This is the trailer promoting Better Half, a short film directed by veteran helmer Adam Jones and Deutsch NY executive creative director Pete Johnson.
This marks the directorial debut for Johnson who also teamed with Jones in writing the short in which a husband, after 40 years of marriage, makes a life-changing decision to escape his wife.
Creative/Production Pete Johnson, Adam Jones, writers/directors; Joe Calabrese, Steve Marchese, Joel Simon, Pete Johnson, exec producers; Nicholas Bupp, DP. Editorial Cosmo Street Tom Scherma, editor. Music JSM Steve Marchese, music producer. Sound Design Marc Healy/JSM/Tom Scherma
The 2024 Christmas ad from John Lewis department stores has arrived. This year’s much anticipated TV commercial, continuing the Xmas tradition of John Lewis, is the two-minute “The Gifting Hour" created by Saatchi & Saatchi UK and directed by Francois Rousselet via production house Riff Raff.
In the ad, the heroine, Sally, has left it a little late to find the right gift for her sister this year and races into a John Lewis store at closing time. Falling through a rack of dresses, she enters a fantastical world. We first see her stumbling out of the wardrobe in the attic of her childhood home and from here we are taken on a whimsical journey through her memories as she searches for the ultimate present, against the clock.
Returning to the store and back to reality she has found the perfect gift, ready and wrapped. Sally then heads outside and has a special moment with her sister who will be the gift’s recipient. As they walk away we see her sister reflected in the John Lewis window as the child from her memories.
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