by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 11, 2009
Examining the concept of set design, visuals and production reflected in experience and branding: It took me a long time to determine whether this structure for the film Quantum of Solace was real, or a production design concept for the movie. As it was, the building...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Motion Pictures | Apr 24, 2009
Studying the music, the mind, the meaning — cinematic brand strategy and design. The mind of the soloist, the split mind in the brilliance of the schizophrenic — how is the passion of melody, of harmony, newly sensed and seen? Last night, I was talking...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Apr 7, 2009
J.J. Abrams and a return to the authentic identity of Star Trek Eventually, we all go back. In looking to the heart of the work, we turn again to that upon which our heart first opened. And for me, the exploration of my practice, the efforts of examining the nature of...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Mar 30, 2009
“I did. I do what I do because I want to do it, because I want to explore, go looking for things.” ~Luc Besson A directorial style, branded, explorations of cinéma du look. I met Luc Besson in Paris, a number of years back, when I was working in Paris. And...
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Mar 1, 2009
The line between the story, the visualization, the brand. Story — told. Story — visualized. There’s a thread that runs between the original telling, and the next telling in story — and the next, and the next, and the next. One person tells a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures, Retail, Storytelling | Jan 16, 2009
Exploring the ideation of identity in theatrical advertising What is it about dogs? How is it, after thousands of years, we have this undeniable link with dogs? We immediately attach personality to them. We see something in dogs? And we see, perhaps, something of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Dec 26, 2008
Motion picture design, identity and historical context: visual propaganda. I first met Mr. Cruise, working with him, and the Paramount Studio marketing leadership team — with Jerry Bruckheimer — for Top Gun. Then, after that, Days of Thunder, working more...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 2, 2008
Martha Holmes | Jackson Pollock Time©1949 Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers: exploring concepts of the visual language of creativity, music, madness — and the warmth of humanity in redemption. “Madness is the salt that keeps good sense from rotting.”...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Places, Storytelling | Sep 18, 2008
Exploring the illusory: branding ghosts and the veil of what is beyond… I’d been fascinated by the concept of the ghost – and the ghostly – for decades, since I was a kid. The magical, the mystical, the mysterious. Actually, my first big book purchase,...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Sep 1, 2008
Several years ago I got a call from Paramount Studios to work on a project for JJ Abrams. I’d never heard of him, embarrassingly enough. Nancy Goliger, EVP of Advertising, told me to check out his TV shows, “Lost” and “Alias”. I watched...
