Last Friday we made a visit to Limehouse Youth Club next to Canary Wharf, it’s a youth centre that our parent charity operates. We were there to film Sir Ian McKellen (famed for his roles as Magneto in Xmen and Gandalf in Lord of the Rings) judge an art competition. Having previously agreed to do the voiceover for our own promo video we though we would try and get him to sit down for a chat on camera. If your running a social enterprise or charity keep your ear out for any local celebrities or sports people, you never know who might live down the road!
We bag Sir Ian McKellen for our latest promo video
Promo Video’s have always been a sore point for me, I always wanted something that was innovative and had that special something but we never have the budget to pull it off. In the end it came down to experimentation with one of our motion graphic artists and insight from Neil our creative director to come up with the idea of using live action with graphics. While the video was under way we were asked to film an event for City Gateway where Sir Ian McKellen and Rapper Akala were launching the Hip Hop Shakespear Company. I had one of those last thing at night brainwaves to try and get Sir Ian to do our voiceover and when we pulled him to one side on the day he did the honours. Check a pic of Sir Ian in action and the finished video.




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