For the second year SKY TV engaged us to create half a dozen 60" interstitials for the L'Oreal Professional Color Trophy Awards last month.The clips took viewers onto the Red Carpet and Behind the Scenes at the country's premier hair-styling and colouring competition.

Video Promotions and C4 presenter Jaquie Brown spent the afternoon talking to finalists as they nervously recreated their entries, and later that evening to the Beautiful People at the spectacular awards and party at Sky City. We then edited it all down to short, fun and often racy celebrations of the event, which played on SKY's E! Entertainment channel over the following month.

From accomodating a number of requests from SKY TV Sales to produce simple, still-image-based TVC's for clients, we've designed a cost-effective package which can be adapted to pretty much any advertiser who wants to get on air.

It includes everything a potential advertiser needs, from scripting assistance to Voice-Over recording, music and editing of still images and graphics, to create an effective and eye-catching result every time. And all for no more than $2000 +gst- often less.

Clients SKY have entrusted to us in the past few months have included Insignia International with their Chris Cairns memorabilia, AllSport in Taupo promoting their Pearl Izumi product during the Tour de France, and, most recently, the NZAFL promoting AUSKICK for kids during the AFL final.

The last two jobs were carried out without ever even meeting the client in person. All pre-production and scripting was carried out via phone and email, including emailing MP3's of music suggestions and voice-over styles, and Windows Media Video files of the finished TVC's for client approval.

And how did the clients find working with us in this way? Well to quote NZAFL's Greg Bourke, "Steve - BLOODY FANTASTIC !!!! From nothing you made that - WOW!! Thanks mate - great - no changes needed to that!"

That's what we like to hear.

For more details on TVC-in-a-Box, contact Steve on 09 963 2128.