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Friday 26 November 2010

Bare necessities.



Although demonstrating Tippex's product benefit with bleeding-edge freshness, (by combining playing with its media environment in a way only previously seen with the Cyberbullying Cry of the Dolphins spot and offering up the kind of open-ended narrative options that are usually the preserve of Choose Your Own Adventure lit,) A Hunter Shoots a Bear is sadly seriously blighted by the one necessity of all great dramatic storytelling – solid, natural acting. The hammy, over-wrought voiceovers we get seriously and frustratingly undermine what is otherwise brilliant piece of work.

Friday 19 November 2010

Good put down.



Bar the slightly over-cooked musical crescendo, the super-crisp shirt and cakey make up,Thai mobile carrier DTAC hit a tone almost pitch perfect with Disconnect to Connect to bravely suggest that consumers use their phones less.

Monday 15 November 2010

Dotty.



With Dot – featuring the world’s officially smallest stop-motion animation character – W+K again demonstrate the kind of mad dedication one needs to produce truly outstanding work.