This year Barloworld hosted our most successful global leaders conference to date, thanks to the outstanding professionalism of the Mann Made team. From the pitch process, to pre-event planning to the actual execution, the experience was smooth and seamless. I rate the team very highly and give them a 10/10 for service!

Thirona Maharaj
Communications & Marketing Manager: Barloworld Ltd

The MTN Radio Awards was an outstanding success thanks in no small measure to you and your team at Mann Made Media. We were highly impressed with the experience of working with Mann Made throughout – the level of professionalism and the management of information and communications ensured that we had an exceptional presentation on the night.

Lance Rothschild
CEO: MTN Radio Awards

This year the MTN Radio Awards took to the airwaves to present its most dynamic show yet. Our vision was to honour the nominees, winners and stars of the night by delivering a show-stopping awards experience.

With 34 categories, 333 nominees and 75 winners across Campus, PBS, Community and commercial radio stations the night was packed with expectation, celebration and recognition.

It began with our theme: “Radio is always on”, as a continuously growing presence in the lives of countless listeners around South Africa and the world.

Anele, our host for the evening led the entire show with wit, humour and absolute professionalism, never missing a beat.

The evening opened with the milestones video, celebrating its influence as the medium that shaped the world.

Over two hours of high-res animation was produced for the custom-built 25×5 metre screen, illustrating the technological advancement of radio through the ages as on-screen soundwaves evolved from then to now as the evening progressed.

The show was peppered with live pieces illustrating the mechanics of radio, by drawing on the wonderful world of foley, bringing the golden age to life through sound and musical interludes.

This year we went further, bigger and bolder than ever before, with more content, presenters and excitement than any previous MTN Radio Awards event.

We combined reality TV with advertising to create a unique home makeover show for Handy Andy. Ordinary South Africans got the chance to have a room in their home transformed by a professional renovation team in an average of 12-16 hours. The work included cleaning, painting, replastering and even re-building in some cases. Our production crew shot 10 episodes in 10 days. In a race against time (and the weather), we pulled off a highly successful series of 10 x 2 minute shows, 30-second promos and 5-second stings, as well as a stunning intro sequence created using 3D animation and compositing.

Lippys is no ordinary stationery company. When the CEO came to us with a desire to try something different, we proposed a viral video campaign on Youtube, showing off the company’s capabilities and values while at the same time highlighting that they don’t take themselves too seriously. The campaign was highly successful, helping Lippys to achieve rapid growth in the marketplace. As a result of the video, Lippys was featured in multiple magazines and is planning to make a sequel soon.

The brief was to show that Bidvest Bank is the specialist when it comes to foreign exchange. We achieved a bold visual look combining some complex 3D modelling, stop motion animation and compositing.

We were briefed to bring the Goldfields logo to life in TVCs shown during the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament. We created a number of animations and squeezebacks as part of this campaign.

We were briefed to create a TVC with a child having a dream of himself walking onto the field with his hero at the Soccer World Cup, executed using CG.

Educational messaging about HIV was communicated via a surreal music video world, relevant to the MTV Base target market. Our hero character in the TVC is an independent woman whose strength gives her freedom.

EMI Records was releasing a new album for Afrikaans superstar Nadine. We were briefed to create a TVC of a live Nadine concert with 100,000 plus fans. The entire commercial was shot in a green screen studio and the set, stage, big crowds, and stadium were created in CG.