CURSOR MAN

TitleCURSOR MAN
BrandGO DADDY
Product / ServiceGODADDY.COM.AU
CategoryA04. Production Design / Art Direction
EntrantPHOTOPLAY Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Idea Creation TBWA\SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Production PHOTOPLAY Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Credits

Name Company Position
Gary John Photoplay films Director
Bonnie Fay Photoplay Films Producer
Oliver Lawrance Photoplay Films Executive Producer
Anjali Bakaya GoDaddy Account Manager
Derek Craig GoDaddy Marketing Director
Fiona O'Sullivan TBWA Account Director
Russ Tucker TBWA Executive Creative Director
Dave Ladd TBWA Creative Director
Lisa Brown TBWA Agency Producer
Ginny Loane Freelance Director of Photography
Pete Baxter Freelance Production Designer
The Editors The Editors Post Production
Dave Whittaker Freelance Editor
Tara Commerford GoDaddy Country Manager ANZ
Billy Nahn GoDaddy Executive Producer, Go Daddy Production

Brief Explanation

'Cursor Man' tells the story of Mark, a small business owner who goes to extreme lengths to get his business online, including dressing up as a real-life computer cursor.Despite being a fictional business, 'Cursor Man' illustrates some of the struggles real Aussie SMBs face when it comes to migrating online. The set for the TV commercial reflects some of these insights - it opens on a typical bricks and mortar store, except the store owner has physically transformed it into an online website, complete with web browser and domain name on the store façade. Internally, one wall is framed with computer icons and yellow desktop folders, and the other is a grid style display of t-shirts representing his ecommerce site. Mark "the Cursor Man" is the center point of this campaign and will integrate across marketing channels pointing viewers to GoDaddy's Next Generation Website Builder, launched in Australia in April.

The Brief

'Cursor Man' tells the story of Mark, a small business owner who goes to extreme lengths to get his business online, including dressing up as a real-life computer cursor.Despite being a fictional business, 'Cursor Man' illustrates some of the struggles real Aussie SMBs face when it comes to migrating online. The set and in camera art direction for the TV commercial reflects some of these insights - it opens on a typical bricks and mortar store, except the store owner has physically transformed it into an online website, complete with web browser and domain name on the store façade. Internally, one wall is framed with computer icons and yellow desktop folders, and the other is a grid style display of t-shirts representing his ecommerce site.