ROELAND BENTVELZEN
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
+31 (0) 6 1885 47 93
The Netherlands
I have been to Abbey Road Studio's (Studio 2)
We went to the legendary Abbey Road Studio's for recordings directed and produced by Plugged Live Shows. I'm shooting a documentary on this special exclusive project that they are working on. It's an honor to work in a
studio where the greatest of musicians have worked on their recordings.
For FabriQ Media Group we shot a Koga e-bike commercial featuring
one of their pretty and speedy bikes.
To capture the speedy action we used the buggy from RZR Films.
It was my first time working with RZR's beauty and I must say I had
a Wonderfull time pulling focus from one of the back seats.
All four seats are equiped with at least one TVLogic and the service and craft of the rigging/grip/driver team is fantastic. On the picture above f.l.t.r.
Bart de Haan (driver/grip), Roeland Bentvelzen (AC), Goof de Koning (DP),
Erik Eijgenstein (dir.), Jeroen de Haan (rigging/tech).
Premium content shoot Sauna De Heuvelrug
Spending a lot of time in sauna's these day's all thanks to director Cas Lebbink (Filmakers NL). This time we when for the beauty's in Sauna De Heuvelrug. Premium content shot in 5K (RED Dragon)
We shot premium content with great models and the best hamam and massage specialists of the sauna.
Our crew, we had gaffer Stijn Jonkhart and AC Daan Kramer. Just great!
Shooting the short film Esthectic (Esthectisch)
The short is about a young artist troubled by society and the way he
needs to find to make a living using his art and services to clients and
their wishes.
In the film we dive into the artists mind to show his struggle. Doing so
we created a unique look for these scenes to contrast with the real world.
Written and directed by Manouk Moreau and accompanied by a small
crew we shot this film in five days time.
For promotional videos on tech expo's AWL needed video content of their new robot arms and their trick and magic with AR technology.
With the Filmakers crew we shot a number of very sexy cinematic robot
shots that made us, as well as our customer very happy.
Koning Willem I awards interviews with Strawberry Earth
For the Koning Willem I award we grabbed the camera and an Array Sky
Panel and drove from interview to interview. The ladies from Strawberry Earth directed, I shot and Just Posthumus was our boom operator.
Jolly good company, jolly good interviews, jolly good people.
All by myself on the A1 highway's reversible lane
For Vialis in Houten, Vancas creates a film on their work for the A1 reversible lane.
For this film I was asked to shoot video on the highway, the reversible lane, and at the Rijkswaterstaat Traffic center van in Velsen-Zuid.
Also we shot interviews with the director and involved specialists at Vialis in Houten.
Thanks to Rijkswaterstaat we were able to shoot great footage on a complete empty reversible lane, safely.
Again a great collaboration with Trancon. Together with general director Jurgen Tegel we created a video campaign to promote HellooShop.
The app developed by Trancon works like a cash register that works with your warehouse or stock, purchases, different shop locations all in one.
It gives great insight to the business owner and speeds up all the
processes.
This year we shot several old Alpine models. The highlight was the new A110 model. With producer Vincent Duijverman (Dors & Lesser) and director Job Kuizenga we shot the most beautiful shots of those Alpine beauty's.
Sunset Contract
For IndiePend Pictures we shot the feature film Sunset Contract.
Shot in Croatia in the summer of 2015. The film is currently in post.
Director Marc Conen shot the movie with DP Goof de Koning whom I
was pulling focus for. I've worked on a lot of productions with Goof
before and it's always good to work with this man on set.
Sunset Contract features Peter Nicholas, Paris Jefferson and
Anna Nightingale.
Our Beixo commercial on Adformatie
Adformatie (www.adformatie.nl) recently put our Chainless Friday commercial for Beixo on their Adfobase.
Curacao with Trancon
With Trancon director, Jurgen Tegel, I spend a week at one of their clients on Curacao, EWT. We shot for multiple products; web content for EWT and a testimonial video for Trancon.
Tokyo
Last April I spend a full two weeks in Tokyo, Japan. With a small team
from We Are The Night we shot a spectacular documentaire.
I can not spill the details but yes, the sushi was good and the hotelroom
bathtubs a bit small.
A new music video project with Arjen Anthony Lucassen
With both directing and post production in the hands of Julius Horsthuis,
this project is heavily fractal based. Julius has a long career as VFX Supervisor behind him and is now working as an artist working on his fractal projects around the world.
My appearance in the newspaper [Stadsblad]
With the online release of our music film Do Not Sing To Me, My Beauty
Dutch newspaper, Stadsblad wrote an article about me as the cameraman
of this award winning project.
Dhaka, Bangladesh trip with CreaBea for Chain Fashion
For a corporate movie we visited Chain Fashions TEB factory in the
capital of Bangladesh. I shot great shots and saw Manny colours in the
company of Barry van Oostrom (CreaBea) and Robin Ackeroyd (Chain Fashion)
Premiere Do Not Sing To Me, My Beauty
The cast and most of the crew at the premiere of the classical music film
The film premiered at Klassiek op het Amstelveld Festival in Amsterdam
and will start it's appearance-tour on multiple festivals from now on.
Underwater test-shoot
We just had the lift-off.. or dive-in of our project Do Not Sing To Me, My Beauty, a music film with soprano Leatitia Gerards.
Off to Scotland with Jaja Filmproductions after a very promising underwater test shoot at underwaterstudio.com.
And we’ll be taking model Nina Kollof (redhead for the occasion) with us. This pictures was taken by the director of the film Marieta Landkroon
Shooting a short film in four days time with the Jix Jib
For the short film by Ebba Stoppelenburg we spend two days in a studio to
capture most of the main story's scene's. The other two days were spend on in-scene TV scene's and exterior shots. During the studio days we had the Jix Jib from Maloney Amsterdam. This eased and sped up the production nicely. We could place the camera everywhere, like above the bed to have topshots of the main cast (Max Carless and Marjoke Plijnaer) but also on paces were a tripod would not be able to stand.
Also it gave us so much flexibility that helps out creatively but was also
effective when shooting a scene with a child that moved unpredictably.
The production is wrapped and in post production at the moment. Updates
will be made here.
The last of the Appeltje van Oranje films is in the can.
With Filmakers I shot numerous films on the nominees for the Appeltje van Oranje. An Award handed out bij The Oranje Foundation (Oranjefonds). Each nominee's activities and goals are highlighted in their film. Just now we shot the last one and it happened to involve running (sports) activities as well, and so it happend that (me and) our boom operator Maarten Tielemans are both marathoners. As a real Strava Nerd I recorded our activities on Strava. Also collaborating with director Anna van Schijndel for the first time in years was a nice chance to catch up.
Pulling focus with the new Nucleus-M remote focus
On a leader shoot for an online series of video by Rabobank called Reken Maar, I used the new Nucleus-M remote. A compact, affordable kit and with
the wireless receiver built in the focus motor seem as very good pros.
Testing this Hyperion Boroscope for POM (the great)
The short film Pom (the great) dives deep in the mind of a young bullied
boy. DP Erwan van Buuren and director Jonas Klinkenbijl came up with the
idea of using a boroscope to shoot the boys subjective shots and such.
We were testing the boroscope on the Arri Amira in a testing bay of Camalot, Amsterdam.
ELF 2017 Live Stream from Saltzburg, Austria.
Electronic Love Festival live stream multicam with We Are The Night.
AH - Appie Today - Ik ken dit niet
Together with producer Jaro Gevers and production company Big Shots we
shot the first three episodes of Ik ken dit niet.
An online show about strange foods created for Albert Heijns online channel Appie Today. The three-camera-show on which I'm employed as
Director of Photography is directed by Eefje Suikerbuik.
Flow
Flow is a marketing and sales application that works with all kinds of
data and combine;s that to give insight to the user.
With Hectic Electric we shot the action for a Flow promotional video.
Currently in post at Hectic, director Reinier Reijnhout is overseeing this cool visual project.
Leader shoot NTR Klassiek Viert de Zomer
All throughout The Netherlands for Ondernemen Doen We Zo
With journalist and host Jolien van den Elsakker we're visiting businesses throughout The Netherlands for the RTL 7 program Ondernemen Doen We Zo. Here we are on the 12th floor at Ordina in Nieuwegein for this Stims Media production.
For the NTR program Klassiek viert de zomer I shot the program leader directed by René Gast. With host Floris Kortie and producers Linda en Leanne (NTR) we shot beautiful images that really add to the musical and travel-feel of the program..
Kuwait with Van Vlier Media for Van Oord
For a solid foundation to build Kuwaits largest oil refinery, Van Oord has finished preperations on a huge piece of land. To showcase the results
of this project we shot overviews of the site, the ceremony that celebrated
a new fase; the building and interviews with Van Oord's finest and some
oil sjeiks. Director/producer Christiaan Kanis and I were put to the test of
enduring 50 degree Celsius.