The hazards of working with wild animals. Thank you @meshelm for taking one for the team. So that Juanita, this 3-banded armadillo, did not pp on the talent.
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What a showcase. This spans so many years, shoots, companies and jokes. You two are the Milton Berle and Sid Caesar of the ever expanding B+P comedy troupe of comics actors and jugglers.
And hey! This compilation could just have well starred Dana or Patrick, Josh, Michael, Natalie, Angel, Alan, Patty, Jason or Heath! If only your names started with ‘B’ you would have got the part (bad audition joke, sorry). See you on set!
Winning an Austin Addy for this three spot campaign was especially gratifying. Commercials that encourage blood donations are typically heart-string pullers. They lean into the gravitas and are often really really sad:( Our clients at Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center think differently. They see how happy the hundreds of daily donors are all across Houston. We worked together (sans agency) to develop a strategy focusing on how positive people feel after donating blood. That led to a new tagline: Donating blood makes you feel good. Real good. And that led to these very funny, and now award winning, spots! Working with Theresa, Ramona and Josh @commitforlife makes us feel good. Real good!! Thank you and congrats to all of us!
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We also love shooting these with the Houston A-Team! And the post team. Jeez, alright, here’s a list…
Exec Producer: Michelle Crosby
Writer/Director: Mike Woolf
Producer: @hollerific44
Editor: @lpmedia_atx
DP: @crash_maxwell
Art Dept: Gen Quintanilla
AD: @augiealcala
Prod Manager and killer cameo: @jreeder99
Locations: Bo
Camera: @brianaichlmayr
Audio Mix: Digital Domain
Color: @finlandfinish
PS. This campaign has legs baby!! More spots to make you feel good are on the way.
If you missed last week’s life celebration, you can always watch the documentary - free and forever- in the link in bio. The movie is called Crazy Carl and his Man-Boobs: An Austin Love Story. And after watching it with an audience last Sunday we realized the second half of the title might be the most important part. Using Carl as a psychedelic prism we are really telling the story of Austin. And it’s a beautiful one.
And then there are the man-boobs… we posted the trailer after work because this trailer and the film are #nsfw!!
We saw all these nice posts about @kelink83 Kelly’s 10th beerversary at @austinbeerworks and just wanted to pile on!! Happy Anniversary! Everything looks better with Kelly!!
Donating blood makes you feel good. It made us feel good getting a real rock and roller to shred in this spot. @paparoach guitar slinger @twan_e Anthony Esperanto not only pulled out all the tricks on this one he composed it as well. No he does not normally play with a light up guitar, hmmm but now maybe he will. We #gwere happily wired on this one thanks to shooting at @doubletroublehtx we got so silly we put production on screen. Yo yo yo @jreeder99 !! Good clients = good times and that adds up to good work. (Not good at math)
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@commitforlife #gulfcoastregionalbloodcenter #beahero #donateblood #donatebloodsavelives #bloodsaveslives #guitarsolo #paparoach #anyshotanystoryanywhere
Did you know Oat Willie started as a comic book character that ran for Governor in 1968?!? Find the whole story and so much more about Austin on our new site: 👆www.23rdstreetmural.com.
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#rainyday #oatwillies #headshop #texasgovernor #campaignheadquarters #austinhistory #austintexas #austin #documentary #anyshotanystoryanywhere
April 1st is officially 23rd Street Mural day in Austin, TX. It been proclaimed by 9th district city council member Zo himself. As he mentioned, our online documentary project is up and running for the world to see. Celebrate mural day by visiting www.23rdstreetmural.com. We can’t wait for you to explore what we’ve made!
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#austin #austintexas #keepaustinweird #documentary #newwork #originalart #onlyinaustin #longtimecoming #anyshotanystoryanywhere
On paper this spot has a great payoff but not easy to execute. Watch it, and you’ll see what we mean. Okay, after reading the boards we talked to @elasticpictures who save our asses in these “Holly won’t let us have a live bear on set” situations. What we did was watch too many bears on green screen stock footage clips until we found the right one. Then shot plates on set/farm and had Beefy in a bear suit as a stand-in to get the right performance. It was a delicate balance of art and technology. A real ‘fix it in pre’ situation. The wooden bear sculpture is real - we chain-sawed that up after wrap and grilled sausages on it. Tasted like sweet victory.
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#allworkallplay @fbitn @tombras #brandbuilding #bearcommercials #bearspots #bearsarethebest #comedycommercials #bears #bears🐻 #bearsbearsbears
The first little spark of this idea came from a Neil deGrasse Tyson talk about how different we would have handled the Covid pandemic is we could simple see the virus. With the help of @richterry360 we fanned that flame into Covid=confetti and boosters=shield. To execute it we blended in-camera confetti with CGI confetti and invisible shield. This was a fun one to figure out, especially on a PSA budget. Keep your shields up everyone. What ya can’t see can still git ya.
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Agency: @sherrymatthewsgroup
Director/co-writer: Beefy
DP: @lilhajek
Art Dept: @bayerart
Visual Effects: @elasticpictures 👏
Producer: @hollerific44
EP: @meshelm
Agency Producer: @angiedew
#psa #covidbooster #anyshotanystoryanywhere
