Mike Foley Art

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Shaking things up with a new production company

Challenge: How to help clients grow their social media with video.

Solution: Build your own production company. Shake Films pulls together all the talent needed to create powerful stories from 5 second flash films, to branded music videos and compelling short docs. Need a storyboard? Shake Films delivers Hollywood without all the drama.

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Favorite creative / fundraising projects for schools we love

Bishop McGuinness High School

Report to advancement director Katie Williams; storyboard and shoot video stories aimed to raise tens of thousands of dollars in donations, 2020-2023.

Wake Forest University

Created co-branded “freacs for deacs” tees, tubes, tux and crowns for Winston-Salem Fashion Week, 2022

Guest speaker for Professor Ian Taplin’s Global Issues Lecture Series, Six Big Trends in Global Marketing, 2017

Video Consultant for Professor Stan Mandel’s national college NIH competition and ultimate top $5K Wake prize for the video, What’s it like to grow old? 2009

Salem College, Tedx event

For professor Alyson Francisco, wrote and produced video to promote Tedx event for Women in Entrepreneurship and Business, 2016

NCA&T Washington DC Trade Show

Report to Professor Jag Sankar to design / produce Capitol Hill trade show and support materials that help raise money and awareness for bio-engineering “melt-away” metals program, 2014

UNCSA Mobile Media Movie competition

First place wins for two minute cell phone films, The Bunny Explosion, 2012 and The Vanishing, 2011

The Arts Based School, Community Creates

Partnered with community leaders to create art for fundraising gala, 2008 ($3000 for two Foley paintings led all donations.)

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Launching a half-baked line of greeting cards

Challenge: How to connect with others through art.

Solution: Realize the power of a simple message folded into paper. Create a line of greeting cards. Sell them in from London to San Francisco.

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Problem: How to use Paul Newman’s “Hole in the wall” camps as a template for Nascar and the Petty Family’s camp to honor Adam Petty’s memory

Solution: Get believers, supporters, celebrities and volunteers to pitch the message, feel your heart race, written and produced for Coyne Beahm.

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Supporting the bluest Blues event marketing

Challenge: How to get big tobacco’s Winston brand to stop thinking small.

Solution: Remember Kool Jazz festivals and Virginal Slims womens tennis tournaments to create the Winston Blues Revival. Write, create and handle all production management for 30 city tour.

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Doing nothing with Michael Jordan commercial

Challenge: How to create a Michael Jordan story when all the client wants is a couple portrait shots thrown into a mix of random men and boy portraits set to music.

Solution: Draw up the stoyboard of Michael Jordan doing nothing. Nothing but being comfortable in a red chair. For Hanes and MJ, being comfortable doing nothing is something.

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Embracing our most vulnerable neighbors

Challenge: How to use art, specifically portraits, to help connect Winston’s affluent areas to 14 poor neighborhoods that often don’t feel the vibrant “arts and innovation” of our city.

Solution: Extend our city’s arts district with a plan to build a 14 neighborhood “drive-thru gallery” that features our less privileged residents and leaders in the largest two and three-story ‘portrait park” in the world.

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Rebranding a planet-friendly cooler

Challenge: How to convince your audience a cardboard cooler is an effective option to earth-polluting styrofoam.

Solution: Replace the warm colors and tropical critter with something that reflects a cooler cooler. Create a logo that defines the box-like product.

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Creating a new mental health brand / logo

Challenge: How to capture the essence of a mental health brand

Solution: Understand that mental health affects everyone. We’re just on different parts of the color wheel, in this case, an umbrella.

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Building a new art / fashion brand

Challenge: How to get your art seen beyond the closed walls of a gallery.

Solution: Make it wearable. Start with your own fashion line supported by Winston Salem Fashion Week, a super model and a runway show at Southeast Center for Contemporary Art.

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