Continuing its faux movie trailer campaign for Taco Bell’s Nacho Fries, Deutsch tapped feature filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier, who directed via production house Neighborhood Watch, and VFX house a52. The result is “Supply and Demand,” a trailer-style high-octane thrill ride akin to a Fast & Furious franchise entry.
Client Taco Bell Agency Deutsch Brett Craig, chief creative officer; Jeremiah Wassom, creative director; Daniel Chen, Mikey Sison, associate creative directors; Karter Kraselt, art director; Ryan Siepert, copywriter; Judd Stricker, sr. integrated producer; Jasmine Sarbaz, integrated producer; Paul Roy, executive integrated producer. Live Action Production Neighborhood Watch Jeremy Saulnier, director; Diego Garcia, DP; Elyciphus Siler, live-action producer; Traci Carlson, Richard Peete, exec producers. VFX a52, Santa Monica, Calif. Jesse Monsour, VFX supervisor; Andy Wilkoff, CG supervisor; Caleb Ollivant, CG lead; Richard Hirst, Dan Ellis, Michael Vaglienty, Enid Dalkoff, 2D VFX artists; Robert Kim, Aemilia Widodo, Paulo deAlmada, Scott Nishiki, Joey Bettinardi, Joseph Chiechi, Michael Bettinardi, 3D artists; Erika Bird, designer; Peter Murphy, animator; Andrew Rosenberger, producer; Patrick Nugent, Kim Christensen, exec producers; Jennifer Sofio Hall, managing director; Sam Kolber, John Valle, online editors. (Toolbox: Flame) Color a52 color Paul Yacono, colorist; Corey Martinez, Aaron Flickinger, Dylan Bursick, color assistants; Jenny Bright, color producer; Thatcher Peterson, exec producer. Editorial Union Editorial Jim Haygood, editor; Joe Hughes, assistant editor; Joe Ross, producer; Michael Raimondi, managing partner/president. Audio Lime Studios Mark Meyuhas, mixer; Peter Lapinski, assistant mixer; Susie Boyajan, exec producer. Music Track: “Can’t Get Enough,” Griz, artist. Original Composition Massive Music Ben Einziger, composer.
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