Cleo Hodgkinson
Work
Brand: LTA (Lawn Tennis Association)
Title: Tennis Tekkers with the Tennisables
Production company: Cylndr
Agency: BMB Make
Director: Chloe Victoria Hughes
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: Combining live action and animation this spot for the LTA is aimed to encourage children from 4 - 10 years old to start learning tennis skills without needing a tennis court to play on.
Title: Absolut Moves with Olly Alexander
Production company: Ground Work
Agency: M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment
Director: Christelle de Castro
Photographer: Christelle de Castro
Producer: Noni Couell
My Role: Agency Producer
Additional Information: Online Launch campaign for limited edition bottle designed by Olly Alexander.
Title: Big on Fresh
Production company: Accenture Song Production Studios
Agency: Accenture Song
Director: Ben Lankester
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: Lidl content film presented by Lindsay Russell and shot in an apple orchard in Kent on a sunny September day. It follows the journey of a crate of British apples from picking to careful quality checking, storage and processing in an impressive pack house. Then on to the distribution centre where they are checked again before sending out to Lidl stores. A really fun job to shoot and fascinating to follow the process and taste some those delicious apples.
Title: Big on Berries
Production company: Accenture Song Production Studios
Agency: Accenture Song
Director: Jon Harvey
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: Content film to show the journey of Lidl strawberries from farm to shop in 24 hours.
Brand: Standard Chartered Bank
Title: Connections
Production company: Quite Brilliant
Agency: Chrome Productions
Director: Phil Hawkins
Producer: Carlotta Merzari, Hannah Lane, Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: I helped produce this film with Chrome Productions for Standard Chartered Bank. It was in collaboration with Quite Brilliant who specialise in Virtual Reality shoots. Celebrating Standard Chartered cultural identities and featuring over 100 cast with the backgrounds shot remotely in 11 locations. Shot at Mars VP studios to bring these scenarios to life. A great experience and an amazing team.
Director Phil Hawkins
Production Companies: Chrome Productions & Quite Brilliant
Title: How We Make
Production company: Mercury Studios
Agency: UMG
Director: Joss Crowley
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: Content documentary for Bowers & Wilkins about their high quality speakers and their long relationship with Abbey Road Studios. Includes interviews with musicians Nile Rogers, Little Simz and Max Richter.
Title: As The Artiste Intended
Production company: Mercury Studios
Director: Joss Crowley
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: One of a series of content films produced for Bowers & Wilkins about their long standing relationship with Abbey Road and some of the talent who have recorded there using B&W speakers.
Title: Where music begins
Production company: Mercury Studios
Agency: Global Music
Director: Joss Crowley
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: Content documentary celebrating Abbey Road studios 90th year and the importance of their relationship with Bowers and Wilkins speakers. Includes interviews with artistes who have recorded there and the engineers who work there.
Title: Yorkshire Day
Production company: Kream
Agency: Karmarma
Director: Cris Mudge
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Title: Unfudged
Production company: Foodhall
Agency: VMLY&R
Director: Scott Grummett
Producer: Jason Underhill
My Role: Agency Producer
Additional Information: One of a series of content films for Baileys and produced while at VMLY&R. The campaign shows how to save recipes that have failed by using Baileys as an additional ingredient.
Directed by by Scott Grummett at Foodhall.
Title: The Hilton Effect Buenos Aires
Production company: Flare
Agency: AMV/BBDO
Director: Darius Norwozian
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: This was one of a series of content films made to celebrate the centenary of Hilton. Working with the owners of the Hilton and collaboration of the management and staff, it tells the story of how the Hilton in Buenos Aires was build on derelict land. It attracted a lot of local investment and further development and then became one of the smartest neighbourhoods in the city. The story also shows how one of the hotel staff has been working to help some of the poor and homeless in the city, with food and clothing donations from the hotel and the general manager also helping out with those distributions.
Title: The Hilton Effect
Production company: Flare
Agency: AMVBBDO
Director: Darius Norowzian
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: This film was part of a series of content films commissioned by Hilton to celebrate their 100th Anniversary in 2019.
Directed by Darius Norowzian it was one of 11 films produced by Flare for Hilton. I produced the US ones and supervised post on others. We took a very small team to each location around the world and sourced local crew to back them up. It was a fascinating journey and a really enjoyable campaign to work on.
Title: Electric Sceptics
Production company: Flare
Agency: AMVBBDO
Director: Andrea Kapos
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer (Production & Agency)
Additional Information: This is a cutdown from an on-line campaign of 8, commissioned by Department of Transport to encourage uptake of electric cars. It required us to find 8 specific and different brands of electric cars with owners who were prepared to be filmed in them, then find out what they didn't like and look for a real person who was involved in that field. They met for the first time with us before going on a road trip to talk about the car and their interests. We used almost the same crew throughout as the project took nearly 6 months from approval to delivery. This was my favourite, but they were all great fun to work on. None of the long versions available any more.
Title: Matchy Matchy
Production company: Bootleg Films
Agency: AMV/BBDO
Director: Tim Kirkby
Producer: Greg Jordan
My Role: Agency Producer
Additional Information: We created a series of 10" spots for Cesar in Canada. The offer was to get matching Christmas jumpers for the owner and their pet if they bought some Cesar product in the run up to Christmas. This spot is the combination of the 6 x 10" spots shown on TV in Canada and on YouTube.
Title: Look Up experiment
Production company: Plaza Films, Australia
Agency: AMV BBDO/Flare
Director: Paul Middleditch
Producer: Peter Masterton/Megan Ayers
My Role: Agency Producer
Additional Information: This was a hidden camera challenge/content film to show how children are so distracted by their devices they don't notice what is going on around them. We filmed with 4 different families in Sydney. In each case the hidden cameras were set up while the children were out. We then asked the family to prepare and start supper, then changed things around them while they played on their devices. None of them noticed any changes, even when a member of the family was replaced. A great success and a fun if complicated job to shoot.
Title: Oops Moments
Production company: Fat Lemon
Agency: Flare/AMV BBDO
Director: 2Doors
Producer: Jane Bolton
My Role: Agency Producer
Additional Information: Produced with Fat Lemon. These were opening spots that preceded 2 minute testimonials of women talking about their Oops moments in 4 different languages. 96 different sized and length versions created.
Title: Sky Arts Refresh
Production company: Sky Creative
Agency: Sky Creative Agency
Director: Andrea Kapos
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: This promo was commissioned to announce the merging of Sky Arts 1 & 2. It meant shooting interviews with some of the amazing talent that work for Sky. Asking them what they liked about various genres in the arts it produced some wonderful sound bites. With very little time allowed for each interviewee we had to be clever with the use of locations and making it feel like a casual chat with a friend, it worked really well. A highlight for me to work with some of the icons of the entertainment industry.
Brand: Sky One - Got to Dance Series 5
Title: Got to Dance Launch Promo
Production company: Sky Creative
Agency: Sky Creative Agency
Director: Philip Bolger
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: Series 5 launch promo, shot in Battersea Park and locations around London.
Brand: Sky One - Mad Dogs Series 2
Title: Mad Dogs Launch Promo
Production company: Sky Creative
Agency: Sky Creative Agency
Director: David Edwards
Photographer: Morgan Silk
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: undefined
Additional Information: This was the launch promo for 2nd series of Mad Dogs on Sky One. With limited availability of the talent we had a lot to do in 2 days with a promo and stills campaign to cover. Palma Pictures in Mallorca were the facility company who did an amazing job on helping us make it happen. It was also incredibly hot and in the middle of the holiday season and there was no access to any beaches, so we had to create a desert in a scrubby field which was quite a challenge. Working with David Edwards and Morgan Silk was a great pleasure.
Brand: Sky One/Got to Dance
Title: Go to Dance Series 4 Launch Promo
Production company: Sky Creative
Agency: Sky Creative Agency
Director: Trudy Bellinger
Photographer: Simon Emmett
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: Series 4 Promo included Diversity for the first time. Shot at Koko in Camden. We had to shoot a 60" promo and stills campaign in one long day.
Title: The Ashes launch promo
Production company: Sky Creative
Agency: Sky Creative Agency
Director: Nicole Poppi
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Hybrid producer
Additional Information: This was the launch promo for the Ashes in 2013. Shot in various grounds including Lords and the Oval with some of the English team, this film showed the preparation of the grounds and people getting ready to watch the series with friends at home and at the pub. Great fun shoot.
Title: Series 2 Launch promo
Production company: Sky Creative Agency
Agency: Sky Creative
Director: David Edwards
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: Launch Promo for 2nd series of Got Dance. This spot showcased the 3 judges dancing talents and gave Davina a chance to dance too.
Directed by David Edwards
Title: Jolly
Production company: BFCS
Agency: Ogilvy
Director: Derek Coutts
Producer: Cleo Hodgkinson
My Role: Production Company producer
Additional Information: Charity spot for the Samaritans which ran before Christmas in 1998. It won several awards for Derek Coutts, it moved the crew to tears during many of the set ups. Great director and a fantastic team of crew and talent to work with, one of my favourite jobs.
