Directed by Juan Cabral of MJZ, this film for Visa Europe–a sponsor of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games–follows an athlete preparing to compete and depicts the journey he goes through in the buildup to the ultimate moment; the competition. His everyday life is interspersed with images of a beating heart, underscoring the heart of the dedicated athlete.
Titled “The Heart,” this 90-second cinema spot kicks off Visa Europe’s “Heart of the Olympian” campaign from Saatchi & Saatchi London. The ad will run in movie theaters in the U.K. Versions will also run across a range of channels including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, created especially for the campaign.
Credits
Client Visa Europe Agency Saatchi & Saatchi London Kate Stanners, chief creative officer; Ben Robinson, Mike Whiteside, creatives; Lisa Bowcott, planner; Celestine Hall, producer. Production MJZ Juan Cabral, director; Stephen Johnson, producer. Editorial Whitehouse Russell Icke, editor. Postproduction/VFX Glassworks, London Jordi Bares, VFX supervisor; Duncan Horn, Flame artist; Andy Nicholas, Julian Johnson, Vladimir Venkov, 3D artists; Mark Holman-Harris, Leanne Pletersky, Tiago Barbosa, Nuke; Aleks Ugarow, Smoke artist. Music Soundtree Peter Raeburn Sound Design Wave Parv Thind, sound designer. Soundtree Henning Knoepfeul, sound designer. Audio Post Wave Parv Thind, mixer.
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
