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Close-Up: 24 Hours with ... Jeff Stark.
Name: Jeff Stark Job: Commercials director, The Pink Film Company Professional mantra: It's only an ad. Personal mantra Don't work, unless it's more fun than not working
3.34am Back to bed.
4.53am (and eight seconds) Sleep.
8.47am Up again. Wife says I'm keeping her awake too. Tonight she will sleep in spare room. Hmm. Beginning of End?
10.15am Park motorbike in Soho NCP and go to see the film editor Tim Thornton-Allan. In LA, I shot 15 30-second ads in seven days, a personal record, for Party Poker.com - a 19-man company that makes more money than BA. They are all supposed to be funny. Hope they are.
11.30am Cathy, my producer, arrives with Campaign. Private View has credited me with some press work for Child Trust Fund. Press? Not me, mate. Never touch the stuff. Moreover, they don't like it much. It's all a cock-up, of course. I directed the two TV spots, of which I'm rather proud, but they don't bother to review them. Bugger. And how pathetic that I still crave peer group approval even at my age. Cathy also brought scripts to shoot in March. Am I interested? Nah. They're not great and I have important bum-scratching to catch ...
- Jeff Stark moves from The Pink Film Company to Another Film Company.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Campaign March 10, 2006 700+ words
Jeff Stark is leaving The Pink Film Company to partner Steve Reeves and Tim Marshall at Another Film Company. He will be joined by his producer of ten years, Cathy Green. Stark and Reeves, both former advertising agency creatives, worked together...
- Jeff Stark finds life after Large at The Pink Film Company.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Campaign November 26, 2004 700+ words
Jeff Stark, the co-founder of the defunct production company Large, has signed to The Pink Film Company for commercials representation. Stark will take his long-term producer and joint Large managing director, Cathy Green, and...
- Movers: Appointment at The Pink Film Company.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Campaign December 3, 2004 700+ words
The Pink Film Company has signed the TV comedy director Steve Bendelack and his producer...Gentlemen, a series he also directed for TV. Last month, Pink signed Jeff Stark and Cathy Green, Large's co-owner and joint managing director...
- Jeff Stark.
- Magazine article from: Campaign March 12, 1999 700+ words
...conductor test was a unique rebuff to Jeff Stark, coming at the outset of a career that...the oldest recruit to the industry, Jeff Stark, who is rapidly approaching 50". His...concerned. Ask a Tongan. He'll be back. JEFF STARK: BTAA AWARDS 1991 Silver for British...
- PRIVATEVIEW.(Jeff Stark)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Campaign Stark, Jeff November 3, 2000 700+ words
This week, put your hands together for a different kind of Private View. Jeff Stark, one of the industry's best-known writers turned accomplished commercials directors, is a man who clearly doesn't want...
- Accidental director who has never had it so good. (Jeff Stark)
- Magazine article from: Campaign Hatfield, Stefano August 11, 1995 700+ words
...angled commercials with a character to the foreground, with his face half in and half out of the frame, you can blame Jeff Stark. For it was Stark who put his copyright on the style with early ads as a director for Intercity and Ostlers. In fact, most...
- The Work: Private View.
- Magazine article from: Campaign April 22, 2005 700+ words
...the real fans. And I like it. But, as with all this work, that's just my opinion. DIRECTOR - Jeff Stark, director, the Pink Film Company Last time I wrote this column, I slagged off a Volkswagen ad and I haven't seen a script from DDB...
- The Work: Private View.(creative directors works on advertising projects...
- Magazine article from: Campaign February 24, 2006 700+ words
...my pants, but this is mere schoolboy fantasy compared with 24/7's real sexiness. DIRECTOR - Jeff Stark, director, The Pink Film Company Explain this. Every time Campaign sends me a bunch of ads to review, they're mostly pretty good...
- Ad-makers on the move.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Televisual January 12, 2005 700+ words
Ad-makers on the move this month include Large-founder Jeff Stark, who has joined The Pink Film, Company along with TV comedy and ad director Steve Bendelack. Passion Pictures has hired cg directing duo Tokyoplastic (work from tokyoplastic...
- The Work: New Campaigns - UK.
- Magazine article from: Campaign October 10, 2008 700+ words
...agency: Starcom MediaVest Media planner: Mick Rigby, Monkey Communications Production company: Another Film Company Director: Jeff Stark Editor: Scott Crane, The Quarry Post-production: Prime Focus Audio Post-production: Jungle Exposure...