The Power of a Great Tune
Here’s a simple little well shot tutorial for a cooking website called Pop Sugar. What strikes me about the production is the power of the simple, sweet little track to drive a five step tutorial about food prep – called Basic Knife Cuts. It’s all about the music. The song by Meiko called You are […]
Read PostCrucolo Parade: Concord’s Largest Annual Cheese Parade
It’s December 6 — that time of year again, but no we are not talking about Santa arriving or a tree lighting… we are talking about the annual Crucolo parade in my hometown – Concord, MA. It’s perhaps one of the odder parades you’ll ever attend… but you get some free cheese. Not all four […]
Read PostGreat Concepts Stand Apart
Here’s a compelling ad for Facebook, that proves out the idea that great concepts power strong messages. This is beautiful stuff…. albeit images captured with a big budget. Listen to the words though…. Well written, simple, elegant advertising with lots of open spaces to let that nice music track dial up your emotions. Well done […]
Read PostA Bear Tale, A Sweet Tail That’s All Bear
Here’s a great little home video clip that tells a sweet, heartwarming story with a happy ending. How two people saved three bear cubs trapped in a dumpster. It shows how even the simplest video can tell a story that makes you feel good. We can help tell your stories, be it a simple animation […]
Read PostCoast to Coast – T-Mobile
Here’s a clever ad that elegantly drives home T-Mobile’s claim of being a coast to coast mobile carrier. It takes an age old children’s rhyme and gives it a modern twist. While it’s an expensive proposition, it’s a great idea…. travel across the country and show lots of great panoramic shots to prove that T-Mobile […]
Read PostJustin Bieber, Selena and Ashley Tisdale: Call Me Maybe?
Call Me Maybe? Justin Bieber, Selena and Ashley Tisdale all headline a simple new video by Carly Rae Jepsen. It’s a cute poppy song but what’s interesting? Well it’s moving stong on the viral video charts and there’s no big budget here… simple camera setup with a bunch of them singing to a stationary camera. […]
Read PostFun Break: Hungry Dog – Professional Voice Over
Here’s a fun piece of video. Cute stuff and quite funny. Seems to me that someone timed out the footage of the dog making some noise and moving his mouth – they wrote a script that to match those timings and voila. The ‘master voice’ sounds like a professional voice over guy.
Read PostHow do you spell Gaddafi?
Muammar Gaddafi is not a name you expect to see alongside the adjectives “amusing”, “funny”, or “silly”, yet here we are. It’s an amusing little video, a sharp contrast to the horrors the current Libyan leader is committing against his people, that makes fun of how hard it is to spell the Libyan dictator’s name. […]
Read PostWord Lens video. Sometimes it’s just that easy. 1.4 Million hits in 72 hours.
This video for the iPhone Word Lens app is so simple. Why? Because the concept is simple. No spoken words are needed, which is good when you are talking about translating written words between languages. Here’s the word lens demo on iPhone. Incidentally it got 1.4 million hits in 72 hours and it now has […]
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