Two guys kick around a small TV set as if it is a soccer ball. Set in an urban neighborhood, the spot shows one of the men balancing the TV on his head, letting it fall to his foot and then kicking it against a wall. Upon impact, the TV set smashes into pieces. A parting product shot shows an unharmed Sony SEGA Television, accompanied by the supered message, “Make Room For WEGA.”
Agency: Tonic Communications, Dubai Vincent Raffray, creative director/copywriter; Peter Walker, art director; Basile Boudier, producer. Production Company: Velocity Films Adrian De Sa Garces, director; Peter Tischhauser, DP; Peter Carr, executive producer; Melina McDonald, producer. Shot on location in Johannesburg. Postproduction: The Refinery, Johannesburg. Sarah Houghton, Inferno compositor; Michele Wilson, colorist; Sally Balkwill, producer. Visual Effects: Condor Cape Town Matthew Desmond-Smith, VFX supervisor/3-D artist; Michelle Barrow, producer. Sound Design: The Refinery, Johannesburg. Louis Enslin, sound designer Audio: The Refinery, Johannesburg. Louis Enslin, mixer
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