The new Sunset Swimear catalogue shoot was recently shot on location in Cape Town on Camps Bay and Clifton Beaches. After a wide model casting over email and internet and then a live casting at the Bigsky studio, well known model Nicole Meyer from Outlaws was selected. The Photographer (Baris Aktinmaz) opted to shoot on location in Camps Bay and Clifton in the early morning and late afternoon to maximise on the…
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US Polo shot their latest fashion catalogue at Val De Vie Polo Estate in Cape Town, South Africa. The location leant itself perfectly to the shoot offering an enormous variety of horse and polo related backdrops and paraphernalia to highlight the internationally recognised fashion clothing. Models from the following Cape Town agencies were featured in this campaign: Boss Models, Fanjam, Outlaws, Full Circle,Pure Managment The shoot was shot by photographer Baris Aktinmaz, Styling was done…
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Studio W Woolworths’ premium in-house brand, is quickly becoming the fashion benchmark for local highstreet brands in South Africa. Below we showcase the most recent winter campaign. Stills and Video shot and Directed by New York photographer Nagi Sakai represented by DeFacto. International Stylist: Vittoria Cerciello Art Direction: Fred Benistant and Michael Carter The Models for Studio W are carefully selected and only the top local and international models are chosen to…
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This beautiful children’s fashion shoot was shot by Ian Boddy for Mothercare and Early Learning Center on location in Cape Town, using the cutest and most talented kiddy models in Cape Town. The casting calls went out and we ended up seeing around 500 models of which the best were chosen to take part in this annual shoot for the ELC and Mothercare catalogues. Agency: Thornycroft Bell Please click here…
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Pierre Cardin came to Cape Town to shoot their new range. The exquisite shoot was shot by Nihat Odabasi utilizing the best and most beautiful locations in Cape Town. Cape Town’s city streets added an air of Europe’s old world sophistication, Kalk bay gave the shoot a feeling of the exotic Caribbean and the elegant shots at Chez Nous (location company: www.amazingspaces.co.za) made the shoot sparkel with new world charm. Styling was done by Gunes Isik,…
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Cacharel recently came to Cape Town to shoot their new mens range in the new Stefan Anthoni House, which is with location company – Amazing Spaces. The House offered the perfect background and surroundings for a Brand like Cacharel. Cacharel’s new range was photographed by Baris Aktinmaz and Art directed by Neslihan Kivrak. The House’s spectacular open plan design ties the green courtyard on the one side through the dining…
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Bigsky Productions recently did a great summer campaign with top model Naty Chabnenko from Women Management. The campaign featured the summer range, focussing on trends of Tropical and Ethnic Tribal for retailer Woolworths. Click below to see the commercials. See above pic with some of the local Male Models from left to right: Piero (Pure Management), Michael (Vision Models) & Ibrahim (Fusion Models). CLICK HERE OR THE ABOVE IMAGE TO…
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CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO ……… Have a look at Bigsky Productions latest TVC . Character TEE’s for character Kids was certainly the case for this Woolworths TVC showcasing what great kiddy talent South Africa and Cape Town has to offer. This commercial was complimented by the various skilled inputs from different departments. Creative Direction & Concept : Fred Benistant & Michael Carter Offline and Online edit: Priest production Animation…
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This fashion editorial was Produced by Bigsky for Sunday Magazine. Sunday Magazine is one of Australia’s most read weekly suplements – reaching over 3 million people every week. Sunday Magazine came to South Africa to interview Abbey Lee Kershaw (Click here to see the video). As They were already in South Africa they decided to shoot a fashion editorial, with a distincly african feel. We travelled to Aquila Game Reserve…
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Bigsky Productions recently produced a short TV commercial promoting Woolworths upcoming make-up and beauty sale. The TV Commercial was shot in the Bigsky Studio Cape Town, DOP was Simon Barnes using the Red Camera system and post production by We Heart Media and music by Markus Wormstorm . Click the image below to see the TV commercial:
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Henne Magazine came to Cape Town to make the use of our many beautiful and diverse locations, excellent model selection and perfect summer weather. CLICK ON BELOW PICTURES to have a closer look at the individual editorials: The editorials shot by Photographer: Morton Qvale Hair: Massimo Spazzoli from Six Love Styling & Make-Up: Pauline Naerholm The Beach Story Model: Sabina from Max Models The Garden Story: Model: Jessica from Max Models…
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We recently had the pleasure of providing Australian Sunday Magazine with production support in Cape Town. Photographer Nick Leary shot this editorial in our studio with top model Abbey Lee Kershaw. To see images click HERE. Abbey Lee has recently been in Southern Africa shooting the new Mad Max Film. Fashion Director Inez Garcia styled the shoot, Victoria Baron did Hair and Make Up and Chad Leon was the Photo…
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This is the latest Re Jeans Commercial which was shot on location out near Barrydale in the Klein Karoo, which is in the interior of South Africa. One of our location base camps was the famous Ronnies Sex Shop. May/June is a fairly unreliable weather month in South Africa and so this area was specifically selected due to it having fairly low rainfall patterns over these months. Another dimension…
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Gedeon, a french TV production company, chose Bigsky Productions as their local production partner to shoot this in TV3 commercial in South Africa. Made up of many small rectangles to form a larger picture, the commercial is intended to evoke feeling of summer – highlighting the european flower season. This was easily achieved with Cape Town’s large variety of locations and excellent weather. Nicolas Thépot (director) Michel Bousquet (cameraman) François…
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Redwood Publishing and Jess Henley approached Bigsky Productions recently, to produce the Boots Health& Beauty Magazine editorials in Cape Town. Boots is Britain’s leading Health and Beauty retailer. Summer in Cape Town is from October to May, during this period Europe and the northern Hemisphere are smothered by the cold winter weather. This combined with excellent locations, beautiful and talented models as well as excellent production support makes Cape Town an incredibly popular destination…
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Woolworths and Bigsky Productions once again reunites South Africa’s young and cool musical artists with its trendy RE brand. Featuring: Face of Africa Winner: Chloe Munton. Singers: Chiano Sky and Sannie Fox, Farryl Purkis. From the band Reburth: Nathi Louw, Itumeleng Mothei, Thapelo Mohai, Oscar Lemphane and Beryl &Taryl Masina. Along with all the local talent Woolworths flew in international reknowned model duo Christian Pedersen (Ford Models – New…
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Bigsky Productions is a company that facilitates any photo or film shoot. Italian Glamour shot this beautiful editorial shoot in Zanzibar. This editorial was shot by Photographer Jonas Bresnan. Styling by Ada Kokosar and the model is Lucette van Beek. Bigsky Productions helped produce this shoot on the small East African Island of Zanzibar. Utilizing local knowledge to source equipment, locations as well as general production co-ordination, Bigsky helped support the production of this exquisite editorial story. Click below Images to see the Shoot:…
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Bigsky Productions is based on the Balearic Island of Mallorca. Palma Mallorca is one of the premium shoot locations in Europe and is host to hundreds of film and stills shoots throughout the summer. This week’s Location Of The Week Bigsky Production’s presenting the magnificent SeaCube House in Mallorca.This house has is sleek and modern, it sits on the top of a ridge overlooking the sea – resulting in breath taking…
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Galeries Lafayette shot their latest editorial at a beautiful beach house just outside Cape Town. Click here to see the behind the scenes images Click here to view Bigsky Productions Beach House locations. Click here for the final Images from the Shoot The beautiful prestine beaches are some of the most popular locations in Cape Town. In addition to the beaches Cape Town has a great selection of Beach…
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ASOS magazine shot with Bigsky Productions in Cape Town in the architiple 1970’s house called El Dejo. Click here to view location. ASOS.com is one of the leading global online-only fashion and beauty retailers and its ASOS magazine is now 18th most read magazine in the UK with a readership of 450 000 people. The editorial was shot by Alex Sainsbury and styled by Richard Sloan, the model was Alessandra Cirotto…
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BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO OF SYNSAM IN CAPE TOWN Synsam is one of Skandanavia’s leading Glasses retailer. Based in Norway, Sweden and Finland. This year they decided to use Bigsky Productions to shoot their advertising campaign in Cape Town, due to it’s wonderful crisp light and cloudless blue skies. Based out of Camps bay in a beautiful villa, Synasam was able to make the best out of Cape Town. This Advertising Campaign was shot by Morton…
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Mothercare and Early Learning Centre from the UK just completed photographing their SS12 in Cape Town with Bigsky Productions. Every year after the shoot, Mothercare & ELC donate their entire toy collection and wardrobe to a worthy school or cause and this years donation was received with tears of joy and jubilation, thank you Sam Mosedale and Louise Jones! ELC are one of our oldest clients and although the shoots are…
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This vibrant and colourful TV Commercial was produced for Woolworths by Bigsky Productions. Woolworths is one of South Africa’s top retailers. BigSky Productions searched for all available talent in South Africa: Looking for the most versatile and skilled dancers, actors and models to produce this energetic and effective Television Commercial. We used current and past World Champion Hip-Hop dancers, giving this commercial a musical edge and dancing professionalism unmatched in…
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Guy Neveling is a well respected international advertising photographer who predominantly lives in Cape Town. Judging by his work its no surprise that he has been selected as Archive top 200 Ad Photographer Worldwide 5 years running. A common trend for Ad Agencies coming to Cape Town for the beautiful locations on offer is to utilize the talented photographers that we have in South Africa. Major reasons for this is…
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Bigsky Productions just completed a burst of TVC’s for retailer Woolworths, here is the first one that flighted last week. This Vibrant and Fun commercial showcases the summer dresses that are currently inshore at the moment. Click here to view the commercial. The crew were top notch in their hardwork and professionalism. Lighting the perspex box was a real challenge, the box had to be specifically designed and tested before…
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