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Next Generation Talent

Posted: September 1st, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Advertising, Creative, Design, Digital, Social, Technology, Visual | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

Panasonic’s Next Generation Talent competition asks UK students to put their creative skills to the test and produce a TV ad. It’s back for 2009 and I’ve been asked to get involved with the judging.

However instead of me banging on about what I think; it’s clearly better to get some other opinions. So please take a look at the entries below and leave your comments on the blog or email them to me.

Here’s the lowdown.

The Brief: “Produce a TV ad to promote the Panasonic G10 Viera with FreeSat Home Hub TV, leveraging the Everything Matters brand positioning.”

The Entries:

1 – Paul Bryan // Concept: An upgrade of television life over the past forty years.


2 – Steffan Harrison // Concept: Little things make the big picture happen


3 – Romaine Reid // Concept: Show off the features and benefits of each product within Panasonics HD home hub series.


4 – David-Childs-Clarke // Concept: Electronic devices coming to life via their on lights


So that’s it.

What do you think?

Please take 2 minutes out to give these guys some feedback!!

Read more about Next Generation Talent at http://nextgenerationtalent.co.uk/

Disclosure: I do not work for Panasonic or any of their agencies.


TV commercial reminding advertisers to make TV commercials

Posted: June 19th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Advertising, Creative, Funny | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

Saw this on the TV last night. Few classic lines in here.


YouTube link.

Blurb about who it’s for:

Thinkbox, the television marketing body for the main UK commercial television broadcasters, has launched its first ever TV advertising campaign, to remind advertisers of the unrivalled power, value and effectiveness of TV advertising and to encourage advertisers considering using TV for the first time to seek help from Thinkbox.

Sign of the times?


3 ‘freedom’ by glue London

Posted: May 7th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Advertising, Creative, Mobile | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Our first TV ad for 3.

The background to it is that as a brand they really needed to do something to re-establish trust with a very cynical public.

We needed to be real, non-shouty, quietly confident and do something that didn’t try too hard.

We also had to launch mobile Skype.

Oh and we had just under four weeks from brief to going on air…….


I think it has turned out pretty well.

It’s a platform that they can build on and ‘changing mobile forever’ sets them a challenge intrenally to keep striving to improve.

The main character Jason is a lovely bloke. Lead singer of Bugz in the Attic and perfect for this.

Copy+Paste from Sebs’ (Creative Director) blog – Discomole


Elmo + Ricky Gervais

Posted: April 2nd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Funny | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Ricky Gervais on the set of ‘Sesame Street’ with Elmo.

Chaos ensues.


I’m moving house at the weekend so no internet for 3 weeks.

See you soon.

via Beeker (thanks!)


Stewart Lee

Posted: March 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Funny, General | Tags: , | No Comments »

I watched Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle last week. At the end of the show I decided to take a look at the extras “On the Red Button”.

Usually this stuff is drawn out behind-the-scenes rubbish. This is brilliant.

After each episode of Comedy Vehicle, Stewart is called to account by the show’s Executive Producer Armando Iannucci.

Deadpan conversational comedy from two guys at the top of their game. Nice to see this extra content made available for fans.

Good work BBC.



Smell-O-Vision comes one step closer to reality with SMELLIT.

Posted: February 15th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Creative, Funny, Technology | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

SMELLIT works just like your printer, but instead of ink cartridges, it works with smell cartridges.

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As your DVD player reads the video and sound information, SMELLIT processes the DVD smell information 10 to 20 seconds ahead of the actual scene so the odours have time to reach the spectators.

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Smell Up..!!

via Unplggd


Dead Set Credits

Posted: November 25th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Advertising, Web | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

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I’ve just watched the re-run of Charlie Brooker’s excellent Dead Set on E4. No long list of cast and crew at the end, just a URL.

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I’ve seen this done once before… Chris Morris’ Jam.

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It’s great to see Brooker use this technique to combat his dreaded foe, the “end credit squeeze”.

Kudos to these guys for finding a way to thank the team properly.


TV funnymen share their thoughts on television.

Posted: October 6th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Funny | Tags: , | No Comments »

Charlie Brooker on “My Super Sweet Sixteen”


Frankie Boyle from “Mock The Week”


There’s loads more Frankie Boyle on YouTube, including a joke famously cut from Mock The Week.


Wednesday 1st October 9pm BBC2

Posted: September 26th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Advertising, Visual | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

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Life According to Dinosaurs: Facebook

Posted: September 25th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Creative, Visual | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments »

I like this cartoon and there’s some really nice stuff on the site. Now there’s the blurb:

Channel 4 have just launched a online channel for animation called 4mations. Backed by Channel 4, Aardman Animations and Lupus Films, this is just the start of the 4mations universe.

There’s more about it… and a Flash game called “Killing Kittens” over at Talent imitates, genius steals

http://www.4mations.tv