Michel Gondry of Partizan directed this visual brand spot conceived by BBDO New York for FedEx, turning mundane overnight delivery into a magical experience–particularly magical for the happy recipients of toys and other shipped goodies.
E-commerce takes on a visually arresting dynamic as laptops fly like birds through the air, and toys parachute down onto the front porches of houses.
A voiceover relates, “What we do every night is like something out of a strange dream. Except that the next morning, it all makes sense.”
Credits
Client FedEx Agency BBDO New York David Lubars, chief creative officer, worldwide; Greg Hahn, chief creative officer, NY; Gianfranco Arena, Peter Kain, executive creative directors; Tom Kraemer, sr. creative director/copywriter; Dan Kenneally, creative director/art director; David Rolfe, director of integrated production; Amy Wertheimer, group executive producer; Sofia Doktori, sr. content producer; Rani Vaz, head of music production. Production Partizan Michel Gondry, director; Shawn Kim, DP; Maxwell Orgell, production designer; Raffi Adlan, producer; Joseph DeBartolo, production manager. Editorial Exile Eric Zumbrunnen, editor; Christopher Fetsch, assistant editor. Post/VFX Method Studios Bennett Lieber, sr. producer; Doug Luka, VFX supervisor. Color Company 3 Tom Poole, colorist. Music Barking Owl Audio Post Sound Lounge Tom Jucarone, mixer.
How do you top one of the most viral brand videos ever made? Spoiler alert: you can’t. But when Dollar Shave Club tapped Zack Seckler to direct a new campaign to revive the absurdist humor of its iconic launch video, he knew he had a rare opportunity to create something special.
The brief was simple: introduce the concept of a physical “Club” that people would love to join while showcasing Dollar Shave Club’s products and embracing the weird. From script to direction and post, Seckler--an alum of SHOOT’s 2021 New Directors Showcase--was invited to help sculpt that vision.
The result is this “Welcome to the Club” spot which invites us to join a unique, seemingly exclusive but in reality an accessible and affordable fraternity of Dollar Shave Club members. But you need to know the password or more accurately, the two-word phrase--"shave money."
“The Club” campaign brings the brand back to its humorous roots, reflecting a new chapter after being acquired by Nexus Capital Management from Unilever in late 2023. The work takes Dollar Shave Club back to its disruptive beginnings and what made the brand a viral sensation from its inception in 2011.
