Last year was a busy one creatively and so I was pleased to be recognised at the end of year Christmas bash with an award for “Most Creative Consultant”

Sadly I wasn’t available to collect the award itself and so with the help of the Dutch Ship, I produced a short acceptance speech.

It was a slightly complicated affair that involved the creation of our own green screen used to film the speech itself. Needless to say the excitement of the final product was so great the speech and delivery itself was poor, but the quality of the end 20-30 seconds more than makes up for it.

The soundtrack is a song called “Superheroes of BMX” by Mogwai, a suitably spaced out collection of drones, perfect for a big corporate bash. The overall effect was created using Adobe Premier by layering a series of images/video and the key-framing the spaceman object around Flash-style.

Note inparticular the out of proportion head, the spinning earth and stars, the clever de-masking effect  and total lack of eye contact throughout, except perhaps the smirk before the horrendous end sequence.