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We have moved!

2011-07-08T16:12:00.002+02:00

In an attempt to improve and streamline our commications with you we have decided to discontinue this blog page and move all communications over to facebook. Please follow this link and join our facebook group to stay up to date with what we are up to.
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Cheers!

Playboy behind the scenes shoot with Maria Eriksson

2011-05-11T20:34:00.001+02:00

I had the privilege of working behind the scenes at a playboy shoot along with the playboy dream team, and one of the world’s top 100 sexiest woman :: Maria Eriksson. Wow, what an experience! This shoot was for the Playboy South Africa launch issue, featuring Tracy McGregor as the cover girl.

Shot at the Grand Daddy in Cape Town :: http://www.granddaddy.co.za/

For more of Maria :: http://www.mariaeriksson.com/

Video by Goosebump Productions :: www.goosebump.co.za

Playboy Playmate Launch Party - The Fez, Cape Town

2011-05-11T15:29:00.003+02:00

Playboy Magazine, South Africa hosted a sensual bash at the Fez in Cape Town. Tracy McGregor, the First SA cover girl was in attendance, along with her two paymates from the most recent issues.

Goosebump Productions did the video: www.goosebump.co.za

Advert for the Springboks

2011-05-05T12:38:00.006+02:00

Goosebump Productions were recently honoured to do a shoot for an advert for the Springboks. Locations included Newlands stadium, Cape Town International airport and a Protea Hotel. Here are a couple of the behind the scenes shots…

New Consumer Protection Act

2011-05-05T11:05:00.007+02:00

Goosebump Productions recently did an interesting shoot with Charlie Kirk from the Legal Junction. Charlie is producing online training material for the new Consumer Protection Act. The reason we shot this with a green screen is that we will be branding the video for each individual client.

AfrikaBurn 2011

2011-05-05T09:55:00.003+02:00

Some photos from my recent AfrikaBurn experience.

Good Clean Fun

2011-05-05T09:44:00.002+02:00

This was my 4th year at AfrikaBurn, and so far the best in my opinion. There were numerous themed camps, and this video was shot at one called "Camp Good Clean Fun" also known as the human car wash.

Flip van der Merwe (Springboks / Blue Bulls) gets married

2011-01-10T15:01:00.003+02:00

Springbok rugby player Flip van der Merwe got married recently to his beautiful wife Elode Malan. Here are the highlights

Live performances by Me and Mr Brown

2011-01-05T07:57:00.004+02:00

Me and Mr Brown. These guys rock! What more can I say. Just watch this clip and you will agree... and if you are planning to hire a band for an event then don’t even look any further, just hire these guys!

Shot at the Strandkombuis: www.strandkombuis.co.za

Me and Mr Brown: www.meandmrbrown.com

Shot & cut by Goosebump Productions: www.goosebump.co.za

"I got a feeling"

"Human"

Zolani (Freshly Ground) sings spontaneously at Karen & David's wedding

2011-01-05T07:50:00.004+02:00

Zolani from the Band Freshly Ground was a guest at a recent wedding and spontaneously sang a song to the bridal couple, Karen & David. I had already packed up all my equipment, so I quickly grabbed my trusty 7D and this is what I got...

Check out freshly Ground at www.freshlyground.com

Strandkombuis: www.strandkombuis.co.za

Shot & cut by Goosebump Productions: www.goosebump.co.za

Aleit Event Management Group corporate photo shoot

2011-01-05T07:45:00.003+02:00

Johnny from the Aleit Event Management Group asked me to shoot the behind the scenes video for their corporate photo shoot. It is always good to work with these guys, particularly in such a fun environment. The shoot took place on Lielieblom farm outside Darling.

Aleit Group: www.Aleit.co.za

Jean-Pierre Uys took the photos: www.jeanpierrephotoblog.com

Video by Goosebump Productions: www.goosebump.co.za

2010 WRAP

2010-12-30T13:53:00.002+02:00

We’d sincerely like to thanks all you guys for supporting us over the last year.

This has been one interesting year. As a South African 2010 will always be synonymous with the year 2010. For Goosebump Productions some of the highlights were:

Relocating to a brand new studio.
Upgrading all our equipment to full HD.
Getting a new assistant editor and shooter in the form of Craig the magic man.
Teaming up with the infamous Deon Bing on numerous productions.
Shooting a behind the scenes video for Playboy.
Kick off of the long talked about midnight sessions music collective, which we filmed in Outshoorn.
We featured in an article in the Full-Circle magazine after our charity work for “Empowerment through Education”
Producing a promo video for Sanlam Glacier
Filming the Climate Change roadshow arranged by Conservation International and the Green Connection.
Filming the Golden Games in Outshoorn
Filming a live show for the band Proxy.
Doing a live vision mix for Deon Bing.
And my personal highlight was that I finally got my favourite lens – the Canon 70-200 f2.8 IS L, yay!

And last but definitely not least is all those happy married couples we have dealt with over the last year. Thanks guys for trusting us with your special memories. We broke all records this year including shooting 8 wedding videos in December alone!

Wishing you all success for 2011.

Mark

Movie Making - An exciting new teambuilding event

2010-07-27T09:48:00.002+02:00

We’d like to introduce you to an exciting new Teambuilding experience... Movie Making.

Have you ever dreamed of starring in a movie?

Have you ever dreamed of directing, or editing, or being the director of photography in a film?

Well dream no more. At Goosebump Productions we now offer a unique corporate team building event, where you get to act in your own film, as well as direct, shoot and edit it, all while being tutored by professional filmmakers. Your teams gets a brief introduction to filmmaking, you decide what roles you want to play in the production: acting, directing, producing, hair & makeup, cameraman, sound, lighting or editing. You then get to use professional equipment and you get a “making of” video of you all creating the masterpiece which will form part of the Extra’s of the DVD containing your masterpiece.

This event can be customised to your needs, from a half day event to a two day event, including script development, accommodation and an awards evening.

Please contact us with your numbers and your specific requirements and we will create a quote to suite your needs.

Contact us at goosebump.co.za or info@goosebump.co.za

New Goosebump Studio

2010-07-23T12:24:00.002+02:00

We have been in our new studio in Westlake Square for almost 4 months now and are settling down nicely. Here are some photos for those who have not yet visited us ...

Westlake Square

Goosebump Studio

Goosebump Weddings 2010 Portfolio

2010-07-19T20:37:00.003+02:00

Check out our 2010 Goosebump Wedding portfolio in HD, which highlights some of the best wedding moments of the past year... all our weddings are now shot in full HD.

Goosebump Wedding Portfolio from Goosebump Weddings on Vimeo.

Drive-By Shooters: Road trip - Karoo

2010-07-13T15:47:00.008+02:00

Here are some of my photo's from the "Drive-By Shooters" road trip into the Karoo... for more photos and other photographers shots go check out the facebook site:

Drive-By Shooters

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Become our fan

2010-07-09T14:51:00.001+02:00

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Drive-By Shooters

2010-07-09T14:47:00.002+02:00

A while ago I was invited to join a group of pro photographers on a road trip into the karoo.. to keep posted on what went down, go check out the facebook link

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Desmond Tutu

2010-07-09T12:40:00.003+02:00

I was privelaged to get up close to the great man at a recent shoot for Pick 'n Pay. What a legend...

FIFA Soccor World Cup 2010

2010-07-09T12:08:00.006+02:00

It was awesome to be part of this incredible world cup experience here in South Africa. Here are some photos that reflect the ups and downs.. and the bitter sweet victory against France that saw South Africa’s exit from the tournament.

Trash The Dress Beach Photo Shoot

2010-06-02T19:09:00.004+02:00

AfrikaBurn 2010

2010-05-03T14:10:00.006+02:00

Here are some photos from my now annual pilgrimage to AfrikaBurn in the Tankwa Karoo. The theme this year was "dreams".

High Speed Boat Trip

2010-04-23T15:33:00.004+02:00

These are some highlights from a recent high speed boat trip team building event.

Team Building Event

2010-04-23T10:58:00.007+02:00

These are some highlights from a recent team building experience we did with ACSA. The event was hosted by www.ukuvuya.co.za

Empowerment Through Education

2010-04-12T09:02:00.005+02:00

Full circle magazine recently approached us to do this video for a very good cause. Please visit their site at www.e-t-e.org, and feel free to pass on this link - it will definitely make a difference.

view the video here:

Exciting new corporate team building event

2010-03-18T09:19:00.002+02:00

We now offer a fun filmmaking corporate team building experience, for those looking for a team building event that is highly entertaining. We have done 4 this year - all to rave reviews!

Goosebumps moving up

2010-03-18T09:18:00.001+02:00

Goosebump Productions are relocating to a brand new premises in the trendy Westlake office park, opening 1 April 2010.

Goosebumps in HD!

2010-03-18T09:14:00.002+02:00

Goosebump Productions now offers full HD productions with the acquisition of a full HD camera, the gorgeous Sony EX1R.

Lance Armstrong at Constantia Uitsig

2010-03-18T09:07:00.003+02:00

Mark had the privilege of filming Lance Armstrong at an exclusive breakfast talk on his recent trip to SA

Happy 2010 - Cape Town Style

2010-01-02T22:35:00.002+02:00

The year that was… 2009

2009-12-10T20:07:00.002+02:00

The biggest thing that happened to me personally this past year was the birth of my baby daughter, Alexa. Wow! What an awesome experience. She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. So, yes, I have been filming and photographing her ad nausea. And she is proving to be quite a hit – winning a local photo competition with one of her photos (albeit of her hand!)

Goosebump Productions under went a little upgrade on the web site. We have also expanded our service offerings somewhat to include photography services – so we are now a one stop photo and video service.

Exciting projects included numerous projects with the WWF, including supplying footage to a Carte Blanche story around the mislabelling of fish, which was awarded the best insert of the year! I worked with the legendary Deon Bing, we did numerous shoots for Kyknet’s Reise en Soetkyse, filming the legendary Zebelon Dread from “Hey Voetsek” fame, and filming the AfrikaBurn art festival. Not to mention all the amazing newly weds we have had the privilege of working with while shooting some amazing weddings, and some “trash the dress” shoots – all in all we had lots of fun.

I am currently hard at work putting the finishing touches to the “Empowerment through education” project, which is looking good, and which can hopefully help change the lives of some underprivileged children… watch this space…

Goosebump Productions also shot Goldfish live at Spier – this was our coolest shoot of the year, and some of the footage was used on their awesome “Cruising Through” music video. These guys rock, and are making a good name for themselves and SA internationally.

We acquired a Canaon EOS 7D camera, which is not only a great stills camera, but it also takes the most amazing HD video footage, so I am finding it hard to get any work done with my new toys - one being Alexa!

This all being said 2009 was a really tough year, as apparently 80% of production companies in South Africa went bang this year due to the economic crash and the fall from grace of SABC, and their failure to pay their production companies. So we are happy to have survived the “naughties”. 2010, however promises to be our most exciting year so far, with some interesting projects in the pipeline – and then of course the 2010 world cup… and judging from the craziness around the draw – the actual event is going to be completely mad!

Here’s wishing you all a festive 2010!
Mark

Photo award winner

2009-11-03T14:26:00.003+02:00

I just won two awards for one of my photographs! I recently joined the creative camera club to get some inspiration for my photography. I must say I am very glad I did so, as I have learnt a lot from the club, and have enjoyed the interaction from like minded people. Our club recently participated in the annual Interclub awards evening, where the following clubs enter their best images for judging:
Cape Town Photographic Society
Creative Camera Club
Fish Hoek Photographic Society
Helderberg Photographic Society
Hermanus Photographic Society
Tygerberg Photographic Society
Tafelberg Afrikaanse Fotografieklub
Paarl Photographic Club
Weskusfotoklub
There were 109 photographs entered, and I was quite suprised to say the least when my photo, entitled "holding hands" won two awards. One for the best overall print, and one for the best human interest award.
The image was shot for one of the clubs creative shoots, entitled "smaller than my thumb" and is a photo of my newborn daughter holding onto my thumb.

Surf sessions - The Hoek

2009-10-30T12:57:00.004+02:00

I shot these yesterday at a surf session. I actully wanted to shoot something to test this lens out that I borrowed form Sybrand, so I took it down to "the Hoek" at the corner of Noordhoek beach. I liked these ones...

Bohemian rhapsody with Zamar

2009-10-27T21:17:00.010+02:00

Here is another video we made for the band Zamar. This one was an afterthought, let me explain...

We originally planned to shoot a video for the song “libertango” under these beautiful oaks. Unfortunately on the day we were set to shoot it was pissing with rain. We then decided to shoot the video under this Bedouin tent. We felt it had a nice bohemian feel, which suited the music and the band, so we set up everything there. One hour before the sun disappeared it suddenly stopped raining (well sort of). We made a quick decision to shoot the actual video under the oaks as originally decided. There was just no time to set up the stage and the entire rig, so we left everything under the tent and shot under the trees. On our return we loved the vibe the set created in the evening and decided to shoot an unplanned video under the tent. The song we chose was "Argentinian Tango". Was it better than the planned shoot? I think so… you decide. Checked the planned shoot here

Click on the arrows next to the Vimeo badge for full screen.

Is Love Blind?

2009-10-27T13:33:00.008+02:00

Hein Wagner & Melindi Kearney's wedding, which took place at the Sea Trader up the West Coast was exceptional. It was so special in many ways... For me it was the first time I was asked to film a wedding for someone who has never been able to see.

Hein has been blind from birth, but this does not stop him, as amongst many of his crazy achievements he holds the record for the fastest blind person on earth, clocking 323km's per hour in a car!

Hein's appreciation of beautiful things and the way he does everyday things is amazing. The way he reads the time, the way he ties his shoelaces, the way he "looked" over his wife after she walked down the isle, the way he studied the old bridal car, the way he signed the register, the way he knows who is around him, the way he teases himself... just being around this special couple for the day was extremely inspiring.

I shot this wedding on my brand new Canon 7D. Yes it is predominantly a stills camera, but it also happens to shoot video.

Thanks to Sybrand Cillié of ProPhotography who has spent many hours helping me with this transition, and for all those beautiful lenses!

I decided to included a lot more audio in this video particularly for Hein, so he too can hopefully watch this and relive the moment. I think the ministers words were very beautiful and worked well as a kind of voice-over.

I must admit I was a bit like a fish out of water on this shoot, as it is very unfamiliar territory, and these cameras are not really designed to do this kind of thing, but I think I got some beautiful footage... you decide, and your comments are welcome.

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World's largest omelette

2009-10-12T08:26:00.007+02:00

We recently got a call from the legendary Deon Bing to go and film a world record breaking attempt: The worlds largest omelette. 65 000 eggs, 125 x 25 liter buckets of egg pulp, a ten ton pan, 500kg of cheese, 200kg of tomatoes. = 3250 kg of omelette. Yes South Africa broke another world record. Congratulations to Pick n Pay, Humpty Dumpty Eggs and all those that were involved.
Check out the video Deon put together here.

Afrika Burns 2009

2009-09-21T17:48:00.009+02:00

On the 11th of October 2009 a good photographer friend of mine, Sybrand Cillié and I set off into the desert to the annual “Afrika Burns”. This is similar to the “Burning Man” held in the USA. Sybrand was keen to play, so I suggested we go along and have some fun. This was my 2nd year, and I must say the experience is amazing. Go check out the “Afrika Burns” facebook site for more.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2348764031

I got my hands on a Canon 5D MkII, as I was keen to play with the HD video feature, and of course take some decent photos. Here are a few photos that I liked… video to follow when I get a chance.

What gives me goosebumps

2009-08-01T13:33:00.001+02:00

I enjoy stories. I enjoy telling stories as well as hearing peoples stories. When a good story is being told, and I really connect with the story emotionally, then I get goosebumps. I am not talking about campfire ghost stories. Just regular stories told well. Strangely enough, though, I don’t often get goosebumps when the actual event takes place. It is only the re-enactment of the story that does this to me. Why? I think I have an explanation. It is in the edit. Its the way you manipulate the detail of the event. Not change the details, but focus on certain detail, exclude certain detail, massage certain information, and present it, not as the events unfolded, but present the information by creating suspense by withholding certain information, and sometimes focusing on seemingly trivial detail to further build that suspense...

This is the same as editing film, or video. You have the facts - the shots. You have the chronological order of events. This is the linear sequence in which everything was captured. As an editor, or a story teller you can take those facts or shots and just trim off the really bad bits, and lay them out as events unfolded. This is quick and easy, and doesn’t require much thought, but the result is predictable, and boring to watch. Like when some people tell a joke, and you kind of know where it is going... The punch line, when it is delivered, is expected, and evokes a polite laugh. The really funny jokes take you completely by surprise.

Nonlinear narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique, used in film, wherein events are portrayed out of chronological order.

Pulp Fiction, in my opinion one of the best films ever made, makes extensive use of this technique. I like to use this editing technique. This takes time and imagination, and the results are often unpredictable and surprising. This is what gives me goosebumps.

When I make a video, I love to watch the final edit with my client. If I get goosebumps, then I know I made a connection. It is like a sign. A message from somewhere telling me what I have done is good. And this is a fantastic feeling. I wish everyone could get goosebumps when doing their work... It would make the world a better place...

Mark

Tango in the woods

2009-05-26T21:04:00.013+02:00

"Libertango" a music video for the band Zamar, preformed under the oaks at Belofte Bos.

A while back I received a call from Veronica from the band Zamar. I had filmed them previously at some function in Noordhoek, so I knew that these guys ooze passion, and it is extremely difficult not to like them or their music. They wanted me to make a them a music video on a very limited budget. I naturally jumped at the opportunity. So we got together on a few occasions and after much to and fro we finally settled on a location out past Stanford, called Belofte Bos. This is a beautiful location under the oaks. I tried to get the aid from an old mate, Manny, who is now a top notch DOP. This didn't work out as he has a hectic schedule, but he did offer some decent advice. I also called on the services of another old mate Graham, who helped out as grip. In Manny's absence I used the photographer of the year winner, Sybrand to assist with the lighting.

As it goes in Cape Town, it pissed with rain on the day of the shoot. We landed up setting up the entire set in an alternative location, and then the skies opened for a 2 hour period, so we went for it. We did not have time to re-do the entire set, so we just made do with what we had. After the sun went we decided to anyway use our 1st setup and shot another song there, which still needs to be edited... Anyway here are a couple of shots of the shoot, courtesy of Sybrand, and of course the video. Let us know what you think.... and thanks to everyone who was involved, it was good fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arIhST6YiAs

Mark

Trashed! Teaser

2009-05-12T13:06:00.006+02:00

This is a teaser for the "Trash the Dress" shoot featuring Tasquia and Mohammed. Mitch and Bernard were the photogs on this one... click on thier names to see their awesome photos from this session, and watch this space for the full video to be posted soon... and yes, I got completely drenched in this shot! Big up to Tasquia & Mohammed - they were extremely brave!

The best job in the world?

2009-04-28T20:40:00.004+02:00

Goosebump Prouctions was asked to film the behind the scenes happenings at the recent IPL tournament at Newlands, and who was performing? You guessed - Goldfish!

Check out these photos taken by Stefan Steenkamp:

One of the guys who was strategically positioned right in front of these gorgeous dancing girls commented that I had the best job in the world. I think he is right!

Golfish & Goosebumps

2009-04-28T19:47:00.013+02:00

Goldfish, the hip electronic band that is creating a stir all over the world with their unique new style of music and energetic live performances have just realease their latest music video for the song: "Cruising through".

The above photos were taken by the up and comming photog, Bernard Bravenboer, you will agree this dude is going place... anyway back to the story..

Goosebump Productions was responsible for shooting the live footage for the video at this recent gig at Spier.

Check the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp56Vcaxlp4

Here are some shots of me filming the gig. Thanks to Liezel van der Merwe for these photos.

Goldfish were also nominated for a record breaking 8 SAMA (South African Music Award) nominations for amounst other things best CD and best music video. Goosebump Productions was responsible for the video clips that appear on this CD, as well as some more live music footage that appears in the video that was nominated for a SAMA. Lets hold thumbs for the fishies!

Check out the SAMA nominated video here:

That's a wrap

2008-12-23T16:51:00.002+02:00

As we wrap up for the year, I reflect back on a very eventful year at Goosebump Productions.

The biggest achievement was the completion of the WWF Sustainable Seafood documentary, which has taken about 3 years to complete. I am happy with the final version, but due to politics in the fishing industry some of the most hard hitting shots had to be cut. This is quite unfortunate as I felt that the film should leave one reeling, and to hopefully make more informed choices when buying seafood.

Besides the numerous corporate, and event videos we also did a number of jobs for TV, including inserts for the Afrikaans travel show, Reise en Soetkuise, eTV’s showbiz report, Carte Blanche, and I even appeared on Top Billing! (whist filming a Top Billing Wedding), I was also involved with filming 2 documentaries that will be screened on SABC in the new year – one was about the legendary Zebelon Dread, remember him? The black dreadlock guy who used to sell the “Hey Foetsek!” magazine on the streets of Cape Town…. And the other doccie was about 3 black woman from Mandela Park in Hout Bay, who are quite avid mountaineers and will be attempting to climb Mt. Everest.

Some other highlights were the production of the DVD for the Paarl School for handicapped children, which was an extremely emotional experience. My footage of Goldfish performing live at Submerged Sundays at Ignite made it onto their latest CD. These guys are really doing well for themselves and have come along in leaps and bounds since I filmed their 1st ever gig at Up The Creek a few years ago. Some of my footage was also used on their music video for Soundtracks & comebacks… check youtube for that one. I also got to meet the bokke before the very successful English tour. I had to help them prepare for the media onslaught they expected when arriving in the UK. I had to stick my camera in their faces and intimidate them and project their images on a big screen, while they were getting nailed by hard hitting journalist questions. I learnt a lot from this experience and my respect for John Smit has grown. This guy is just in a class of his own, when it comes to dealing with media, and these days winning the media war is possibly more important than winning games….! Besides that I was also evolved in a number of environmental projects, specifically in the Tanqua Karoo, and produced a lot of training material for the WWF (the World Wildlife Fund for nature – not the wrestling people!) Speaking of the Tanqua Karoo… I also attended this years ‘Afrika Burns’ event, held in the Karoo. Wow! I took my camera along and focussed on the theme of the event, which was energy. I filmed mainly the events around the actual burn, and all the interesting people who participated. I still need to do something with all the footage, but I managed to catch some beautiful moments.

And that about wraps up 2008. Lets hope 2009 has even more beautiful moments that I can shoot!

All the best for 2009,
Mark Chipps.

Meet us

2008-08-01T13:35:00.001+02:00

Our founder, and lead videographer, Mark Chipps is an award winning documentary filmmaker. Mark is actively involved in all aspects of the business, including all creative areas, like directing, filming and editing.

Mark’s vast technical experience combined with his keen eye for detail, his creative ideas and his ability to tell captivating stories makes him a very proficient filmmaker. Marks’ dynamic camera work stems form his true passion for filmmaking and his extensive knowledge of editing.

"My career as a filmmaker started as a dream. There are vast challenges associated with changing a career after 15 years. My commitment to pursue my dream is articulated in the vast amount of projects I have completed in my career as a filmmaker, and the numerous awards I have won for my work.

When I really immerse myself in story telling and I really relive the experience then I get goosebumps. It is my dream to invoke this primitive emotion-linked reflex through my films, particularly in the documentary/reality genre as I find this field the most compelling and the most rewarding."

Mark Chipps