By John Glenday A group of volunteer filmmakers are to travel to Rio de Janeiro to document the Street Child World Cup, a warm-up event for the real thing which aims to challenge preconceptions of street children in Brazil and around the world. Filming events in the city for 10 days from March 28 the team will record daily ‘Match of the Day’ highlights of all the goals and games for a dedicated Youtube channel, in addition to a number of documentaries recording workshops undertaken in the favelas. One volunteer, commercials director Dave Mills, is running a corporate sweepstake within the advertising industry targeting Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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Read MoreBy the drum Continually generating great ideas is vital to the success of any creative communications agency business, but equally as important is then selling your great ideas and insights into your current clients and prospective clients at pitch time. After a highly successful training course in January, The Drum Network is again running its one-day Creative Thinking & Pitch Skills training on Monday 24th March in London. The morning workshop will focus on the creative thinking process and the creation of great ideas and will be hosted by leading creative thinking trainer Gordon Brown, the founder of Brain Juice Training. Gordon has been Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy John Glenday A Welsh husband has pulled out all the stops to woo his bride by logging onto Twitter to recruit a host of celebrities to record messages of support; netting the likes of Jonathan Ross, Jimmy Carr and Matt Lucas. The stars recorded cameo speeches wishing the happy couple all the best when it was played at their wedding at Gower, near Llanelli after being invided to do so via a dedicated Twitter account set up by Steven Williams. Speaking to the Metro Williams explained: “I tried to keep it to about three tweets a week, but I didn’t want to be overzealous. Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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By Ishbel Macleod Steven Williams took a year to create a wedding video, featuring messages from names such as Jonathan Ross, after pleas to celebrities on Twitter to help him out. The Welsh man set up a dedicated Twitter account to ask celebrities to help him out, and his wife Ceri was ‘absolutely stunned’ by the result. “I tried to keep it to about three tweets a week, but I didn’t want to be overzealous. I just asked them to give me a bit of help and sent them a message to say what was going on,” Williams said. “I put it up on Facebook and Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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