Back in 2015, the Man on the Moon John Lewis Christmas advert dropped. If you know it, you know. It's a lovely advert.
When I first watched it, being the immature person that I am, I immediately thought of The Might Boosh! and thought it would be funny if the girl in the ad saw Noel Fielding's shaving foam covered face looking back at her. As a creative professional I could make that happen so, the weekend after the ad premiered, I got to work.
Now I could have just spent 10 minutes and done a straight edit, which BBC3 actually did for a social post (great minds think alike).
But that wasn't going to satisfy my brain, so I started looking for the perfect The Might Boosh! clip. This was it - I did a song.
Now, the advert features Oasis's 'Half the World Away' beautifully covered by the wonderful Aurora and is an integral component of the overall concept. There's no way I could abandon the song and just have Noel's moon singing over the top of the whole thing. There's timing, anticipation and inversion of expectation that I wanted to achieve in this thing!
This needed to appear for all intents and purposes indistinguishable from the actual ad on the initial viewing.
There was only one thing for it, I needed to find the track without Aurora singing and do a music/sound edit. Luckily someone uploaded this solo piano version of the song.
Then I got to work for a few hours and came up with the above Christmas-well-wish to my fellow creatives.
Was it a colossal waste of time? Probably.
It was fun though. :)