostly.

week seven

photo(shopped) by martina

anyways, this weekend including monday i went to visit enschede, as anounced in the earlier post. i worked last saturday, so monday was spare. that was good in so far, that i could participate at one twentse welle projecten pool meeting (some sort of school assignment that is). it was good for me to see how far everything already was, not having been there before due to my work experience. additionally, i could "help" by drawing some figures for my groups illustration. not that that help was needed, my group members anika and andree left some for me so i could take part aswell. i appreciate that.
i also could help the group of the modern times (anke, martina and daniel) with their project a little. before i already ha played a little role in one of the movies they are going to present in the museum, and they needed some additional photos for that. i liked helping them, was fun. the photo above is for a part of their exhibition.
back i hilversum i had a quite untroubled week, ok except friday, later more about that. on monday i helped my boss, paul, a little with shooting a short scene for a commercial. i only did some lighting and stuff, and the scene was really short and done fastly, but i was nice to help. it was for a commercial about "mooi" (dutch for beautiful), a chain of makeup-stores.
this week i also learned how to "dump" movies onto digibeta tapes. digibeta is the most-used system for TV. might come in handy though.
and then came friday. on firday it was my job to record a digibeta tape with a short clip someone had made the day before, who i promised i would help him out with that. he wasn't there that day. i should just grab a rendered file he had started to render the day before and record it onto the tape. sounds simple.
what happened was, that his computer crashed over night. the file was gone. i didn't have his account data to log in and render it again, and some other things went wrong.
it took me the whole day trying to solute these problems. afterwards we even had to record it two more times because somthing with the sound was wrong. in the end we were half a day over the deadline. stress pure, but again i learned a lot of that: finish your stuff on time, YOURSELF.

week six

the time for the "twentse welle" assignment is running out! now, so short before the museums opening, i have even less time, due to the "three crazy days", that caused hell of a crazy week for me. "three crazy days" is the name of the bijenkorf's year's biggest sales-promotion, what obviously causes a lot work for holland cantraal aswell, being it's main client. and so a lot to do for me to do aswell, but not that it bothers me or something, on the contrary, some of the assignments were really fun to do. i have made a flash-compilation of some of the clips i made while the three crazy days (my favorites you could say).
the upper three are a sort of trailers, that were played during the three crazy days. the one in the lower left corner aswell, but that one was played before, including the text. the one on the upper right wasn't made by me, but i thought they belonged together somehow. what i consider special about them, is that the only given content for creating them were three photos. unlayered. just flat tiff pictures. so, they had to be cut apart before, layered, and then in such a way, that you had to add some background, that wasn't there, to make it look 3D. sounds complicating, and that's what it was. took a while. then it was animted with some camera movement in after effects.
the row in the middle was fun to do aswell. the assignment for me was to do something nice for the bijenkorf's employees, that would be shown in the cafeterias and stuff. no matter what. just some ideas of nice countenance-slogans. so that's what i did, something nice for them.
because these days also found place on saturday, i had to work that day exeptionally, too. me and collegue ha to prepare some scedules and "last-minute-pages" the whole time during these days. crazy week though.
good about that is, that therefore i have a free day on monday, and i'm planning to visit enschede to see i if can help at the twentse welle someway. looking forward to it.

week five

there weren't many diferent tasks for me this week. on monday i jumped in for frank by making a small adjustment in a webflyer he made for the NPOX festival. the layout is a lot about text-balloons, and the client wanted some additional, special balloons to be added to that weblyer, and because frank in the aki to teach people, i did that. it's one balloon with a crown and text about the NPOX-Price, and another triangular one with "work in progress in it", like a sign (UPDATE: they even made it on to the official website and some posters by now, a bit down the site on the left). i like the layout a lot, so it was fun.
i spent the rest of the week with preparations for the "drie dwaze dagen" (three crazy days). a big special offer campaign that finds place at the bijenkorf every year, from 2nd till 4th of oktober. this year is 25th anniversary of this event, so it's gonna be big. i worked on some standart "pages" for it, but also i made two of three "bumpers". bumpers are short films that illustrate the whole event, like trailers for it. i'm gonna present them with some additional stuff i made after next week, because there will be a lot more when those three days are over i presume.
work is getting pretty tough these days, because i have to spend all (AALLLL!) my free time working on my animation for the twentse welle, and helping with the illustrations whereever i can. i won't complain, i should have known.

week four

before starting with my internship, i arranged with my current boss that i would get one week "holidays" at the beginning of oktober. i did so because i thought that this was the time when the preparations for the exhibition in the twentse well would start seriously.
anyways, i went to enschede/gronau for one week therefore, trying to help with the preparations. i should better have picked one week later, because then icould have helped with the actual constucting, but it wasn't for nothing either. this way i helped a lot with modeling for my groups illustrations. that means i posed in a lot different poses, was phootographed and lateron outlined and painted over in illustrator. above some examples (farmer illustrated by anika, nazi by me, AND i have to say that it's a historical museum, and that is the only reason why i'm dressed like a nazi). brought my group a whole step further i think.
it also was nice seeing my flatmates and people.

week three

i started this week with a typical "let the work experiencer do that"-job. making a logo for the neighbour from the other side of the street. he runs some ink-crtridge shop and want's to expand to "recyle-point". for ink-cartridges i guess. so i did that. worldshaking.
the rest of the week i mostly made these "pages" for the Bijenkorf instore-tv. above you see a typical example for one those pages. for generating them you mostly use templates. sometimes you have to exempt photos. not so thrilling.
i also sorted out some of the last weeks photos, from that bijenkorf-presentation, because some people there wanted have them aswell.
i also helped a by adjusting a "promo", a short spot for some tv rogram where you can win something.
oh, and i started editing a short report about the opening of a new restaurant in the amsterdam department of the bijenkorf. it's supposed for the employees of that enterprise to be seen on the internal website. i like that, i am fond of film editing.

some good news about my lodging: i have advanced from caravan to a room in a shared house yesterday! if that goes on weekly as in did, i'll be living in a palace when i end my work experience. it's nice, i share this story of the house with students only. they study at the hku (hoogeschool voor de kunsten utrecht), and they are really friendly. everything shared is surprisingly clean, good flatmates therefore. only on the upper floor it's not that tidy, there live some polish workmen, like in most shared houses here, and they don't really seem to care. anyways, i'm happy. only missing some furniture.

week two

- Bijenkorf-selection of the photos

this was one busy week for having started only the week before. on monday i was at the beehive headquaters (beehive is what bijenkorf means) again to prepare the rest of the presentation for the big management meeting on tuesday. among other things i cut and assembled an interview for that. i like that.
because having worked prety muh for it, i was allowed to join the big meeting on tuesday, what i did with pleasure, even if that ment having to stand up early. the presentation itself wasn't that interesting, a lot numbers and schedules and stuff, but the place where it found place and the effort spend for it were definately worth looking at. a very stylish building (ok, only the interior) with a lot of nice rentable rooms. there also was free food ;)
the photos above were taken there.
the rest of the week i could help roy (ex aki student working there) with a musicvideo he was working on. it's for the dutch children's girl group "Lisa, Amy and Shelly". not exactly my favorite type of music but well nice having participated there. my tasks where mostly keying stuff, and i also filmed some background shots together with paul, my boss. the scene where the one girl pretends jogging in the woods, about half the clip's length, is done by me.
by th way, i changed my current lodging. i went from tent upwards to caravan! not that i dislike my tent, but it's slowly getting cold and a real bed is nice aswell. so i rented a stationary caravan at the same camping site. here i have everything i need, even internet. a large step forwrd on my way to a room.

week one

if some people missed me at the aki, that is because at the moment i am doing a "work experience" (zu deutsch "praktikum", en in nederlands "stage") at holland centraal. that is a small but fine motion graphics and concept design agency in hilversum, NL. six firendly people work there regularly, and mostly they have one or two "work experiencers" (??? no idea how to phrase that). one of their main clients is "deBijenkorf" a great dutch department store chain (they do all that in-store tv and stuff), but they also work a lot for tv or make musicvideos.
the office they have is great. a nice piece of architecture, and it was created by someone who was still studyig at that time, really remarkable.
i have to admit that i find it pretty adventurous here. going to some foreign country (ok, maybe not that foreign to me) completely on your own without knowing anyone, just to work there and see how it goes. what is even more adventurous is my current doss. i wasn't aware, that it is SO hard to get a room or something here, and maybe didn't start searching early enough (like a month before starting). that is why i didn't have a place to sleep when i came here, but i found an easy solution. camping. in my free time i do it for fun, so it's not that bad. additionally, the camping site where i've put up my tent is only 15 min by bike to work.
enough about the local circumstances. the first week was pretty easy, first of all i should get to know the way of wor here. so i was told a bit about programs, structures, styles and stuff like that. also i had a look at some work they made, and checked what clients they work for. michiel, works quite a while here i think, most of the time helps me and shows me around. he does most of the work for deBijenkorf, so that is what i will mostly work for too, i guess.
later that week i already did some actual work, making some "pages" that can be seen in the stores of deBijenkorf. they call these short films, that inform you about special offers and things, so. in addition i helped by preparing a presentation for a big bijenkorf management meeting, some sort of information event about the upcoming season. for that i went to the "DeBijenkorf Headqauters" in amsterdam (not as spectecular as it sounds) toghter with michiel.
a bit difficult for me is that i am taking part in the twentse welle projecten pool assignment for aki aswell, what brings me some extra work hours in the evenings, and eats up this weekend (and the ones following aswell i guess). but i like the assignment and want to finish my animation as good as i can.
[photos by marathon]