Malcolm got a new studio, I did a letterhead. When Malc’s casting director mentioned that they need a film, Mike & I were offered up free.
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When Mike McKenna offered Boxing News a free ad campaign, Malc was part of the package. (Paul Arden said no, Alan Waldie never replied.) So our idea involved shooting (and therefore meeting) five of the best art directors in London. Obviously we wanted to do a great ad for O’Connor Dowse, but we also used it as an opportunity to meet the people we wanted to show our books to. Before long we were hanging out 24/7, looking for jobs to do together.įor example, when he found out that the company he rented his studio from were considering running an ad to promote their brand new, million pound retouching machine – he said his mate would do it for free. He very nearly fucked up this one too (also in the podcast).īut ended up doing a great shot. Malcolm need to shoot a naked secretary (tastefully), it went with a line about her boss making her wear glasses.Ī bit convoluted in retrospect, but there you are. The ad highlighted the issue that most companies office lighting wasn’t compatible with these new fangled computers that were becoming all the rage in offices. It was a bit of a risk, I was a Junior Art Director, so if something went wrong people would question why the hell, out of all the photographers in London, I’d used my scruffy, inexperienced Brummie mate. I decided to give him a proper job with a proper budget. This was definitely the kind of thing that could get him advertising jobs. We hashed together the pencil model making ourselves. He used the back of an A3 layout pad as the background and insisted on using daylight. The fee was £100, including model making. Not because I thought he’d do it well, I just thought he could do with the cash.Īlso, three plates on a pink background? he couldn’t mess that up (he very nearly did, we discuss on the podcast.)
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He did a good job (it’s still hangs on my stairs.)Ī few weeks later I gave him another job three plates on a coloured background for £200. I offered him a job fifty quid for a picture of my nan. He was such a lovely guy, so positive, the last thing I wanted to do was pour cold water on his dreams.īut there was no market for grainy pictures of relatives and factory folk.Īt that time ad agencies wanted gloss, perfection, not realism. He leafed through his work, telling the story behind each picture… We organised a time and he popped over with his work.
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When shoots end, you say goodbye to your new BFF’s and make plans to meet up, but invariably, never see them again.Ĭut to six months later ‘Hey Dave, it’s Malc…from Scotland…Duncan’s assistant? I’m going it alone and wondered whether I could come in and show you my portfolio?’ It wasn’t a chore, it was a joy, he couldn’t have been more friendly, and enthusiastic about…well, everything. He’d often turn up at the hotel late, cold and hungry only to be told the chefs gone home.įeeling sorry for this poor wretch, my writer, Alastair, got into the habit of ordering extra food and drink for him, we’d then stay up with him, chatting about film. There was always a reason he wasn’t allowed to join us, he had to build something, drive somewhere or, harshest of all, sleep in the van at the location. Ten of us grazing from hotel to hotel every night.ĭays were spent scouting, evenings were spent eating and drinking. When I finally got into my first good agency (SPDC&J), my new boss Mark Denton said ‘it was all that extracurricular stuff that got you hired’.īecause it was way back then, getting three shots of a motorbikes whizzing around meant spending a month in Scotland – location hunting, set building and picture taking. The stuff we created helped us inch forward in our careers.
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Malcolm and I started out together he’d shoot pictures for free, I’d write ads for free. This isn’t like that, this time it really is personal ( isn’t that the Jaws 2 strap line?) Things I’d forgotten or been unaware of – Paul Weiland was once my landlord, I judged the One Show with Gerry Graf 15 years earlier, David Holmes drew a poster for me 25 years earlier. Whoever it’s with, whenever I do these podcasts, personal links seem to turn up along the way.