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Being asked to seed an advert I filmed is a good feeling.

September 12, 2011 by Marcus | 0 comments

Chris and I filmed this “advert” for the Co-Op driving insurance aimed at young drivers. What a cracking feeling it was getting an email from the seeding company unknowingly asking me to publish it. When I started The Cheese Grater in the first year of ad school, this was one of my goals: to get to a point where I get asked to seed my own stuff on my own site… and get paid. Dope.

Up in smoke: Social Media

August 14, 2011 by Marcus | 0 comments

Imagine how life would be if one day you woke up and all your favourite social media sites had disappeared. All your friends, photos, messages and events. Poof, gone.

‘Up in smoke’ is the photo-set’s concept of networks literally going up in smoke. They’re visualised  purely on the colours found within their logos. Continue Reading →

Cuddly Toys After Dark: Shark

August 7, 2011 by Marcus | 0 comments

I had this idea about a week ago to make a photoset of what cuddly toys get up to after dark. The two routes I was thinking of taking were 1. Macabre and 2. Cute. I’ll probably end up mixing the two.

So anyway, I hear about a Behind The Scenes competition and I decided to go for it. The gist is that you make a video of a photo or video shoot. I quickly put one together, but Ideally I’d like to do another, really good one that I plan from the beginning.

Here’s the video from the shoot:

Our First Video Shoot

July 4, 2011 by Marcus | 0 comments

Chris and I went on our first official video shoot the other day in Brighton. When I say first video shoot, I mean a shoot that we organised, casted, location scouted, filmed and edited. There’s a mouthful. It was to promote the new Your Moments competition, which I suggest you enter because the prizes you can win are pretty great.