Woooooooooop wooooooop

Two days left of our course. Its sad and exciting all at the same time. Hopefully we will get on the honours year and carry on with our education.

Theres been ups and downs throughout the two years that we have been on this course. We have had amazing experiences and hopefully that will not change.

Can't wait just to be able to hand in our work and get cracking with our final show.

Anyone and everyone is invited so if you want to come along comment our post and we will email the details.

Volkswagen Viral

I love the Volkswagen adverts they have and I was just browsing on you tube at random funny virals and adverts. When I came across this.



Some people have got far to much time on their hands to be creating things like this however its just as well they did. I think that this is something that people will definitely share and talk about.

I do not think this advert works because it has to much going on. I get what they are trying to say however I don't know whether the target audience would. As they would not spend as much time reading it. I always believe that if your going to explain something in an advert make it so people want to. I think it is not very creative and isn't a very big idea look at BMW have some great adverts. Some people may disagree but a lot of it is on personal opinion.

This one i believe is quite funny, I don't think its going to have people running out and buying a BMW however it makes me want to like the brand.

Vodafone

New advert for Vodafone! nearly made me cry!! AWWW so cute and unexpected for a mobile phone company!! Hats off to you! :)

As we have seen for the past few weeks Samsung have been teasing us with little snippets for the new 3d tv advert and eventually it has been released, and what an advert it is! Such a simple idea yet so effective and the fact that it was completed for real as an ambient stunt is even more points to the creators. My favorite is the cat and the waterfall. This is definitely a new era of technology and it was only time for a 3d TV to be released. One downfall to the whole thing is having to wear 3d glasses throughout the whole time your watching it. bummer indeed!
However i must mention when galavanting in london Heathrow waiting for a flight to new york (your jealous i know) we visited a sony shop who also stored the TV and it was amazing. Mind blowing and spectacular is only a few words to describe such beaut of a TV.
What's to come next? we can only imagine and barely wait!!

I love Peter Kay as a comedian but I think that these adverts are so funny. I don't think that they could of cast a better person to do it. Anyway I think these have to be appreciated because they seem to have died out which is a shame.

Good point from sarah there but also casting people for a advert is a very important job, i mean the wrong person could totally ruin the advert and make the client loose money. Take go compare for example, although highly annoying and not really worthy of a comment however, they could have easily cast a real italian opera singer but no instead the opt for a cheesy annoying fat british man! Any need?! We think not!

Rape crisis

So new day new start on a brief from Newhaven. Its all about rape crisis and the myths that surround the subject. A lot of our book at the moment is basically full of humorous campaigns and it was a joy to receive a brief of such. However this is a really serious subject so we cant get this wrong. Well we have some thinking to do....

Here is a really good press/ambient idea which really makes you stop and think.

Post it press idea

Saw this ad and thought it was amazing. You dont even need to think about it, it is so instant. It also prooves how useful post its can be. Plus you never know when you will be stuck in a situation like this so make sure you have your post-its at the ready.

Marmite!!

After the months of campaigning the LOVE party of marmite has won! Its been great to see the the lengths people have been going to. Since the branding of marmite has begun it has always been about 'you either love it or hate it' so what's a better idea to come across to get the general public to vote on this account. Its been so joyous to watch the adverts on the TV and also in newspaper. The campaign has been taken so far there was actual live debates....amazing. So far this has been one of my favorite campaigns that had been released this year however how on earth with marmite top this? Some serious thinking ahead. Check out this blog which documents throughout the campaign and vote. I didn't vote however but do contribute to the LOVE party most defiantly!!

Marmite News Network

John lewis

So as i sit here watching the genius Heston Blumenthal, i cant help but wonder if his thinking is like ours? well obviously he is a bit more 'food thinking' but all in all is still thinking right? Making great outcomes of what first is a boring product. Well i could be talking bollox here but all in all he produces great looking food! So rant over i would like to now comment on some recent adverts that i have seen over the past week or so.
First off, just recently an advert passed my eyes that was for john lewis, so in the past they have created some better adverts, one being the christmas advert showing people and the suggested presents to go with them. It was the first time an advert had aired with a Beatles song because now people can afford to buy then which made a change. The advert was subtle and was different from the hustle and bustle of the norm christmas adverts.

However aside this and the fact that its may and talking about christmas is far to advance i will now contribute to what i thought about the new john lewis never knowingly undersold advert 2010.

So the advert itself feel a bit familiar with the whole time line adventure goings on. It has previously been seen with hovis and im sure a few more. Reading the review on you tube about the advert makes me cringe a little inside, talking about how they sobbed watching this for the first time and how john lewis has been with them through thick and thin. However saying this it is obviously doing the right thing and talking to the right consumers. There is another great comment which i have found about the advert which really does sum it up in some respects, 'This is a great advert even if it does push all known emotional buttons like a bastard! Fair play to JL. Does it work for youngsters, I wonder? To wit, anyone much under 45?'
So does it? does it appeal to me being a 20 year old? maybe not so just makes me think, 'oh god i don't want to get old'
However people have many opinions and mine is a tiny gold fish in the north sea!

AAhhhhhhhhhhhhh only four weeks left and about 10 weeks worth of work to be doing. Where did all the time go. Going out to the big bad world soon.

Totally excited though.

Sarah loves facts

30 weird facts (brilliant)

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.


6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin
to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Facts are amazing to the advertising business, you get to find out some great things which make great adverts!

Book crits, Book crits, Book crits!!

Today we have been absolutely everywhere. We were sick of emailing and getting no reply so we thought we would take a day trip to all the agencies we could in one day.

Although we thought this was a good idea at first we were wrong, everywhere we went they just gave us more email addresses. However we got to see what each agency looks like inside which is always exciting. Just emailed everyone now. Hope i get a reply this time.Fingers crossed.

New york

New York, New york so good they named it twice!

One word : AMAZING! Not only were the sights immense but the agencies were on par also. Wish we were there longer, however we came we saw and we conquered! well not exactly but we did achieve a lot in 2 and a half days. So what's different from here to New York advertising?
Well everything...to portfolios, interviews, the way they work, buildings, ( i guess what the say is true that everything is larger in America) accents (although sexy ha!) and most of all humor!
So we got to visit Mccann Erickson and DDB and much more people involved in advertising than what we do over here so it was a much better experience. One thing we did learn over there was that, the are so much more helpful and delightful to work with. It seems as though everyone is on your side and they all help, whereas in London what do you get? not much! (we do love London though as much as it seems we don't!)
One thing difficult about working in New York however is the humor used, us brits have a very different style and would be hard to equip ourselves over there!
One plus, is the fact that it takes graduates just a mere month to find a job in a top agency....if thats not a plus then i don't know what is?!

Peace out!

Cannibalism

We entered a competition called The drum roses student creativity awards The briefs were all a bit random to say the least. However we thought we would have a bash at sending something in as we got some great advice of 'you never know how shit the competition is' so we decided to go for it. We picked a brief to make cannibals acceptable in society....'i know your thinking 'what the fook' and we were too, but that was actually the brief. The images you see above are unfortunately not ours but the winning ideas. So do we like them? well.... i was going to say there ok, but this is an honest blog and after all we have to honest in this business...there absolutely shite! i cant believe they actually won the damn thing which is quite worrying to think about what they thought about ours.I could actually rant about these winning adverts for hours on end, is that a jealousy thing? i hope not. Same execution far too many times and ca 'nibble' ism....PUN or what....makes me sick!

Here is some winning work which we though was decent enough to feature on our blog.










This was to make museums sexy.

Pepsi max football challenge

So, start of the week and a new brief has been given and it is....wait for it..........PEPSI MAX YEEEEEEEHA! So yeah, fun and frolics to be had! We have began brainstorming the usual and some interesting ideas have arisen! However it's about football and we have no clue so, we will have to see what's going to happen. We have one major idea in the bag its just a case of how we can film it!

Tata for now

Sarah and Faye

Girl creatives

Recently we have came across an all girl creative team who sold themselves on eBay to get attention and possibly a job from Peter Riley at 2020London. Unfortunately they were unsuccessful however the idea behind the whole eBay selling themselves was intriguing. Good luck next time girls!

Please take a look, they also have some decent work on there also!
conjoinedcreatives.wordpress.com

Portfolio Yeehah

Finally we have got our portfolio online! This is our initial book and a few campaigns have been done since, which will be uploaded very soon. Please take a look at our portfolio . Any feedback would be much appreciated!