Berlin Cameron Steals Dress for Gilt

Berlin Cameron United’s new campaign for Gilt features a chase scene and some unusual disrobing.

Upon sighting a model in a sleek yellow dress, a woman decides she can’t live without the outfit and chases after her. The model frantically runs away, because that’s what you do when you’re pursued by a woman with a crazy look in her eye. Appropriately set to the song “Suit” by Boom! Bap! Pow!, which features lyrics like “You’re so cute, I want to wear you like a suit. I think you’d look pretty good on me,” the chase concludes with the woman accessing Gilt’s site on her smartphone. This causes the dress to seamlessly slide off the model and on to the chaser, leaving the model in her underwear. While a tad on the ridiculous side, the spot shows off the instant gratification of shopping on the designer fashion site in a fun way. The 30-second ad, which went up on YouTube today, will spread to television on Monday, reports Adweek. Credits after the jump. continued…

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Dress Hunting Cuts to the Chase in Gilt.com’s Colorful New Ads

Berlin Cameron United's new work for Gilt.com is colorful, musical and stylish, but also grounded in a sales pitch.

The ads for the online hub for clothes, shoes and accessories unfold with a catch-me-if-you-can chase on a city street, such as when one woman takes a shine to another's bright yellow dress. The music is the power-pop song "Suit" from Boom! Bap! Pow!, which has been used in ads before, though less effectively. Super slow-motion filming adds style and ensures you get a good look at the clothes.

The yellow dress chase ends with the pursuer finding the item on a smartphone app and then clicking to buy it. Therin lies the sales pitch. To illustrate the immediacy of mobile shopping, the clothes instantly shift from one woman's body to the other, leaving the prey in her underwear. Nothing wrong with mixing some flight of fancy with reality, is there?

The ads go up on YouTube today and will spread to TV on Monday.

 

 

CREDITS
Client: Gilt.com
Chief Marketing Officer: Elizabeth Francis
Agency: Berlin Cameron United
Executive Creative Director: Roald Van Wyk
Creative Director, Copywriter: Kim Devall
Executive Producer: Jennifer Glendining
Account Director: Wynter O-Blanquet
Production Company: Good Egg
Director: Christopher Sweeney
Executive Producer: Julia Reed
Producer: Dawn Rose
Director of Photography: Robert Witt
Foreign Production Company: El Camino Films
Executive Producer: Nicolas Aznarez
Editing: Final Cut
Editor: J.D. Smyth
Executive Producer: Lauren Bleiweiss
Producer: Beth Fitzpatrick
Finishing: Significant Others
Visual Effects Artist: Cecil Hooker
Audio Engineer: T. Terressa Tate
Color: Color Collective

 


    



Comcast: Communicators

Comcast: Communicators

Advertising Agency: Berlin Cameron United, NY, USA
Creative Director: Jason Peterson
ACD, Copywriter: Jason Kreher
Art Director: Matt Hock
Copywriter: Greg Rutter
Producer: Leigh Fuchs
Business Manager: Jennifer Pannent
Account Director: Adam Hunt
Account Manager: Christine Bouyea
Editorial: Cut & Run, NY
Editor: Adam Jenkins
Editorial EP: Susan Willis
Producer: Melissa Lubin
Visual Effects: Guava Studios, NY
VFX EP: Steve Holiner
Music: Tonefarmer, NY
Music EP: Tiffany Senft

Production Company: Epoch Films, Bicoastal
Director: Matt Lenski
EP: Doug Halbert
Producer: Timory King
DP: Steve McGehee

Airdates: May 2008

Comcast: Meet the Team

Comcast: Meet the Team

Advertising Agency: Berlin Cameron United, NY, USA
Creative Director: Jason Peterson
ACD, Copywriter: Jason Kreher
Art Director: Matt Hock
Copywriter: Greg Rutter
Producer: Leigh Fuchs
Business Manager: Jennifer Pannent
Account Director: Adam Hunt
Account Manager: Christine Bouyea
Editorial: Cut & Run, NY
Editor: Adam Jenkins
Editorial EP: Susan Willis
Producer: Melissa Lubin
Visual Effects: Guava Studios, NY
VFX EP: Steve Holiner
Music: Tonefarmer, NY
Music EP: Tiffany Senft

Production Company: Epoch Films, Bicoastal
Director: Matt Lenski
EP: Doug Halbert
Producer: Timory King
DP: Steve McGehee

Airdates: May 2008