This Verizon spots shows estranged family members including parents and their grown children reconnecting via Verizon–overcoming a rift caused by the youngsters' sexual orientation.
Lee Hirsch of Moxie Pictures directed this moving spot from McCann New York, featuring a track from music/sound house duotone audio group, with audio post done at Sonic Union.
Client Verizon Agency McCann New York Rob Reilly, global creative chairman; Eric Silver, chief creative officer, North America; Sean Bryan, Tom Murphy, co-chief creative officers, NY; Wayne Best, Dan Donovan, deputy co-chief creative officers, Verizon; Karsten Jurkschat, Alex Little, creative directors; Kyle Harrison, jr. copywriter; Ezequiel Consoli, jr. art director; Nathy Aviram, chief production officre; John McAdorey, SVP, executive producer; Doug Harrison, Laura Kellerman, producers; Eric David Johnson (aka DJ Bunny Ears), SVP, executive music producer; Dan Gross, music producer. Production Moxie Pictures Lee Hirsch, director; Robert Fernandez, exec producer; Katie Connell, head of production; Matt O'Shea, assistant director; Josh Kraszewski, key DP; Ric Sarmiento, DP; Brett Wiley, DP, Cleveland; Tyler Meason, DP, Utah; Trevor Herrick, production supervisor; Jennifer Venditti, casting. Editorial Union Editorial NY Christopher Huth, editor; Jean Taylor, assistant editor; Caryn MacLean, exec producer/partner; Susan Motamed, sr. producer; Kirk Balden, Flame artist. Color Color Collective Mike Howell, colorist. Music/Sound duotone audio group, New York Ross Hopman, executive producer; Gio Lobato, producer. Audio Post Sonic Union, New York Brian Goodheart, mix engineer.
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
