Press Release

Happy Hour win 3 Gold's at the 2007 IVCA Awards, including the 'Grand Prix Award'.

'Valuing Everyone' - a 7 minute animated internal communication video produced for Nationwide Building Society, picked up Gold in both nominated categories. In addition, it went on to win the final Grand Prix Award at the end of the evening.

The IVCA (International Visual Communications Association) Awards were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on the evening of Friday 30th March 2007. The IVCA Awards are recognised internationally as marks of excellence for effective business communication in corporate video, live events, interactive media projects, business television and websites.

We are delighted to announce that Happy Hour Productions Ltd won the following awards:

Best Internal Communications Film
Gold Award
Title: Valuing Everyone
Client: Nationwide Building Society

Best Animation, Graphics and Special Effects
Gold Award
Title: Valuing Everyone
Client: Nationwide Building Society

Grand Prix Award
Gold Award
Title: Valuing Everyone
Client: Nationwide Building Society

The Grand Prix Award is selected by a jury from all the category Gold Award winners, and is awarded to the most outstanding work submitted.

For more information on the IVCA Awards, please visit www.ivca.org.

WATCH 'VALUING EVERYONE'

Brief:
To create a video promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. To avoid 'talking heads' format used in previous Diveristy videos for Nationwide. To prompt people to think about the feelings of colleagues and how issues may effect them.
Client:
Nationwide Building Society

A day of interviews with staff willing to discuss their particular issues. This covered issues ranging from disabilities, sexuality, sexism, age discrimination and racial awareness.

From there, we modelled and developed characters to suit each person, whilst editing and trimming the dialogue to create our story.

With several weeks of intense animation following that, we found ourselves with a true gem of a production.

Completed:
Nov 2006

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We provide a full video production service from concepts, through script development, storyboarding, production, post production, special FX, graphics, dvd authoring and delivery.

That does not mean we exclusively do everything, if you have an existing script or idea, we are happy to step in as and when you need us.

We also work alongside agency clients to bring their corporate or web video creative to the screen.

We have produced work for clients large and small, these include Nationwide Building Society, Nestle, McDonalds UK, Lloyds TSB, Zurich Insurance, Hampson Aerospace, Guide Dogs for the Blind and many more...