INSEAD LDP [Singapore]

The Deck produced the promotional film for the Leadership Development Programme at international business management school INSEAD.

Produced, Directed and Edited by Jon Moore at The Deck

Cameras, Chris Dickinson, Jon Moore and Matthew Horrex

The LDP is a unique feature of the INSEAD EMBA: It's a programme that follows and shapes your personal and professional development—and runs throughout your time as a participant. The LDP is founded on the belief that leadership is much more than management. Today’s leaders must strike a balance between reflection and action to help their organisations adapt to the unknown. They must be flexible, aware of their context, and able to adjust their leadership style to the situation. Just as importantly, they must know themselves and understand their impact on others. 

LE MERIDIEN [Malaysia]

Co-Directed by Jon Moore of The Deck and Jeremy Hollister of New York agency Plus, Destination Unlocked: KL is the first in the agency's new series of branded spots for Le Méridien Hotels and the Starwood Group.

The spot follows new wave bossa nova act Nouvelle Vague as they zoom around on Vespas, unlocking some of Kuala Lumpur's best-kept secrets. An impromptu jamming session with sitar player Kumar Karthigesu and tabla player Prakash Kandasamy, recorded live at Barlai Pudu coffee shop provides the soundtrack.

• Co-Directed by Jon Moore at The Deck and Jeremy Hollister at Plus
• Cameras, Chris Dickinson at Chris D TV and Aaron Tan at Space Boy Studios

• Post production at Plus in New York
• Fixing and location support by Wildsnapper.

INSEAD MBA [Singapore]

The Deck has embarked on its latest project - a challenging, long-term documentary production for International Business School INSEAD.

We'll spend the coming year following a group of students, making a film that will attempt to capture the highs, the lows and how they overcome the challenges both on and off campus.

And this time next year, we'll hopefully be celebrating their success in completing one of world's most rewarding MBA courses.

RAPHA [Malaysia]

The Deck heads to central peninsular Malaysia to shoot the latest of our films for cycle clothing brand Rapha.

The Rapha Gentlemen's Race will feature a 200km circuit of the Cameron Highlands: a six-hour ride that will take in historical hill stations, tea plantations and the remote villages of the Orang Asli people.

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TELLY AWARDS Winners!

The Deck has won two Silver (top prize) and two Bronze at the 35th Annual Telly Awards.

"Ying's Story" for Yihaodian and Oracle Exadata won the top Silver prize.

"Hasan's Story" for Maldives Police and Oracle Exadata won two Bronze.

Both films were Written, Directed and Edited by Jon Moore. Director of Photography was Chris Dickinson.

DFS T GALLERIA [Singapore]

The Deck was given the job by DFS, to document the making of the logo for their new T Galleria store in Singapore.

T GALLERIA Artist Y/X from Jon Moore on Vimeo.

We spent a week in the studio with Artist Y/X to talk about his inspiration behind the design and his thoughts on travel and how he sees his home as the hub for travel in the world.

Produced, Directed & Edited by Jon Moore
DP, Chris Dickinson
Post Production at The Deck
Agency: Waggener Edstrom

MUSIC MATTERS LIVE [Singapore]

Highlights from this year's live Youtube webcast of Music Matters Live with HP.

This year we partnered with the students of Singapore's Republic Polytechnic, who helped us produce  almost twenty hours of live, multi-cam coverage over three days.

The event runs in tandem with Digital and Music Matters and attracts bands from 60 countries worldwide.

SANDCRAWLER [Singapore]

The Deck was called in by architect FIRMS Aedas to produce a short film to showcase their design of LucasFilm's new "Sandcrawler" building in Singapore.

Filmed and edited by Jon Moore.

RAPHA CONTINENTAL: SAPA [Vietnam]

The Deck's latest film in the Rapha Continental series launched today

The flight to Hanoi was followed by an overnight train and a week on the road in northern Vietnam avoiding floods, landslides and broken roads.

We recorded the local tribal singer on location, performing a traditional "call to the hills" song and created the final soundtrack from scratch back here at base.

Produced, Directed and Edited by Jon Moore. Filmed by Jon and Andrew Loiterton (ajlphoto.com), who also deserves thanks for the lenses and extra 5Ds!

Sound design is by Aaron D'Arcy (riponstudios.com).

And a big hug for Dylan and Ella who allowed their Daddies to head off into the unknown and be away for their fourth Birthdays.

DFS MASTERS OF WINE & SPIRITS [Singapore]

DFS BRINGS IN THE THE DECK TO PRODUCE THE OFFICIAL EVENT VIDEO FOR THEIR MASTERS OF WINE AND SPIRITS IN SINGAPORE

YIHAODIAN & ORACLE [Shanghai]

We traveled to Shanghai to find out how Oracle Exadata is empowering online shopping giant Yihaodian to transform people's lives.

Produced, directed and edited by Jon Moore at The Deck
Camera, Chris Dickinson
Executive Producer, Justin Keen for Oracle Brand and Creative

The film forms the "back story" to the featured "Ying's Story", for which The Deck won top prize at this year's International Telly Awards.

ORACLE: YING'S STORY [China]

The second in our award-winning series of films for Oracle took us from downtown Shanghai to the remote mountain villages of Anhui province.

The film tells the story of Ying, who finds a way to care for her parents from her new home in Shanghai with the help of Yihaodian online shopping and Oracle Exadata.

The film was shot on Canon C300 over three days in Shanghai and in Chaji Village in Anhui.

Actors, locations and on-the-ground production expertly handled by Lee Chi Shun and his team at A+B in Shanghai.

See below for the "back story" featuring Yihaodian executives discussing the benefits of employing Exadata.

Written, Directed and Edited by Jon Moore

DP Chris Dickinson

Executive Producer Justin Keen at Oracle Brand and Creative

Post Production at The Deck

The concept of selling Exadata through human interest stories was introduced to Oracle Brand and Creative by The Deck earlier this year. We pitched a series of stories, which would highlight how Oracle's customers are being "empowered by Exadata" to transform ordinary people's lives.

The first in the series, Hassan's Story took us to The Maldives. Upcoming stories will be set in Australia and Sichuan Province in China.

Watch on Oracle Media Network

BUDDHA'S BIRTHPLACE

An extract from Jon Moore's journal during The Deck's two week rickshaw ride from Goa to Pokhara for

The Shaw Must Go On

...

SUNDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2009

DAY THIRTEEN - LUMBHINI TO TANSEN

At three o’clock this morning, I sat bolt upright in bed. If the lightning hadn’t struck the hotel roof above us, the crack of thunder had certainly woken up everyone in the crew (apart from Katie). The thought of today’s drive kept me awake – consumed by images of a road, which we knew had already claimed at least one rickshaw.

The flat roads of Uttar Pradesh were behind us. What lay ahead were the mountainous foothills of the Himalayas. We already knew we faced the threat of landslides and muddy adverse cambers. Now for me, a big decision - to take the longer, safer but visually less splendid route. Or to risk lives and take the more direct road to Pokhara, which would climb almost immediately up to 1500 metres and test the rickshaw’s uphill stamina and the road-holding of its three tiny wheels.

With our Executive Producer’s expectations in mind, I decided to cast our fate into the hands of Lord Buddha. So after breakfast, we crossed the road to the place where he was born.

What a serene place. And what a place to reflect on the journey so far. In a peaceful garden, strewn with the ruins of the Maya Devi temple, payer flags fluttered from the tree where his mother, Queen Maya Devi is said to have gone into labour more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago.

Monks on pilgrimage strolled the gardens with nothing more than their orange robes, a single bag of simple belongings, a digital camera and a handphone. As we paid our respects, the rainclouds cleared, the sun came out and Buddha whispered, “Take the mountain road.”

“This is a man who knows good telly.” I thought.

Back at the hotel, Virendra our mechanic changed a balding tyre and assured us that The Shaw was ready for her assault on the Himalayas. Today’s drive would be slow and steep, so we decided on Tansen as our destination and hit the road.

The drive was incredible. We hit a landslide almost as soon as we began to climb, which made us all wonder how passable the following 100km would be. But soon enough, the mud and rocks cleared and the fun began.

We’ve made it to the Hotel Sri Nagar, 50 metres above the bustling hill-town of Tansen, perched high up in the middle of the Western Range in the south of Nepal. Katie and Shelley are playing with the kids in the village. Around them, pigs and goats roam freely. Our evening meal is about to be served on a balcony, which hangs over a plunging valley, and our cosy beds await in wood-panelled bedrooms with net curtains. Maps of mountain treks and panoramic photographs of the Annapurna Range cover the reception walls. Racks for muddy boots and hooks for hanging wet Gore-Tex remind me of hiking in the Lake District. But Great Gable and Scafell would look up in awe if they were to meet the peaks here.

With the afternoon mist rolling in, it’s hard to tell what kind of views we can expect come morning. But I have a good feeling we’re in for a nice surprise.

Tomorrow our long journey will end. This evening, it feels like we can see all the way back across the whole of India to where we started two weeks ago in Goa, and see forward the last 200km to our destination, far below in the Pokhara Valley.

If there was ever a time to reflect, this is it.

To read more, read forwards from here... http://jonsrickshaw.blogspot.sg/2009/09/day-one-colva-to-belgaum.html

ORACLE: FROM MALDIVES TO SAN FRAN

"Hassan's Story" selected to open Larry Ellison's Keynote at Oracle Openworld 2013 in San Francisco.

Earlier this year, The Deck traveled to Maldives to make a film showing how the Maldives Police is empowered by Oracle's Exadata.

The film received great response from Oracle's head creative, branding, sales and marketing execs on both sides of the Pacific. It was selected as the final play-on film leading into CEO Larry Ellison's Keynote address at this year's Oracle OpenWorld  at Redwood Shores HQ in San Francisco.

The film was shot on C300, took in locations on Male' and on Maafushi Island and involved a handful of actors. Casting, locations and fishing boat expertly sourced by Maldives-based production company Blue N White.

See below too, for the back-story. 

The next in the series, "Ying's Story", shot in Shanghai and Anhui Province is currently in the final stages of post-production. Two further films in the Australian Outback and Sichuan, China are already in pre-production.

Written and Directed by Jon Moore
Director of Photography Chris Dickinson
Executive Producer Justin Keen for Oracle Brand and Creative

Watch on Oracle Media Network

ORACLE OPENWORLD [Shanghai]

The Deck provided production for Oracle's C-Central series this month.

The customer interviews formed part of Oracle's OpenWorld event at Shanghai Expo.

The multi-camera triax solution was directed by Jon Moore.

MASAN CONSUMER [Vietnam]

MASAN GROUP, one of Vietnam's largest companies asked us to produce a film to show how their products have become part of people's lives for generations. 

Produced and Directed by Jon Moore
DoP Chris Dickinson
Edited by Jon Moore
Shot on Canon C300

MALDIVES POLICE & ORACLE [Maldives]

We traveled to Maldives to meet the police there and find out how Oracle Exadata is empowering them to operate across this vast chain of tiny islands.

The film forms the "back-story" to our featured "Hassan's Story" below. Both films won top prize at the 2014 International Telly Awards. 

Produced, directed and edited by Jon Moore at The Deck
Camera, Chris Dickinson
Executive Producer, Justin Keen for Oracle Brand and Creative  

CHI at Shangri-La Resort [Sabah]

A short promotional spot produced for Chi Spa at Shangri-La Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa in Sabah, Malaysia. 

Filmed and edited by Jon Moore

AEDAS: THE STAR [Singapore]

A short architectural video produced by The Deck last month, to showcase the work of architecture firm Aedas.

Filmed and edited by Jon Moore.

With thanks to Niall Phelan.

Google

Day one of our latest production for Google.

Produced and Directed by Jon Moore. Thanks to John Ling at Villains and DoP Chris Dickinson and the crew. More to come!