Inspiring young people and helping them
turn their creative ideas into a reality.
A massive thank you to everyone who helped the Anthony Nolan Charity by giving your opinions on their latest creative work.
We’ll keep you updated with the outcome of the concept tests and show you the campaign when it’s ready to go!
Congratulations to John Valente who will be representing The Bigger Idea at this summer’s Reading Festival.
We loved John’s idea and we can’t wait to share the results with everyone!
Incredibly inspiring graduation speech from Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman novels. It’s all about making mistakes and making great art…
The nice chaps at The Short Form Film Company have a paid internship available for those interested in film and social media.
The internship runs from June 1st to August 31st 2012.
Below are the full details:
The Short Form Film Company is a creative production company based in the heart of London. We are currently working for our client, The Weather Channel on a series of films and viral content.
3 month placement:
• We are looking for a UK film maker / social media expert to perform day to day filming and social media functions for our client, The Weather Channel in the UK.
• We require a dexterous and skilled candidate to work for and with us for three months from June 1st – August 31st
This will be to produce and co-ordinate, as well as film and work closely with us and our client, within our strategy and instruction, to deliver content for The Weather Channel.
The candidate will be expected to shoot, edit, and upload the films to the facebook page. They will also be in control of the twitter link and have direct contact with The Weather Channel in Atlanta.
Where possible we will help negotiate access to the events in co-ordination from the production office. It may be that you have to film in a guerilla fashion around the event as there often exclusive filming rights. eg. Wimbledon, Glastonbury.
We will look to you to film in queues, local shops, markets gathering all the local information that you, The Weather Channel reporter, can connect to. Or you may come up with better ideas!
• Our ideal candidate will be a budding film maker and understand the process of making film content.
• Our ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of social media.
• Our ideal candidate would also be expected to touch base regularly with The Weather Channel team in Atlanta in accordance with our head office here in London.
The contractor / intern would be based out of the our London Office and have access to all our editing and creative facilities.
All expenses will be paid and other payment tbc.
Please contact the following email with your CV and any other relevant material supporting your abilities and experience to;
Good luck!
I wish my science lessons at school had explained things in this way…
Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth – Pablo Picasso
Summer is nearly here (although you wouldn’t know it yet!), which means it’s Festival Time! Last year we gave away tickets to Wireless, Reading, and Strawberry Fields and this year we’ll hopefully be adding to that list. Last summer some of the guys ended up backstage with the artists and even appeared on the BBC!
Prize
The person/s who come up with the best idea for this week’s brief will get into Reading Festival for Free, and be given the full support of The Bigger Idea staff to bring your idea to life! If you are working on your own you will be able to bring a friend (for free), and if you are working in a pair then you will both be able to get in for free.
The festival takes place from 24th to 26th of August and includes acts such as theFoo Fighters, Kasabian, and Florence And The Machine. You can see the full lineup here.
To see the rest of the brief and claim your chance to win the free tickets, sign up for our live briefs by clicking here
Good luck!
Tim Ferriss - Best-selling American author
That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking- why the hell not? Why not you, why not now? – Time Ferriss
Dan Pink - Used to be Al Gore's speech-writer.
Here’s the first installment of a great set of videos from Dan Pink about the importance of creativity. Dan’s an excellent speaker, it’s no surprise he used to be the speech writer for the presidential candidate Al Gore.
The rest of the videos can be found here
Here at The Bigger Idea we’re big fans of the Khan Academy. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s an online resource of free tutorial videos that all started when Salman Kahn wanted to help his young cousin, who lived on the other side of the US, with her shcool work. His video tutorials have now been viewed more than 125 million times!
On the site we came across the following brainteaser which drove us all completely nuts until someone cracked it (excuse the pun).
See how long it takes you to complete it, or to sneak a peak at the answer!
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