venerdì 28 dicembre 2007

Ads of the week. D7 Coffee - Converse - Bright House Networks - CorsairFly - WWF - Burger King - Camlin.

D7 Coffee - Politician
Thanonchai Sornsriwichai. Great director. Watch his other works here and here.

Agency: Creative Juice\G1, Bangkok - Executive Creative Director: Thirasak Tanapatanakul - Art Director: Thirasak Tanapatanakul/Jon Chalermwong/Nanat Teparak - Copywriter: Panusard Tanashindawong/Setthar Kheowngamdee - Agency Producer: Chutarat Chingduang/Aroonsri Srirojanant - Editor: Manop Boonwipas - Director: Thanonchai Sornsriwichai - Prod: Phenomena

Converse - Pageant

Agency: Anomaly - Creative Director: Mike Byrne - Creative: Richard Mulder - Copywriter: Lindsey Lanpher - Art Director: Ian Toombs - Head Of Production: Andrew Loevenguth - Director: John Osborne - Production Company: Acme/Smith - Director of Photography: Doug Glover - Executive Producer: Cassie Hulen - Producer: Heather Waters, Scott Pourroy - Editorial/VFX: Consulate Film - Head of Postproduction: Charlyn Derrick - Post Producer: Alan Lopez - Editor: Brand Bourdeaux - Smoke Artist: Michael Dwass

Converse - Grateful

Agency: Anomaly - Creative Director: Mike Byrne - Creative: Richard Mulder - Copywriter: Lindsey Lanpher - Art Director: Ian Toombs - Head Of Production: Andrew Loevenguth - Director: John Osborne - Production Company: Acme/Smith - Director of Photography: Doug Glover - Executive Producer: Cassie Hulen - Producer: Heather Waters, Scott Pourroy - Editorial/VFX: Consulate Film - Head of Postproduction: Charlyn Derrick - Post Producer: Alan Lopez - Editor: Brand Bourdeaux - Smoke Artist: Michael Dwass

Bright House Networks - Trackers
Watch also Mice.

Agency: Fry Hammond Bar - Director: Brent Harris - Production: Rabbit

CorsairFly - Hostess


CorsairFly - Chicken

Agency: Bddp&fils Paris - Creative Director: Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot - Art Director: Fabien Nunez/Aurore Desousa - Copywriter: Fabien Duval / Caroline Laumont - Director: Olivier Babinet - Prod: Irne

WWF - Wombat

Agency: Leo Burnett Sydney - Executive Creative Director: Mark Collis - Art Director: Kieran Antill - Copywriter: STEPHEN COLL - Agency Producer: ADRIAN SHAPIRO - Director: Sam Bennetts - Prod: The Feds

Burger King: Whopper Freakout - Montage

Agency: Crispin Porter & Bogusky - VP Creative Director: Rob Reilly - VP Creative Director: Bill Wright - Interactive Creative Director: Jeff Benjamin - Associate Creative Director/Copywriter: Ryan Kutscher Sr. Art Director: Paul Caiozzo - Art Director(S): Andy Minisman; Dan Treichel; Julia Hoffman - Copywriter(S): Omid Farhang; Nathan Dills - VP Director of Integrated Production: David Rolfe - Executive Integrated Producer: Chris Kyriakos - Executive Integrated Producer (Interactive): Winston Binch - Integrated Senior Producer (Interactive): Harshal C. Sisodia Sr. Interactive Designer: Thomas Rodgers - Production Company: Smuggler - Director: Henry-Alex Rubin - Executive Producer: Patrick Milling Smith; Brian Carmody; Lisa Rich - Head of Production: Allison Kunzman; Laura Thoel - Producer: Drew Santarsiero - Director of Photography: Learan Kahanov - Editorial Company: Rock Paper Scissors - Editors: Adam Pertofsky; Chan Hatcher; Matt Murphy; Wyatt Jones - Assistant Editors: Dan Aronin; Gabriel Britz; Neil Meiklejohn - Executive Producer: Crissy Desimone
Producer: Tricia Sanzaro - Music: Amber Music - Composer: Eugen Cho - Producer: Kate Gibson - ECD: Michelle Curran - Executive Integrated Music Producer: Bill Meadows - Development Partner: Red Interactive - Design & Animation: Lifelong Friendship Society - Executive Producer: Dan Sormani - Post Production: Riot - Fire Artist Mark Dennison - Inferno Artist Andy Davis - Executive Producer Stephanie Boggs - Producer Shawna Drop - Audio Post: Lime Studios - Audio Engineers: Dave Wagg; Rohan Young; Loren Silber; Mark Meyuhas - Producer: Jessica Locke

Camlin - Carpenter

Agency: Lowe, Mumbai - Group Creative Director: Priti Nair, Amer Jaleel - Creative Director: Arun Iyer - Copywriter: Nasrullah Husami - Art Director: Nasrullah Husami - Production Co: Opticus Films - Director: Bipin Nadkarni

mercoledì 19 dicembre 2007

Ads of the week. Telecom Arnet - Peta - Mercator - Nike - Olympus - Net10 - Axe - Harley Davidson - Toyota - XM Radio.

Telecom Arnet - Mrs.

Agency: Santo, Buenos Aires - Executive Creative Directors: Sebastián Wilhelm, Maximiliano Anselmo - Creative Director: Pablo Minces - Copywriters: Pablo Minces, Matías Ballada - Art Director: Luis Ghidotti - Head of Production: José Bustos - Agency Producers: Ezequiel Ortiz - Production Company: ArgentinaCine, Buenos Aires - Director: Augusto Gimenez Zapiola - Executive Producer: Marcos Landajo - DP: Cristian Cottet - Postproduction: Che Revolution Post - Music: Swing

Peta - Klan

Client: PETA - Creative Director/Art Director: Dan Neri - Director: Steven Tsuchida - Production Company: Oil Factory, Inc. - Producer: Chris Palladino - Production Designer: Tozar Simich

Peta - Shelter

Agency: Matter - Creative Director / Art Director: Dan Neri - Creative Director / Writer: Scott Murray - Production Company: - Oil Factory, Inc. - Director: Steven Tsuchida - Producer: Chris Palladino - Director of Photography: Rhet Bear - Production Designer: Tozar Simich - Editorial: Optimus

Mercator - Never Trust A Man

Agency: Duval Guillaume, Antwerp - Creative Director: Geoffrey Hantson, Dirk Domen - Copywriter: Kristof Snels - Art Director: Sebastien De Valck - Production Company: Caviar, Belgium - Director: Kurt Deleier

Nike - Chris Bryant

The Ellen DeGeneres Show - Leaping to Fame.
Who is Chris Bryant.
"My name is Chris Bryant. I've been jumping things since I was 8 years old. Ever since I started jumping over cars, people have asked me, why? Nobody asks LeBron James why he dunks the way he does. Nobody asks Lance Armstrong why he rode up all those mountains. You know what I'm gonna say the next time someone asks me why I do what I do? 'Why don't you?'."

Olympus - Mountain

Agency: JWT Sydney - Creatives: Mick Hutchinson (DoP) - Luke Haigh (Curious) - (Editor) - JAY BENJAMIN & ANDY DILALLO (Executive Creative Director) - John Lam & Brendan Donnelly & Guy Futcher (Creatives) - Gerri Hamill & Tania Templeton (Agency Producer) - Director: Miki Magasiva - Prod: Curious - Music: Jeff Wayne Music (UK) - Sound studio: Nylon - Sound Engineer - Simon Lister 3D Fin Design & Effects - 3D Designer: Masataka Kawano

Net10 - Bill
Watch also Marlene and Bonnie.

Agency: droga5, New York - Creative Chairman: David Droga - Executive Creative Directors: Ted Royer, Duncan Marshall - Creatives: Alex Lea, Kevin Brady - Producer: Sally-Ann Dale - Director: Joaquin Baca-Asay - Production Company: Park Pictures, New York - Editor: Avi Oron - Bikini Edit - Music: Yoni Jonathan Oron - Post Production: Fergus McCall - Telecine: Jeff Robbins, The Mill, New York - Smoke: The Mill, New York - Audio: Sound Lounge, New York

Axe - Chocolate

Agency: Vegaolmosponce - Country: Argentina - Production: MZJ - Director: Tom Kuntz

Harley Davidson - Hell's Bells

Agency: Carmichael Lynch - Creative: Bob Berken; Heath Pochucha - Director: Marcus Nispel - Production: MJZ Inc - Producer: Megan Dahlman; Vincent Oster; Joe Ross - Editor: Einar - Brand: Harley Davidson

Toyota - Killer Wasps

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi - Agency Producer: Evonne Sciberras - Creative Director: David Nobay - Creative: Eron Broughton; Steve May - Director: Nicholas Reynolds - Production: Plaza Films - Producer: Jo de Fina - Director of Photography: Mark Pugh - Post Production: Post Modern - Editor: Drew Thompson

XM Radio - XMerator

Agency: Lowe - Creative: Maggi Machado; Stephanie Price - Director: Nanospore - Production: Blacklist - Producer: Tamara Bridges-Rothschild; Owen Katz; Daniel Paquin - Post Production: Blacklist - Music: DJ Mehdi feat. Chromeo - I Am Somebody - Design/Direction: Paul Hwang; Ben Lee

mercoledì 12 dicembre 2007

Ads of the week. Coke Zero - Nike+ - Helzberg - MTV - John West - Snickers - Buckley's - Toyota - Roadkill Toys - Net10.

Coke Zero - Rooftop

Director: Badly - Producer: Ingmar Lange - Production House: Hochkant Film, Munich - DoP: Tim Florian - Editor: Timo Fritsche - Music: Michael Kadelbach - Composer: Michael Kadelbach - Sounddesign: Michael Kadelbach - Artdirector: Colin Taplin - Styling: Colin Taplin - SFX (Special Effects): Colin Taplin - Visual Effects/CGI/3D: Markus Martines @ cineteam Filmproduktion - Post production: @cineteam Filmproduktion

Nike Plus - Long Time Coming

Agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami - Executive Creative Director: Alex Bogusky - Creative Director: Evan Fry - Associate Creative Director: Dave Swartz - Art Director: Mark Taylor - Copywriter: Todd Tilford - Group Executive Producer: Matt Bonin - Production Company: HSI - Production Services: Film Planet Argentina - Director: Samuel Bayer - Executive Producer: Rebecca Skinner - Line Producer: Linda Masse - Director of Photography: Samuel Bayer - Editorial Company: Bug Editorial - Editor: Andre Betz - Producer: Joy Copeland - Assistant Editor: Ben Shababo - Post Production: RIOT - Producer: Alex Decaneas, Peter Stanik - Flame Artist: Tom McCullough - Telecine Artist: Billy Gabor, CO3 - Visual Effects: WETA Digital - VFX Supervisor: Chris White - VFX Producer: Libby Hazell - VFX Onset Digital Supervisor: Susie Kleis, Matt Sloan - VFX Head of Production: Eileen Moran - Music: Amber Music, Eugene Cho, composer - Sound Design: Amber Music, Bill Chesley - Producer: Kate Gibson - Agency Music Producer: Bill Meadows - Licensed Track: The Hives "Return the Favour" - Sound Mixer: Philip Loeb, Sound Lounge

Helzberg Diamonds - Pedicure

Agency: Barkley - Creative Director: Robin Knight - Art Director: Heather Ralls - Copywriter: Rick Dunn - Agency Producer: Garry Gassel - Production Company: Supply & Demand - Director: Greg Popp - Director of Photography: Peter Collister - Editor: Brody Howard - Executive Producer: Tim Case, Kent Eby, Kira Carstensen - Production Designer: Gary Matteson - Line Producer: Henri Dragonas

MTV - Slavery business as usual
Four Continents Capital Management.

Agency: JWT London - Editor: Sam Snead @ Speade - Creative Director: Jonathan Budds / Anita Davis - Agency Producer: Anna Church - Producer: Paul Weston - Prod: Partizan - - Director: Eric Lynne - Production Manager: Martin Zahringer - Post: The Mill

John West - Big Catch
The reason why white sharks do acrobatics in South Africa’s False Bay.

Agency: Grey Worldwide Melbourne - Executive Creative Director: Ant Shannon - Copywriter: Brendon Guthrie - Art Director: Tim Holmes - Agency Producer: Sandi Gracin - Prod: Plush Films - Director: Mark Bennett

Snickers - Rugby
Thanks to Craig of Spy Films.
Higher res here.

Agency: BBDO Moscow, Russia - Director: Alex & Steffen - DOP: Maher Maleh - Production Company: Spy Films, Toronto, Canada - Executive Producer: Carlo Trulli - Postproduction: Unexpected GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany - VFX Supervisor: Alex & Steffen

Buckley's - Restroom Puddle
To watch all the videos of the campaign click here.

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, New York - Chief Creative Officer: Tony Granger - Creative Director: Jan Jacobs, Leo Premutico, Joseph Pompeo - Art Director: Kristin Graham - Copywriter: Aryan Aminzadeh - Producer: Diane Burton, Dennis Liu - Editor: Scott Rankin, Northern Lights Post - Sound: Ted Gannon - Smoke Artist: Christopher Harrison

Toyota - Born of the Earth

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney - Executive Creative Director: David Nobay - Senior Art Director: Peter Buckley - Senior Writer: Tim Brown - Senior Agency Producer: Scott McBurnie - Production Company: Goodoil Films - Director: Matt Murphy - Producer: Matt Long - Director of Photography: Nigel Bluck - Editor: Drew Thompson - Editorial Company: Guillotine - Production Art Director: Pete Baxter - VFX Company: Fin Design - Sound: Nylon Studios

Roadkill Toys - Roadkill Toys

Agency: Compost Communications, London - Director: Fraser Jamieson - Writters: Andy Drugan, Adam Arber

Net 10 - Sharak
Watch also "Brain", "Agent", "Obvious" and "Nights and weekends".

Agency: Droga5, New York - Creative Chairman: David Droga - Executive Creative Director: Ted Royer, Duncan Marshall - Creative: Alex Lea, Kevin Brady - EP/Director of Broadcast: Sally-Ann Dale - Producer: Robin Feldman - Character Design: Ted Royer,
Alex Lea, Eric Fensler - Animation Production Company: World Leaders Entertainment, New York - Producer: Ben Stein, CDMike Foran - Music & Sound Design: Amber Music Audio: Sound Lounge

martedì 11 dicembre 2007

Declare Independence. Michel Gondry's new video for Bjork.

To watch the most beautiful ads by Michel Gondry go here.
"French Academy Award-winning director Michel Gondry continues his rich music video history with Björk, with the Icelandic singer's epic anthem, 'Declare Independence.' Inspired by Björk's electricifying live show, the video was filmed in Long Island City, NY... " read more at Spinner.com.


The making of


Don't miss the first video of Paul Gondry, 16-year-old son of Michel. He has made his first music video for the Willowz. Click here to see "Take A Look Around".

lunedì 10 dicembre 2007

Freixenet - The Key to Reserva. Scorsese is Hitchcock.

More info @ www.scorsesefilms.com and www.scorsesefilmfreixenet.com.
"Martin Scorsese finge di trovare una sceneggiatura inedita di Alfred Hitchcock in un vecchio archivio di cinema e interpretando questo soggetto gira un superspot di nove minuti per uno spumante catalano, prodotto dalla casa Freixnet." Leggi tutto l'articolo di Gabriele Di Matteo tratto dal sito de "La Repubblica" qui.

Agency: JWT Spain - Executive Creative Director: Alex Martínez - Creative Directors: Rory Lambert & Carles Puig - Production Companies: RSA Films - Director: Martin Scorsese - Producers: Jules Daly, Marjie Abrahams, Emma Tillinger - Executive Producers (for Ovideo - Spain): Quique Camín, Tito Coca, Aitana R. Coca - DP: Harris Savides - Additional Photography: Ellen Kuras - Creative Consultant: Ted Griffin - Line Producer: Linda Masse - First Assistant Director: Joseph Reidy - Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker - Visual Effects Supervisor: Rob Legato - Casting: Ellen Lewis - Music: Bernard Herrmann from "North By Northwest" Licensed By Warner Brothers Entertainment c 1959 By EMI April Music Inc/Primary Wave Songs. Licensed By EMI Publishing Spain

mercoledì 5 dicembre 2007

Ads of the week. Orange - IKEA - Thorntons - Samsung - Olympus - Fathead - D&AD - Speechless - Greenpeace - Discovery Channel EMEA - Skoda.

Orange - Toys For Grown Ups

Agency: Wam (la société de production audio-visuelle du groupe Publicis), Paris - Creative Director: Olivier Altmann - Creatives: Fréderic Royer/Olivier Camensuli - Head of Tv: Pierre Marcus - Agency Producer: Muriel Allegrini - Production Company: Wanda Productions, Paris - Director: Philippe Andre - Producer Patrick Barbier - Line Producer Romain Cavagnac - Post production: Buf, Paris

IKEA - Crazy

Agency: La Chose, Paris - Creative Director: Pascal Gregoire - Art Director: Guillaume Rebbot - Copywriter: Benjamin Parent, Julien Bredontiot - Agency Producer: Camille Petrilli - Production Company: Les Telecreateurs - Executive Producer: Arno Moria - Producer: Aurelie Bruneau - Director: David Horowitz - Director of Photography: Jo Eken Torp - Editorial Company: Home Digital Pictures - Editor: Eric Jacquemin

Thorntons - Stuck

Agency: Shop - Agency Producer: Diane Croll - Creative Director: Tom Ewart; Dave Sullivan - Creative: Tom Ewart; Dave Sullivan - Director: Harmony Korine - Production: 2am Films - Producer: Candice Chubb - Director of Photography: Alwin Kuchler - Post Production: The Mill - Editor: Leo Scott

Samsung - How We Met

Agency: The Viral Factory, London/Cheil Worldwide - Creative: The Viral Factory - Production Company: The Viral Factory - Director: Jake Lunt, The Viral Factory - Producer: Patrick Duguid - Editor: Jamie Foord - Animator: Pat Beirne, Spy Pictures - Animator's Assistant: Emily Woodburn - Online Audio Mix: Dave Ball, Marmalade - Song: 'Goddamn', Son of Dave, Kartel

Olympus - Toddler

Agency: The Red Brick Road, London - Creative Director: Justin Tindall - Agency Producer: Karli James - Production Company: Blink Productions, London - Producer: Matt Fone - Director: Dougal WIlson - DOP: Nanu Segal - Post Production House: The Moving Picture Company, London - Offline Editor: Joe Guest @ Final Cut - Flame Operator: Pete Rypstra - Telecine Operator: John Clement

Fathead - Nascar

Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, New York - Executive Creative Directors: Todd Waterbury/Kevin Proudfoot - Creative Directors: Derek Barnes/John Parker/Adam Alshin - Art Directors: John Parker/Sean Labounty - Copywriter: Adam Alshin - Head of Production: Gary Krieg - Broadcast Producer: Temma Shoaf - Production Co.: SMUGGLER - Director: Jun Diaz - Director of Photography: Richard Henkels - Executive Producer: Brian Carmody/Patrick Milling-Smith - Production Designer: Callum MacLachlan - Editorial Co.: PS260 - Editor: Maury Loeb - Editorial Assistant: Jenna Warnecke - Executive Producer: Zarina Mak - Transfer Co.: THE MILL - Colorist: Damien Van Der Cruyssen - Post/VFX Co.: THE MILL - Executive Producer: Dan Roberts - VFX Supervisor: Alex Arce - Flame Artist: Gavin Wellsman - Flame Assistant: Gigi Ng - VFX Producer: Jo Arghiris - Music Production Co.: Robot Repair - Artist/Composer: Kael Alden - Sound Production Co.: Sound Lounge - Sound Mixer: Phillip Loebarent

D&AD - Sagmeister (legendary graphic designer)
www.sagmeister.com
Watch also the interview with David Droga.

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, London - Copywriter: Paul Domenet - Art Director: Brian Connolly - Producers: Toby Clifton/Lexy Stingl - Animators: Camila Carlow and Krzysztof Bierski

Speechless
To watch all the videos go to the website or to the Youtube Channel. For more information about "Speechless campaign" and the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, click here.

Director: George Hickenlooper - Creative: Director/Writer George Hickenlooper, Writer Alan Sereboff - Directed & Produced by George Hickenlooper - Produced by Alan Sereboff - Edited & Produced by Kamala Lopez - Music: Anthony Marinelli - Recorded & Mixed by Clint Bennett - Assistant Engineer: Beau Bonetti - Sound Design & Audio Post: Music Forever - Technical Advisor - Joel Marshall

Greenpeace - Sunshine
"If you think the sun shines out of your arse, try using an energy saving lightbulb instead". Info here. Another example of "assvertising" here (webcargo.com).

Agency: Escape Partners - Production: Park Village London - Director: Sven Harding

Discovery Channel EMEA - Footprint

Agency: Discovery Channel EMEA - Creative Director: James Gilbey - Producer: Bruce Meier - Production Company: Jellyfish Pictures, London - Written, Directed, Edited: Matt Lambert - Visual Effects: Jellyfish Pictures - VFX Producer: Stefano Salvini - Technical Director/Lead 3D: Matt Chandler - Lead 2D: Fabio Zavetti - Score & Sound Design: Ben 'HECQ' Boysen

Skoda Praktik - Crash test.

Advertising Agency: DDB, Stockholm, Sweden - Creative Director: Andreas Dahlqvist - Art Director: Lennart Claesson - Copywriters: Martin Lundgren, Magnus Jakobsson - Directors: Lennart Claesson, Martin Lundgren, Gösta Reiland - Producer: Cattis Håkansson - Account Director: Pelle Josephsson