Strange Meeting

How do you meet people half way round the world, dance in your pyjamas and Stay Grounded? Videoconferencing is the answer, Fay Ripley stars in the very funny Strange Meeting video that shows you how. Kelly: Fay Ripley Bob: Daniel Philpott Gerry: Arril Johnson Helmut: Marc Danbury Watanabe: Kinue Kato represented by AJSW www.ajsw.org.uk Denise: Lorraine Joseph Director of photography: Steven Murphy Additional photography: Richard Laing Film Editor: Lisa Chan Music: Michael Mertens at Escape Route Locations thanks to: Rothschild Bank and The Alphabet Bar And thanks to all at th1ng and th2ng Written and directed by: Michael Wright No flights were taken to make this Green Thing video

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[avidhorserider]

what song is it in the end?

stay grounded.. stay grounded!

got it stuck in my head now! ;)

guess by singing it randomly i'll be passing on the message!

if only i knew what song it is... or if it was written specifically for the Green Thing could you maybe post it up on youtube?

thanks!!

[dothegreenthing]

@avidhorserider hehe, viral humming is great: you can download the track on the Green Thing site: /content/stay_grounded_dance

it was written just for us by the fabulous composer Michael Mertens

[TheForgotenMusic]

good video... i hope this makes a difference. what camera did you use?

[dothegreenthing]

Thanks. According to Michael Wright, the director: "it was shot on a P2 which I think is Panasonic....I'm always looking in the other direction....".

[dothegreenthing]

Hi - well, yes but I think the message is meant to be less literal than that. It's a sort of surrealist interpretation of the idea of virtual meetings I guess (e.g. obviously laptops don't really go to restaurants/nightclubs, etc ;). Hopefully the underlying message comes through - namely that people are willing to get together virtually now and even though it can't be the same experience, a different kind of social interaction and fun can be had.

[EcoChampion]

Great video, very appropriate under current circumstances

[moneyballs2222]

This is brilliant! Really hope it gets the exposure it deserves, sets a good message as well, be careful the Airlines don't come after the producers of this!

[Onkarr]

=D funny and veryyyyy clever indeed!

[spankthereasoner]

Yes IM truely rocks.

[trainingvisions]

Love it! Really funny and with a good message even though video meetings will never be the same as getting to know each other and bouncing back ideas while socializing outside of the actual meeting.