Char Owen Portfolio

Saturday, 27 March 2010

Unfortunately Unavailable



It upsets me that I can't buy Super Super when I'm at university. It's a hard enough job hunting for the one copy of I-D magazine WHSmiths has hiding on its shelf behind copious amounts of gossip magazines. And I thought Ormskirk was the cultural capital of Europe (I joke). I once saw a copy of Sneaker Freaker at the shop in uni, after my heart attack I snapped it up. It sadly hasn't made another appearance.

I can't wait until I move to Manchester in June.. and not just for my magazine indulgences. I will actually be able to walk down the street without getting funny looks. Sorry if I wear too much colour and my trainers cover my ankles. My bad.

Monday, 22 March 2010

The Street Where Originality Lives



The new Adidas Originals TV ad, which follows on from their "celebrating 50 years of souls and stripes" house party ad. I like it because it shows the more gritty, urban side of the brand and yes David Beckham makes another appearance.

Part of this campaign is a competition with C4. Rick Edwards from T4 asks you to make a video that represents the area that you live in.

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Acrylick Shoot

I did my photoshoot for my Acrylick project yesterday. It was quite a chore because it was a friend's 21st the night before and myself and all the people modeling for me were out celebrating. I had visions of nobody turning up... but thankfully they did! I got some really good photos for my print ads and look book. I haven't edited them yet but from what I've seen so far I'm impressed with my limited photography skills. I'll be going through the 700+ photos and editing them this weekend eeek. long task. Here's a few unedited from the day.. and a random one of me taking the photos at the end..





Sunday, 14 March 2010

Gaga For Product Placement




Lady Gaga's new music video for Telephone.

Okay.. so the video and song don't particularly match BUT it's an epic video nevertheless.
ALSO only Gaga could get away with so much product placement in her music videos haha.. gotta love the cans of diet coke in her hair! Not so keen on the dating website on the laptop either.. It's (I hate to say) a little random and looks shit. Other than that, love it!

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Showcase!

A showcase of advertising work has been uploaded onto the Edge Hill website prospectus.. it features one of my FCUK adverts which is surprising because the idiot who edited it completely ballsed it up and deleted the original footage! Hey ho.. I still got a 1st for the project because of the ridiculous amount of work I put into it. AND I was told it was "very I-D magazine" huge compliment!!!

Shave Like a Rockstar



New ad Campaign by Gillette that features Will.i.am, Tim McGraw, Marc Hoppus and The All American Rejects. It was directed by rock photographer Danny Clinch and portrays what goes through the minds of these acts before they go on stage. The website is pretty slick and is currently showing previews of the ads.

Friday, 5 March 2010

Colour Codes


To celebrate the realease of their new Colour Codes range, Swatch have set seven of the most style-savy magazines against each other. Each has done a photoshoot featuring the new Swatch watches. The contenders are: Dazed & Confused, I-D, Another, NYLON, Wallpaper, Pop and V.
It is voted for by the public and 100 people who voted for the winner will receive a Colour Code watch. Yes Please..

My Vote went on Nylon:

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Words Cannot Explain...



How much I want these trainers. Jeremy Scott = Legend!

Jo Lawrence



Jo Lawrence has an exhibition at the V&A called Making Glover.
Making Glover is a stop frame animation, it looks really interesting and I'm contemplating going and checking out a few other exhibits in the process.

V&A:

Jo Lawrence was Digital Media Resident at the V&A between July and December 2008. During her residency Jo used the V&A collections as inspiration for her work. This display shows the creative journey that Jo took to make this film, from original research with V&A objects to the completed animation Glover.

Glover is a glove maker whose story is told in a stop-frame animation. The film integrates a masked actor as a human puppet with digitally animated glove puppets. Glover's story was inspired by the fusion of two sources of inspiration from the V&A's vast collection: a reproduction of the Ebstorf Map and a pair of ornate leather and satin gloves (1600).

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

GEEK


My Acrylick clothing FINALLY came so I can FINALLY start my photoshoots for my print campaign. Pretty chuffed with the clothes.. apart from the £22 customs charge I had to pay. I obviously had to try it all on, the mens tees are massive but nothing rolling up the sleeves won't sort out. The girls tees on the other hand are teeny.. it's a good job my models are thin, or I'd have to starve them!

Geek: I've become rather attached to the Acrylick New Era hat AND I'm sure I'll receive a few lady sovereign comments at uni...

British Music Experience



As well as writing several essays, preparing for a presentation on gender policy (fun), applying for work experience AND working on my practical project I am also working on the British Music Experience YCN brief.

It's cool because it's pretty much an open brief platform wise. I've been working on it with my friend Mike whose really good on the graphics side of things. We have come up with an idea for an animation involving a domino effect. Flash goes above my head completely (I like to think of myself as a creative thinker) so hopefully Mike will be able to take my idea and turn it into something.. if not...it was a nice idea!

Idea Shop


Last month Ogilvy set up a pop up service in Brixton where small businesses could get free advice on how to advertise themselves. I'm sure they'll receive a few awards for this one...

Case studies are available to look at on their website
You can also follow them on Twitter

Work Experience & All That Jazz



Here's a preview of my packs I'm sending to some creatives to hopefully get some work experience over summer. They consist of:
My CV printed onto three A6 post cards
Two Kate Moross designed business cards
Six cheeky stickers
Personal Message
Funky Envelopes

The colours, designers etc are a pretty accurate reflection of myself so hopefully I'll get someone interested. It's crunch time really.. I'm waiting to hear about the Masters Degree I've applied for but if I'm not successful in getting onto the course I've gotta get all the experience I can.

Phillips



Creative Review:

"Philips is building the hype around its new advertising campaign, Parallel Lines, by releasing a teaser online...



Following the hugely successful Carousel interactive film, the new campaign features five short films created by five different RSA directors: Greg Fay, Johnny Hardstaff, Hi-Sim, Carl Erik Rinsch, and Jake Scott. While the five films will be diverse - the trailer above indicates how varied the film styles alone will be - they are apparently thematically linked, although Philips and the ad agency behind the campaign, DDB London, is currently keeping this theme under wraps. As in Carousel though, the campaign clearly aims to emphasis the cinematic quality of Philips' TV sets."

Neil Dawson
, one of the Art Directors behind Carousel and the new five short films, came into talk with some of us at university two weeks ago. He was a real inspiration and I will be eagerly awaiting the release of these new short films. You can keep up to date via the Facebook page..