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Tim Maguire — 2009-10-31T17:34:08+00:00

Roll Titles

Tim Maguire — 2009-10-28T12:39:57+00:00

I've been a pretty hopeless blogger until now, but that's about to change.

Now that my production company has launched, I've created a new blog where I'm posting about interesting things that catch my attention.

You can find the roll titles blog here, or follow me on twitter here. Say hi sometime? x

Creative Review - Jean Jullien at Analogue

Tim Maguire — 2009-10-13T12:01:01+01:00

Creative Review - Jean Jullien at Analogue

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Coca Cola: Eat Sleep Drink: Blind Fan

Tim Maguire — 2009-04-28T17:17:30+01:00

This is one of eight "micro-documentaries" I produced when I was working at Weiden & Kennedy in Amsterdam in 1997-98, part of the larger Pan-European 'Eat Sleep Drink' campaign devised by Jon Matthews who was Creative Director there at the time. The director Lenard Dorfman and a small crew from @radicalmedia including Adam Lyne, Jason Kemp and me trailed round some of the UK's least glamorous towns for a month, finding some fantastic stories on the way. This one, about a blind West Ham fan, who went to every game with his brother and his mate was particularly brilliant and won a Silver at D&AD and a Gold at the British Television Awards in 1998.

The best laid plans

Tim Maguire — 2009-03-18T22:10:43+00:00

Sometimes things don't always go to plan.

Last year, I suggested to The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh that it might be interesting to make a series of films about the extraordinarily varied and eclectic range of performers that grace their stage. The series would be called 'Warm-Ups.'

The rules were very simple: we wouldn't shoot the gig; it would only be the get-in, or the journey to the hall and it would be that special 'back stage' intimate portrait that we generally don't see.

They loved the idea, but then the marketing director left and the idea died.

This was the first film, that I shot and Sabine Klaus edited, with the very wonderful Karine Polwart. What made it extra special for me was that only three weeks earlier, I'd heard her singing for the first time, at the wedding of her brother Steven (the guitarist in this film). It was a Burns song called The Lea Rig, and she did it accapella with her mum. Not a dry eye in the house.

Isn't YouTube wonderful?

Tim Maguire — 2009-03-18T20:58:41+00:00

Every so often, you stumble across old friends. Here's two of them.

This was the first ad I ever produced for VisitScotland, under their old title as The Scottish Tourist Board. Directed by the Douglas Brothers, it was written by Simon Scott & Andrew Lindsay when they were still the Creative Directors at Faulds Advertising and featured the late great Norman McCaig reading some lines from his poem 'Celtic Cross.'

On the shoot, McCaig was reluctant to read it at all, saying not only that the audience wouldn't understand it but that he wasn't sure that he understood it himself. I'm glad he changed his mind.

This film had a very long gestation period. The original script by Ian Allan and Ross Thomson lay around for about a year before the thrusting young team of Chris Muir and Al MacCuish inherited it in 1995.

Having just worked on the multi-award winning BBC Radio Scotland campaign with Tomato, we were very lucky that not only did they agree to direct it for the princely sum of 4/6d, but that Underworld allowed us to use their song 'Cowgirl' as well.

Then our esteemed client, Michael Forsyth, the Secretary of State for Scotland (allegedly) decided that it 'encouraged teenage promiscuity' and the spot was canned for almost a decade before it finally hit the screen.

BBC Radio Scotland Campaign

Tim Maguire — 2009-03-18T20:23:59+00:00

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let us begin... Once upon a time back in the 1990's, I worked at an advertising agency named after its founder Jim Faulds. It was my first job in advertising. In fact it was my first ever salaried job.

I knew nothing about the business other than that I enjoyed doing voiceovers, admired the good stuff that occasionally graced the screen and fancied a shot at it. My ignorance was blissful and complete but in the two and a half years that I spent at Faulds before they fired me, I was lucky to work with some very gifted people. One of them was Adrian Jeffery, who's just set up a new agency called Mighty Small. He and his art director Lindsay Redding came up with this campaign for BBC Radio Scotland, which was directed by Jonathan Barnbrook and Tomato.

I learned recently that - more than ten years later - it is still the most awarded campaign in the history of Scottish Advertising. this is Foggie Bummer, one of the three by Jon Barnbrook.

If I remember correctly, each of the six spots cost £8,000, which wasn't much money then either.

I think they stand the test of time - but I would say that wouldn't I?

Have you got a minute?

Tim Maguire — 2008-11-30T22:57:55+00:00

Actually, you'll need two. This is a short montage of some of my work as an agency producer, producer and director over the course of what is no longer a short career. The earliest bits are a few frames from the D&AD & Epica award-winning campaign for BBC Radio Scotland written by Adrian Jeffery & Lindsay Redding at Faulds in 1994. There are one or two other bits of agency work, including two campaigns for Coca Cola (Weiden & Kennedy + Mother) and a scene I still rather like from a campaign I produced for Glenmorangie at 1576, but I directed and produced most of the other stuff. Hope you like it!

Take the Tour

Tim Maguire — 2008-09-15T09:59:54+01:00

Over the last couple of years, The University of Edinburgh have turned an ugly car park into a gleaming white cube, where they house some of their biggest brains, and Stephanie Brickman of Development & Alumni gave me a day to make three web films about it. This is one of them. I only got to play with the effervescent Professor Mike Fourman for an hour, so I thought the best thing to do would be to go walkabout and let him show us his new building.

Savage Night

Tim Maguire — 2008-03-29T13:11:57+00:00

The latest "hard-boiled" Noir opus from the award-winning Allan Guthrie, literary phenomenon and all round good guy. He's just got a very sick imagination.

Savage Night is the fourth of his stylishly updated Jacobean gore-fests and it features a hit man who can't stand the sight of blood, kidnapping, corpse mutilation, and a family feud that makes the Montagus and Capulets look like pussies.

Thanks to uncle Mike Coulter, I was lucky to meet the very talented photographer and writer Darcie Condie at the Centotre Coffee Morning the Friday before the shoot and she came out and blogged the shoot for us, creating the biggest Flickr Set I've ever seen!

Thanks also to Jan, Amy and Sarah of Birlinn for all their help on the day. If they could afford the drop in income, they'd have a great future in Production...