Animated commercial set to the theme song of the Pink Panther. A police man is walking around noticing various items painted pink in an otherwise black and white setting. The pink panther walks out from behind a tree with a paint brush. He touches a fountain, and a fish tank and the water turns pink. He motions to touch a fire hydrant, but loses steam until he sees a table with pink packets on it. He approaches and pours the contents of one packet into his mouth. Completely refreshed he paints a mural of Sweet’N Low “Think Pink” on the side of a building.
Agency: Pedone & Partners Advertising Tom Cook, creative director; Shayne Millington, art director; Carolyn Oppenheim, copywriter; Matthew Pedone, producer. Production Company: Hornet Inc.,Flux Animation JJ & Maithy, directors/animators/3-D modelers; Michael Feder, executive producer; Andrew Isaacson, producer; Christian DeCastro, animator; Satoshi Harada, 3-D modeler; Anita Chao and Jeremy Lusk, editors.,Brent Chambers, Mike Howie, Raymond McGrath and Dave Butler, 2-D animators. Sound Design: Pomann Sound Bob Pomann, sound designer/audio mixer.
Top Spot of the Week: Apple, TBWA\Media Arts Lab L.A., Director Henry-Alex Rubin Tug At The “Heartstrings”
Appleโs holiday ad--โHeartstrings,โ launched ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities--introduces us to a father with mild-moderate hearing loss. But thanks to the clinical grade Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2, he can now hear his daughter playing the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classic โOur Houseโ on her new guitar, just unwrapped on Christmas morning. The breakthrough ability to hear clearly is all the more impactful in that it comes after we journey with the dad down memory lane as he recalls his daughterโs first guitar, her birthday, her first day of school--though the sound of his flashbacks is muffled. But once he activates the Hearing Aid feature, dad can properly hear his daughter in the present--and with that even the memories can be heard clearly. โHeartstringsโ was directed by Henry-Alex Rubin of production house SMUGGLER for TBWAMedia Arts Lab Los Angeles, with sound design by three-time Oscar winner Paul N.J. Ottoson who helps us experience the fatherโs hearing loss and then its restoration. (Ottoson won two Oscars for The Hurt Locker--for best sound mixing and best sound mixing--and another for best sound editing for Zero Dark Thirty.) Read More