Morgan Hutchins Joins The Visionaries

The extraordinarily talented director, Morgan Hutchins has joined The Visionaries!

Throughout his career, Hutchins has gone on to work for many of London’s top advertising production companies including the Mob film company and RSA films, working for an eclectic mix of clients.

From comedy to drama to “real life,” Hutchins is adaptable in style. Equally at home on a sound stage with actors as well as shooting hand-held on the streets, coaching performances out of non-actors, Hutchins captures the most surreal aspects of reality. From milking each and every wacky moment, to focusing on the actor’s power and gaze, Hutchins is able to encapsulate the emotion and essence of each spot, effectively telling its story.

We’re not the only ones aware of Hutchins visual talents. Hutchins has accumulated quite a number of accolades, including the coveted D&AD pencil for his work for DDB London & Guardian Newspapers, as well as a few arrows at the BTAA for Kit Kat through JWT.

Furthermore, Hutchins has done his fair share of charity adverts, which he finds very rewarding. He’s worked with Oxfam, Guide dogs for the Bling and Sport relief, as well as received accolades for his work from David Reviews (Sportsaid receiving 5 stars).

Hutchins has also worked for quite a few big names. He’s created spots for Cadbury, Paddy Power, Budweiser, UBS, Capital One, and Domino’s to name a few!

With an eye for capturing the most out of each moment, and the ability to work in any genre, Hutchins is a force to be reckoned with -- and we can’t wait to see his future work.

Will Innes Smith Joins The Visionaries!

The fresh prince of filmmaking has joined our talented roster — please welcome Will Innes Smith to The Visionaries!

From photography to live-action, CGI to animation, Smith has created works in a range of creative mediums. Across a series of different subjects, such as youth culture, sports, food, and fashion, Smith lends his eye for detail and stylish visual approach to all that he does, creating a unique style to all his work that is undeniably his own.

A passionate multifaceted lifestyle filmmaker, Smith describes his style as focusing on the aesthetic and emotive. Smith straddles the line well, producing works that are bold yet poised; there’s a certain rawness to his work, preventing it from becoming too controlled but rather real and unique. Through experimental camera angles and compositions, Smith creates works that are bold and bright yet still capture a certain sense of emotion, character, and story that adds a feeling of sentimentality and connection to it. It is personable, innovative, and original — it is Will Innes Smith.

As a creative, Smith combines captivating images with exciting ideas, resulting in films that resonate with a modern audience. He’s written and conceived a number of viral successes, including the well renowned launch film for Sony Playstation, “4 the Players since 1995.” Furthermore, his work has been recognized by the Royal Television Society and he’s made spots for Celebrity Big Brother and Delta Airlines.

On top of directing, Smith is also a partner in the London-based creative production company, gotgotneed, leading and representing a whole new generation of talented and award-winning directors.

Will Innes Smith is a force to be reckoned with, and we can’t wait to see what the future holds for him.

Check out his reel here:

Love, Death & Jon Yeo’s Latest Work

An action-packed, catastrophic, and robot-filled future is coming — and Jon Yeo’s gonna introduce you to it.

Yeo, along with Axis Animation, has created an episode of the futuristic Netflix Original show, Love, Death & Robots. The episode, titled “Helping Hand,” is filled with hyper-realistic animations of space and humanity, thanks to the dynamic and imaginative team over at Axis Studios.

Presented as an animated anthology series, Love, Death & Robots presents a cynical technology-dependent future similar to that of Black Mirror, but with the vivid graphics of your favourite cartoons and the NSFW themes of the R-rated films your parents never let you watch.

The show is produced by Oscar-nominated director David Fincher and Deadpool director Tim Miller, which explains the show’s mature way of handling violence and sex. However, those two also add the signature dark undertone running through each episode, even as they range from nihilistic to optimistic, humorous to dreary. Like an animated, explicit, adult, and more sci-fi version of Black Mirror, the show discusses topics from alien invasions, to post-apocalyptic underground worlds, and even futuristic tech and modifications, such as a yoghurt take-over.

Yeo’s episode veers on the more realistic, and slightly optimistic. Taking place in the depths of space, just above Earth, “Helping Hand” is best-described by Wired as “a zero-G rendition of 127 Hours.” The episode centers around an astronaut named Alex, who becomes stranded in space and must decide whether she’ll make a serious sacrifice before her oxygen runs out.

To describe the episode as visually pleasing and exhilarating would be an understatement. Yeo shifts from full shots, close-ups, and point-of-view shots, allowing viewers to not just undergo Alex’s struggle with her, but also understand the true vastness and isolation of space. Coupled with Axis’ stunning CGI animation of space, “Helping Hand” highlights Yeo’s brilliance at capturing the tension and deep emotions.

Love, Death & Robots joins the list of Yeo’s collaborations with Axis, and the even-longer list of Yeo’s own work with visual effects and animation. Yeo’s background in graphic design is apparent in his work, allowing him to develop a confident visual edge and distinctive signature style. It’s that very specific style that’s resulted in Yeo working with big names such as BBC, ITV, MTV, and Disney. He’s also created commercials for Heinz, Microsoft, The Guardian, and Marvel to name a few.

With Love, Death & Robots, Yeo’s aesthetic is at the forefront. Imaginative, futuristic, and groundbreaking, “Helping Hand” evokes the same awe and wonder that films such as Gravity brought, except in animation.

To put it simply, Yeo shows us that him, and his talent, are out-of-this-world.

Check out the trailer for Love, Death & Robots below, and head over to Netflix to watch “Helping Hand”!

RUTH SEWELL DIRECTS CAMPAIGN FOR AVON & COPPAFEEL!

Our roster includes an innovative range of talent and Ruth Sewell is no exception to that list! She’s teamed up with JWT to direct a series of videos for Avon & CoppaFeel!

CoppaFeel! is a hands-on charity dedicated to raising awareness of breast cancer. They wanted to translate the ‘hands-on’ part in a proactive approach into the videos by putting emphasis on active and physical participation, as they say - “It’s all about rolling up your sleeves and doing stuff that makes a difference.”

The Visionaries director, Ruth Sewell, has directed the whole campaign for Avon & Coppafeel! In her first major campaign and working for JWT, she drove the art direction with an imaginative display of props and came up with lots of the clever ideas that make the campaign so vibrant.

“This series was a pleasure to work on from start to finish. Brilliant creative genius Jo Taylor and I took the brief and really ran with it, so it became a slightly more ambitious project than we’d first intended, and we ended up shooting 163 shots in two days. There were hundreds of props, many of them handmade - so it was a real labour of love to pull it all together in prep. The design team at JWT pulled out all the stops, Jo raided her mum’s attic and we collected an ever-growing stash of Amazon boxes in the office.” - Ruth Sewell, Director.

“This was a brilliant project for a really important cause. Avon and CoppaFeel! asked us to create a suite of content films for their website, social channels and events. Each film had its own objective, but ultimately they were all about getting more hands-on boobs, and more breast cancers caught early.” - Jo Taylor, Creative Director at JWT.

A director like Ruth brings out the best in whatever she gets her hands on, whether big or small. We are confident in knowing she will amaze us all again with her next piece of work in the near future!

Hollywood starlet Jeremy Haccoun joins our roster of talent!

Jeremy Haccoun is signed to CAA in L.A for feature films, he is now back to share his incredible artistry with us here in adland.

Jeremy’s recent work includes his cinematic commercial campaign for chinese phone company OPPO, which stars one of Hollywood’s A-list actors, Leonardo DiCaprio. As well as “the world’s most interactive film” he made for Subaru, which won a Spike Award.

Jeremy is truly one of a kind and has been devoted to developing his craft from a young age. He began at the age of 11 making short films from a VHS camcorder he borrowed from his father’s shop. So there no surprise that he directed his first TV spot at 21 years old and earned himself his first million-dollar budget at the age of 24.

His two short films Alchemy, an adventure epic and The Battery won numerous awards in his native France, before getting a national release in french theatres during his youth.

“Honors the very best of Steven Spielberg” - Indiewire

Jeremy’s recent short film Beyond is inspired by the early Spielberg films. It’s an epic adventure short about a boy turning into a hero to rescue his parents from a burning wreck. The short was screened at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and received praise from industry press.

Jeremy has attained a lot of experience over the years in large-scale shoots which include A-list talent, incredible performances and FX heavy post-productions which is apparent in his work.

A director like Jeremy brings exciting opportunities to The Visionaries clients in both commercials and longer form branded content.

If you want to work with Jeremy or any one of our amazing directors get in touch.

Nicholas Reynolds directs two new spots for KFC

What does your Grandma’s sweater, a magician and KFC have in common? The answer is Nicholas Reynolds. 

He is back directing two new quirky and vibrant spots for the Australian KFC market.

In the commercial, you see the protagonist in different scenarios comparing the KFC chicken to Grandmas TLC and a magician’s secret. 

Fun, tasty and a little bit weird, Nicholas Reynolds continues to show us more depth to his comedic filmmaking.

Take a look at more of his work by clicking here.