Every year, thousands of people fleeing war, persecution, and poverty at home attempt the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean. Mark & Spencer of Curfew, Brooklyn, worked with Doctors Without Borders on this spot, “Across the Sea,” to call attention to the ongoing refugee crisis and to tell the story of the dual lives that Doctors Without Borders medical teams lead.
Q Department handled music and sound design for “Across the Sea,” with Matt Giordano of Plush serving as audio post mixer.
Client Doctors Without Borders Production Curfew, Brooklyn, NY Mark & Spencer, directors; Matt Batchelor, DP; Shelley Cheung, producer; Racey North, production designer; Garbriella Moses, wardrobe stylist; Joe Cecchini, location manager. Editorial Uppercut Paul La Calandra, editor. Color Company 3 Sophie Borup, colorist Music/Sound Design Q Department, New York Audio Post Plush NY Matt Giordano, mixer. VFX Lucas Sachs, visual effects. Casting The Pull Stephanie Porto, casting director. Stunts Chris Barnes, Riley Barnes, James Daly.
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 “Not Just the Facts” 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. FactSet’s 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 spots—a combination of :30s, :15s, :06s and nine “shorts”—across multiple channels including digital, streaming and CTV.
This :30, “Dinos,” has an office worker’s relevant reference to dinosaurs spark our boorish colleague who proceeds to utter one irrelevant fact after another about the prehistoric creatures.
The Los Angeles–based 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
