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FIRST
ROCK PRODUCTIONSHigh
Definition Video Production & Post Production Services
Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, U.S. and Berlin, Germany |
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| The Story of First Rock Productions |
First Rock Productions was
founded in 2009 as a result of a meeting between a young German actor and film
maker named Sebastian Anklam and an American entrepreneur and former
music manager John McDonald. Sebastian and his brother Marcel Anklam
became passionate about film making while barely in elementary school. They
spent most of their free time making amateur movies at home for about 5 years
when they decided to get more serious about their film making.
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| Sebastian and Marcel Anklam before takeoff
in helicopter to film aerial scenes in Cibe. The chopper proved to have too
much vibration so always inventive, they built their own remote controlled
drone equipped with a camera to do the aerial photography. |
When Sebastian was only 13, and Marcel only
11, they joined with 13 year old friend and school mate Lukas
Kaupenjohann and decided to see if they could write and produce a feature
length professional quality film. They collectively studied all they could find
about scripts and screen writing and for the next two years they devoted
hundreds of man hours toward creating the script for a feature length teen
action film called Cibe.
With the script for Cibe
completed, they recruited friend David Wunderlich to become the Director
and Andreas Schornack as Director of Photography. Several other friends
were recruited to fill out the remaining positions in the film crew. With the
help of extremely supportive parents they acquired a professional grade High
Definition Camcorder, lighting, and other film making equipment. They were
highly resourceful. What they couldn't afford to buy or rent, they made
themselves including a working cable cam (See picture below) , dollies, even
their own remote controlled drone aircraft equipped with a camera for aerial
photography when a helicopter they rented proved to have too much vibration.
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| When they could not afford to rent a
cablecam, they invented their own cablecam shown above. It was used to film
several scenes in Cibe. |
They gained knowledge, experience, and
professionalism with every scene and they consistently strived for ever higher
levels of perfection. After many weeks of shooting, the quality of their work
had improved so much that they decided to scrap everything up to that that
point and reshoot all the earlier scenes. They worked on Cibe nearly every
weekend, holiday and school vacation for two full years and in July of 2009 the
filming of Cibe was wrapped.
In August of 2009 Sebastian
Anklam came to the United States and presented some of his work to John
McDonald a former manager in the music industry. He was extremely impressed
with quality of the film and offered his assistance to complete the film and
bring it to market. Sebastian appointed McDonald as Executive Producer. The
relationship flourished and together they decided to form a new company named
First Rock Productions to complete and market "Cibe", to produce more
films, especially films with an important message, and to offer their services
and expertise to those who have need for High Definition Video (HDV) production
for television, DVD and the Internet.
The Principals
JOHN MCDONALD (Managing
Partner, Executive Producer, Producer, Cameras) John began his career
in the early 1960s working in the music industry as a personal manager of
recording artists, booking agent, and record promoter. He worked extensively
with several top ten recording artists. In the mid-1960s he produced the
Jerry Williams,
Steve Fredericks,
Larry
Glick, and Fred Dreyfus radio talk shows on WMEX in Boston. John
also owns Masscot Internet one of America's oldest Internet Companies
whose clients include several internationally known singers, actors, and record
producers.
SEBASTIAN ANKLAM (Partner,
Producer, Actor, Screen Writer, Camera, Editor) Sebastian started his
career by making home movies with his brother Marcel when he received his first
camera when he was only 8 years old. At 13 he started writing the script for
his first feature length motion picture Cibe which is scheduled for release in
2011. He starred in Cibe as John Braun one of three lead characters. He was
also producer, screen writer, and editor.
In July and August 2010 Sebastian was
performing in the German language major motion picture
Der ganz grosse Traum des
Konrad Koch 2011starring
"Inglourious
Basterds (2009)" star
Daniel Bruhl.
He demonstrated his soccer skills by playing a British Soccer Player in this
film. He is also featured in the independent film Luke Eleven as the
best friend of the main character. He also was in the film crew for the
Independent film CO2 that premiered in October 2010. In the spring of 2009,
Sebastian interned in the post production department of the famed
Bablesberg Film Studios in
Berlin, one of Germany's biggest motion picture studios. |
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