LSM Collaborate with Acclaimed Director Richard Bazley

Le Singe Media have begun working in partnership with acclaimed director Richard Bazley on a number of projects, including a commercial for a top five spending UK advertiser.

"We're delighted to be working with a creative talent of Richard's calibre,"announced LSM CEO David Curry "and the team are all looking forward to collaborating with him on some exciting new projects."

Richard is best known for directing the celebrated "Cool Cat" commercial for Sky along with short films like "The Journal of Edwin Carp" featuring the voice of Hugh Laurie. He is known in the industry for his work on the critically acclaimed "The Iron Giant", supervising three of it's sequences, while he has also contributed to "Pocahontas", "Hercules", "Osmosis Jones"and many more classic animated films.

You can find more information about Richard and examples of his work on his website -

http://www.bazleyfilms.com/

Blinklife: How to Twitter

We've just launched the latest installment of Blinklife, with this episodes focus on Twitter. Written by comedian Stephen Grant, "How to Twitter" takes a humorous look at the social networking site.



For more Blinklife click here.

LSM at Cartoon Digital

Le Singe Media's CEO David Curry will be speaking at this year's Cartoon Digital in Parador de Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Cartoon Digital is a European training seminar about the latest developments in digital animation and interactive entertainment. The three day event will look at how the emergence of Internet connected TVs, set-top boxes and video game consoles will affect animation over the next five years and beyond.

David will be speaking on Wednesday 21st April about the "Digital and Non Linear Strategies of Studios." David presented our project “Blinklife” with great success at the Cartoon Forum Rogaland last September and will now talk about our digital and non-linear strategy, in particular with regard to the social media and the home consoles.

For more information, please click here.

Blinklife.tv Launched

Following our distribution deal with Microsoft, we have now launched Blinklife in Europe with it's own dedicated website, Blinklife.tv.

Offering the latest Blinklife self-help videos and links to our Facebook and Twitter pages, the site functions as the main hub for all things Blinklife.

Blinklife is a fast-paced, comprehensive comedic guide to everyday survival. Using narration penned and performed by UK Comedian Stephen Grant and mock instructional graphics, each episode explores a different aspect of modern life, haphazardly offering the viewer bad advice to a multitude of daily problems, all in approximately one minute.

Visit the site to view episodes and learn more
http://www.blinklife.tv

For more on Blinklife's distribution deal with Microsoft click here

LSM Appointed Digital Consultants for 2020MV

Le Singe Media (LSM) is proud to announce that we have been appointed digital consultants for the young, fast rising independent media planning and buying agency, Twenty Twenty Media Vision (2020mv).

2020MV was formed in August of last year by founder Bill Jones, previously co-founder of the UK’s largest media buying agency Mediacom, Board Director for WFCA plc and Director of Media at Grey London.

In it's short time in operation, 2020mv has already amassed billings worth in excess of £8 million and secured top level clients such as the reformed webstore Zavvi.com, TheHut.com, JackpotCity and e-card retailer Purple Hoot.

2020mv looks set to go from strength to strength as more clients join their growing roster. Bill Jones credits the company's success to their unique client relationships. Due to the wealth of experience held by 2020mv's senior management team, their links within the industry and their independent status they are able to provide a truly tailored service for their clients, taking into account each individual client's needs and budgetary requirements.

So far feedback has been glowing with The Hut Group's Commercial Director Richard Chappel stating; “I was impressed by 2020 Media Vision's approach to media buying. I wanted to have an agency that could deliver the best possible price from their own individually negotiated media deals rather than being limited by the agency deal system.”

Le Singe Media is looking forward to a long working relationship with Twenty Twenty Media Vision and is thrilled to be involved in their growth.

Another Down Terrace Win!

Big congratulations are in order for friends of LSM, Ben Wheatley and Rob Hill. They have secured another substantial win to add the growing list of accolades for their excellent debut feature, Down Terrace. Having already won Best UK Feature at the Raindance film festival and Best Picture at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, last Sunday saw them pick up the much coveted Raindance award at the British Independent Film Awards.

Well done everyone involved, it only looks set to get bigger.

Chaos Laboratories on BBC Comedy

Chaos Laboratories, BBC Comedy's new online saga, sees the release of its official site today.

LSM worked closely with Modern Toss Productions to create Chaos Laboratories fusion of live action and animation that follows the story of crazed scientists Axel Peters (Paul Kaye of Dennis Pennis fame) and Tomas Dorfmann (The Fast Show's Simon Day) as they attempt to contain the nationwide outbreak of their bird-like bio-pets before they wreak havoc across the UK.

Production took place over the past couple of months with LSM undertaking all animation duties. The release will take place gradually over a number of online outlets such as mysterious Youtube 'sightings', a BBC microsite in which the fourth wall is not only broken but literally torn down and will conclude with full episodes on the BBC Comedy homepage.

To see the new microsite click here.

Chaos Laboratories

This is a teaser trailer for the new Modern Toss production for the BBC, Chaos Laboratories. We created the animation for the online series and we're really excited about it's full release in the coming weeks.

More Chaos Laboratories trailers can be found here.

Chaos Laboratories coming soon to http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy.

LSM@Forum Blanc

LSM founder David Curry will be speaking at the Forum Blanc Animation and Cross Media Conferences.

He will be presenting a case study on creating programmes explicitly for multi-platform screening.

David's presentation take place on Thursday 15th January, the second day of the three days of conferences taking place in Grand Bornand, France. The coming years conferences focus on Cross-media development: a strategic challenge for the animation industry.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Ben Wheatley and Rob Hill for their excellent debut feature film Down Terrace.

Empire online say...

"Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace, a darkly hilarious reclamation of the British crime genre from those opprobrious peddlers of mockney muppetry..... Surreal and sinister, this is a splendid exercise in anti-social realism that deserves to reach a wider audience."

(Full Review Here)

We all went to see it last week and thought it was great, so we encourage you to track down a screening. They've already won best screenplay and Next Wave best feature at Fantastic Fest and are nominated as Best British Feature at the Raindance Festival.

We've recently worked with Ben and Rob on a new BBC online comedy which we'll hopefully be able to tell you more about soon...