Making Movies in Black and White
November 11, 2008
You may well ask where the chicken has been for the past several weeks. I apologise, the chicken has been busy making movies. Yes even the chicken gets out now and then.
For those of you have signed up for our newsletter, this will not be news to you, but we have just finished work filming and editing the new TV and Radio campaign for Silverburn (if you’ve never been you should go - it is a mecca for shopping). Working again with Threebrand, we wrote all the ads this year, after our work last year on the ‘Red Dress Ads’ which you can check out by clicking here.
This year we went back in time with an homage to the great 40s detective films and in the series of 5 TV spots and 5 Radio Spots we meet our grizzled detective and his seductive client/employer/suspect? It was fun recreating the look and feel of those old films. The shadows, the suspense, with a great original music track from Chris Bradley - an incredible talent and one to watch for the future! You can see the first ad by clicking here, and you can hear the first radio ad here.
Laying an Egg - or, How we learned to love the Credit Crunch
October 7, 2008
If you are a follower of the stock market, it seems that every Monday at the moment is Gloomy Monday - they seem to have been getting progressively gloomier for sometime now. It’s not long before we’ll arrive at ‘It Can’t Get Much Worse Monday’, ’Edge of Despair Monday’, and finally ‘Totally Suicidal Monday’
It has been clear for some time now that the economy is suffering. Up to now people have been hoping it would remain in the financial sector, but it is rapidly making its way through to the real economy, and at the end of the day, that’s you and me, our companies and organisations. People are nervous of spending money, and when that happens one of the first things to be cut is spending on communications and advertising and marketing.
The thing is that often companies don’t want to cut back on their communications; they know that now is just when they need to speak to customers, clients, staff and stakeholders. But the budgets they have for those communications have got much smaller; they have to work more effectively and efficiently and achieve the same for less money.
So we in the chicken coop say bring it on. That’s what we love doing; finding new and innovative ways of communicating with an audience when budgets are tight. We have a host of ideas to get the most out of every single shilling you’ve squeezed out of your finance department, and would happily share those ideas with you. So call us.
Is this next year’s Mercury Music Prize winner?
July 3, 2008
Haven’t scratched anything for a couple of weeks now… been busy launching an album, and trying to raise finance for a film. Yes… it’s all chicks to the pump in the henhouse at the moment. More about the film later… that’s very exciting. But this week a departure.. the chickens have been rocking the house and appear to have become a record company. We were launching the debut album of Chris Bradley last week.
‘Voices’ (Splashing Duck Records), was unleashed at an event on Thursday at the Speakeasy in 
the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh. Press and fans packed in (and I don’t think it was just for the free booze) to hear a great set by Chris and his band. He ran through songs from the album and just for good measure threw in a few new ones (is there no end to his talents) and got a truly great reception. You can hear and download the album here.
Oh and while we were at it we got the fantastic artist and animator David Lemm to create a music video for the soon to be released debut single ‘To My Ears’. If you click through on nothing else from this blog, then click here to watch it, because it is truly a masterpiece!
The Mercury Music Prize connection… William Hill are tipping Chris to be big and are offering odds of 33-1 that he’ll win the Mercury by 2010. The chickens are scratching together their corn and are going to pop a few quid on.
Remeber you heard it here first.
Outraged of Leith
June 10, 2008
Many people say I can’t read (being a hen…) but I can, and on Sunday, while relaxing in my hammock and nibbling on poppy seeds, I saw this appalling article in the Scotland on Sunday… frankly it’s outrageous. If I could fly further than a few feet without dislocating a wing muscle I’d fly over wiltshire and give them something to think about… those poor chickens, only used to the lovely wide open spaces of that nice free range farm, pecking gently amidst the scattered corn seeds and occasionally laying an egg, all cooped up in the back of a car… it’s enough to make you start thinking of Sunday lunch… and not in a
good way!
Anyway, that’s enough ranting from me. Next week we’ll be back to films!
