15 Years of 3angrymen
We’re only two years from being able to get our driving licence!
Well holy macaroni, we’ve only gone and gotten 15 whole years old. What on earth is all that about? Indulging nostalgia, that’s what that’s about.
That’s right - after all the films, for all the clients, made with the help of all those people - we thought we’d take the opportunity to take a saunter down memory lane. To give this some sort of order, we’ve asked Thom and Guy to reach all the way back to 2007 and write up a list of #15filmsthatmatter most to them.
2007 / our first proper 3angrymen Showreel
The culmination of our first year's worth of work, which, if we're honest wasn't much to look at... 😬 probably why we ended up shooting a bunch of shots of London with some colourful SFX pasted all over them. We’ve all been there… haven’t we?
2008 / promo videos for Basecamp Ski school
Our first international shoot took us to the French Alps, trying to keep up with the hardcore Olympic-level Basecamp instructors. Did we make some great films? Yes! Get stuck halfway up a mountain, on a black run, with all our kit after the lifts closed? Also yes! Sample Meribel’s famous apres ski? Mayyybeeee…
2010 / relieving exam stress with
the NSPCC
2010, relieving exam stress with the NSPCC. A real game changer - our first promo for the NSPCC and our first film to go "viral". With 70+ teenagers sat in a sports hall, doing Mexican waves, for 2 days straight - what could possibly go wrong?
2011 / stop motion animation for Channel 4’s Random Acts
Our first telly appearance (as far as we can remember), original Angry, James Dunlop, directed this madcap stop-motion caper with animation wizard Chris Butcher. Got us a Vimeo Staff Pick and no real soldiers (or cows) were harmed in the making of this film. 🙂
2012 / teen focussed promo for ChildLine
A two nights shoot in South London, followed by countless late nights in post-production to bring young people’s problems into the light with fizzing bright neon vfx. Our first film to break the million mark on Youtube but, you know, who's counting?
2013 / online promo for Scouts UK
The first of many collaborations with the fearless folks over at Scouts. Making this was an adventure in itself, involving leaps into the unknown, river scrambling, mountain hiking … and 10 minutes with the Chief Scout Bear Grylls 🐻.
2014 / short documentary for the Shoreditch Trust
Focused on three trainees finding their way in the intense environment of a busy London restaurant, this was our first foray into the magical world of documentary filmmaking. Three stories - Leanne, Jack and Lucca in their own words - accompanied by some luscious b-roll shot through some vintage Cooke lenses. Yum! Nearly as delicious as the food being served up.
2014 / charity gala film for Build Africa
A lesson in 1) how to do pre-production on the fly and 2) extreme battery management, with the script still being written on the long and bumpy road to the remote ultra-rural area of Masindi, northwest Uganda.
2015 / political campaign film for The Green Party
With critical seats to be won in Bristol and Brighton ahead of a spring general election, we followed the Green Party’s main representatives around their constituencies, fighting for a greener United Kingdom 💚. Pre-2016 politics, eh! Feels like a far-away fairy-tale land now.
2017 / charity promo for Crisis
After 50 years of incredible work, Crisis wanted to mark the occasion by challenging their audience to imagine a world without homelessness.
An especially memorable project for us - lots of very early hours location scouting (with an especially epic effort from DOP Adrian Peckitt), a newly commissioned poem, voiced by someone who'd recently spent 3 years living on the streets - everyone involved just going very above and very beyond to make the project work.
2018 / online promo for Scouts UK
The one where we finally learnt to let go (a bit). Directed by Danny Baldwin and produced by Kezia Clark this was the first big campaign shoot that didn't have either Guy or Thom around on set. And it turned out beautifully, what does that tell you?
2019 / profile mini-doc for Schroders
After over 10 years of working with Schroders we really struggled to narrow down our selection. In the end, we've gone for this sunny, sandy little beauty, which required Guy to get out into the blazing heat of the Sahara Desert, to film the sheer lunacy that is the Marathon Des Sables. ☀️☀️☀️
2019 / charity promo for Leonard Cheshire
For every day we worked on this project we learnt something new about the challenges facing people with disabilities, including how woefully inaccessible our shoots can be. Thankfully we had the legend that is Jack Binstead schooling us on a daily basis.
2020 / TVC for food delivery service Field & Flower
Deep into lockdown #1, with the nation obsessed with upping their home-cooking game, we visited Home Farm in the gorgeous Gordano Valley to sample the amazing food F&F offer for delivery. Our abiding memory - how good it felt to finally be out and about filming again.
2021 / fundraising film for Impetus
As the pandemic finally began to abate and production began to crank back up to something like full-steam-ahead, we went and shot this film about young people determined to make up for lost time. It felt like a real turning point for us, turning our attention to how things are going to move forward, how we want things to change.