Our Logbook

…or at least that’s what the crew keep singing at the 8-woman all female team from Albion and Remington.
Our first shoot for Remington kicked off this morning at Shepperton. A snapshot of a day in the life of a busy city girl with beautiful glossy hair.

Aimee and Liz, the creative team and Petrina, the producer are pictured here with our favourite prop. Sadly as it’s 12 feet tall it doesn’t fit any of us.

Liz.

Over the last 10 days the Albion Air New Zealand team have met people across the business from the deputy CEO to operations, PR and local marketing teams. And we have been lucky enough to have been taken on a whistle-stop tour across the country. It was a military operation prepared especially for Albion and two US agencies. At times it was hard to believe that it was work. Helicopters, bungy jumping and jet boats aren’t a usual feature of a normal working day.

But by the end of our trip we really felt immersed in the Kiwi spirit and there is nothing like seeing the product you are selling with your own eyes. We’d like to thank the team at Air New Zealand for being the ultimate hosts. We really felt spoilt and privileged. We have our heads down now!

• Style
• Jason 8
• Keith 9.5
• Nick 3

• Look of fear
• Jason 2.5
• Keith 1
• Nick 10

Andrew Baker is the Cultural Ambassador at Air New Zealand. He’s been with the company for some 19 years, having spent a lot of this time as a Flight Services Manager on board. Andrew’s new role is to educate new Air New Zealanders (many who are not Kiwis) about the values of the company and in particular maori culture. As a proud Maori himself, Andrew exudes the openness and generosity of spirit that he talks about. He visited us in London and taught the team how to do the Haka.

And when we met him again in New Zealand he showed us he’s a man of many skills by playing us a traditional song on his guitar about new beginnings.

We also traveled with Andrew to visit the Waitangi Treaty grounds – the birthplace of the New Zealand nation. This is where a treaty was signed between the Maoris and the first English settlers in 1840.

The Waitangi grounds are beautiful and tranquil place containing a Maori meeting house. A meeting house is not a "church" but more of a "library". The carvings contained within reflect a verbal history rather than a written one. In Christchurch we visited a modern art gallery and saw a contemporary interpretation of a meeting house by a Maori artist.

The Albion Air New Zealand team made a stop at Peregrine Wines in Otago. Greg Hay is the founder of the vineyard and won the Air New Zealand wine award for his pinot noir in his first year of production, creating a name for the Otago region. His winery is housed in a wonderful piece of modern architecture that is inspired by the falcon that is also the symbol of his label. Greg has also organised gigs on the the estate which he thought "wouldn’t be too hard to pull off". He talked of the power and importance of the brand in winemaking and also what he does to protect his brand. He once declined an offer from a major fizzy drinks manufacturer to use his venue to launch a new product because he thought their brand did not fit with his.  Greg defines what it is to be a Kiwi – inventive, can-do and daring, whilst still being very humble and down-to-earth.

After a lengthy conception and birth, we’re proud to finally present our gorgeous new little USB drives* to the world.

Each comes with a couple of little chapters of ‘The Albion Memory Stick Adventures’. Here you can see ‘Day 10 – lost in handbag’, ‘Day 6 – Filled with 52 PowerPoint presentations’, and ‘Day 52 – Caught virus. Shipped to Belgium.’

I won’t spoil the story by listing more here. You’ll have to persuade us to send you one by… well, maybe by becoming a client and paying us for some work, which we’ll then send to you on one!

* Wikipedia says that ‘USB Flash Drive’ "has emerged as the de facto standard term for these devices". But you might know them as ‘memory sticks’. We do.