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OT: Anyone know who put together the John Lewis Penguin spot?
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Anyone know who put together the John Lewis Penguin spot? Its seriously good work on all fronts:
Anyone know who put together the John Lewis Penguin spot?
https://cutepuppylove.me/2014/11/07/this-is-the-best-commercial-of-the-season/
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It is a fabulous ad. Wonderful to have the luxury of 90 seconds – and even better when every frame is used to such excellent effect.
Adweek has this breakdown on who’s responsible.
CREDITS
Client: John Lewis
Project: Monty’s Christmas
Marketing Director: Craig Inglis
Creative Agency: adam&eveDDB
Executive Creative Directors: Ben Priest, Emer Stamp, Ben Tollett
Copywriter: Daniel Fisher
Art Director: Richard Brim
Planner: David Golding
Managing Director: Tammy Einav
Business Director: Sarah Coleman
Account Director: Caroline Grayson
Joint Heads of Integrated Production: Matt Craigie, Cave Ellson
Digital Producers: Joseph Walker, Olivier Guitton, Agne Acute
Media Agency: Manning Gottleib, OMD
Media Planner: James Parnum
Production Company: Blink Productions
Director: Dougal Wilson
Producer: Ewen Brown
Executive Producer: James Studholme
Production Manager: Ellie Britton
First Assistant Director: Jim Cole
Director of Photography: Joost Van Gelder
Steadicam: Paul Edwards
Art Director: Andy Kelly
Visual Effects: MPC
Visual Effects Supervisor, Computer Graphics Lead: Diarmid Harrison Murray
Visual Effects Supervisor, 2-D: Tom Harding
2-D Creative Director, Shoot Supervisor: Bill McNamara
Lead Animator: Tim Van Hussen
Visual Effects Executive Producer: Julie Evans
Visual Effects Producer: Sarah Walsh
Grade: MPC
Colorist: Jean-Clement Soret
Editor: Joe Guest, Final Cut
Soundtrack: “Real Love”
Artist: Tom Odell
Illustrator: N/A
Audio Postproduction: Factory Studios
Sound: Anthony Moore, Neil Johnson
Digital Production: Stink Digital, SupergooberAs noted, the Editor is Joe Guest – and it specifies Final Cut – but not whether it’s Legacy or X.
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Thank you I needed to see that today 🙂
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Oops, Looks like my Edited on Final Cut comment was a presumption.
It appears that Joe Guest, the editor – is represented by an editors group called (drumroll) Final Cut.
This does not appear to have anything to do with the tool used for the editing at all.
Sorry.
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I don’t care WHAT he edited it on… that spot brought a tear to my eye!
Great job!
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They’re in london. It was not FCP.
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Curious as to why you say that. The Honda spot was out of London. The BBC is using X extensively for news. Sports like the Tour de France coverage out of London is cut on X. So what’s your source for that contention?
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[Bill Davis] “Curious as to why you say that”
Without intending any judgments about the relative worth of any products or their appropriateness to the task, and as unpopular as it is to say, there’s simply not any debate about the most present of the NLEs to have a presence in this kind of post, in houses like this.
“We use Avid Media Composer. A few of the editors use Final Cut Pro, but our main system is Avid.”
This is from an interview with one of Final Cut’s 28 editors in 4 offices (London, NY, LA and Amsterdam), James Rosen, at Art of the Guillotine, and posted on Final Cut’s website.
Do note that that sentence is the ENTIRETY of the conversation on the subject, so even as I highly recommend reading it, don’t be disappointed if there’s not much in the way of actual debate. LOL
I recommend poking around their whole site, too. Terrific, terrific work, both in the many news stories about awards they’ve won, and on the profile pages for each of the editors.
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[Mark Raudonis] “I don’t care WHAT he edited it on… that spot brought a tear to my eye!”
Exactly. Quite honestly, any of us could have cut this in iMovie. When I say that, I mean “technically” cut it. It’s a bunch of clean cuts in a row (with a dip to black added for good measure). But, it’s HOW those cuts were designed and paced that makes the magic. The NLE had nothing to do with this. It’s the editor and the skill of storytelling.
A very cute spot.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Agree with Scott that the “creative editorial” had to do with pace and rhythm as well as selection of the boy’s performance (facial) to create the emotional storyline of the piece. But, as you can see from the AdWeek credits, this was like a mini-VFX type feature, so most likely lots of roundtrip with different phases of VFX, such as where the penguin was going to be in each of the shots during that creative editorial. It may have even started off as a moving rectangle that gets animated, etc. All of these objects need to be managed and accounted for during “creative” editorial. Even a film like Gravity that ended up having 156 edits. But that does not include the editing and timing of all the layers and events that led up to the shots that resulted in 156 edits. Each production works with the talent and tools that best serve their needs, and again it shows that there is not one tool that does it all.
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