January 2012 (5)

Great Tabletop Video: Up Close and Personal

This is gorgeous tabletop video and much like the fashion piece for Weight Watchers (the LIPS piece), this is not quick and easy film to shoot… it needs precise lighting, a talented DP and a great stylist to deliver the food at the height of freshness.  Lurpak hits paydirt with a new spot from W+K […]

13 years ago 1 Comment Creative Advertising, Tabletop Video
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Talking Animals & Music – Great Video

Talking animals (my favorite) and animals set to music, this can be great material and funny stuff.  It’s natural comedy.  Doesn’t need to be complicated by tricky jokes with long, complicated punch lines. Bounder.  This guy is One Happy Pooch. The clip below – What Animals Are Really Thinking – is hilarious.  The english accents […]

13 years ago 1 Comment Funny video
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Simple Commercial: Weight Watchers Lips

Here’s a simple commercial for Weight Watchers, right?  Shoot a bunch of closeups with a model and you’re done.  Check it out. Well think again.   The longer piece below gives you a true understanding of how incredibly complicated this commercial was to make.  I shot a lot of so called “table top” up close work […]

13 years ago 1 Comment Advertising Production
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One Tough Spider – Comedy Commercial From Mentos

Great comedy commercial because it catches you off guard.  Guy goes to ‘take care’ of the spider. and the spider takes care of him.  Gotta love it.  Funny, simple and memorable. I still don’t get the tag line, though: “it’s better to know what’s coming next.” Certainly, but what does that have to do with […]

13 years ago Leave a reply Funny video
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Wes Anderson Takes a Walk on the Wild Side with Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson who made his bones both acting and creating out of the ordinary features such as Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums, and the animated Fantastic Mr. Fox (blogged about in this column two years ago – Fantastic Mr. Fox) has another highly stylized, avant garde project in the home stretch.  Due to hit […]

13 years ago Leave a reply Great Comedy, Great Movie
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SNL – Sendup of NBA on TNT

Here’s a funny SNL sketch from this past Saturday’s show (1/7/12) hosted by Charles Barkley and Kelly Clarkson. The sketch has a roundtable of ‘basketball players’ participating in a basketball roundup for Inside Basketball – The NBA on TNT.  Funny stuff. What’s odd is that even though Charles Barkley was available for the sketch, SNL […]

13 years ago 4 Comments Funny video, Great Comedy
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Super Bowl 2012 – It’s Ad Time Again

OK, it’s time for the annual Super Bowl Dorito’s Crash the Super Bowl Party.  Let’s hope this year’s pack of ads is not indicative of the rest of the advertising we’ll be seeing in a few weeks because the ads, made by amateurs, did not tickle my funny bone. Here’s a link to the site. […]

13 years ago Leave a reply Uncategorized
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Direct TV Campaign…. Pushing it to the Limit

Happy New Year friends.  Sorry to take so much time off but things got crazy in December. So here’s a new 2012 comedy campaign that impressed me in the last few days… it’s for Direct TV.  I call it pushing it to the limit because it takes a simple premise and it keeps running with […]

13 years ago 1 Comment Uncategorized
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