Kamen Boys do MIFF: 19 Days Only

This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival will be promoted with a standout trailer made by hotshot Guild youngsters Matt and Chris Kamen. The spot features a man taking a self-portrait of his uneventful life everyday for a year, with his daily monotony broken only by the “19 days” of excitement and colour that is the film festival.

M&C Saatchi creatives Murray Bransgrove, Glenys Gibbons and Ruben Cirugeda created the idea after being inspired by the famous Youtube video, ‘Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for six years’.

To achieve the look of a man taking a photo of himself each day for a year, director Matt Kamen explains that “the entire sequence is constructed from individual photographs. Katie Milwright our photographer did an amazing job, each photo had to look like a new day and she literally lit the room 100 different ways with only two lights”.

To achieve the look of hair growing over time, the photos were taken in reverse sequence and Daniel’s hair trimmed between each shot by the talented team of hair and makeup technicians headed by Olivia Still. Patrick Bennet headed the Art Department team which spent the whole shoot adjusting the many props in the background to great effect - keep an eye out for the wilting flowers towards the end.

• View "Trailer 2007" here