THE AGENCY – ..::Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives::..

THE WHO?

WHAT'S IN A NAME…

Nouns

any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs, or of objects of verbs or prepositions, and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings. Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier

Verbs

any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.

Adjectives

any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily be describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying. Other terms, as numbers, certain demonstrative pronouns, and terms that impose limits can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify.

English was always the most favorite subject. Years of reading comic books and books foster a love for the written word. Cable TV and movies nurtured a love of storytelling. At its most basic, life is about people doing things in a manner – nouns, verbs and adjectives coming together to tell a story. It’s that simple. Plus the name is cool as f🤭ck and shockingly the url was available. Welcome to Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives.

THE WHAT?

SERVICES RENDERED…

Cool name, cool story, bro. But what are you selling? What can I get from you?

What NVA does is simple… we tell stories, connect dots, craft experiences and extend your reach and impact.

We don’t make your brand, we make your brand -er. Better. Smarter. Livelier.

We come in with big ass ideas that are different and exciting and obvious once you think about it that help make your brand matter to the people that matter to your brand.

BRANDING

Brand and branding are those words that are so ubiquitous that they’ve lost all of their meaning now. It’s like calories – everyone knows it but can define or describe it.

Branding is all about:

impressions,

people’s takeaway

what they say about you when you’re not in the room

that feeling they get when you come to mind or are mentioned in conversation.

Your brand is what people say it is… but it’s up to you to shape that thought, feeling, consideration, and conversation. And that’s what we do – craft your brand.

CREATIVE

Look. Feel. Tone. Manner. Narrative. Inspiration. Style.

If your brand, touchpoint, or activation doesn’t embody any of the aforementioned, what’s the point? Seeing is believing, and if your brand doesn’t “see” good, you’re doing it wrong. Creativity is the universal thread in life that ties all things up and together.

STRATEGY

There is nothing worse than throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. Branding, activations, and touchpoints are a game of darts where you have a finite number of darts on hand to hit a finite number of targets you are actively aiming for. Leveraging resources and data, why not aim for your mark every single time?

People and companies ask us all the time – what do you do? – and our industry jargon is that we are a branding and content agency, which is true. But bigger than that, we love to come in and pump blood and adrenaline into your brand’s veins and create things that matter, that impact, that move on whatever touchpoint or platform that reaches the target.

THE WHY?

BECAUSE…

Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon.

There was a period of time where Flash Gordon played on HBO three times a day for seven days a week for twenty-four months straight. It was, and still is the worst movies ever. It should have been freakin’ awesome!, but it really really sucked. But that didn’t prevent young, impressionable eyes from watching it regardless of where upon the film was entered.

After the 22nd viewing, a germ of an idea was born – I can do better than this crap. And so began a lifelong journey – a journey to prove capable of making something, anything, and everything better than the crap that was put on display ad naseum. Flash Gordon become the impetus to go from consumer of things to producer of things, simply because a young impressionable kid felt like he could do better. So he did.

Reggie Jackson

Reginald Martinez Jackson. Number 44. OF. New York Yankees.

Baseball was the first love. And being a NYer, you had to roll with the winners – the Yankees. Also, because who rocks with the Mets. Anyway… Reggie Jackson was (and still is) the fuckin’ man. Anyone who has a candy bar named after him, rock with him. Anyone who drops quotables like “I’m the straw that stirs the drink,” rock with him. Anyone who is Top 15 in all-time home runs in Major League Baseball and Number 1 in all-time strikeouts is a man you know who gave his all every single time he stepped to the plate, win or fail, rock with him. And #44 has been the hero and inspiration since – succeed or fail, you know you are getting everything each time at the plate.

Chris Claremont & John Byrne

Recall receiving a children’s bible as a gift that became a coloring book once done with it. But comic books? Those were sacrosanct texts that were religious collected and treated like the Old and New Testaments fresh from the parchments of all the apostles. And Chris Claremont and John Byrne were the Jesus and John the Baptist. They brought scripture.

This duo married words and story with art and visuals in a way that captivated minds and established a foundation for creation, an appreciation for the arts, and.a lifetime of entertainment for the masses.

BMW Films

Commercials suck… truth from pros who make commercials. Be willing to tap dance on glass shards in a minefield in lieu of watching commercials. That perspective changed forever as a new rubric was established courtesy of BMW Films.

Films as commercials. Commercials as films. Branded content has existed long before Tony Scott and John Woo and Ridley Scott directed Clive Owens in these masterpieces, but none of it really mattered. The paradigm shifted when these dropped. It changed the game and changed perspectives on what constitutes a brand, a campaign, and a commercial. And it has been the bar that is constantly being reached for ever since.