NEWS

12.01.12

 

Morethan Freeman is back.

We put together two behind the scenes films and series of digital ads.

For a look at the teaser

for the campaign, click HERE

This time we shot in Cape Town, South Africa, which a change from last years snow covered Brighton.

 

01.11.11

 

Behind The Scenes on a series

of TV idents for Harvey's Furniture.

The spots were directed by

Steve Bendelack.

This is our second job with Steve this year. The first being on the Plusnet ads.

The Making Of those will be up in January 2012.

 

10.10.11

 

We shot a series of films

for British Airways to run alongside their new Aviators campaign.

The short form Behind The Scenes

can be seen in Shorts.

In total 8 films were edited.

 

07.10.11

 

New Behind The Scenes starring

the Manchester United team.

Can also be viewed here

 

28.09.11

 

VBS.TV has fully merged with VIce.

One of its first shows is Fraud,

directed by Will Fairman, who also

co-directed the Intel shows on here.

As part of the Rule Britannia series it opens with our ident too.

The show can be viewed here

 

13.09.11

 

New work for Weetabix and BBH.

Behind The Scenes on their new ad, Dancer. It can be seen under shorts.

 

26.04.11

 

We shot a film as internal advertising

for Virgin Active health clubs.

It can be seen under shorts.

 

16.02.11

Another MoreTh>n Making Of is up.

Ladies and Gents, meet Alfie The Dog.

 

05.01.11

 

The More Th>n Making Of is now live and has been getting great feedback

on youtube.

When I first heard about this job all I was told was that it was an insurance ad and that I had to make it funny.

Huge thanks to Josh Robert Thompson for being the man he is

and making that possible.

We also shot all the greenscreen footage for the Facebook app.

 

23.12.10

 

We've finished another Making Of.

This time for More Th>n Insurance's new multi platform campaign.

The ads saw us shooting in a variety

of places, from Watford and Brighton

all the way to Prague.

The film and the ads will be out

in the New Year.

 

22.11.10

 

The promo for Simian Mobile Disco's track Sweetbread is up and has been amassing a lot of hits and interesting feedback on youtube.

You can also view the Making Of that Ambrose shot here

 

21.11.10

 

We were lucky enough to be asked to make a Behind The Scenes film on Jonathan Glazer's new Volkswagen Polo ad.

It was an amazing week and you can view the film under events

 

09.11.10

Hans and Jose have just finished shooting the new Simian Mobile Disco promo. Quite possibly the weirdest thing we've ever done.

Ambrose shot and is cutting the behind the scenes footage.

21.10.10

We're working with new director

Ambrose Yalley.

Click here to view his work.

What caught our eye were his videos

for Tongue Wrong Bread Believes

and Bear Mist Hungers First Super.

We'll be working on a promo together very soon.

20.10.10

 

Florence is on her American tour again and we're receiving the footage thick and fast. The videos will be broken up into three sections; New York, LA

and New Orleans.

 

16.09.10

 

The Heavy In Your Arms music promo for Florence is up on Youtube now

and can be viewed here.

Edited by Jose and directed

by Tom Beard and Tabitha Denholm

 

15.09.10

 

The Jammer-10 Man Roll promo

was featured on BBC2 last Saturday.

 

01.09.10

 

The Rule britannia ident made it onto the front page of CNN.COM.

Their website reportedly gets an average of 9 million daily views.

You can view it here.

 

04.08.10

 

Florence + The Machine tour footage

is up under Events and is divided into three shorts - Coachella, the duet

with Cold War Kids and a trip

to Madame Tussauds.

 

09.07.10

 

We've started cutting the American tour footage from Florence + The Machine.

 

08.07.10

 

Verso Films are now officially

Jose Otero & Hans Lo.

 

06.07.10

 

The Jammer promo is featured on Promonews.tv

 

27.06.10

 

We've been busy editing a new viral promo for Florence + The Machine.

Directed by Tom & Tabitha from Partizan. Alongside that we've also edited a promo for Florence's

supporting act, Babeshadow.

 

26.06.10

 

The Jammer promo is up on the site

and has already been getting thousands of hits on youtube.

Keep an eye out for it on the tv too.

 

20.06.10

 

The Malibu video is under events

and the Jammer promo is back from

the graders today.

It'll be up here in a couple of days.

 

15.06.10

 

We documented a guerrilla advertising campaign for Malibu.

It'll soon be under Events.

 

14.06.10

 

We're directing the next music promo

for Jammer and Boy Better Know (Camalot, Frisco, JME and Skepta).

We're already on the second edit

and it's looking like an all round

summer banger.

 

26.05.10

 

The Rule Britannia ident is on the site.

We had initially made a small town centre with the tattered union jack

in the middle.

In the end we focused on just the flag

as it's about as strong an emblem

as you can get.

 

25.04.10

 

Jose has started on a new ident

for VBS's series Rule Britannia.

The series includes the gorey

Deer Hunter and the seminal

Swansea Love Story.

 

24.04.10

 

Check out The Ritual Of Dress film

on Promonews.tv

 

22.04.10

 

Hans Lo's just finished Boy 8 Bit's

new promo for his track The Keep.

Pixel mayhem in a Doom inspired Nazi bicycle chase, that gives a tip of the cap to 90s acid house visuals.

 

23.03.10

 

The Bo Ningen promo is finished and can be viewed here

 

22.03.10

 

The new fashion spot for Dior Homme

is up. This wouldn't have been possible without the help of quite a few.

Thanks to everyone that worked on this, especially Ryan Hopkinson.

 

09.02.10

 

Hans and Jose are set to direct

a fashion viral for Wonderland.tv

and showcasing the new Dior Homme

AW collection for 2010.

Shoot is scheduled for the 6th of March

and promises to be a mystical whirlwind.

 

08.02.10

 

It's been a while since our last update but we've been busy.

We're waiting on a music promo for japanese band Bo Ningen to get back from the graders and it'll be up on here

in the next couple of days. It was

directed by the Lamo Wizard duo

from Davey Inc and edited by Verso.

 

26.10.09

 

Verso Films are proud to welcome promo and shorts director Hans Lo.

Hans has a very unique and innovative take on filmmaking that I hope you all enjoy as much as we do.

Check out Khali Mist in Music

and Sophie TV in shorts.

 

8.10.09

 

New updates to the Verso site:

-Two of the ten Skins interviews are now under Events.

-The illusive Gorgoroth video

is in the music section.

6.10.09

 

We spent all day yesterday in the company of a pre-madonna talking dog and a remote control truck.

All will be revealed in a new ident

for Intersection magazine.

 

21.09.09

This Thursday we'll be documenting

the film premier of Sally Potters new work, RAGE. It stars amongst others Dame Judi Dench, John Leguizamo and Steve Buscemi.

This is to be the first ever interactive premier.

Viewers can talk with the cast via Skype.

More info about the director and film can be found here

3.09.09

 

Some of the first Skins videos have already started going up on the E4 site.

They start with Kaya Says Thanks.

To view click here

 

1.09.09

 

2 years ago Jose Otero and

James Knight filmed a live Gorgoroth concert as part of a Vice and VBS

series on True Norwegian Black Metal.

 

This was Ghaals first tour after being released from jail for the torture

and blood drinking of his band mate.

 

We managed to track it down and put it on youtube for the unholy masses.

Click here to view.

 

3.08.09

Filming online content and interviews

for E4 Skins.

 

27.07.09