Lovefilm Kettle Chips Competition

This competition has driven me CRAZY over the last week, but thanks to a little help from Twitter and Facebook (thank God for social networking) I have found all the 60 film titles within this picture...


Now to help everyone else, below is an image with ALL the clues numbered. Therefore you can know whether that annoying alarm bell is one and if that 'kick me' sign is...


I am not going to publish my list of films as 1. It's cheating and 2. Kettle Chips probably won't appreciate it much. But, if you need a hint, comment below :)

America's Extreme Dog Grooming

According to the Daily Mail, America has gone crazy for "extreme dog grooming". Whereby, doggies are trimmed, dyed and groomed to look like different animals and other obscure designs...










My favourite is the Ninja Turtle...

Drawing The Internet

To coincide with Internet Week Europe, ad agency Saint is pitting the creative industry against a load of 10 year old kids to find out who is the most creative. An interesting project with some very interesting designs. Here are some of my favourites:






And here is my own humble offering, completed during my lunch break yesterday over a bowl of Covent Garden Winter Veg soup....



The voting hasn't begun yet, but hopefully it will do well.

Michael Fish Could Win £££'s

After reading an excellent blog post about The Big Kick's most recent promotion I have decide to create my own bloggy tribute.

Everytime you buy a promotional pack of Walkers crisps you can play 'Walkers Rainy Days'. Simply choose a square on a map of the UK, a date and a time of day when you think it is most likely to rain. If it does, you've won £10!



A really simple mechanic, and very well executed too.



Walkers crisps are made from British potatoes. British potatoes love the rain. Job done.

Also, if you fail to win a tenner. You can use your pack code to earn you discounts on things like bowling and pub food - great things to do on a rainy day!

In conclusion, well done The Big Kick for such an innovative marketing idea!

P.S.

AMV did a nice job on their T.V. ad for the promotion too, love a bit of Footloose.

Check out all the details on www.walkers.co.uk

P.P.S.

I have just realised that I have completely overused the exclamation mark throughout this report... !

The YCN Awards

Last Tuesday Vicky and I finished our days work at Muirhoward and got the tube over to Shoreditch. We met our guests for the night, Emma and Josie and entered Shoreditch Town Hall for the YCN student awards ceremony.



We were greeted by an array of free Becks bottles, kindly provided by YCN. Strangely enough I had seen the limited edition Beck labels before, at The Big Kick. I had assisted one of the Becks account handlers stick on the very same stickers (to Becks bottles) to be delivered to a photo shoot at YCN. So it was a bit of a coincidence to see them at the awards ceremony. Keep a look out for them, they're promoting the album Wolfgang Amadeus.

After bumping into a few (loads) of familiar faces from Lincoln we were led into the main hall and seated at tables according to the brief we entered. We were shown short films by many interesting special guests including; Jean Jullien, Tomas Klassnik and Inventory Studio before they announced the commendations a brief at a time.

Vicky and I both recieved a lovely gold framed 'A' for award certificate...


(Photo from Amy)

From left to right: Me, Vicky, Amy, Pieter, Pete, Ollie, A man from P&O Ferries!

As you can see we all look pretty smug. It was a great night and many thanks to YCN for putting together such a fun evening!

P.S.

Sorry for the lack of posts, been very busy but more to follow!

A little update

I (Charlotte) am still guarding reception at The Big Kick in Hatfield. However, I seem to be picking up more and more interesting tasks. For example, today I'm creating a moodboard for a pitch (can't tell you who) we have next week. Not the most creative task I could be doing, but still a bit more exciting than answering a phone.

I've also been ordering fun things like novelty phones and fancy light boxes for the creative department. If I wasn't so set on following the path to advertising creativity I could definately be persuaded to do this kind of job permanently

Also managed to get our portfolio looked at by one of the two Creative Directors who said something along the lines of, "Your book is really nice and simple, I'm probably going to steal that Robinsons idea". So that's positive. I'm still trying to corner the other Creative Director as everyone is so busy for the upcoming pitch (still not telling who the client).

In other news we have reworked our book a wee bit and given it in to The Cream Awards 2010 at The Talent Business, so fingers crossed for that. As far as I'm aware, the chosen few are given the chance to take part in a New Bloodesque show that is seen by industry types.

I also won a t-shirt from the wonderful Hello You Creatives. This was after a pun competition. My winning entry was:

Two peanuts walk into a bar. One was a salted.



Here is the offending article. It is very comfortable and so far I have been wearing it to watch telly and play Angry Birds. If you're not already following HYC on Facebook or Twitter then I suggest you do so. They're always posting interesting portfolios and opportunities.

And now for the exciting news:



Vicky and I have been selected for a 2 week work placement at Muirhoward. This was fantastic news as we really liked the Creative Director and loved some of Muirhoward's previous work. We don't start until the 13th of September, so the excitement will gradually become unbearable while we wait a whole month.

Old Blood Makes Way For New Blood...

Vicky and I are putting the finishing touches to our work for D&AD New Blood. That's right, we're exhibiting and this year's hottest advertising event along with a few other teams from the Creative Advertising course. The show is open to the public from Saturday the 26th of June - 28th so book a ticket on dandad.org and come on down....

Here are some of the fantastic posters created for the event:



It's Alex Taylor!! (She has been a visiting lecturer on our course)



See the rest of the posters here.

A Successful Week

Despite having technically finished our Creative Advertising degree, I still seem to have an extensive 'to do' list. The past week has definately had it's ups and downs - the downs being a funeral. On the positive side, YCN announced the winners of this years student awards...


Vicky and I were delighted to find out that we'd been commended for our work on the P&O Ferries brief! Here is one of our ads...


Hopefully we'll feature in the next YCN annual!

The day after the YCN announcements we got our dreaded dissertations back. I had written mine on the subject of Ambient Advertising, how it is defined and why it is increasingly popular. Vicky wrote about cool and what it means to people. We both ended up getting really good marks, which was great news as we'd put so much hard work in!

Perfect For Dipping

Our Doritos T.V. ad has made it to the competition website!!!!

Lets hope we get through to the top 100... and then the top 50... and then the top 15... and then win lots of money!

Death By Doritos

Vicky and I are currently editing our Doritos ad. This is involving A LOT of rendering and trying to master After Effects and Premier. You may have heard about the competition. Lets hope we win £200k ! We decided we might as well have a got at it as we're filming our self promotional film at right now as well - kill two birds with one stone and all that...

Our filming involved a lot of broken crisps and me getting my hands covered in 'Mild Salsa' dip, yum. We will of course upload it to this blog when the deadline has passed for everyone to see, along with our self-promo which is onto its 5th re-shoot!

Everyone on our course is making a self promo film and they will all be shown on our final show preview night, back to back, in the Lincoln Odeon, how very glamorous. We're hoping that ours will be a little bit different to everyone else's, but we'll have to wait and see.