April Winchell

Work

January 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Recent Commercials: TV

Spot Title: Special Report
Client: Big Bear Mountain Resorts
Product: Winter season
Notes: Wrote and directed all spots in this campaign. Produced with Superfad in Los Angeles. Spots running locally and optimized for Big Bear web site.

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Spot Title: La Niña
Client: Big Bear Mountain Resorts
Product: Winter season
Notes: Wrote and directed all spots in this campaign. Produced with Superfad in Los Angeles. Spots running locally and optimized for Big Bear web site.

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Spot Title: No Snow
Client: Big Bear Mountain Resorts
Product: Winter season
Notes: Wrote and directed all spots in this campaign. Produced with Superfad in Los Angeles. Spots running locally and optimized for Big Bear web site.

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Spot Title: 5 Day Outlook
Client: Big Bear Mountain Resorts
Product: Winter season
Notes: Wrote and directed all spots in this campaign. Produced with Superfad in Los Angeles. Spots running locally and optimized for Big Bear web site.

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Viral and Web

Title: Computer Theatre
Client: aprilwinchell.com
Notes: Computers act out the deli scene from When Harry Met Sally, using a soundtrack I created with a text-to-speech synthesizer. This short was produced with animator John Foley using Combustion, Maya and After Effects. Over 100,000 hits on YouTube.

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Title: Tinky Winky Never Forgets
Client: aprilwinchell.com
Notes: The Teletubbies react to the news of Jerry Falwell’s death. This mash-up uses existing video footage and new animation, and was produced with animator John Foley using After Effects. Over 200,000 hits on YouTube.

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Title: You Have Insulted Me For the Last Time!
Client: aprilwinchell.com
Notes: Milking the comedy out of Alec Baldwin’s infamous phone call to his daughter. This mash-up uses existing video and audio footage, and was created with iMovie HD. Featured on VH1’s Best Week Ever.

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Title: Citibank Parody
Client: KABC
Notes: Radio contest soliciting listeners to submit their best parody headlines for Citibank billboards. Winning entries were Photoshopped into existing billboards, and the images were put on mousepads and T-shirts.

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Radio Savant: Radio Demo

Spot Title: Instant Death
Client: Ortho
Product: Ortho Anstop
Notes: Clio, One Show, D & AD, $100,000 Grand Mercury, Grand Andy (only time awarded for radio)

Spot Title: Gotta Go
Client: Unocal
Product: Branding/Image
Notes: Clio, Belding, One Show Gold, Mercury
Spot Title: 300 Sunny Days
Client: Real California Cheese
Product: Branding/Image
Notes: Hired by Deutsch to develop and produce the radio portion of this long running campaign. I am also the voice of “Diane”.

Spot Title: Snow Watch
Client: Big Bear Mountain Resorts
Product: Winter season
Notes: I have been doing radio for Big Bear since 1993. This is the first year I’ve done their TV, and this is the new radio campaign created to support it.
Spot Title: Cautious
Client: Nissan
Product: Branding/Image
Notes: Produced for Chiat Day (voiced by Robert Morse). Belding, One Show