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Carmichael Lynch launched a new spot promoting the Subaru Forester, entitled “Making Memories.”

The ad, directed by Noam Murro, shows a father cleaning out his old Forester and finding items that prompt flashbacks of moments he’s shared with his daughter, beginning with a crayon she left in the car as an elementary school student (apparently he didn’t clean the car out very often). It’s revealed, as the father tosses the daughter the keys, that he’s passing the car down to her. “You can pass down a Subaru,” says the voiceover, “but you get to keep the memories. That’s why we got another Forester.” The approach implicitly highlights the longevity of the vehicle, as well as the sentimentality at the heart of the brand’s advertising. “Making Memories” joins a long list of sentimental Subaru ads highlighting the father-daughter relationship and while it may not tread much new ground, it’s hard to fault Subaru or Carmichael Lynch for sticking to their strengths.

Credits:

Client: Subaru of America
Spot: Making Memories

Agency: Carmichael Lynch
Chief Creative Officer: Dave Damman
Exec Creative Director: Randy Hughes
Writer / Group Creative Director: Dean Buckhorn
Art Director / Associate Creative Director: Brad Harrison
Head of Production: Joe Grundhoefer
Senior Executive Content Producer: Brynn Hausmann
Business Manager: Vicki Oachs
Account Management: Brad Williams, Adam Craw, Kate Moret, Greta Hughes, Robert Ar

Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks
Director: Noam Murro
Managing Director: Shawn Lacy
Executive Producer: Colleen O’Donnell
Line. Producer: Jay Veal
Director of Photography: Simon Duggan

Edit House: Rock Paper Scissors
Editor: Stewart Reeves
Assistant Editor: Luke McIntosh and Arielle Zakowski
Executive Producer: Angela Dorian
Producer: Ashley Bartell
VFX House The Mill
Exec Producer: Sue Troyan
Sr. VFX Producer: Dan Roberts
Production Coordinator: Mary Hayden
Shoot Supervisor: Chris Knight, Robert Sethi
Creative Director/2D Lead Artists: Chris Knight
2D Artists: Steve Cokonis, Daniel Lang
Design: Eugene Gauran
Telecine: Company 3 / Stefan Sonnenfeld
Audio Mix: BWN Music / Carl White
Sound Design: BWN Music / Carl White
Post Production Audio Producer: BWN Music / Annie Sparrows
On-Line Editor: Volt Studios / Steve Medin

Music: “Time Will Tell”
Performed by: Gregory Alan Isakov
Written by Gregory Alan Isakov
Music Supervisor: Venn Arts / Jonathan Hecht

On-camera talent: PJ King (Dad)
Fay Masterson (Mom)
Madison Beaty (Teen)
Cordelia Zawaraski (Tween)
Margaret Clark (Grade-schooler)
Quinn Porter (Toddler)
Voice Over Talent: PJ King
Justin Beere (Announcer)

The Dodge company, founded by the brothers Dodge as an auto parts supplier around the turn of the (last) century, first began making its own cars almost exactly 100 years ago.

To celebrate that centennial, W+K Portland has a new spot paying tribute to the Dodge brothers and the styles of their age and introducing the Dodge Challenger, a model designed to recall the spirit that led their business in its early years.

The spot, titled “Ballroom — They Dreamed Big”, adds a nostalgic sheen to the era of Fitzgerald’s Gatsby; the release calls it “an imaginary tale of John (Tyler Bryan) and Horace (Joe Coffery) Dodge celebrating their success with friends 100 years ago.”

Looks like quite the pre-Prohibition shindig.

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BBDO New York’s latest offering for GE continues to celebrate innovation, but marks a stylistic departure from the agency’s recent work for the brand.

While “What Would Happen” and “Childlike Imagination” looked at innovation from a sense of childlike wonder, “Ideas” takes a sharp sidestep, personifying those ideas and focusing on how they often emerge as rough around the edges but grow into something beautiful. In the 60-second online spot, ideas are presented as an odd-looking creature that looks like something that could have crawled out of the reject pile at Jim Henson’s workshop.

Starting from birth, we follow an idea as it has a pretty rough time of things. Continually facing rejection, it resorts to sleeping on the streets until it is finally taken in by GE. “Ideas are scary, and messy, and fragile,” says a voiceover, “But under the proper care, they become something beautiful,” and then we see the fully-transformed idea, followed by the “Imagination at work” tagline.

Following the success of BBDO’s recent work for the brand, the shift in approach comes as a little off-putting, and the idea seems a bit dragged out at 60 seconds. But then maybe the spot being a little rough around the edges actually fits the concept. (more…)

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Sausalito, California-based agency BSSP teamed up with production company Biscuit in a new campaign launching Benefit Cosmetic’s new “They’re Real! Push-up Gel Liner Pen.”

In the 60-second spot, a diamond thief is caught by police. While in the back of the car on her way to the station she maneuvers her hands inside her cuffs, thinks about reaching for a bobby pin in her bag (which the cops have conveniently left right next to her), and instead reaches for her gel liner so she can look fab in her mugshot. There’s no indication of whether she’ll be able to take her cosmetics with her into her cell.

“The Benefit make-up brand has an edge. Its personality is a little bit feisty, so for its first-ever broadcast campaign we thought we could have fun and tell a story that connects with the Benefit consumer in a playful way,” explained Steve Mapp, creative director at BSSP.

“This spot has the feel of a cinema trailer – a true testament to the influence of director Noam Murro and a fantastic idea by BSSP,” said Hannah Malot, creative director of Benefit. “We think it will have enormous appeal around the world and will be shared and liked by our global audience through social media and word of mouth. The product is a true innovation in the marketplace.”

The spot “inspired Benefit to create a series of in-store displays, postcards and print ads that feature the jewel thief in handcuffs, applying the gel liner,” which will be available this summer. Stick around for partial credits after the jump. continued…

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