One Show TV Winners for 2002 Make DVD Debut

One Show televisions winners will be making their DVD debut soon asthe One Club for Art Copy is set to publish its 24th annual collectionof award-winning print, radio, and television ads on Dec. 17, 2002.Sponsored by Discreet Systems, maker of the Flame and Infernovisual-effects software programs widely used in the production of TVcommercials, the DVD will accompany the print edition of the covetedOne Show Annual. Also being released on that date will be a separateannual for the One Show Interactive awards.

Full credits for the TV winners will be included in the printversion of the annual, along with an audio CD that will contain all theradio winners and a section devoted to the new One Show Designcompetition.

As part of its sponsorship agreement with Discreet, all One Showtelevision winners that were produced or postproduced utilizingDiscreet visual effects systems will appear in a special section of theDVD devoted to outstanding visual effects work. This section has abranded opening displaying the Discreet logo.

"We're pleased to honor the outstanding work of One Club members andtheir creative achievements using Discreet's flame and inferno visualeffects systems," says David Sampson, vice president of sales andmarketing, Discreet Systems. "By combining advertising artists'inspired talent with Discreet systems' powerful feature sets, everyonecan experience the rich visions that would appear otherwise only in theminds of a few."

Discreet's Academy Award-winning visual-effects systems have becomean industry standard in the postproduction of television commercials.The systems' ease of use and fluidity has changed the way advertisingcreative people think, since now just about any visual conceptimaginable can be easily brought to life.

"Discreet changed everything about the visual effects business,"says Johnnie Semerad, president and creative director of Quiet Man, theNew York-based company that performed all the digital compositing onthe One Show's 2001 Best of Show-winning campaign for Fox Sports."Flame is relatively inexpensive and easy to maintain, and what used totake a handful of people to accomplish now takes just one. The wholeprocess has been democratized. So now the number of double-pointedmetal pencils you have is not related to your ability to raise capitalor maintain equipment, but is instead a reflection of how creative youare."

"We're thrilled to have the One Show television winners on DVD, andgrateful to Discreet Systems for making this possible," says MaryWarlick, executive director of the One Club. "The advertising industryis moving steadily to this new format, which offers so many advantagesto videotape or CD-ROM. We feel that the archival value of ourbroadcast winners will be greatly enhanced by this new release."

To purchase copies of the One Show Annuals, contact the One Club at(212)979-1900. Copies of the One Show Annual and One Show Interactivecan also be purchased at www.oneclub.com. The One Show Annualis $55 for Club members, $79.95 for non-members, and the One ShowInteractive Annual is $35 for members and $49.95 for non-members. Formore information about the One Show annuals, contact Anthony Vagnoni at(973)403-9815 or at anthony@avagnoni.com.