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Commercial for EF International Language Centers.

Directed by Gustav Johansson (gustavjohansson.com)

D.P: Niklas Johansson, fsf (niklasjohansson.com)
Typography: Albin Holmqvist (albinholmqvist.com)
Music: Magnus Lidehäll (twitter.com/magnusthemagnus)

Produced at Camp David (campdavidfilm.com)

Client: EF International Language Centers
Campaign site: ef.com/livethelanguage

Credits

Albin Holmqvist
Typography
Gustav Johansson
Director
Niklas Johansson, FSF
Director of Photography

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Hexagonall 1 year ago

perfect, flawless editing, moved me greatly. I have a question, which camera was used to get these amazing images?
thank you very much!
Handcraft 1 year ago

Beautiful! really impressed!
Albin Holmqvist 1 year ago

Hexagonal: 5D if i'm not mistaking! I recommend that you check niklasjohansson.com out, insanely talented D.P who shot this!
Sam Morrill 1 year ago

Ah, I love Barcelona so much.
Guillermo Vidal & Friends 3 months ago

Me too! :D Glad to live there!
Oleguer Txdr 1 month ago

I also live there, and so I love it. But this video is sort of insulting the city. In Barcelona we don't speak Spanish. WE SPEAK CATALAN. And we also want to get the independence from Spain, fyi.

No offence.
Mikel Canal 1 month ago

I live in Barcelona too, and I think that the production of the video is awesome.
But as Oleguer said's, in Barcelona we speak CATALAN! Live the Language? OK, so let's speak Català. Catalunya is not Spain.
No offence :)
Pablo Olmos Arrayales 1 year ago

Great design, man!
The type really give more strenght to the video.
Good work.
All the best
Maxime NUGUES 1 year ago

I'm coming to EF Sydney next year so please do it for Sydney ! It's perfect !
Gustav Johansson 1 year ago

We are in Sydney shooting one as we speak!
Zorge on Air 1 year ago

Just great! I wish we have one abt Kyoto or any city in Japan one day)
Meagan Kirkpatrick 1 year ago

such a great video - makes me want to return to Barcelona right NOW!
Enzo Ribeiro 1 year ago

Whats the name of the song? thx
Megan Leigh Sweeney 1 year ago

Love the style & design.. especially the text!
David Amanor 1 year ago

Suddenly compelled to learn Spanish in Barcelona
HARDKORE79.COM 1 year ago

me gusta!!! yayayay! hei man, when you come to florence you're welcome! c ya!
Andy Hensler 1 year ago

Hey Albin, Brillant use of various typefaces.
Do you know the name of the music?
iRIO 1 year ago

[ 'veri wel ]
Andy Thomas 1 year ago

Love this video, lovely pace to it and it is really shot very well indeed. My only thing is - the film effect lines that you've put onto some of the images in post are all going horizontally. While the film effect in itself fits with the lovely orange glow edits you've done, these lines would not go horizontally "back in the day" with real film. They would be going vertically. Small thing, but something I couldn't pass without commenting, sorry. Love the piece otherwise, really great. All the best, Andy
Dan Berry 1 year ago

Brilliant. Such beautiful women. Love it.
Vinnie Miller 1 year ago

My grand memory when I visited Barcelona was of that pool. The view was so beautiful. The plunge off the high dive on a hot day...
Albin Holmqvist 1 year ago

Thank you for all your great comments!
Please refer to the vimeo profiles of Gustav Johansson (director) and Niklas Johansson (Director of photography) for more eye candy, they are the best!
Michael Triana 1 year ago

beautiful!!!
Jaime Rodríguez Santiago 1 year ago

Excelente trabajo, buenas tomas.
Leslie Ewe 1 year ago

beautiful !!
Yann Denis 1 year ago

Just perfect !!
VV 1 year ago

I love this !!! What music did you use ??
Juliana Fasuolo 1 year ago

lovely
Alex Kopan 1 year ago

i love the bits of old film look you added. it gives it a nostalgic and inviting look. great work!
Metron 1 year ago

Now I am not sure what I want more:
- visit Barcelona or learn Spanish ;)
Diego RB 1 year ago

This series is truly beautiful. Type treatment, color grading... Congratulations, man
b-ROOM 1 year ago

Very nice.
bob lorrimer 1 year ago

Wonderful tight video with glorious imagery.....It might be even better if you would not put the SUB TITLES/TEXT in front of the GIRLS!
Albin Holmqvist 1 year ago

heeey there! Didn't Erik Spiekermann once said that he PREFERS type over girls bottoms :)
Mihaly Szilagyi 1 year ago

Nice colors and typo.
Stephan Heller 1 year ago

Such a perfect naturally looking girl :)
with a lot of charisma
My World 1 year ago

brilliant... typography is exquisite... and the culture captured in each city is spot on in such subtle ways... wonderful work... thank you
LEJON 1 year ago

sjukt snyggt Albin!
Gundars Jakobsons 1 year ago

I Fell In Love with that Girl - that smile and eyes ... Yeah and great video of course, nice camera work.
Fix Axel 1 year ago

BARCELONA TE QUIERO!

If someone know the title of the music, i'm totally for!

Great EF's video for Paris too!
Nick Gay 1 year ago

Well done! I'll be out there in four months. Curious to know who did the music? Cheers.
Liam R 1 year ago

Such good memories of Barcelona! Walking down the Rambla at 1 AM buying beers off the guys on the street for a euro on the way to a botellón. That girl is RIDICULOUSLY attractive, by the way. Good work.
Ben Ganje 1 year ago

I missed Btown when studied in the EU in the late 90s--this video makes me wish i would have made it to Spain!
Ricky Norris 1 year ago

such rad style!!
CHINELO FILMS 1 year ago

nice work what camera was used
the canon 60d
George Hedon 1 year ago

digitalbuyologie.blogspot.com/2011/01/gustav-johansson-live-language.html

amazing!

George
wondersiung 1 year ago

wow i cant't say anymore! awesome! i really enjoy your video

Siung from Seoul, Korea
Cody Min 1 year ago

fantastic work. absolutely stunning. the typography, film work, editing, all so good.
Mike Bala 1 year ago

Phenomenal work. Captured the energy so well. I love your work Gustav and Niklas
joan cuscó 1 year ago

nice video! so cool! but have a problem, in Barcelona the fisrt language is catalan, if your sponsor is live the language...live it!
Matteo Crinelli 1 year ago

Nice letters.
Violeta Ignatti 1 year ago

Es hermoso, como esta montado, todas las tomas, el de París es mi preferido. Salvo que para un video que habla sobre el lenguaje tener mal separadas las palabras no está bueno. La separación correcta sería BU-CE-AR y PIS-CI-NA ;)
Albin Holmqvist 1 year ago

Gracias por el feedback Violeta! Tienes razón, normalmente no se debe cortar palabras de esta manera, pero como he apostado por un tratamiento expresivo de la tipografía, he tomado una licencia artística con este tema. Hay bastante debate de esto ahora mismo, ya que es bastante común usar este recurso.
Rancho Aparte Films 2 months ago

Creo que la intención de Albin no era la de separar en silabas ;-)

Excelente trabajo...
raksop 1 year ago

yo hablo español :D
xelson 1 year ago

beautiful works these 4 movies of languages!! ;)
fedelpeye 1 year ago

muy muy bueno...!!!
( ( S O L I D O ) )
Jordi Bosch 1 year ago

Beautiful! ...but, it's a shame that you don't show the language of Barcelona, which is not Spanish but Catalan...
Rafael Ricardo 1 year ago

Aprendiendo español.
Tobias Bergström 1 year ago

Längtar till resan i vår! Snyggt gjort!
Eros David 1 year ago

successful commercial -- def makes me want to go/learn/live the language
Pau Puig-Pey Comas 1 year ago

Hey! Great work!

I would like to know the name of the music theme.

Regards from Barcelona :)
Zeenla Mkt 1 year ago

Real amazing. I love the way you use typography. Wonderful music and a really great work
Cram Aliv 1 year ago

I agree with Jordi Bosch: really beautiful, but the own language of Barcelona is catalan, not spanish. It's a pity because it's like the video "EF - Live The Language - Paris " was made in a language different than french.
manuel 5 months ago

Agree! I went to school in Barcelona. I'm sure my catalán friends would hate the fact that it was done in/for spanish.
I also agree with the fact that its beautiful and the music is really cool.
Jordan Taylor 1 year ago

man these are all great works!
Brian Ceci 1 year ago

All of these are outstanding. Awesome work.
nizil 1 year ago

Hey there... really loving the videos... :) really makes me wanna travel right now.

Just wondering what is the typeface used on the main title, "Barcelona"?
Alfredo Hernández Rodríguez 1 year ago

this video makes me remind to Barcelona
Great work!!
trunkguy 1 year ago

Brilliant - wonderfully shot and very interesting. I love the subtitles - fashionable and contemporary without being over educational.
Mohamed Khaled 1 year ago

this was great, nice job.
I hope you'd do one in Egypt, arabic would be interesting to see on such a video.
Arielle voght 1 year ago

You know what would be so cool? Is if you asked everyone to make video responses to this in their own town/country and put the music out so we could all use the same song! I'm going to NYC in a few days and I'm totally going to try and do something like this. I love this. Inspiration inspiration.
Julien 1 year ago

perfect
Isabelle Watson 1 year ago

These videos make me want to go out and have an adventure.
negu 1 year ago

cool!!
Jurgen Koch 1 year ago

reminds me of barcelona a lot. great job on capturing the light there.
Mariano Rentería Garnica 1 year ago

5D, really?
Sunny Playa 1 year ago

Good one!
dreina 11 months ago

In Barcelona, our first lenguage is not Spanish, is Catalan. I t'hink that is a FAIL to learn Spanish i Barcelona.
This video is too fucking perfect...
Creep Street 11 months ago

i'm moving to spain.
Oleguer Txdr 1 month ago

that was catalonia, not spain. fyi
Creep Street 1 month ago

but barcelona is in spain yes? nevermind just read your below comments & did some googling. good luck catalonia! (but the video is still well done!)
Polcv 11 months ago

The language of Barcelona is catalan not spanish. However we do speak spanish in Barcelona too and since this video is an advertise of a spanish school located in Barcelona I think it's understable for this video to be in spanish.

Many people comes to Barcelona to learn spanish and then they get to know also part of the catalan culture... so why is it fail?

I'm a catalan teaching spanish in Bangkok.
Albin Holmqvist 11 months ago

Hey Guys! Thanks for the comments. I've been living in Barcelona for almost 8 years, i'm well familiar with the trials and tribulations of the Catalan people. It is not stated in the video that the first language in Barcelona is Castellano. As Polcv says, it is about learning Spanish, and that doesn't reflect on the Catalan people and/or language at all!

Thanks for the comments!
martxthexkid 11 months ago

Fantastic visual! It perfectly fit the special vibe surrounding this great city.

It is a little bit odd people go to Barcelona to learn spanish tho... We have the same weird thing happening here in Montreal; people come to learn english even tho the majority have french as a first language. I guess people are not well informed before they come.
Oleguer Txdr 1 month ago

that's what i think. im catalan and i feel insulted watching this. just sayin...
Francisco Galárraga 11 months ago

never can go wrong with hot gringas on the beach in barcelona!
Phil S 11 months ago

Nicely done! Can't go wrong with Barcelona. Do you know if you will be making one for the EF school in Santa Babara, CA?
Zayna Daze 11 months ago

I was in barcelona last month, aww the nostalgia! love this.
Anders Dahl 11 months ago

Great job on all of them.
I specially like the typography, the one thing many other film makers seem to ignore.
Oleguer Txdr 1 month ago

What they seem to have ignored is the context of the place.
Barcelona is the capital of a region which wants to get the independence from Spain. In Catalonia (the region) we speak Catalan.

No offences.
Clara Andres 11 months ago

Are more videos going to be made for other countries?
Possibly Italy?
Estudio MOL 11 months ago

Love this series of videos for EF. Genius.
AvQ 11 months ago

amazing, love the color. also the fact that a language school is open to such striking quality and even dares to be sexy is pretty cool.
pixelmaniatik 11 months ago

ALbin te ZARPASTES!!!
Enhorabuena!!! Esta de PM.!!! :)
Saludakos machine...
garry neville 11 months ago

Whats the name of the song?
Piotr Grędowski 11 months ago

shared at SztukaReklamy.tk
sztukareklamy.tk/2011/03/07/ef-zyj-jezykiem-paryz
Alena 'Ash' Heath 11 months ago

So inspired by these videos, this one is my favorite! The motion, art direction, typography, music, everything is perfection! Not to mention I want to GO THERE!!!!
Daniel Ocean 11 months ago

I love these!
NYTT studio 10 months ago

Muy buen concepto y realización, nos encantan!