Director Juan Cabral of production house MJZ teamed with ad agency Mother on IKEA’s “The Nightclub,” a trendy venue for what we all crave at nighttime: slumber.
Client IKEA Agency Mother Production MJZ Juan Cabral, director; Alicia Richards, producer; Amelia Hanbury, production manager; Julie Andren, line producer (Tango Productions); Tom Townend, DP; Maria Djurkovic, production designer. Editorial Work Editorial Neil Smith, editor; Postproduction Framestore Jordi Bares Dominguez, post supervision; Sophie Harrison, postproduction producer; Simon Bourne, colorist. Sound 750mph Sam Ashwell, sound designer. Music Supervision Arnold Hattingh @ Theodore for “In Dreams” by Roy Orbison
Top Spot of the Week: Apple, TBWA\Media Arts Lab L.A., Director Henry-Alex Rubin Tug At The “Heartstrings”
Appleโs holiday ad--โHeartstrings,โ launched ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities--introduces us to a father with mild-moderate hearing loss. But thanks to the clinical grade Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2, he can now hear his daughter playing the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classic โOur Houseโ on her new guitar, just unwrapped on Christmas morning. The breakthrough ability to hear clearly is all the more impactful in that it comes after we journey with the dad down memory lane as he recalls his daughterโs first guitar, her birthday, her first day of school--though the sound of his flashbacks is muffled. But once he activates the Hearing Aid feature, dad can properly hear his daughter in the present--and with that even the memories can be heard clearly. โHeartstringsโ was directed by Henry-Alex Rubin of production house SMUGGLER for TBWAMedia Arts Lab Los Angeles, with sound design by three-time Oscar winner Paul N.J. Ottoson who helps us experience the fatherโs hearing loss and then its restoration. (Ottoson won two Oscars for The Hurt Locker--for best sound mixing and best sound mixing--and another for best sound editing for Zero Dark Thirty.) Read More