CollyLogic: Trailer: Erskine and the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride

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20th November 2008

Trailer: Erskine and the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride - a tale of horror and woe

As previously posted, in June 2008, four members of the Erskine team completed the Great Notts Bike Ride 50 mile route. Well, some months back we edited some of Greg’s shaky footage into a rough-around-the-edges horror movie pastiche thingummy. Its not big or clever, but we like it. You might not, but if you’ve 3 minutes to kill, have a peek (view bigger on Blip):

Its not particularly good, and the footage doesn’t really fit Greg’s superb horror graphics, but its a lovely memory of an horrific day. Goes nicely with Greg’s brilliant poster too.

There’s more via the following: Flickr photos and Glen’s blog post.

So far we’ve raised over £1,000 for various charities. Thanks to everyone who coughed up their hard-earned dough. Oh, and music is from I Am Kloot’s first album, because I’ve always loved it, and its spooky.

Simon Collison published this on 20/11/08, at 11:45 AM

Comments

I likes that.

20/11 at 12:28 from Jason Cale

Not particularly good? It’s awesome. Can people still donate for such a valiant effort?

20/11 at 13:30 from James Lindeman

Love it!

Can I ask which typeface you used for the poster and titles? I love that also

20/11 at 14:27 from David Hughes

@david, I think Trajan was the serif used, and the scrawly title was the typeface from some classic horror film - Friday the 13th I believe.

20/11 at 18:53 from Gregorious

I watched the whole thing in order to do what any sensible woman would do: Decide which Erskine guy is the cutest.

21/11 at 17:11 from Carolyn

I feel your pain Carolyn. Obvious with me and Simon Campbell missing from the video it would have been a tough choice.

22/11 at 10:33 from Jamie

That looked like a hard ride. It does make me ant to clean up my bike and give it a go though.

23/11 at 19:02 from Steve Rydz

I must ask what the lovely backing track is?

25/11 at 13:48 from Ollie

@Ollie I believe Colly said the background music is from the group I Am Kloot. It actually inspired me to go buy one of their albums.

@Jamie Thank goodness you and Mr. Campbell weren’t in the video, too. My head would still be spinning from the awesomeness of all the manly beauty. But, seriously, I want to say that it is so great to see a web design company really DO something that shows that their concern for doing the right thing, caring about people, being socially aware and concerned, isn’t just a bunch of talk. You weren’t thinking “brand,” you were thinking “people” and it says a lot about all of you. I see that running a marathon is next (for Glen, at least), for a good cause. We need more companies like yours.