A writer narrates his erratic and melodramatic process of being inspired and beginning a piece of work while a collage of imagery flashes on the screen. He procrastinates, watches TV, eats cookies, writes something, buries it in the yard. He then despairs and attempts suicide, but is stopped by sudden inspiration. Stories like these will be featured on “Meet the storytellers. April 19-24. Wordstock 2005.”
Agency: FourStories Agency, Portland, Ore. Austin Howe, creative director/producer; Scott Poole, copywriter; Fredrik Averin, art director Production Company: Bent Image Lab Chel White, director, executive producer, co-producer, production designer; Randall Wakerlin, co-producer; Mark Eifert, DP Editorial: Bent Image Lab Steve Miller, offline/online editor Visual Effects: Bent Image Lab Randall Wakerlin, Steve Balzer, Orland Nutt, composite artists; C.J. Beaman, Photoshop artist Audio: Downstream, Portland Lance Limbocker, audio post mixer/sound designer
The Docter Twins Direct Part 2 Of FactSets’ “Not Just The Facts” Comedy Campaign From VSA Partners
FactSet, a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, has partnered with Chicago-based creative agency VSA Partners to unveil a second round of spots in its โNot Just the Factsโ campaign. The campaign originally launched back in April.
The campaign was built on a core strategic insight: While quality data is critical for financial professionals, facts in isolation provide little value. FactSetโs personalization, data connectivity, open and flexible technology, and dedicated service and support provide the context necessary for the investment community to turn facts into valuable insights--and make the most of them.
The new creative picks up where the previous left off. This time it focuses on a particularly boorish office worker, drolly played by character actor Wyndham Maxwell, who ticks off an encyclopedic list of facts and non sequiturs during business meetings and to the bemusement of his colleagues.
The tongue-in-cheek campaign, which plays more like a perfect-pitch comedy series than a typical B2B commercial effort, is a major departure from financial services industry norm--both in its use of humor and in its humanistic approach. Starting this week, FactSet will roll out 16 unique spotsโa combination of :30s, :15s, :06s and nine โshortsโโacross multiple channels including digital, streaming and CTV.
This :30, โDinos,โ has an office workerโs relevant reference to dinosaurs spark our boorish colleague who proceeds to utter one irrelevant fact after another about the prehistoric creatures.
The Los Angelesโbased Docter Twins (Matthew and Jason Docter) directed the original campaign and this new humorous work through their production company, Thinking Machine. The identical twin... Read More