the producers

For my birthday i was treated to the last night performance of the producers, the Mel Brooks musical, starring Peter Kay at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. Mel Brooks is one of the most accomplished filmmakers in Hollywood. He has served as a writer, producer, actor director and a composer who has brought us serious films like The Elephant Man and 84 Charing Cross but also spoofs such as Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs. His achievements have been recognised with winning four of the main entertainment awards in America: Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy and his decision to turn The Producers into a stage show won him 12 Tony awards!

For you who do not know, a general overview of the story involves a theatrical producer Max Bialystock and his accountant Leo Bloom, who hatch a scam to raise more money than they need to produce a broadway disaster, so they turn to the worlds' worst director Rodger DeBris (played by Peter Kay) and produce a sure flop Springtime for Hilter-the musical, however the musical is a complete hit!!!

The production was fantastic which was of course helped by Peter Kays' witty one liners. With excellent direction and choreography and some great songs, The Producers was hillarious and i had a fantastic weekend, im sure if any of you saw it you'd agree it was a sure sell out smash hit!!!

ghd

One advertising campaign that interests me of Propagandas' is ghd (shown above) im sure by now everyone knows the world wide famous, and fantastic may i add, ghd stylers. The whole concept of the brand is based upon a 'gospel according to ghd'. The website www.ghdhair.com is shown as a book/gospel and is really easy to use as you just flick through the pages, for both women and men who like to take pride in their apperance and people who are always looking for new ways to use their ghd stylers and also it displays their extensive range of ghd products. The images above are taken form one particular advertising campaign which was also made in to an advert for tv. One particular ad caught my eye as it is so true as many will agree who have sisters, the proverb reads: 'thou shall not borrow your sisters without asking'.

cape wrath

Last night was the start of a new drama on channel four called cape wrath, after seeing numerous advertisments for this new drama i decided to see what all the fuss was about.

Set in Meadowlands live a new family called the brogans who move here to escape something from the past, however they soon realise that thet are not the only ones hiding from the past and that they are living in a village surrounded by other criminals all living under a protective custody program. Not knowing what each has done in the past to bring them here, one by one their past comes back to haunt them. This strange village is watched 24/7 to protect the villagers by someone who seems to have some control over happenings in the village.

I instantly took a liking to this eerie and frankly weird new drama which to me is a cross between 'big brother' and the film 'the truman show' and i will be definitly tuning in to watch more episodes.

cape wrath is shown tuesdays on channel four @ 10pm.

propaganda

Whilst gaining some work experience in the field on design i got involved with a PR company called Propaganda who are a creative agency that answers the needs of clients in a brand building process. Some of its' clients include seabrook, st. tropez, greggs, fox's, the car people, heinz, ghd and oxfam.

Revolver is a consumer PR specialist operating within the Propaganda group whos' core value is to to produce work that is not only measurable but helps to sell products. Revolver is a great brand in its own right and delivers fresh and effective work for many well known clients. below is revolvers' own ad campaign based upon the principle that revolver is 'not for everyone'. The images below are taken from its own campaign for revolver which is quite witty yet is based on true statements, an interesting take.

the way you look at cancer

This exhibition currently on display in buenos aires is aimed at making people see cancer in a different light. there are several images of different types of cancer from lung, skin to ovarian. looking at the cancer as an art form is suggested that it is a more positive way of seeing cancer for the patients. the client for this exhibition is the hospital aleman oncology department which is a leading hospital in treating cancer.

do you think that looking at cancer and seeing it as an art form is a way of thinking of it more positively?

Office:
Saatchi and Saatchi, Argentina

keep the flame alive campaign

a new three image campaign by Saatchi and Saatchi for the client havana florists/interflora titled 'keep the flame alive'. images titled snapdragon, daisy and lily. such a simple idea with an accompanying tag line encouraging us to send flowers more often to those we 'love' to 'keep the flame alive'. simple photoshop work i think which were probably quite easy to create.

Office: Saatchi and Saatchi, Malaysia

cheeky

also quite humerous