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 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.

Project Title: 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 Process: Conceptualised, edited, produced, animated and post produced by Happy Hour Productions. 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: August 2006   TO WATCH 'VALUING EVERYONE' - CLICK HERE (windows media video, approx.30mb, running time 7min)

Credits:

Directed & Produced by
Tom George & Colin Gardiner

Interviewees:
Emma Bunce, Stephen Cook, Jaqueline Gough, Jackie Burdock, Stewart Elliott, Sarah Mason

Character Design:
Matt Pitt

Character Modelling / Rigging:
Darren Feeltham, Matt Pitt, Jan C De Wet

Character Animation:
Matt Pitt, Jan C De Wet, Mark Bonaccorso

Environment Modelling:
Chris Needham, Matt Pitt

Lighting / Shading / Rendering:
Matt Pitt

Dubbing Editor:
Chris Domaille

Audio Post Production:
Films@59

Special thanks to:
Barbak Saraskani, Tom Harvey, Kate Stewart-Hilliar, Gary Seal, Kevin Chappel.

Story of the Evening:

	After 2 awards we were ready to escape to the bar and count our blessings...
	After 3 awards we thought we should make a run for it before they asked for them back...
	But no, it was right...we had won three!
	...Now we just have to work out what to do with them.