DAVID Buenos Aires created “Dear Customer” for HSBC, a campaign that seeks to educate consumers on how cybercriminals operate and how to avoid being a victim. This spot depicts a typical cliché bank robbery to demonstrate how cybercriminals operate under the new phishing ploy. In the script, the modus operandi of a virtual scam is recreated where the cybercriminals pretend to be a trustworthy organization in the search for the victim’s data and personal passwords.
Nicolás Vara and Ignacio Flotta, the agency’s executive creative directors, shared in a joint statement, “The aim of this campaign is to raise user’s awareness of new types of banking crimes. These types of cybercrimes are effective because you don´t see them coming. They surprise you when you act in good faith and don´t realize that you are a victim of a crime until it’s too late. This type of behavior is what we are trying to demonstrate on the piece”.
Augusto Gimenez Zapiola and Alejandro Rey directed the “Dear Customer” spot via production house Argentinacine.
CreditsClient HSBC Agency DAVID Buenos Aires Pancho Cassis, global chief creative officer; Nicolas Vara, Ignacio Flotta, executive creative directors; Agustin Aiassa, copywriter; Julian Tedesco, art director; Jimena Oliva, head of production; Agustina Perez Ponce, producer. Production Company Argentinacine Augusto Gimenez Zapiola, Ale Rey, directors; Diego Gonzalez, exec producer; Nano Tidone, head of production; German Escande, producer; Javier Julia, DP; Julieta Wagner, art director. Editorial Joaquin Pellarollo, editor. Color Alejandra Lescano, color. Audio Big Sound. Music Bigotes Musica Postproduction Aldo Ferrari, post coordinator.
Director Gia Coppola Teams With Mejuri For “A New York Minute”; 1st Episode Takes Us To The Grocery Store
Mejuri, known for turning fine jewelry into an everyday luxury, has partnered with director Gia Coppola (The Last Show Girl, Palo Alto) and The Directors Bureau in Los Angeles, for the first time reimagining the brand’s story as episodic content. In a series of microfilms, co-created by Coppola and premiering following New York Fashion Week, Mejuri eschewed a typical celebrity campaign and cast us as voyeurs to a group of aspiring young women--real people, not actors--at the crossroads of their adult lives against the backdrop of New York City.
Titled “A New York Minute,” the series features five real-life friends, who include one perfectly imperfect heroine named Emma. The women celebrate ordinary moments and interactions which reveal, sometimes retrospectively, the extraordinary within the mundane. Adjacent to the brand’s own community, the 30-something year old cast includes Laura Love (Emma), Rebecca Ressler, Natalie Vall-Freed and Rozzi Crane. Mejuri’s jewelry makes an appearance as the best supporting actor.
“When I met with Gia and The Directors Bureau team, there was instant creative and personal chemistry and a natural alignment on the desire to push and blur the lines between marketing, storytelling, and the construct of what a ‘campaign’ could be,” said Jacob Jordan, chief brand officer, Mejuri. “Gia was able to push that idea into something that truly feels new and artful, with a realism and relatability that almost feels jarring. Gia was such a perfect collaborator and partner, someone I had complete trust in to be a catalyst for Mejuri’s values of celebrating women as their truest selves. I can’t wait for us to continue to tell the next chapters of this story.”
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