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Oct 09
Hasn’t the weather been lovely?
I have been keeping busy and I should say thank you for all the comments that are flowing in. Especially the ones from the Viagra people. You know who you are. I don’t need that stuff. I’m just out of college! I am the wrong target audience – you can’t just send these messages out willy nilly.
We’ve been busy and I’m just back from helping out on a stills and telly shoot for Misfits (I was also lucky enough to see a sneak preview of the first episode which is excellent). I spent most of the time trying to block the sun out from the shot with a bunch of grips who kept making me do stupid things like to and get a long weight. Very funny boys.
Alice was art directing the shoot and Neil was doing the TV. Both are out soon. Look for good sun blocking work, especially in the stills. (I am will try to upload shots later today).
3D season is also in full swing and we shoot two spots this week which should be good. I’ve been designing some 3D glasses with Kevin the designer which are looking fairly rad. They’ll be out soon so grab a pair and think of us when you wear them. There’s a lot of love that’s gone in to them there shades.
Also on the go: Two external pitches that I am not allowed to know about. If I did know about them I couldn’t talk about them on the blog. People are looking excited though and talking about foreign adventure, which seems cool.
Joseph’s ear is getting better.
Emily&Leo and Ita are just back from shooting a spot for Impulse which sounds like fun. They’ve been hanging out with bands and having a ball all in the name of a cool new campaign.
I was not invited, even though I have the skinny jeans and pointy shoes.
I have been eating BLTs this week. They really are good. There is a common saying here at 4Creative that there is very little that isn’t improved by being wrapped in bacon. It’s a good life philosophy.
Sorry for any typos, I am in a hurry. Misfits photo edit happening right now.
Take care and wrap it in bacon.
The INTERN
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16
Sep 09
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We had a good time. We have just recovered. Here are some shots, including Alice working on storyboards for a new campaign for True Blood.
I have to say that everyone treated me very badly and made me do things I wouldn’t normally have done, like get a haircut/tattoos and all that stuff.
It was cool apart from that and being asked to go and find a photocopier at 4AM when they were trying to put a document together.
Best band? No idea, I was kraft-working too hard.
Got stuck in 10 hour long jam on the way home and got travel sick. We met some good people, including Vince Vaughn who – when Lynsie asked him to speak to her sister on the phone – said “please leave me alone”.
Watched Jamie’s American Road Trip on the telly last night and thought it was pretty excellent and felt proud to have worked with him in Stanstead airport in chaps. Him, not me.
Other good stuff happening at 4Creative at the moment: 3D cameras. Inline skates. Chocolate. Short films. Ben writing comedy promos for Misfits. Gwil learning to do close up card magic.
The end for today.
Thanks to Bill Bartmann for telling us how cool the blog is. Bill, this is kind. I hope your how to become a millionaire site is going well. How do you become a millionaire without doing bad things?
The Intern
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10
Sep 09
Olivia one of our business directors lost both her left shoe and her right shoe while demonstrating her moonwalk at Campaign Photo last night. They are red and expensive is all she can tell us. If anyone has them please let us know. She is having to wear espadrilles in the meantime.
On a happier note I hear that we were finalists in a couple of categories with work from Dan Pothecary for China’s Stolen Children, Tim Simmons for Lost for Words and Dean Rogers for Red Riding. We won in Media & Entertainment for the Skins 2 campaign by Simen Johan working with Alice.
Who is now on her way to Bestival and probably is blissfully unaware. Nice one Alice, see you there.
Joseph is back from skidoo-land. He has fractured his entire ear – the footage of the crash though is amazing. Will try to get him to post it here.
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading.
The Intern (hopefully not for long)
P.S. People are stealing my ideas.
Joseph fractured his toe
SKINS 2 WON THE MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY! Yeah!
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09
Sep 09
NEARLY FORGOT! !
How COOL is this? We are ALL going to be working from Bestival this weekend. Brett just said what the F&*$ yesterday (he actually said it like that – it sounded totally weird) pack your sleeping bags we’re all going.
So if you see a bunch of directors and writers and producers hanging out in an old Airstream caravan (it has an old mikebeer stencil on the side) come and say hello. Best Job Ever.
I will mainly be in charge of fetching drinks. But hey, I’m not complaining.
Ed has asked that we bring a portable shower. More from Bestival later! Woohooooo!
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09
Sep 09
Salut,
Well, I’ve never been as excited to pick up a copy of Metro before. See the little crossword gag at the back of today’s copy? This is my first published bit of work. I helped Leo and Emily (creatives, young clever, good with words and pictures and that kind of thing) on all the clues and the hardest ones I think you’ll find are mine. Legerdemain will be my finest moment in print so far – if this makes no sense, check the questions..!
Also check out Alice’s teaser promo for the lottery show. It’s weird and who would have thought Derren was such a good juggler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXz4RKqVMhI
More work going on for promotion of 3D season and yesterday we all had to wear the glasses. One person who shall remain nameless was sick – seemingly unable to deal with the world in 3D. The ads look like they could be cool and I am in the middle of watching every weird and wonderful 3D movie I can get my hands on. All in the name of research of course.
Watch this space for more developments on that front.
Joseph is on holiday skidoo racing on a glacier.
Until the next time.
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01
Sep 09
Friday lunch means fish and chips with Ed Webster, Off Air Producer at 4creative.
Hello Ed if you are reading this! And thanks for shouting me those sachets of tartare sauce.
True gent. Ed used to play for Arsenal Youth.
We discuss advertising and photography. Ed takes me to his office and shows me a mountain of portfolios. If I see another shot of a car in an empty american parking lot I will take my own life. Do they all copy each others work?
Seriously though, there was some amazing stuff there and I have been invited to sit in on the next photog meeting/briefing. Ed tells me stories of Jim Fiscus who has shot a lot of work for 4 Creative. Wonder how I can get on one of his shoots.
Was asked to be a part of softball team for match (game?) next week. How do you play soft ball anyway? And what the hell is cous cous?
Have a cool weekend. I will be in on bank holiday monday sorting out some awards entry packages for The Campaign Bigs (?) which it looks like we have some work in. I will mainly be the one sticking pictures to polyboard and putting stickers on the back.
Happy days!
Aloha
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Aug 09
Observations for today:
I have been busy cutting out covers for the house reel. I have also been charged with sending them out to everyone who’s asking for one. Kevin, who designed the whole look, is worried that his perfect work will get creased in the post and not look as good as it could. We search for good ways of packaging that are also eco friendly.
This, alone, could be a full time job. One of the reels we are sending out is going to a man in Belgium called Balthazar who runs a hunting lodge. Could there be potential business there? Hmmm… Maybe he’s just a friend of the management. Continue reading →
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26
Aug 09
It is difficult to know if anyone is reading this, but if anyone is, hello.
I haven’t worked out how to tell yet.
Some general things to note:
Spotted Steve Henry in here the other day taking a meeting. I’ll be keeping a tally of the interesting types that I spot in here, so watch this space. Continue reading →
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17
Aug 09
Hello and apologies for the lack of “blog” entries. They said that I’d never keep it up and they were right.
I was going to blame it on Derren – last week we were shooting the man himself for his brand new show called The Events. I had a story ready about him having erased my mind and therefore all my blog ideas. It might have worked too, but Derren advised me that it would be wrong to lie, so I’m going with that. Continue reading →
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10
Aug 09
So we had the 4Creative Summer party on Thursday 23rd July and it was excellent fun. Who would have thought there was such a massive area at the back of that record shop on Poland Street.
The whole place was done up like a huge garden, with DJs in the shed and wheelbarrows full of beer. The atmosphere was brilliant and loads of people with vintage jeans and hard-to-find trainers came and had a ball. I spotted one guy with shoes so pointed they had corks on the end for safety. Continue reading →
