Finding the right moving company might be tough, but answering insurance questions is easy in Geico’s latest humorous ad starring the world-famous basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters. Produced by Park Pictures and directed by the duo Terri Timely, “Harlem Globetrotters Moving Co.” sees a family struggling to unpack–or get a word in edgewise–as dishes and boxes go flying in a slew of juggling antics.
Terri Timely has enjoyed a fruitful track record with Geico, most notably with the “Unskippable” campaign that garnered numerous industry awards including a Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Lions. The directorial duo went on to win five Silver Lions in Film at the 2017 Cannes Lions for Geico’s “Crushed” campaign.
Credits
Client Geico Agency The Martin Agency, Richmond, Va. Neel Williams, group creative director; Justin Harris, David Gibson, creative directors; Mauricio Mazzariol, associate creative director; Liza Miller, producer. Production Park Pictures Terri Timely, directors; Kira Kelly, DP; Dinah Rodriguez, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, exec producers; Ginger Tougas, production designer. Editorial The Den Christjan Jordan, editor.
Apple’s holiday ad--“Heartstrings,” 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 “Our House” 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 daughter’s 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.
“Heartstrings” 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 father’s 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
