This :60 opens on a man driving his VW Golf GTI down a road with an emergency vehicle fast approaching from the opposite direction, its red lights flashing. Turns out the man is dreaming about motoring about in his GTI as the camera reveals him to be asleep in bed, the flashing red light coming from his digital alarm clock. His wife/girlfriend gets out of bed, and takes a shower. The water pouring out of the shower head segues to the guy in his GTI driving through rain. Similarly when she’s using the hair dryer, his GTI is whipping up wind as it speeds through a tunnel.
Nothing still seems to rouse our guy from slumber–or from the GTI ride he’s dreaming about. Sun pours in from a nearby window, causing him to turn over in bed and the GTI to similarly swerve and rechart its course.
The woman then hops onto bed in an attempt to wake her man. This causes the man’s body to pop up at the impact–but he remain asleep as his car jumps over a bump.
She then pulls his blanket off, making him cold. This translates into his driving through the snow.
Finally she takes his car keys off the night stand, the resulting slight jingling noise being enough to wake him. She throws him the keys as an end tag reads, “Its a GTI,” followed by the VW logo.
Titled “Dream,” this :60 was directed by Greg Gray of Velocity Films, Johannesburg and Cape Town, for Ogilvy Cape Town.
Helena Woodfine produced for Velocity with Paul Gilpin serving as DP.
The agency creative team included creative director Gordon Ray, senior art director Jamie Mietz and producer Emmy Laundy.
Editor was Ricky Boyd of Deliverance, Cape Town.
Music company was B&S Studios, which rearranged the rock hit “Sweet Dreams.”
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More