John Cleese on Sarah Palin

This short trailer for the Seesmic John Cleese interview did spectacularly well, reaching over half a million views in under a week, and achieving the notable status of the most viewed video in the world on October 14th. As of today, it’s been viewed 931,950 times.

We were number one on Digg (see below), featured in various newspapers in the UK and elsewhere, and Seesmic trebled their traffic. The Palin/Parrot connection has also inspired a cartoon by some opportunist comedians.

John Cleese does terribly well

Executive production by Dean Whitbread and Garry Scott-Irvine of Small Pictures, videography by Whit Scott who writes a nice post about the mission here and edited by Jeremey Lavoi, who writes another nice post here.

Unio and Petitio: Thrill Seeker


Melodic melodramatic gentle psychedelic pop rock from favourite MySpace band, Unio and Petitio myspace.com/unioandpetitio.

This is the final edit – slightly better transitions and less compressed audio. It was fun to combine mobile footage with DV and HD – I really like mixing up the video sources – and also getting to exploit some of the funkier plug ins in Final Cut.

Who’s Watching Who


Promotional video for the Open Rights Group openrightsgroup.org – the UK’s foremost campaigners for digital and online rights.

Written, Produced and Directed by Dean Whitbread.

Videography: Rani Khanna and Mark Crook.

Featuring: Felix Cohen, Patricia Hanrahan, Harry Metcalfe, Mark Levitt, Glyn Wintle, Michael Holloway, Tom Reynolds, Dean Whitbread.

Music: “Who’s Watching Who?” by Cinema Du Lyon cinema-du-lyon.eu

A Small Pictures Production 2008

Licensed under Creative Commons by-nc-sa/2.0/uk