7up Shoot in Beirut

Now I normally would not use the word shoot and Beirut in the same sentence but on this occasion it was quite safe and this was also last year December, so no kak yet...

My Dad's 60th Birthday

Bakers - the making of...

Today I have some photos from the shoot of Bakers "Precious Biscuits"
As well as "the making of" that Shy the Sun put together for us. Be warned the video is 12 minutes and 112MB...

Making of -->download
Lo Res 49MB
Hi Res 112MB


Kids on location at Vergelegen wine estate. There were three locations within the forest where we shot the three parts, the beginning live action, animation plates and ending live action.




Shoot Day 1


Shoot Day 1 - CAB Films', Bruce and Charles direct the children


Location 1, day 1 - Steady cam, cast and Bruce Paynter (director) crouching


Location 2, day 1 - the set where all the animation will take place.
Darrin, Ree and Nina


The full set on the 1st shoot day - before the rains came


Detail of Polly's Kettle and the tiny door.


Humpty's house and the mice door. Bottom left is Peter's nook.


And the rains came down... the shoot was called off at this stage.
Jannes, Ree and Nina


Nina and Darrin talk on the left, Jannes and Bruce discuss matters.


Nina and Jannes listen in as Bruce discusses the next shot.


The trio of Shy the Sun looking jubilant as Day 2 (weather day) draws to a close.


The end... for now!

Wedding in Madikwe

Just yesterday I returned from a four day wedding in Madikwe Game Reserve where my brother works. It was a good friend of ours, Quinten who is the manager of Morokuru Game Lodge. I will have all the pics, vids and details this weekend.
[EDIT: I am so sorry for taking so long - here are a few and the rest are in the photo's section]

December Holidays

I spent nearly 17 days over Christmas and New Years in Madikwe Game Reserve visiting my brother. As always I had an amazing experience.



(Got to get back to work now, will post the remaining 50 odd photos later)

SIGGRAPH 2007

Ok, ok, I know... this is extremely late. Almost 5 months late... but at least its still in the same year.

These are just some snaps I took while in San Diego for SIGGRAPH 2007. I will eventually go back and write full descriptions and explanation for each photograph. For now, a quick tag is all I have time for before I go on holiday, and then I don't want to see a computer for three weeks. I am also planning to put the entire album up in my photos section, these are just a select few - (aren't you lucky)


I departed Monday 30th July from OR Tambo and arrived in San Diego a good 30 hours later after a very long and eventful journey through Atlanta, where Immigration's queues held me up so I missed my connecting flight.

First off I stayed in the Kings Inn hotel in Hotel circle which is north of the city and near Sea World.

I took a walk around the hotel after arriving to try and stay awake. Found these interesting palm trees.


and a hummer


not just any hummer...



The first bed I slept in. Not too bad.


The first day I woke up and headed off to Sea World. Here's the killer whales..


Dolphins...


and Walruses.


The next day, I took a trip to the zoo,


where I saw "Transvaal Lions" (hmmm, interesting, are these now Gauteng Lions?)


Pandas... promise that is a panda back there


Hippos


Tigers


Orangutans - the problem is most of the cages / enclosures have glass viewing areas and so there were a lot of reflections on all my photos.


Gorillas (and baby)


and Polar Bears (playing)

After the zoo, which is situated near Balboa Park (actually in it), I toured some of the interesting museums and places of interest.





On Friday 3rd August I took a tour of San Diego that started in Old Town and you could get off anywhere along the way.


A meal from one of the local restaurants - (this was actually taken a week later but it fits the Old Town theme)


The Chuck Jones Art Gallery in Old Town San Diego.

Here are a collection of some of the boats in the harbour around town. From museum replicas to originals.






A trip to SIGGRAPH would not be complete without getting in a tour bus and driving into the harbour (see Boston/SIGGRAPH).
Here are some snaps from my "SEAL" tour, which left from Seaport Village near the Convention Centre.








Seaport Village is near The USS Midway, which is a retired Aircraft carrier. Pretty impressive!!










All along the promenade there are "Trees", sculptures and things that represent trees, here is a palm tree made out of tyres. Looked amazing!


That evening I went to my first Baseball game. It was the Padres vs Giant at Petco Park where Barry Bonds was going for his record equalling homer - he got it the next evening, doh!








By the Saturday 4th August I had moved into the hotel for the conference, which is downtown and closer to the convention centre. The Best Western Bayside...


SIGGRAPH started on the Sunday and ran to the following Thursday, 9th August. By the end of it I was completely knackered, luckily I did not get pneumonia like last time ... PHEW!!!









View from my hotel on the last night in San Diego.... It was an awesome time and I really enjoyed the city - I would recommend it to anybody.

Semif Final at LOFTUS

Here we come! Bulls off to Durbs for FINAL!!!

Before the game, the Loftus faithful watch the Sharks win in the first Semi-Final.










WINNERS!!!

Bulls win 92 - 3

Photos from the Presidents Suite at Loftus. Two weeks ago when the Bulls beat the Reds by 89 points to claim the second home semi-final spot.



My brother and myself - dress code - Jacket and Tie

Madikwe - Long Weekend

Here are some snaps I took while at Declan's this last weekend.
I will write what they are soon.

Vodacom - "Rollerskate Mambo" launches

As most of my friends are aware, I have been busy with the latest in the Mo commercials from Vodacom. Well we finished it this weekend and it launched on Sunday night on MNet and Etv. Don't worry if you missed it, it will be on every channel soon and during every program. And if you do not have a TV or aerial, then you can download it here!

Vodacom "Rollerskate Mambo" -
Hi Res 15MB
Lo Res 7MB

And as promised a few weeks ago when we shot the commercial... here are some snaps from Burgers Park in Pretoria.

Madikwe Holiday December 2006

Finally had some time to upload the photos from our Holiday to Madikwe.
The full set can be seen here

But for the blog I will post some of the better ones.


The first day we went fishing at the weir near Declan's house.


Craig was able to catch two barbel and here I am releasing the second one.


A lion on a termite mound under a tree. Between Tswasa and Safari lodge.


This zebra has had a lucky escape as can be seen by the scar and missing tail. Ouch.


Me, Declan and Andre at the base of Tshwene Tshwene, sundowners to follow.


As always the female dungbeetle catching a ride while the male does all the work, typical.












Declan looking for his wildlife - radio collars keep him and his animals in touch.


This is a panoramic I made using Autostitch, you can view the fullsize 10 800 X 1456 ( 2MB )image by downloading it here.

Fishing in Belfast

Who is this on the jetty at Green Pastures trout farm?







Why, it's none other than my 80 year old Gran fly-fishing. She is a remarkable lady, after recovering from bipass surgery she is still going strong and in November celebrated her 80th.

She has been fishing at the same farm for around 30 years now and I have been going since I was in nappies.
After my Grandfather passed away she nearly stopped but we all convinced her that she still enjoys it and it would be foolish to quit something she loves. Being a country lass born in Ireland in 1926 and growing up on a farm she always enjoys the weekends in the country.

I try and go with her whenever possible, lend a helping hand and help her with her fiddly knots and flies. Last September she even caught three good sized trout - unfortunately this weekend I was only able to come away with one small nipper. My Gran came up empty. Until next time!

Boston Saturday/Sunday

Walk around Boston

On Saturday I decided to do a bit of a walk around Boston, following the Freedom Trail, a red line on the sidewalk leads you on this 2.5-mile, self-guided tour of Revolutionary sites, which starts at the Boston Common, America's oldest public park, and ends up at the famed Bunker Hill Monument, but I turned off it around Faneuil Hall Marketplace to have lunch in the Cheers bar, the one I wasn't allowed in the other night.























































Sunday -
On Sunday morning I decided to go down Newbury street all the way to Prudential Center and then go to the top of the center where they have a observation deck. Very impressive views of the city.


A view down Newbury, a very swanky street filled with all the chic shops - the Rodeo drive / Fifth Avenue of Boston -




The Prudential Center building from Newbury.



Views from the Prudential Building on Sunday


The John Hancock tower and behind it to the right in the distance, Logan International Airport (BOS). On the left the Boston Common and gardens.


South Boston, known to locals as Southy.


Church of Science me thinks... got to check up on this. I was listening to an Audio tour guide. Can't remember all the details. :)


Looking west from the center.

Fenway Park in the distance, and a major turnpike as it heads underground through Boston.


Looking over the Charles River to Cambridge.


Charles River and beyond it, MIT - nerd central...


View of the Charles River and the bridge that the duck tours go through.
On the right of the river, the esplanade and the new Bridge in the background that resembles the Nelson Mandela bridge in Newtown Jozi.


View of the John Hancock tower looking East. On the left of the tower in its shadow is Trinity Church.

Then it was off back to the hotel and grab my stuff, make my way to the airport and head home - my trip had come to an end.

SIGGRAPH Tuesday/Wednesday

Tuesday -

So after the party the night before, I got up bright and early as this was day one of the exhibition which would run till Thursday.


Entrance into the Center from the main road.


Entrance into the exhibition hall from the Convention Center's floyer.


View of the Hall from the walkway between the two sides of the convention center.
Basically the center had rooms and lecture theatres surrounding three massive Halls that was divided into various sizes for Siggraph. Walkways took you over the halls from one side to the other.



The Exhibition Floor


First stop - The Disney booth. The back wall had an animation of the bowler hat guy from Meet the Robinsons doing various performances throughout the day. One involved him dressed as a trekkie and thinking this was comic-con.


Meet the Robinsons statues. From Left - Wilbur, Lewis, Bowler hat Guy and a robot??


The booth also had a computer that various Disney artists were showing off things like lighting, sets and rigs from the soon to be released Disney feature. The rig was very interesting, lots of controls to give the animator full control over the character.


Lucasfilm had a great booth with many presentations throughout the days of the exhibition.


The John Knoll presentation on how they brought Davey Jones to life in Pirates II was great fun, not only did he show off proprietary tools that calculated "stiction" - the amount of sticky friction the tentacles on Davey's face had - but also bloopers that the animation department had gone the extra mile to do such as the scene where the mill wheel rides over some of the pirates. They had replaced the mill wheel with a giant Krispy Kreme - that rolls over the pirate and into the sea.


Aahh!! The Pixar booth - this was actually more the renderman booth, promoting Renderman for Maya mostly. And accepting showreels on the other side.
All the studios were actively recruiting this year.


The Rhythm & Hues Studios booth


The Sony Pictures Imageworks stand - regular life drawing classes were held and you were able to draw on a Sony T-Shirt


The Softimage Booth -

At lunch I went off to the 3D Pro Brown Bag social Birds of a feather. Finally got to put face to name from the mailing list, Hector, Steve and

That evening there was the Softimage Users group presentation function thingymajig - if you are interested then go and check out Bernard's full report at XSIBase.com
Siggraph 2006 by Bernard Lebel - I'm featured in the eigth pic down - listening to Kim Aldis

I didn't stay long at the users meeting, instead headed back to the Boston Park Plaza to meet and greet with "Thinking Animation" authors Angie Jones and Jamie Oliff, whom I had already RSVP'd earlier.
The turn out was a little slim but Angie was great fun and I also met Javier "Goosh" Solsona who incedently studied at UCT and has family in SA. Check out Angie's blog here.

Wednesday -

The morning started off with a course Performance Driven Facial Animation but by lunch I was way to bored with that one.

After lunch I headed over to the Effects Omelette Sketch which was great fun and very inspiring, I also got to meet Ferdi Scheepers from Pixar who is an ex-pat from Rustenburg- go figure! He left the CSIR to join Pixar at the age of 40 odd years with a teenage son. Some kids never grow up, and now he's having the time of his life doing effects at one of the best CG Animation studios. Go Ferdi!!

The Reception was held north of the convention center at the World Trade Center.

View from the bridge between the convention and the Seaport Hotel and WTC of Downtown Boston.

As we crossed the bridge towards the WTC and Seaport Hotel, we were met with an array of smells. There was a vast selection of various food stalls, catering from Burgers to Chinese and Popcorn to Pasta. There were also watermelon stands and ice cream vendors - all was free except the excellent Sam Adams beer.


Looking towards the Convention Center.


Looking towards the sea - yes, those clouds did bring rain but only a cooling drizzle. Nothing like our highveld thunderstorms.

SIGGRAPH Thursday/Friday

[ NOTE: This is the conclusion of Siggraph 2006. You see, by the Wednesday I was incredibly ill and did not feel like posting anything. I was also having problems blogging within the convention centre, this was confirmed by Angie Jones from Thinking Animation . We're not sure if it was just the shear amount of geeks blogging that week or if something was up with Blogger. This is finally being posted as I didn't get the time after getting back to South Africa to do anything. ]

Thursday was one of the less eventful days at the convention - for me anyway as this was the day the bug decided to really have a go. I woke up sick as a dog and unable to get out of bed. Trying to stand up made me feel violently ill. I guess nows a good time to show you the inside of my room.


My incredibly comfy bed - The room wasn't small but the door opened up into my nightstand on the left of the bed. Shift everything over by ten centimetres and problem solved...


View from my door next to the bed, I had a couch, which was used to drape clothes over rather than sit. A tv with plenty of channels to watch the first night when I was awake at 4am due to jet lag.


My bathroom for the 9 days. Not bad shower, I must admit. Double nozzle blasts away the hot Boston dirt.


View from the passage of my door. They had these weird smaller doors built in that I still have no idea what they were used for.


View from my room down the passage.

By 11am I was finally up and waiting for the bus.
The day at Siggraph was slow. I wasn't feeling well and everything was wrapping up. It was kind of sad, because I had not made the most of it, due to various reasons and that there was no more time left. I popped over to the job fair and spoke with a SAfrican now working at WETA in New Zealand and also Shane who wears the top hat in the "Making of" features from King Kong (The Post Production Diaries)

That evening Brian, Mike and myself made our way around Quincy Market and the home of the Replica Cheers Bar. I was still too sick to even enjoy a beer and made my way home early. We actually went to a bar next door because I didn't have my passport on me and they are extremely strict with drinking laws, and so the bar we ended up in were fine with me just having my Drivers license.


The Replica Cheers bar in Quincy Market, near Fanueil Hall.

Friday, the convention was over and now it was down to sightseeing.


In the morning I made my way around town, getting a lot of walking done. At lunch I met up with Brian and Mike and headed over to the science museum for Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition. Truly amazing work - slightly sombre at times but overall AMAZING.

After that we headed for a duck tour- read more about it here. Basically you board an amphibious vehicle for a quick tour of Boston and a ride along the Charles river
The Duck Tour is a must do event in Boston.












Would you believe this is the prison??




John Hancock tower on the left, Prudential on the right. TALL!


Spotted! - A duck making a right turn into Newbury near my hotel.


Ducks seen near the Science Museum.

SIGGRAPH Sunday/Monday

Ok, so its lunch on Monday and I didn't post anything last night but now I have a little bit more to write about.

Yesterday I started with the first half day course, The Art of Open Season. Sony Pictures spoke how the put Open Season together from development to final render in a great course. This feature is looking extremely promising with some nice design and animation going for it. Too bad about the voice cast - not my favourite bunch.



Lecturers (from right) Doug Ikeler, Sean Mullen, Darren Lurie and Max Bruce.

Sean spoke about the rig and Character Setup, including key panels similar to the synoptic in XSI and Slicers which enabled the animators to refine and sculpt the silhouette of the character.

After a quick lunch, I was back in the extremely cold hall, these guys love their air conditioning and I fear I am getting sick from the hot-cold conditions here.

The second course yesterday was all about Narnia and how Rhythm & Hues developed Aslan and the other creatures involved in the battle.



Lectures included (from left) Ivan Neulander, Tae-Yong Kim, Wil Telford, Hans Rijpkema, Brad Hiebert and Jubin Dave.

Vastly more informative than the DVD, this course went into more detail and showed some early work on Aslan and how the Griphon got his walk on part. Not overly technical this course was great for the beginner, with a small bit of "what was that?" when Ivan spoke about rendering hair...



In the main lobby there is an exhibition on the teapot containing some interesting interpretations on the original Teapot render. From sculpture to paintings and even glass blown teapots.

This morning I was between a course on Sketch Based interfaces and emerging technologies sketches. Nothing as good as yesterday but the preperation on the main exhibition is underway and visible from the catwalk through the centre. Looking like fun tomorrow.

Now it's off to a course on defining Character Dev Techniques, the Electronic theatre and then the Chapters party. Looking forward to it but I will post some more later this week. They are being strict about photos here so hopefully I can get some more.

Boston / SIGGRAPH day 1

Registration started yesterday at 6pm and a whole bunch of attendees and exhibitors turned up. So far the shuttle service from the hotel, through the "big dig" detours and to the Convention Centre have worked well. Granted, yesterday was a Saturday afternoon, so we shall see what Monday is like when we have to deal with normal traffic.
Registration was painless, quick and efficient for the most part. When I arrived there was a short line which by the time I had registered had grown to easily 150m.



The line growing as eager atendees wait to register.





Inside the registration hall.

I got my registration papers, card and other useful info for the week ahead. Then made my way to collect my conference DVD etc. Unfortunately the DVD wasn't available and will be shipped to me later. Now the full conference starts today, so hopefully I will have little bit more information and photos this evening.

World of Birds

Last weekend, Sasha and myself went to the World of Birds in Hout Bay.
All the following photos were taken with my Sony w800i mobile.









One of the best parts of the park is Monkey Alley. This is a single cage with Squirrel monkeys and Squirrels, where you are allowed access during certain hours.
Great fun for the family and kids as the monkeys are extremely tame and manage to find anything attached to your clothes to play with. As evident in the photo below they will try and get into anything.





Here is a little video I took on my phone while in the Monkey Alley enlcosure.
(right click and save target as)

Another great enclosure is the tortoise and wallaby cage. You are allowed to walk around but, as the sign outside asks, please do not chase the wallabies or pick up the tortoises.

CAPE TOWN sucks too...

bloody power failures...
Sunday was not a good day.
On the way home I came to the intersection of Strand and Buitengracht, the traffic lights were out and so I treated it as a four way stop. Pity the other driver didn't. This is the result...







So now I have another excess to pay and hope nothing more can go wrong until I get my car back. Oh speaking of cars..
Wait, thats another post.

Grrrr.
Better stop before I explode.

FIRE!!!

WOW!!! Serious action going on in Cape Town now. Since 15h30 this afternoon, a fire has been raging on Table Mountain. What we first thought was localised to above Oranjezicht and east of the Cable Car, turned out to eventually burn right across Lions Head. Here are the Blackginger staff on top of our building in Gardens, watching the fire. Three helicopters and seven trucks were fighting at one stage.

AAAARRGHHHHHH

Dont you just hate idiots?
I do! And here is a reason I have been a little quite lately.

So I mentioned my new car...you remember, the cute little orange Kia!

Well...

While on holiday in Mpumalanga some idiot decided I was having too much fun and needed some trouble in my life. So as I came to a stop to allow traffic through the intersection, he decided that getting home from his week at the Kruger was more important and promptly drove into the back of me!
Read this post for more car fun!
Lets just say that I was not impressed and spent the next two hours sorting out the rest of my holiday, organising car rental, towing etc. Two rear-endings in the same year. At least the first one was and old "skadonk" of a car, but this one?!?!
OH MAN IT MAKES ME MAD!!!
And here I was planning to drive it to Cape Town on the 28th for my new job starting next year.

Captured on my SonyErricson - my Poor Car!!







Here is a picture of what the front end of his car looked like



and just in case you need his license plate to go around and give him a fat klap...



So these last few days have been very eventful. I'm trying to sort out both fixing car and moving to Cape Town for a few months.

Hey... at least my brother passed all his exams.
Cool! Way to go, Dec! Proud of you, buddy!

Little late on Halloween

I meant to post these a month ago but ran into a few problems. Anyway, here they are, photos from halloween at work. Just a select few.

Sasha as Neko Kamugi-chan


Sarah as the queen of the dead or something of the sorts.


Wilma as a dead or dying thing..


Julia as... er.. well.. yeah its Halloween!


and finally the MD's PA's Office... scary.

New Car

Well I finally did it.
I traded in my Volkswagen Golf Chico 1.3 that I have owned for six years and bought myself a new car.
A Kia Picanto Ex 1.1 Auto with all the luxuries a person needs. Aircon, Power Steering and Electric windows.. oh yes and the safety features, ABS brakes and Airbags etc.
Most importantly the automatic transmission that will save my shins from all the clutch pressing I do in the morning on the way to work.
I cant wait to use it on Monday. What a pleasure that Automatic will be with the cool breeze of the aircon. Bliss!!





My car at the dealer on Friday, ready for collection - sweet!

QRIO

This is a little late but never the less.
I went to Sandton City on Friday afternoon to see the Sony Expo. Besides all the really cool cameras and HD DVCams etc, there was the cutest robot in the world.
Sony's Ambassador "Qrio"
Absolutely the most adorable and amazing robot I have ever seen in person. I will be posting some of the movies that Sasha took with her camera but in the mean time here are a few stills.





They could talk, dance, throw a ball and do many more impressive things than I feel like explaining. If you really want to know more then check out the Sony Website.

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Here are the movies I spoke about.
Part 1 15MB
Part 2 2.5MB
Part 3 2.5MB
Part 4 3.7MB

Cape Town in Spring

Blimey - its been ages since I posted anything, and as I look back it appears that I post maybe once a month.
Well thats just not good enough!
So here goes, some more photos from the film front.

I spent three days and two nights in Cape Town last week on the Southern Sun shoot at the gorgeous Cullinan Hotel in the CBD. The Southern Sun group were very kind in putting the main crew from Joburg (the rest were local) up in the hotel for the two nights we were there - we actually slept during the day and the staff got strict instructions not to try and clean our rooms before 2pm ;)


I went down as VFX supervisor for the Refinery as there were to be a few tricky shots with crowds and wipes (I wont bore you with the details) as well as hero finale that was to be made up of many plates - as it turned out we got most of it in camera and just seeing the cut today - its working rather nicely.

As it was a very busy hotel we were only permitted to shoot from 7pm to 7am - YIKES!
Harsh but I guess only fair as they dont need smelly crew around their main lobby during the day.



This was the view from my room just before the first nigth shoot was to begin.


Those smug bastards sitting there drinking their hot chocolate and eating muffins.
Grrrr - dont they do any work. (kidding) Fun team to work with from MorrisJones, gladly work with them again anytime...


A collection of christmas trees exploded outside the hotel



Our Hero's car transforms in his imagination from fancy taxi to fancier limo.


The porters line up for their big moment, bowing to our hero as he walks past.
This is the kind of treatment you get at Southern Sun Premier Hotels ;) Well it feels like it anyway.


Inside the lobby of the Cullinan

The crew with the setup of the lobby shot. Waiting for the lighting department as usual.


Besides showing off his fishing trophies the entire time, Werner did do a bit of DOPing (and thats pronounced Dee-Oh-Pee-ing - Not DOPING) Here he is with director Slim discussing their next plan of action.



Here is the same view as above but at 6:15am as I was making my way to bed after being awake for 26 hours. Having gotten up at 4:30am the previous morning to get to the airport.

That day I spent relaxing and I also hit the gym for a short while, getting my body ready for the next night of pain and suffering.

That evening went smoothly and certain concerns were dealt with and what we considered possible FX shots turned out to be filmed in camera so less work for our EQ artist this week.

Here is Slim's producer Greg with the Helium Light inflated to give a stunning moonlit feel inside. Greg is still wanting to know why he paid for this...

Anyway, that evening didn't take as long and we were all in bed by 5am.
Back to Joburg that afternoon, exhausted and with a serious internal clock problem...
Luckily I had the weekend to rectify it.

Coca Cola Shoot

So today I spent wrapped in warm clothes placing tracking markers in the middle of Suikerbosrand, south of Jozi. The reason - Coca Colab Commercial (not a typo - Colab as in Colaboration) directed by Sunu Gonera - who is off to LA soon to direct his first Hollywood feature.
I wont tell you the concept and that stuff as I dont know the restrictions but instead just show some pics of the shoot. The director, DOP, AD, grips, loader etc and the little incident... which I like to call - production must check everything!!


Actors are taught to display product with INTENT to sell... er two please.


Sunu and Alard (DOP) talk about the shot


Two of my markers (a CG stadium is going to build as camera pulls back)


The grip, Focus Puller, DOP, AD and sound with Actors... rehearsing the pull out shot


Johnny making his "snap"


A look back at the location set up.

The little incident I was referring to concerns the client and the caterers. You see the client is Coca Cola, the caterers, well they aren't important but they like to drink Nestle Pure Life Water.
So whats the problem you ask?
Well, Coca Cola owns Valpre, another local mineral water and the fact their competitors product was made freely available to all in a shiny water cooler... didnt go down to well and the catering crew was asked to remove the afore mentioned product and replace it with Valpre.

This always happens, nothing new and not only because its a drink owned by one company. While on the "Lays" shoot with Francois Pienaar there was to be only Pepsi, 7-Up and Miranda at lunch, why? Because Pepsi Co. owns Lays... simple

Thats life I guess in these commercial times and so just a note for all you budding production managers, make sure your caterers know who the client is...

Well here they discard of the forbidden product

The Agency sits, guarding their product (bottom right of shot)

One last thing to leave you with, two nice shots of the camera.