Spam and scams are hardly anything new–at least that’s the gist of this tongue-in-cheek Snapple spot which shows us how the telegraph in the 1860s could also be the means of messaging for the con artist.
In this case, folks from the Old West are overjoyed to learn via telegraph–the email of yesteryear–that foreign royalty wants to send them millions of dollars in exchange for a social security number. Horses for everyone, cheers a supposed recipient of this fortune from afar.
Dave Laden of Hungry Man directed “Telegraph” for Deutsch LA.
CreditsClient Dr Pepper Snapple Group Agency Deutsch Pete Favat, chief creative officer; Bob Cianfrone, executive creative director; Guto Araki, group creative director; Curtis Petraglia, art director; Andrew Kong, copywriter; Vic Palumbo, director of integrated production; Megan Meloth, executive integrated producer; Ali Issari, sr. integrated producer; Dave Rocco, music director; Eryk Rich, music producer; Sam Barbera, sr. concept producer. Production Hungry Man Dave Laden, director; Neil Shapiro, DP; Kevin Byrne, exec producer; Dan Duffy, exec producer/head of sales; Dave Bernstein, line producer. Editorial Cosmo Street Tessa Davis, editor; Habib Semaan, assistant editor; Yvette Cobarrubias-Sears, exec producer; Gigi May, producer. Post/Color MPC LA Ricky Gausis, colorist; Dimitri Rajapakse, color assist; Meghan Lang, Rebecca Boorsma, exec producers. Post/VFX a52 Andy McKenna, VFX supervisor; Kirk Shintani, head of CG; Stacey Kessler-Aungst, producer; Patrick Nugent, exec producer; Kim Christensen, head of production. Music Track: Surprise Cha Cha Cha; APM, publisher. Audio Post 740 Sound Larry Winer, mixer; Geena Richard, exec producer.
Director Gia Coppola Teams With Mejuri For “A New York Minute”; 1st Episode Takes Us To The Grocery Store
Mejuri, known for turning fine jewelry into an everyday luxury, has partnered with director Gia Coppola (The Last Show Girl, Palo Alto) and The Directors Bureau in Los Angeles, for the first time reimagining the brand’s story as episodic content. In a series of microfilms, co-created by Coppola and premiering following New York Fashion Week, Mejuri eschewed a typical celebrity campaign and cast us as voyeurs to a group of aspiring young women--real people, not actors--at the crossroads of their adult lives against the backdrop of New York City.
Titled “A New York Minute,” the series features five real-life friends, who include one perfectly imperfect heroine named Emma. The women celebrate ordinary moments and interactions which reveal, sometimes retrospectively, the extraordinary within the mundane. Adjacent to the brand’s own community, the 30-something year old cast includes Laura Love (Emma), Rebecca Ressler, Natalie Vall-Freed and Rozzi Crane. Mejuri’s jewelry makes an appearance as the best supporting actor.
“When I met with Gia and The Directors Bureau team, there was instant creative and personal chemistry and a natural alignment on the desire to push and blur the lines between marketing, storytelling, and the construct of what a ‘campaign’ could be,” said Jacob Jordan, chief brand officer, Mejuri. “Gia was able to push that idea into something that truly feels new and artful, with a realism and relatability that almost feels jarring. Gia was such a perfect collaborator and partner, someone I had complete trust in to be a catalyst for Mejuri’s values of celebrating women as their truest selves. I can’t wait for us to continue to tell the next chapters of this story.”
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