It was an absolute pleasure to work with the very talented team at Time Based Arts for the first time on this Vodafone commercial directed by Aleksander Bach in which a mysterious red light illuminates various night time scenes across Germany until the entire country lights up red (which is the bit I did). Time Based Arts has this to say: “I just received my new phone from Vodafone. It was really weird though as it wasn’t delivered by courier as is normal but a huge red streaking light flew at me and handed me my phone. Although I was originally scared witless by the light and now see it as excellence customer service and this lovely advert makes much more sense to me now!”
Tag: commercial
Pampers - 'Poo Face'
Saatchi & Saatchi Creative Team Matt Butterfield & Ben Mills bring us epic Pampers Wipes ad – ‘Pooface’. The first spot created for the Pampers ‘Don’t Fear The Mess!’ campaign. Shot by director Olly Blackburn out of Great Guns and posted at Rushes. Set to the classic score ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ by Strauss, the film charts in high definition and in super slow motion, a big moment in ten young babies lives: doing a poo. As babies only seem to poo when you don’t want them to, this film benefitted from some subtle VFX help from me to warp and distort the babies faces that extra bit into contorted “poofaces”. The spot picked up three Cannes Lions awards (a bronze film Lion in the Toiletries, Cosmetics & Beauty category, a silver film craft Lion for casting and a bronze film craft Lion in editing).
Client: Pampers
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi
Producer: Anne O’Neill
Creatives: Matt Butterfield, Ben Mills
Creative Director: Kate Stanners
Production Company: Great Guns
Director: Olly Blackburn
Exec Producer: Sheridan Thomas,
Laura Gregory
Producer: Tim Francis
DoP: Nanu Segal
Editor: Andy Phillips, James Demetriou
Producer: Rosanne Crisp
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston
Colourist: Simone Grattarola
– 2016 Bronze Cannes Film Lion – Toiletries, Cosmetics & Beauty Category
