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Briefing for Corporate Film

Commissioning video can sometimes be a daunting task; particularly if you’re new to the game. Videos come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and can be produced on wildly differing budgets. You’ve heard that video is one of the most effective tools for communication...

Briefing for Corporate Film

Pearson Grammar Police

We is really well good with words and language and English and stuff. That’s why it’ll come as no surprise that Pearson chose Casual Films to create a humorous little promotional video for their new language course MyGrammarLab. Pearson wanted to illustrate to people who...

Pearson Grammar Police

‘Jenny don’t be hasty’

Paulo Nutini once sang ‘Jenny don’t be hasty’. I can’t really remember the rest of the song so the context is a little hazy, but as far as memory serves I think that Jenny was a post production professional working in the not too distant...

Final Cut Pro X

So this guy just came in to the studio and started shooting…

No, don’t worry, it’s not a ‘disgruntled postal worker’ type story – it’s merely a hilarious play on words that, while implying we were the victims of an act of appalling violence serves in fact to introduce the fact that we hired someone to come...

Photos of Casual Films Studio

‘Breakfast is the most important meal of the day’

According to a study by Dr Mark Pereira, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease as well as stave off obesity (the study unfortunately doesn’t take into account the traditional British fry-up)… Armed...

Breakfast IVCA

Future Cinema

AT FAAAAAT SAM’S GRAAAAAAND SLAM SPEAKEAAAAAAAASY! DA DADA DADA, DA DADA DADA! Sorry the lines between reality and Bugsy Malone have become a bit blurred since last weekend… I’m no longer sure whether I’m a child gangster in Prohibition era Chicago or a Casual Films...

Bugsy Malone at Future Cinema

Just don’t ask for a viral

Here’s a recent article from Ri5, take a look and see what Barnaby has to say about requesting a viral...

Ri5 article: Just don't ask for a Viral

New York Festivals

With the New York arm of Casual gaining momentum by the day we thought it appropriate to see how our work would compete on the global awards circuit. We’ve been lucky enough to have quite a bit of success here in the UK but when...

New York Festivals

How to become an Idea Factory

“Everyone is creative. Even old people” – Matthew Diffee, SXSW, 2012 Matthew Diffee, cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine gave a talk at SXSW last month on ‘How to become an Idea Factory’. He’s a man who week in and week out must pitch 10...

Matthew Diffee: How to become an Idea Factory
Briefing for Corporate Film
May 18th, 2012 · animation work, film work

Commissioning video can sometimes be a daunting task; particularly if you’re new to the game. Videos come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and can be produced on wildly differing budgets. You’ve heard that video is one of the most effective tools for communication yet you may not have a clue what sort of...

Pearson Grammar Police
May 8th, 2012 · film work, news

We is really well good with words and language and English and stuff. That’s why it’ll come as no surprise that Pearson chose Casual Films to create a humorous little promotional video for their new language course MyGrammarLab. Pearson wanted to illustrate to people who speak English as a second language the difficulties that bad...

Final Cut Pro X
May 4th, 2012 · trends, we like this

Paulo Nutini once sang ‘Jenny don’t be hasty’. I can’t really remember the rest of the song so the context is a little hazy, but as far as memory serves I think that Jenny was a post production professional working in the not too distant future. Sounds about right. And in composing such a niche...

Photos of Casual Films Studio
May 3rd, 2012 · we like this

No, don’t worry, it’s not a ‘disgruntled postal worker’ type story – it’s merely a hilarious play on words that, while implying we were the victims of an act of appalling violence serves in fact to introduce the fact that we hired someone to come in and take photos. See, it’s all really innocent. So,...

Breakfast IVCA
April 30th, 2012 · we like this

According to a study by Dr Mark Pereira, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease as well as stave off obesity (the study unfortunately doesn’t take into account the traditional British fry-up)… Armed with this nugget of nutritional information we decided to see...

Bugsy Malone at Future Cinema
April 24th, 2012 · we like this

AT FAAAAAT SAM’S GRAAAAAAND SLAM SPEAKEAAAAAAAASY! DA DADA DADA, DA DADA DADA! Sorry the lines between reality and Bugsy Malone have become a bit blurred since last weekend… I’m no longer sure whether I’m a child gangster in Prohibition era Chicago or a Casual Films employee. Either way, splurge gunning the Casual office at the...

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