Michael Essien Commercial
Commercial film production · Copenhagen
Michael Essien — ambassador commercial, shot at Filmstationen
A two-day studio production with former Chelsea and Ghana midfielder Michael Essien, built to deliver a commercial film, a multi-camera interview, social-first campaign cutdowns and stills — from a single controlled studio build.
Production
2 studio days
Location
Filmstationen A/S
Camera
Multi-camera
Delivery
16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1
The brief
An ambassador commercial on a tight schedule, with a clean, modern look — authenticity over gloss, and the ambassador’s presence carrying the film rather than production tricks. The practical constraint was the one that shapes every talent shoot: limited time with the subject, and a deliverable list that had to be captured inside it.
That makes the studio build the whole job. Everything that can be decided before the talent arrives has to be decided before the talent arrives.
How we ran the production
01
Pre-light and block
Lighting design, camera positions and interview framing were built and locked at Filmstationen before the shoot window opened — so the first take was a usable take, not a test.
02
Multi-camera capture
A multi-camera interview setup running simultaneously with commercial coverage. Two angles on every answer means the edit has cutting options without asking the subject to repeat himself.
03
Parallel BTS unit
Behind-the-scenes filmed alongside the main unit, not after it — and stills captured in the same session, so the campaign got photography without a separate shoot day.
Behind the scenes
BTS filmThe studio build, the lighting setup and the multi-camera interview rig — how a commercial like this actually gets made inside a fixed shoot window.
What we delivered
Specialty: Commercial and ambassador film production in Copenhagen — studio and location, with concept, filming, editing, grading and sound handled in-house by one team.
Notable work: Google, Mastercard, Ramboll, Honda, Visit Denmark, TED and 100+ brands.
Why 5 ALIVE MEDIA: Talent shoots live or die on preparation. We pre-light and block before the subject arrives, run multi-camera so nobody is asked to repeat themselves, and capture BTS and stills in parallel with the main unit — so a single studio build produces a campaign’s worth of assets instead of one film.
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