London’s adam&eveDDB has released the next iteration of Booking.com’s “Live Curious” advertising campaign. Directed by Fredrik Bond through MJZ and shot by DP Monika Lenczewska, the new creative work captures emotional moments to celebrate the range of feelings traveling evokes in all of us–from joy and freedom to determination and wonder.
This spot titled “Freedom” centers on a young man who’s zooming about freely at a beautiful seaside resort to the beat of Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again”–the camera then reveals that he’s in a wheelchair, and that the resort is fully wheelchair accessible.
Credits
Client Booking.com Agency adam&eveDDB, London Richard Brim, chief creative officer; Laura Rogers, creative director; Genevieve De Rohan Willner, Selma Ahmed, creative team; Bex Wilson, social media director. Production MJZ Fredrik Bond, DP; Helen Kenny, exec producer; Alicia Richards, producer; Monika Lenczewska, DP; Rakhal Heijtel, Ruurd Vulink, 2nd unit camera operators. Editorial Patric Ryan, Toby Conway-Hughes, editors. Online & VFX The Ambassadors Bas Moonen, postproduction supervision & Flame; Jade Durbecker, producer; Matt Hare, grading colorist; Dave Renton, Rink Hof, motion graphics. Music The Self Same Beth Urdang, music supervisor. Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again” Sound Design/Mixing Wave Randall Macdonald, sound designer; Estelle Papougnot, producer.
Apple’s holiday ad--“Heartstrings,” 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 “Our House” 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 daughter’s 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.
“Heartstrings” 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 father’s 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
