Car shoots in Shanghai can be pretty standard, but our client Final Frame in Germany wanted to make this one stand out – so we went the extra mile to get super-duper cool locations for the HELLA shoot. Nanpu Bridge is as awesome as bridges get in Shanghai – and of course you need to shoot it with a drone to get the full effect. The view we shot from above and the spectacular visual effects sent our film “Passion for Clean Mobility” soaring above the competition at New York Festivals 2019, snagging the Gold World Medal for Special Visual Effects! 

汽車拍攝在上海，很難拍出彩。我們的客戶，來自德國的Final Frame卻不滿足于常規拍攝，希望能做出點不一樣來。在這條為HELLA拍攝的視頻中，我們不遺余力去尋找上海最酷的拍攝場景。尤其是南浦大橋，是上海這個大都市大氣繁忙的交通展現！當然，不能少了無人機的航拍大全景。這個南浦大橋俯瞰和美輪美奐的特效制作相得益彰，讓《熱愛綠色出行》短片在2019年的紐約廣告節中大放異彩，摘得特效金獎！

Mandarin Film helped Final Frame produce a film for HELLA in Shanghai last August. Shanghai is one of the world’s largest growth markets for hybrid and electric vehicles.

華影青橙在8月在上海為HELLA協助制作了這部講述城市電動出行的影片。上海是全球混合動力和電力機動車增長最快的市場之一。

World lighting and electronics expert HELLA explains what current and future concepts for electric mobility could look like in the new film “Passion for Clean Mobility”.

全球燈光和電子設備專家海拉在新片《熱愛綠色出行》中就詮釋了電子出行的當下和未來概念。

The challenge was to show how electronic mobility works in Shanghai’s most fascinating locations, including the bund, Lujiazui financial district, and the incredibly magnificent Nanpu Bridge.

這次影片的拍攝難度在于如何在上海最具有標志性的地點，比如外灘、陸家嘴金融區以及宏偉的南浦大橋展現上海這座城市的電動出行主題。

Passion for Clean Mobility《熱愛綠色出行》

Mandarin Film worked with lead agency Final Frame in Germany to develop the creative aspects, lock down the cast and characters, and managed all local logistics including crew and kit hiring. The foreign crew worked seamlessly with a supportive local team, including the camera team, hair/ make up team, lighting team.  More from behind the scenes, please click here.

華影與來自德國的Final Frame合作，確定短片創意，選取演員，并且協調提供本地拍攝人員及設備。外方攝制團隊和中方團隊，包括攝影組，化妝組，燈光組等進行了非常默契的合作。更多精彩的幕后花絮請點擊這里。

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Mandarin Film worked with Alibaba to create a video seen around the world for 11.11, China’s shopping festival.

In an amazingly complicated and time sensitive operation MF was responsible for all aspects of production, simultaneously managing 9 crews around China to come together to produce a video that needed to be shot, edited and outputted in just two days, and delivered to the world on 11.11 itself.

Mandarin Film enlisted the services of director Donovan Greene to take care of the creative vision for the project, which was specifically requested by Alibaba head Jack Ma and included a gala event featuring Daniel Craig, Kevin Spacey, Rain and a multitude of Chinese stars.

The video was shown in New York on 11.11 at New York Stock Exchange as the stock exchange opened, as well as at the virtual bell ringing ceremony in Beijing, and an updated version including the bell ringing was subsequently uploaded to world media a few hours later.

We are proud to be working with Alibaba, the company that holds the record of the biggest IPO in history, and that smashed all records for shopping day in China.  Watch out as this company continues to go global – we hope to be right there with them, creating awe inspiring and imaginative fresh content every step of the way.

Here is the link to the two viral videos.

Alibaba 11.11 Video NYSE Bell Ring Version from Mandarin Film on Vimeo.

Alibaba 11.11 Video FINAL from Mandarin Film on Vimeo.

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It’s been a fantastic year of the horse for Mandarin Film, and we thought instead of giving you the usual red envelope stuffed with cash, we’d send you something much more useful - unique access to ten of the best new filming locations we found this year…

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Mandarin Film is proud to be part of Starbucks’ biggest worldwide campaign “Meet Me at Starbucks”- On this project we continued the collaboration with New York-based Co-Mission Content Group. Mandarin Film was chosen as the production company to represent China. On the 3^rd September, 2014 together with 28 teams in other countries we are proud to have taken part in one of the companies’ biggest and most ambitious campaigns.

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Mandarin Film outdid itself in completing a series of eight corporate/viral videos, at very high quality, in just six short weeks script to screen, for a royal audience in August 2014.

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