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    The Best Work You May Never See: Tesco, BBH, Directing Team Alaska Help U.K. To “Become More Christmas” 

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    Featuring a family that’s getting into the holiday spirit ahead of the big day, some more enthusiastically than others, this Tesco spot, “Become More Christmas,” is packed full of festive joy.

    Created by BBH, the commercial taps into the insight that for many of us, Christmas is about so much more than the big day. 

    While there will always be the “Big Christmas Shop,” the need for festive goods and festivities in general starts a lot earlier than Dec. 25th. In fact, the Tesco 2023 Christmas Report revealed that nearly a third of U.K. adults (31%) said they find the build up to Christmas more exciting than the big day itself.

    The ad opens on an enthusiastic dad and his reticent son driving to Tesco for their usual shop. While wandering around the store, the dad spots a Christmas sampling display and, after getting his first taste of Christmas (the Tesco Finest Triple Chocolate Star Shaped Panettone), immediately transforms into a Christmas tree as he gets into the festive spirit. In typical teenage fashion, his son looks embarrassed and walks away, clearly reluctant to join in the fun. 

    In another scene, dad has gone through a truly tree-mendous transformation, complete with twinkling lights, and is excitedly putting the decorations up at home. When mom returns home from Tesco and delights in sharing some Tesco Finest Golden Mince Pies, she is overcome with festive joy and captures the “Become More Christmas” mantra, transforming into a spectacular Snowmum. 

    Following a second visit to Tesco, other customers can be seen “Becoming More Christmas” with baubles and glittering stars exploring the aisles. At the checkout, dad is served by a Tesco colleague who has transformed into a reindeer. As soon as dad’s Tesco Clubcard is accepted, a shining star decoration explodes from the top of his head, and his Christmas transformation is complete.

    While everyone around him “Becomes More Christmas,” the teenage son continues to remain hesitant to get into the festive spirit. Until, dad gives him the handcrafted Christmas tree topper that he made when he was a little boy–it’s just the nudge the teen needs to transform into a Christmas tree himself, topped with that very star.

    BBH’s Felipe Serradourada Guimaraes was the campaign’s deputy executive creative director, and Elliott White and Will Maxey were the lead creative team. The film was directed by Alaska (Marco Lafer and Gustavo Moraes) through Iconoclast. The spot is set to the soundtrack of OMC’s “How Bizarre.”

    Credits

    Client Tesco Agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) London Alex Grieve, global chief creative officer; Felipe Guimaraes, creative director; Elliott White, sr. copywriter; Wil Maxey, sr. art director; Saskia Jones, group strategy director; Hannah Slapper, strategy director; Tom Papaloizou, sr. strategist; Lisa Nicholls, Nicole Southey, sr. producers; Valentina Schwendinger, assistant producer; Julian Cave, art producer. BBH Dublin Amy Crowe, Amy Harrington; Hywel Evans, Daniel Olaifa, music supervisor. Production Company Iconoclast  Alaska (Marco Lafer and Gustavo Moraes), director; Jean Mougin, exec producer; Emma Butterworth, line producer; Natalie Isaac, production manager; Arthur De Borman, production designer; Pierre De Kerchove, DP; Anarchy Ltd, costumes; Freddie Stopler, prosthetics make-up. Editorial Trim Editing Paul Hardcastle, editor; Josh Mannox, assistant editor. Postproduction Black Kite Studios Alex Lovejoy, VFX supervisor; Tom Mangham, colorist; James Hansell, 3D lead; George Brunt, compositing lead; Paul Branch, exec producer; Phil Whalley, sr. producer. Sound 750mph Sam Ashwell, sound engineer

    Media Type:Commercial: Television
    ScreenWork Categories:Commercial
    Screenwork Type:Best Work
    Video Tags:AlaskaBBHGustavo MoraesIconoclastMarco Lafer



    The Docter Twins Direct Part 2 Of FactSets’ “Not Just The Facts” Comedy Campaign From VSA Partners

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    FactSet, a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, has partnered with Chicago-based creative agency VSA Partners to unveil a second round of spots in its “Not Just the Facts” campaign. The campaign originally launched back in April.

    The campaign was built on a core strategic insight: While quality data is critical for financial professionals, facts in isolation provide little value. FactSet’s personalization, data connectivity, open and flexible technology, and dedicated service and support provide the context necessary for the investment community to turn facts into valuable insights--and make the most of them.

    The new creative picks up where the previous left off. This time it focuses on a particularly boorish office worker, drolly played by character actor Wyndham Maxwell, who ticks off an encyclopedic list of facts and non sequiturs during business meetings and to the bemusement of his colleagues.

    The tongue-in-cheek campaign, which plays more like a perfect-pitch comedy series than a typical B2B commercial effort, is a major departure from financial services industry norm--both in its use of humor and in its humanistic approach. Starting this week, FactSet will roll out 16 unique spots—a combination of :30s, :15s, :06s and nine “shorts”—across multiple channels including digital, streaming and CTV.

    This :30, “Dinos,” has an office worker’s relevant reference to dinosaurs spark our boorish colleague who proceeds to utter one irrelevant fact after another about the prehistoric creatures.

    The Los Angeles–based Docter Twins (Matthew and Jason Docter) directed the original campaign and this new humorous work through their production company, Thinking Machine. The identical twin... Read More

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