A woman dressed in black turns out to be Lady Luck. She drives a motorboat and arrives at a pier where good luck befalls each person she walks by. She then arrives at a couple seated on a bench; the guy is playing a California Lottery scratchers game. Lady Luck blows upon his game card and with his last scratch he reveals a jackpot icon. Todd Field directed via Smuggler for agency David&Goliath.
CreditsClient California Lottery Agency David&Goliath, El Segundo, Calif. David Angelo, founder/chief creative officer; Colin Jeffery, executive creative director/managing partner; Mark Monteiro, creative director/copywriter; John Davis, Eron Broughton, creative directors/art directors; Shaun Wright, art director; Peter Hughes, copywriter; Kristen Knape, strategic planning director; Carol Lombard, managing director of broadcast production; Christopher Coleman, executive producer; Josh Crick, digital director; Robert Boucher, director of digital delivery and technology; Erica Tremblay, Michael Karney, digital producers; Ardon Hall, developer. Production Smuggler, bicoastal/international Todd Field, director; Patrick Milling Smith, Brian Carmody, partners/exec producers; Lisa Rich, COO; Shannon Jones, bidding producer; Andrew Colon, head of production; Cory Berg, producer. Editorial Spinach Pete Koob, editor; Michael Weiss, assistant editor; Jonathan Carpio, producer. Visual Effects Eight VFX Baptiste Andrieux, Shira Boardman, exec producers; Philip Ineno, VFX lead; Satoshi Ozecki, Joe Chiao, Anthony Petitti, Flame artists; Denis Gaulthier, Houdini artist; Michael Shores, producer; Evan Kantor, coordinator. Post Company 3. Sean Coleman, colorist. Music Human Sound Design/Audio Post Mix Barking Owl.
The Best Work You May Never See: United Sense of America, Directing Duo rubberband. Hunt Down Assault Weapons In “The Fawn”
This PSA titled “The Fawn” is from United Sense of America, a bipartisan coalition whose mission is to turn common sense and common ground into public policy. “The Fawn” was concepted and created by production company SMUGGLER in partnership with New York-based agency American Haiku and Austin-based agency Preacher. Written by American Haiku ECD Thom Glover and directed by the SMUGGLER duo rubberband., the film was designed as a common sense rallying cry aimed at the hunting community, questioning the need for assault weapons--in hunting and beyond that in our society generally. In light of the recent tragic high school shooting in Georgia, this message takes on a poignant urgency and underscores the need to craft progressive reform policy. The film, painful and seemingly unavoidable, forces the viewer to imagine someone else’s finger on the trigger and something else as its target. A voiceover initially seems to be talking about a fawn who is in plain view. But instead the VO turns out to be referring to the weapon which will claim the animal’s life. While the scene itself is graphic, the messaging is matter of fact. United Sense of America contends there simply is no defensible reason or excuse for assault weapons being necessary for sports hunting--and certainly not in mainstream society which includes our children’s schools. Glover said, “Every line in the film came from online discussions and conversations. Hunters are no different from the rest of us; the way people buy assault weapons is the same as the way they buy a refrigerator. We have to find a way to challenge this situation that doesn’t paint all gun owners as monsters, because they’re not.” [video width="1920" height="1080"... Read More