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Because sometimes these events need livening up…

On the weekend of 20th – 22nd May 2011, Charlie Janki Kelly and Emily will travel to Fort William to conquer the UK’s highest mountain, climbing the strenuous 4406 feet (1343 metres) to the peak of Ben Nevis and back down again… all in aid of the Wellington Appeal which raises essential funds for the British Red Cross and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Please sponsor us! Link is here: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Brandcast

 Team Brandcast are hoping to raise £5,000 in sponsorship for the Wellington Appeal. The money will go support the lifesaving work of JDRF and the British Red Cross by doing the Ben Nevis Challenge in May – the training starts now! If you’d like to help or register, click here for details.

What do you do in Texas when you have a few hours to kill and your friend has taken it upon herself to be more strict about your diet than you ever believed possible? Well, as the eating my body weight in burgers and fries was not allowed, we had to find something else that was just as traditionally American as over eating and just as much fun.

‘I want to fire a machine gun.’

Was the confident response when I suggested visiting a shooting range. So, what the lady wants, the lady gets! It’s American as a 10,000 calorie double slice of apple pie with a side of cheese cake and onion rings and it appealed to our James Bond/Angelina Jolie fantasies.

A quick internet search turned up the Bullet Hole shooting range, which gave us a choice of rifles, machine guns and handguns and the sort of policy that allows you to hand over a small amount of cash and a driving licence in return for fully automatic weapons and enough ammunition to take on a small country.

Still, they were very friendly and with a range officer who gives you the confidence boosting feedback that ALL of your shots would have been kills and a positive attitude to allowing us to pose with various Military grade ordinance, it’s good clean fun for all the family and apparently the Walther P22 is ‘ideal for home defence’, which certainly makes me feel safer in the home!

EPIC. Who said TV advertising is dead? Needs several viewings to appreciate the complexity of what Nike have done here. The gauntlet has been well any truly thrown down to other sportswear manufacturers (any just about anyone else) in the run up to the World Cup.

Happy birthday to Lauren who is 30 today!

We are proud to introduce Quinn Li Walters. Congratulations Dave!

Gold Winner:  ecancermedicalscience.com

Category: Web TV

Produced by: Brandcast Media

For:  Cancer Intelligence

We were very excited to be named Gold Winners at the IVCA Awards on Friday night. The awards are the most acclaimed celebration of effective business and public sector communications in video, interactive projects, business television and digital media across Europe.  The ceremony was held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, and was attended by over 700 commissioners, government representatives and industry colleagues. One of our favourite cameramen, Robin Fox also scooped a Gold Award for Best Photography.

However much you tell people what you’re about, there’s nothing like showing them.

That’s why we encouraged the London Handel Festival to make a video of a typical major production of the Festival in rehearsal. We filmed some great music and heard what the stars, the artistic director and his colleagues have to say about Handel, his music and his place in the life of London (his adopted home for 50 years, and the place where he died).

We picked Theodora – one of the last and greatest of Handel’s oratorios whose theme – dear to mid-eighteenth century novelists – was that of a virtuous damsel in distress. The setting for this production was the great church of St George’s in Hanover Square, where Handel himself worshipped, and where the London Handel Festival has its home. The result, we hope you will agree, is astonishing and curiously moving.

Handels Theodora from Charlie Grieve on Vimeo.

We’ve recently finished shooting and editing some films for Kazakh metals and minerals company ENRC with our chums at Phoebus. Covering a country the size of Western Europe had its challenges – quaffing the local horse-flavoured vodka was just one. Genuinely hospitable people although the local jimmy-jibbers out of Almaty didn’t seem to have the sense of humour gene switched on – I guess a 24hr car journey to the first set up isn’t very funny. Astana extraordinary – bit like ancient Rome meets Dubai. And the wild apple forests were gorgeous – Marco Polo knew his apples. Check out our little behind the scenes clip put together by J.