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This subsection of Ad Archive combines best commercials from all over the world according to certain themes, focusing on different creative methods and techniques, on best reels of directors, studios, agencies and brands. The section supplements the collection of prints “ Mysterious coincidences ”. However, in the TV-spots case we are talking about “focus” in particular, making an attempt to categorize creative methods and strategies.


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Scottish Road Safety: Surround

TV-Spots   UNION
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Credits:

Advertiser: Road Safety for Scotland

Agency: Union, Edinburgh

Creatives: Michael Hart, Ben Craig
Agency Producer: Beverley Hart
Production Company: Sonny, London
Director: Guy Manwaring
Director Of Photography: Federico Alfonzo
Post-Production: Finish, London
Editor: Mark Edinoff, The Quarry, London
Flame Artists: Byron Wooffindin, Steve Murgatroyd
Sound Design: Nigel Heath At Hackenbacker

World Vision: Water

TV-Spots   Meteorite
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http://www.worldvision.org.uk/water

Today 1.1 billion people will have no choice but to drink dirty water. Thanks to an accident of birth, you're not one of them. But what if you were? If you had to wash the dishes with it, bathe in it, drink it - and ask yourself this question-if you had to give dirty

Home Office: Fashion Show

TV-Spots  RESPONSIBLE DRINKING VCCP
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Credits:

Advertiser: HomeOffice

Agency: VCCP, London

Creative Director: Mark Orbine
Creatives: Matt Gilbert & Dave Tokely
Agency Producer: Bradley Woodus

Production Company: Gorgeous Enterprises, London
Director: Vince Squibb
Producer: Spencer Dodd
DP: Alex Barber

Editor: Paul Watts @ The Quarry
Post production: The MIll

Binge Drinking Awareness: Uncle Mark (1/3)

TV-Spots  Binge Drinking Awareness CLEMENGER BBDO, Wellington
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Credits:

Product: Binge Drinking Awareness
Agency: Clemenger BBDO Wellington
Executive Creative Director: Philip Andrew
Creative Director: Mark Harricks
Copywriter / Art Director: Brigid Alkema, Paul Young
Agency Producer: Christina Hazard
Producer: Mark Foster
Director: Adam Stevens
Production: Robbers Dog
Country: New Zealand

Montana Meth: Sister

TV-Spots   VENABLES BELL & PARTNERS
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Credits:

Agency: Venables Bell & Partners, San Francisco
Associate CD: Tom Scharpf
Copywriter: Crockett Jeffers
Agency: Producer: Zeynep Taslica

Production Company: Anonymous Content, Los Angeles
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
EP/Head of Commercials: Dave Morrison
Head of Production: Sue Ellen Clair
Producer: John Benet
Production Supervisor: Justine Madero

Editorial: Final Cut Editorial
Editor: JD Smyth
Assistant Editor: Logan Hefflefinger
Producer: Kiayan Reuter
Telecine: Rushes
Colorist: Jonny McPheeters

Dunkelziffer: Tentacle

TV-Spots  CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AWARENESS PROJECT Red Rabbit
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Credits:

Advertiser: DUNKELZIFFER
Product/Service: HELP FOR SEXUALLY ABUSED CHILDREN
Entrant Company, City: RED RABBIT WERBEAGENTUR, Hamburg
Country: GERMANY
Advertising Agency, City: RED RABBIT WERBEAGENTUR, Hamburg
Country: GERMANY
Executive Creative Director: Oliver Seltmann/Jan Fröscher
Creative Director: Oliver Seltmann/Jan Fröscher
Copywriter: Joakim Reveman/Bjoern Ruehmann/Matthew Branning
Art Director: Joakim Reveman/Bjoern Ruehmann/Matthew Branning
Account Supervisor: Regine Schild
Advertiser's Supervisor: Julia Falck
Production Company, City: ROKKIT, London
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Producer: Luke Jacobs
Director: The Vikings
D.O.P/Lighting Cameraman: Sam Brown
Editor: Paul Hardcastle
Sound Design/Arrangement: 750 mph

Synopsis
The spot dramatises the lifelong trauma sexually abused children suffer from.

WSIB: Top Chef

TV-Spots  Workplace Safety and Insurance Board FCB TORONTO
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Credits:

Client: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
Executive Creative Director: Robin Heisey
Creative Director: Joe Piccolo,
Taciuk
Senior Agency Producer: Pam Portsmouth
Production Company: @radical.media,
imported artist
Director: Peter Darley Miller
Executive Producer: Donna Portaro,
Christina Ford
Producer: Andrea Hubbert
Director of Photography: Jo Willems
Editorial Company: School Editing
Editor: Johnny D.
VFX: The Mill

Danish Road Safety: Take 10 off

TV-Spots   The Aid Agency
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Credits:

Client: Danish Road Safety
Agency: The Aid Agency
Creative: Andrew Smart, Niels Heilberg, Rasmus Sigvaldi
Director: Fredrik Callinggard
Production Company: Far From Hollywood
Producer: Morten Hoffmann Larsen
VFX: Ghost

Torture, By Any Other Name

TV-Spots  THE BODY SHOP QUIET STORM
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Credits:

Starring Emma Thompson

Client: The Body Shop, Helen Bamber Foundation

Writer: Neal Colyer
Director: Steven Sander
Editor: Steven Sander
Production Company: Quiet Storm Films
Director of Photography: Caren Moy
Stylist: Kathleen McGarry
Post Production: Quiet Storm Films

Choice FM - Stop The Bullet

TV-Spots  Choice FM AMV BBDO London
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Credits:

Agency: Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, London
Creatives: Gary Walker, Huw Williams
Agency Producer: Yvonne Chalkley
Production: Therapy Films, London
Director: Malcolm Venville, Sean de Sparengo
Producer: Barry Hughes, Nicola Simms
DP: Stuart Graham
Editing House: Final Cut, London
Editor: David Webb
Post Production: The Mill, London
Flame Artist: Leon Woods
Telecine: James bamford

Sound Production: Wave Recording Studios, London

Synopsis
To address the issues of gun-crime within the black community, Choice FM, a black music radio station, chose to draw attention to the reality of pulling a trigger and the cause and effect it has.

Excuses (Wear a Helmet)

TV-Spots   OGILVY & MATHER VIETNAM
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Credits:

Client: Vietnam Helmet Wearing Coalition
Agency: O&M Vietnam
Executive Creative Director: Tom Notman
Creative Director: Quang Chinh Pham
Copywriter: Xuan Hien Ngo
Agency Producer: Lan Huong Nguyen
Producer: Henri Dung
Executive Producer: Jimmy Singh
Director: Tom Notman
Production: Sud-Est Production Vietnam
Country: Vietnam

SAFETY BELTS

TV-Spots   YesTasteWinNow
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Credits:

Advertising Agency: YesTasteWinNow , Moscow, RUSSIA
Executive Creative Director: Prodchenko Alexandr/Prodchenko Slava
Copywriter: Manyakhin Dmitry/Shiabauer Alexander/Kuzyomin Eugene
Art Director: Bazhenov Alexander
Account Supervisor: Salov Andrew
Production Company: FIBRE FILM PRODUCTION , Moscow, RUSSIA
Producer: Filikov Alexis
Editor: Politik Sergey
Date Of 1st Transmission: 15/06/2007
Entrant Company: YesTasteWinNow , Moscow, RUSSIA

Synopsis
The reel drags the viewer into the child’s state who is playing with her toy with no interest. The sharp outlet from the girl’s micro world into the occurred tragedy makes the viewer feel how horrible the situation is. She is too young to understand what has happened. The girl survived due to the safety belts while her parents died. The packshot where the dead bodies of her parents are fastened to the gurney says: “Fasten your seat belts, otherwise you will be fastened!”

Mess

TV-Spots   Lyle Bailie International Limited
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Credits:

Agency: Lyle Bailie International Limited

Reconstruction

TV-Spots  TV SPOT Grey Worldwide, Melbourne
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