Leung Not Cheung!

T Mobile's latest ad 'Angry Birds', directed by Greg Brunkalla (of Legs) has had a whopping 5 million hits already on Youtube, whilst defaming poor Dominic's name. Its Leung, not Cheung, dammit!

Anyway, the ad's a brilliant real-life re-creation of the popular Angry Birds game, set in Barcelona and shot with 8 different cameras. Whilst Dom was busy scouring through the extensive footage to create his masterpiece, the lovely Greg Brunkalla kept busy at Trim by perfecting his pronunciation of the delightful English word 'bollocks'. Over and over again he tried, yet failed to sound like anyone but Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Good times- bowlux.





Director: Legs – Greg Brunkalla
Production Company: Rokkit
Producer: Kate O’mulloy, Jennifer Kennedy
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, International
International Creative Director: Jason Romeyko
Art Director: Luca Pannese
Editor: Dominic Cheung@Trim (haha)
Post-Production Company: Rushes

Congratulations Tommy!

Woop Woop -the music video editing king has done it again, scooping up a pencil for best editing on the Plan B 'Prayin' video, directed by Daniel Wolfe at last nights D&AD awards!

Ideas, Ideas, Ideas

Walter Stern recently directed this colourful spot for Dutch Financial Institution, Rabobank, or rather 'rob a bank' as we like to call it at Trim.

It was shot in China, Germany and the Netherlands, lit by award winning DP Marcel Zyskind and deftly cut by Tom Lindsay. The piece is a playful orchestration of lights, creating an arresting visual feast. Mmm good idea.







Director: Walter Stern
Production Company: Academy Films
Producer: Dominic Thomas
Editor: Tom Lindsay

The Corner Rooms

Earlier this week, the few trimmers that weren't masquerading around Europe or having an MRI scan, decided to relish a quiet day , make like the french and actually go out for a three course lunch and maybe even drink some wine...gasp.

The chosen destination was London's latest top secret restaurant 'The Corner Rooms', headed by Portuguese chef Nuno Mendes. It's hidden away in the shadows of Mendes's first London restaurant, Viajante (probably the most controversial restaurant to have opened last year) in the austere, beautiful and according to Leila, haunted Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel.

There's no website, no phone and no reservations. The only evidence of it's existence is a lonely facebook page. This is the first reason why this place is great. The second reason is that the menu is short, 3 starters, 4 mains and 3 desserts. Third reason, is the price. Compared to the eye opening prices at Viajante, eating at The Corner Room feels like you've just found a £50 note on the pavement. Without wine, £20 for 3 courses of simple yet exceptionally executed dishes leaves you laughing at the fools next door.

We fell into silence at the feet of a super rich poached egg starter served with asparagus and pop in your mouth tapioca balls. Iron levels were raised with a hunk of lamb encrusted with macacadamia nuts and miso, that bled beautifully into the new potatoes. A satisfying loin of park was partnered with sweet scrapings of fried portugese bread. Two very different desserts were chocolate cake scattered like a painting with peanut butter ice cream, caramel, fudge, mousse and lemon cream. This was seriously good. A second more unusual dessert was a herby granita, totted with goats cheese blobs, blueberries, toasted brioche and minimal caramel. It tasted like a perfectly plotted summer garden. Our only issue at The Corner Room was the sloooow service. Problem being that there only appeared to be one chef to start with, and then as the room filled I guess more were nabbed from Viajante, hooray!

We left, bellies full, feeling smug and a tiny bit bitter that the french do this all the time. I guess we will just have to make a more conscious effort to seize the quiet days and luxuriate ourselves in the E2 eating opportunities.

Go to Corner Rooms before the prices go up and a phone line is put in.

(The Iceman) Come To Harm

Here for your visual pleasure is the trailer for Borkur Sigthorsson's upcoming short film Come To Harm. Edited at Trim earlier this year by Tom Lindsay and Ross Hallard,

The film tells the story of Stefan (Björn Thors), whose life descends into turmoil, when he senses an intruder in his home and panic quickly turns to grim determination.

As usual, Borkur's skillfull characterisation and fantastic photography ignites the film and leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat!

Director: Borkur Sigthorsson
Editor: Ross Hallard and Tom Lindsay