HyperActive Productions

Matt has created a number of clever and creative pieces for HyperActive, including the House Hippo for MediaSmarts, and a collection of quirky puppets for a racism and discrimination campaign for CCUNESCO. Enjoy this article on the "whimsical world of Matt Ficner, puppeteer, and FX artist", and beloved member of the HyperActive team.

The HyperActive team is having fun with puppets today, creating three public service announcements! Watch this space for more details. #videoproduction #PSA

Are you following us on LinkedIn yet? We've just published highlights of some e-learning projects, and a 2019 'best of' - a selection of some of our most memorable work of the year. Check it out, and let's have coffee! https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperactive-productions/

Our Hippo ad is in the Globe and Mail today. Stands out nicely.

We love Narcity

Nice to see Bell jump on board for the campaign and post our Hippo 2.0 banner ads.

More great press ...

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Getting good press about our newest campaign. http://strategyonline.ca//mediasmarts-brings-back-the-ho/

This piece - and these women - are favourite elements of this project. Watch their eyes light up as they talk about the things they're learning, and how they can improve their families' lives at home!!

A strategic mix of video and digital marketing for the Canadian Horticultural Council. Weve done a number of social marketing projects, but this one is unique and fascinating. Our job is to convince Canadian government organizations AND Canadian citizens that the international farm workers who come to our country every year and work in the fields and greenhouses are a positive force a necessary and essential force that puts food on the table for 35 million of us every d...ay. If you ask most of the workers, they love what they do, and the benefits for them are immeasurable, especially when it comes to providing for their families and communities back home. It would be simple to just do a longform video about this topic, but the Council wants real impact: so we are building a robust digital media campaign and custom-building video assets to make that campaign work. Our goal? Show whats REALLY going on down on the farm and tell a genuine and engaging set of small stories about this important work force. Mike Hicks shares CHC campaign vision and strategy with national industry leaders, March 2018, Ottawa

When our team designed these bugs for a Health Canada explainer about vaccination, we were sure theyd be a hit. We think youll be seeing a lot more of these little nasties in the future and we couldnt be happier! http://ow.ly/7V5e30g9y5I

Every once in a while you hit a home run and its usually because the clients passion has become YOUR passion. Staff at Library and Archives Canada briefed us brilliantly, communicated with finesse throughout the process, and helped us build them this very popular explainer! #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/3loa30g9FvL

The Eat Well Plate is often seen as a limiting factor, but in fact, healthy meals and snacks based on the EWP can be varied, multi-ethnic, and fun! We built a series of animated explainer videos about the EWP for Health Canada. Enjoy this one and bonne appetit! http://ow.ly/sRf530g9x8L

NRCANs Office of Energy Efficiency asked us to help introduce EnergyStar homes, a quality level now widely available for new home buyers. This video walks through the differences and helps Canadians understand things like R-values better! #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/ckYa30g9Fgm

We love imaginative, visionary companies that make things http://ow.ly/k4S530g9vei , and Ottawas Nortec Humidity is definitely one of them. This video, which they have used at trade events around the world, explains who they are, and demoes their primary product while letting us tour the facility and get a sense of the people.

Canadian small towns, especially on our coasts, rely heavily on fish and seafood processing plants. Food security, safety, and food defence are critical issues, because one tiny mistake could shut a plant - and a town - down. This video celebrates the men and women on the front lines, who ensure that Canadas food processing industry stays safe and viable. #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/k67U30g9F6i

This is one of a series of 13 pieces we did for Health Canada. Were proud of this one because it reminds us that its crucial to jump into our kids shoes and look at bullying through their eyes and their imaginations. http://ow.ly/9b7r30g9phC

The Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime works tirelessly to help victims of crime in a number of ways, including giving them the right to attend parole hearings, ensuring they are given reasonable choice and options as to how they can participate, and ensuring that we meet their need to feel safe, respected, and that their voice is heard. We built this explainer for them. #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/lnvP30g9E0A

There are a lot of tricks of the trade to help you improve fuel efficiency. This video shows a bunch of them, focusing on how you often need to look at things that are less than obvious (why do you still have your ski rack on? Huh? Why?) http://ow.ly/FgiR30g9nNd

Weve become very adept at harnessing animation to simplify complex policy for government and enterprise customers. For the Parole Board, we built this sensitive, respectful step by step help about how to get a record suspension, helping give offenders the chance to make a fresh start. #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/qlSB30g9DKp

Okay time to have a bit of have fun. WE really believe that training modules should be broken up with things beyond questionnaires and boring reviews. Sooooo as part of a training and career awareness piece for the plastics industry, we decided it was time to sing kinda! #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/9axr30g9Cfd

People often walk into dealerships with very little knowledge of the factors that affect fuel mileage. This video helps sales people begin the critical conversation and help Canadians choose the right vehicle, and develop driving habits that will allow that vehicle to get the mileage its supposed to! http://ow.ly/94Aw30g9n1d

This outstanding and innovative museum and cultural centre is a work of art. Over the past 19 years weve documented the amazing journey to completion for this project, from the fervent dream of a group of Elders to the award-winning Institute that stands today in Oujé-Bougoumou, QC. We have created many videos along the way in English, French, and Cree. This one supports of the $13 million Acquisitions and Endowment campaign, Securing the Future. We are proud of how Crees took a central role in the storytelling and in explaining the value proposition of the Institute. http://ow.ly/339y30g9C1s

HyperActive is proud to have built the amazing Poppy Drop on the Hill, in which we visually represent 170,000 falling poppies for each of the war dead, projected off the 92 metre high Peace Tower and the Centre Block leading up to Remembrance Day. We encourage you to go and look at this profound, silent testimony... it's pretty moving. Thanks to the Royal Canadian Legion for believing in us! http://ow.ly/70rJ30goeZ8

Heres our video, which has helped raise over $10 million for the new Kenojuak Cultural Centre and Print Shop in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. The people of the community tell the story about the extraordinary art of the Cape Dorset print artists, revered the world over, and the need for a safe, modern place to print, display, and teach this amazing process. http://ow.ly/NeK630g9mFa

One of the best campaigns we ever worked on was Health Canada-funded My Daddy Matters in 2006, promoting involved fathering and helping men see being dads as The best job in the world! One of our very best friends, Mark Gibson, plays a highly creative robot-building dad in one of these. We miss him like crazy, and know his work on this project had a very positive impact across the country, and in Japan, where the spots received great interest. http://ow.ly/sohg30g9zb6

PSPCs Build in Canada Innovation Program links entrepreneurs with the chance for their first major government sale the kind of thing that can mean successful international launches. The program provides funding, feedback on innovation testing, and a whole lot more. Heres one of our explainers for the program. http://ow.ly/ffyz30g9mMl

How do you get your kid to stop hating or ignoring his or her lunch? Get them involved in the process! In this video, part of a series we did for Health Canada recently, Zach walks viewers through his most perfectest school lunch ever, prepared, naturally, by himself! http://ow.ly/yZBD30g9nio

Working with Mortgage Brokers Ottawa, we had great fun creating a cool 15 sec TV series and social media campaign to help them build this very solid local brand both here and in their other Canadian markets! http://ow.ly/W6Oc30dSlvF

We love Ride for Dad: theyre imaginative and they know a smile is a great way to get a man to start thinking about his umm well his butt. Ride for Dad fights prostate cancer by engaging men: weve had fun building their brand! #prostatecancer #tbt #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/bpiq30dSsNq

The Competition Bureau of Canada is one of our coolest clients: we did 12 really fun pieces to bring The Little Black Book of Scams to life. There are crooks out there and theyre getting more creative than ever: BEWARE! http://ow.ly/EO7m30dSkcf

The Grocery HR Council let us loose in grocery stores across the country so we could tell the story of this incredible industry and the folks who make it go. The result is this great recruitment video! #grocery #tbt #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/ABpw30dSpEF

More census data: Multigenerational households at least three generations of the same family was the fastest-growing household type in 2016, growing by 37.5 per cent compared with 21.7 per cent for all households. Some 2.2 million Canadians lived in a multigenerational household in 2016. When you market, don't assume just one box of cereal on the table. Market to kids, parents, and grandparents too. HyperActive can help!

From the Yeah, we do that department: a very pointed influencer campaign we built for the Canadian Nurses Association on the importance of Nurse Practitioners included print, transit, web, radio, and this simple, powerful explainer vid. http://ow.ly/8hoM30dSjAT

At hockey star Brad Richards golf tournament in PEI in 2005 we met two extraordinary young men, one of whom was struggling with cancer. Pacey Morgan McIsaac became part of our lives, and helped our client, The Childrens Wish Foundation, raise millions #tbt #HyperActiveBest http://ow.ly/ezcS30dSoHR