Posts made in August, 2017

on Aug 21, 2017

By Katie Deighton ITV has launched a ‘major’ new campaign for flagship soap opera Coronation Street that takes the viewer on a behind-the-camera journey through the drama’s 57 years. The spot recreates scenes from across the decades, featuring classic characters such as Elsie Tanner, Hilda and Stan Ogden, and Jack and Vera Duckworth. It also captures the ongoing changes to the soap’s production, including the transition from black and white to colour and the development of movable camera equipment. The ad’s multiple scenes were filmed on both the Coronation Street lot and at Shepperton Studios, where Matt Gant, ITV Creative’s art director, reconstructed Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Aug 21, 2017

By Ewen Haldane Rembrandt painted hundreds of portraits over his lifetime. Even to the untrained eye, there is a uniquely original pattern and signature style which they nearly all share. His technique was so distinctive that investment bank ING, working with J. Walter Thompson, were recently able to programme an AI machine to paint a completely new, ‘original’ Rembrandt portrait that looks, at first glance, indistinguishable from the kind of thing he would have created himself. For all his genius, Rembrandt was fairly predictable. Picasso, on the other hand was highly creative. His style was anything but monolithic and evolved via highly differentiated Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Aug 21, 2017

By John Glenday The Crown Prosecution Service has issued new guidelines for prosecutors in England and Wales informing them that online abuse and hate speech should be treated with equivalence to cases of physical abuse. Updated guidance describes social media abuse as “equally devastating” to shouted insults across the street amid warnings that the internet and social media offer abusers safe harbours from which to wage vendettas. Alison Saunders, director of public prosecutions, told the Guardian: “Whether shouted in their face on the street, daubed on their wall or tweeted into their living room, the impact of hateful abuse Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Aug 21, 2017

By Shawn Lim Welcome to The Drum’s APAC Creative Works. As always, this section is dedicated to showing the best creative work and gives you, the reader, the chance to decide which work we feature as our APAC ‘Creative Work of the Week.’ We’ve now introduced our new five-star voting system. To vote for your favorite, make sure you click on the stars. The winner be chosen based on the average rating and the number of votes cast. Voting closes on Tuesday 29 August. For project information, credits and more hover over the ‘i’ icon or expand to full screen. To submit work for future publication, contact Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Aug 21, 2017

By John Glenday The full extent of UK companies exposure to cyber-attacks has been laid bare in a new study compiled by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport which found two-thirds of bosses at Britain’s largest firms have had no training in how to handle such incidents. This comes despite growing corporate awareness of cyber security as an issue in the wake of high profile hacks affecting the likes of WPP and TalkTalk, which have both endured significant disruption at the hands of hackers. Despite learning the hard way how damaging such incidents more than 68% of Read full story › Source: The Drum...