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11 years, 4 months ago - Yuri Buzzi

Hi everyone, I do love adv, even because I played few as a Hero. I wanna share this ONE with you, which I think is really really interesting and well made for Martini, directed by Peter Thwaites starring Yurj Buzzi . "Luck is an Attitude" http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hnykdZ1jkjI

11 years, 4 months ago - Claudette FLINT

Hi Dan
Would Johnnie Walker be happy to walk out of the UK?

11 years, 4 months ago - Ryan Watson

The Confused.com 'Brian' ads aren't my favourite, but it's one of the best turnarounds - their old adverts used to send me screaming into the other room, so bad was the tune they bastardised... I think the recent British Airways ad is really nice, mainly down to the match cuts - the cloud/mousse one catches me every time! Second the Haribo ads :)

11 years, 4 months ago - STEVE HANDLEY

of the current crop and being a soccer fan - the Barclays Premier League 'thank you' ad. It says it all and know I will be that old man.

11 years, 4 months ago - Robert Shears

My personal favourite is the Honda Cog Ad, for the Accord. Partly because they only used parts for the car itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsDEgxmH8wI

11 years, 4 months ago - Sue Shearing

The Haribo ad always makes me laugh. The one where the adults speak with children's voices.Especially the one around the boardroom table. The actors are brilliant.

11 years, 5 months ago - Dan Selakovich

My favorite is the 6 minute Johnny Walker commercial with Robert Carlyle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnSIp76CvUI

11 years, 4 months ago - David Sandercock

The 'Links' golf add currently screening is great. Very well acted. I always look forward to The Orange film adds encouraging you to turn your mobile off. Shame they can't do one for eating popcorn loudly through an entire film.....

11 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Very nice. I can see there was good money spent, but I can only imagine the £6M also included all the advertising slots in the clostly pre-christmas period?

11 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Can't open that link Jenny?

11 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

The Barclays Premier one is a nice ad - obviously well shot etc, but still has a real human-level narrative and very effective.

I'm not bowled over by monochrome ads - rather when they're shot using the same colour HD kit we all use, but then graded down. To me it feels a bit of a cop-out compared with using mono stock and lighting/makeup especially for black and white production (eg green lipstick, etc).

Brian made me smile - a lot more engaging than their previous ads, however will it be as effective? The old ads were horrible, horrible but made the brand memorable. Like those flamin' Meerkats do. Now that is an inspired bit of branding!

11 years, 5 months ago - Sarah Chorley

All time favourites include Trebor Mints Mr Soft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGrffn_LKzE - that song gets stuck in my head all the time.

I was also reminded of the 'chocks away' mcnugget ad recently - very unsettling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A46d5kQhS9U

And Jonathan Glazer's banned Flake advert is a new fave: http://vimeo.com/21190241

Yep, any kitsch, weird food-based ad does it for me, although I'd like to say for the record that I don't remember the last time I ate a mcnugget, a flake or a softmint

11 years, 4 months ago - Royston Deitch

@Paddy Robinson-Griffin Sorry about the delay in responding. I'm sure you're right, the £ 6 million probably did go on the overall campaign. The ad itself probably did have a very nice budget to itself, though.

11 years, 4 months ago - Somerled Mackay

Has to be the Ferris Bueller Superbowl Ad for Honda CRV' Also still love the original Like to Teach the World to Sing Coca Cola advert and the follow up they filmed in Liverpool (which was an event that first got me interesting in making film and the technology of film lighting). I love the fact that the original Apple Big Brother advert was actually a prediction of what Apple was to become. Used to love the Ads they used to show in the US to trail Moonlighting (showing my age). When it comes to making the most use of the medium I think Sony had it pegged with their exploding colour ads which when viewed on a decent TV were just magnificent

11 years, 4 months ago - Royston Deitch

I thought the John Lewis Christmas ad of 2011 was great. It was a perfect short film, with a nice twist at the end (a little boy is really impatient for Christmas, we think he’s counting down the days till he can unwrap what’s coming to him, but it turns out that he just can’t wait to be giving presents to his parents). I now discover that the ad cost £ 6 MILLION to make (not all of it going to the Smiths presumably!), but since it helped John Lewis get £ 500 million in sales that festive period I'm sure they could afford it!

Here it is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLOnR1s74o&feature=player_embeddeddded.

All the best

Royston Deitch
@37filmsltd

11 years, 4 months ago - Ned Hussain

You asked so here ya go!


Everlast http://vimeo.com/m/56267591

Spike Jonze Ikea http://youtu.be/TsQXQGaasUg

Spike Jonze Levi http://youtu.be/gVY04NQUpxk

Pfizer http://youtu.be/gVUkbRng7fo

Oreo http://youtu.be/m0rKn7X7UWk

Cadbury http://youtu.be/QTKdIyC6y_g

Skittles http://youtu.be/YyLJMejwj5Y

11 years, 4 months ago - Sophie Kenny

Huge fan of Adverts...so much can be said in so few seconds. It is a true art to be able to say so much in so little time. Recently got into commercials myself, would love to make it more of my career.

Some personal Faves:

The Honda 'Do More New'
Director: Sam Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf9nTfOdesw

The Independent 'Litany'
Director: Rob Sanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqk2U1MoaVQ

Jonny Walker 'Striding Man'
Director: Rob Sanders
https://vimeo.com/47718319

Calvin Klien 'Downtown'
Director: David Fincher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0JMFIVzo9c

All masterpieces!

11 years, 4 months ago - Claudette FLINT

One of my favourite is 'What else' with George Clooney but not all of them! The one when he missed the piano falling from the top floor.

11 years, 4 months ago - Jane Hamer

It's a bit old now, but I loved the Vauxhall 'Little Dads' adverts. So funny and sweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn4gPkrCl2o

I also thought the Peter Kay, John Smith adverts were brilliant, especially the - Any girl in the world - one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS4Z61TpCyI

11 years, 4 months ago - Jenny Collins

This Chris cunningham ad for Gucci perfume flora has stayed with me since I first saw it. Beautifully simple. Great lighting, the shape and flow he creates are wonderful
vimeo.com/.../45948

11 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

That Johnny Walker one must have taken a few takes...expertly done to make it look so effortless. Only potential wipe point I could see at first glance would be the pub door, and that's early on... And Robbie Carlyle - always a very engaging actor. I'd love to see him double-heading something with Chris Ecclestone.

The flake ad - that was pretty cool, it had the makings of a great ad by catching the attention for something other than a product demo (instead going for the product's character) and not obsessing on the packshot. I liked it.

On the other hand, for a slice of pure 80's http://youtu.be/tJC_oQ5cyc4?t=1h26m19s - //shudders//

11 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Just seen this on B3ta - It's a deliberately supergeneric brand advert - enjoy it and its cynicism :-)

http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/generic-brand-ad/