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Behind the Scenes: In My Shoes

Stephen_Wright — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:35:10 +0000

The LPfilms team has recently finished working with the BBC on a series of educational films titled ‘In My Shoes’ which follows the lives of children in China. Shooting took the team to Guanxi, Yunan, Hubei, Anhui and Shanghai over a four week period. Special thanks to Director Julika Kennaway, cameraman Brian Uranovsky and producer Jacqui Doughty and everyone at Walk Tall Media LTD. For more pictures check out our Weibo page.

Behind the Scenes: MARK shoot in Moganshan

Stephen_Wright — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:04:30 +0000

Last weekend a crew of seventeen took to the hills of Moganshan to shoot the flashback sequences for our upcoming short film titled MARK. A special thanks to Mark and Joanna Kitto of Moganshan Lodge for their hospitality.

Behind the Scenes: Nutcracker Magic

Stephen_Wright — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:28:58 +0000

Some pictures from our Nutcracker Magic shoot inside the Shanghai Cultural Square Theatre. LPfilms was there to capture the full dress rehearsal of the Nutcracker Magic show. We also got some B-roll backstage footage for a ‘making of’ documentary we are producing.

New Website Goes Live

Stephen_Wright — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:50:11 +0000

LPfilms is happy to announce the launch of our new website. The site has been built completely in house by one of our own staff members, Stephen Wright, and is powered by WordPress. This interface is more flexible than our original website and will allow us to keep the site more up to date with our latest news and videos. So what else is new?

Homepage

We wanted people to see our showreel as soon as they landed on the site so we’ve moved it to the homepage. Below the showreel are our showcase videos, ones that we feel particularly proud of. We didn’t want the site to feel static so we also have the latest blog entry displayed on the home page.

Our Work

We’ve reformatted all of our old videos and added some new ones to work cohesively with the site’s built-in video player. You can navigate to these via the Our Work button in the top right hand menu.

Blog

We’ve included a blog section where we will be posting behind the scenes photos as well as news of upcoming events or releases.

Sidebar

We’ve also integrated a sidebar into many pages of the site. This sidebar is home to a live feed from our twitter stream, links to both Chinese and Western social media and an introduction to our staff members.

We are now working on a Chinese version so stay tuned for that.

If you do find any typos, broken links or errors on the new site we’d really appreciate it if you email us and let us know.

A-Zenith

Stephen_Wright — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:39:50 +0000

LPfilms produced a short corporate video for A-Zenith featuring several of their stores around Shanghai. The Shanghai regional manager, Annie Gao, discusses the brand, their sales and what they offer clients.

Chelini

Stephen_Wright — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:06:11 +0000

LP Films produced a 2-minute film featuring Gaston Chelini, the owner of Italian furniture brand Chelini, talking about the history of his company and its development in China.

Natuzzi Hangzhou

Stephen_Wright — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:58:12 +0000

LP Films created two videos for Italian furniture manufacturer, Natuzzi. Each of them featured a different local designer and a piece of work they have produced for Natuzzi. The second designer is Qiu Zhijie.

Natuzzi Shanghai

Stephen_Wright — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:55:25 +0000

LP Films created two videos for Italian furniture manufacturer, Natuzzi. Each of them featured a different local designer and a piece of work they have produced for Natuzzi. The first designer is Lv Yongzhong.

Howard Johnson

Stephen_Wright — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:31:47 +0000

LP Films created a complete Channel 1 video presentation for Howard Johnson’s flagship hotel in Shanghai.

I Spy A City

Stephen_Wright — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:36:32 +0000

I Spy A City is a short collaborative film made by Joe Nafis of ChinaTimelapse and Arthur Jones of LPfilms. It’s recently been featured in a number of short film competitions.

Our film is a meditation on a city, viewed from far above. We imagined a vast urban space, with its huge tower blocks, its monumental infrastructure, and its human population. We watched traffic pound the roads, and vast crowds move across public squares. And we wondered what would happen if we sped things up, watching minutes or hours of time pass in seconds, or stretched seconds into minutes. Seeing a city from far away, or at unusual speeds, gives it an alien quality. Movements that from close up seem individual and distinct suddenly seem mysteriously controlled – as if there is a more powerful mind at work imposing its will. The effect is to take something that we feel we understand, and view it through a new and utterly different lens. In the poem that overlays the film, we imagine this lens is shared by a couple in love, seeing the world this way for the first time, so that their sharing of the city is a part of their love, in all its mystery. And we wonder, is love too outside of their control?