Earthquake Services TV Commercials
March 31, 2019
One in a series of television commercials produced for Earthquake Services and owner Bryan Staples. The brief was to create a series of powerful visual stories that would compliment an ongoing print campaign drawing attention to the problems faced by home owners still locked in dispute over earthquake insurance settlements or concerned about the quality of repairs.

There are important lessons here for those watching New Zealand's own homegrown platforms which are taxpayer supported through NZ on Air. Whether freeview or payview, what are we actually seeing and why? what are we actually paying for and why? Are we simply paying millions to subsidise commercially fragile kiwi media platforms or are we paying to ensure a future for kiwi made factual content? These questions are particularly relevant as the government considers new funding models for both film and television.