WDR & RT Taggart

Client

WDR & RT Taggart, Architects.

Brief

To open a pitch to The Hilton Group with a relevant but eye catching image.

Issues

Organising the shoot on National Trust property and managing all the individual elements, not including the weather!

Solution

Our solution was to use Northern Irelands most famous landmark and combine that it with a city gentleman hitching a lift to the Hilton. Planning the shoot required managing many variables: The shoot had to be completed by 8.00am to allow NT visitors onto the property. In case the balloon couldn't fly or had any problems we had to have a Porsche on loan and standing by as a replacement. By starting at 5.00am we managed to catch some good weather and and we completed within the deadline. The separate elements, balloon, man and speech bubble were then merged by layering the images together with computer software.