HARD MAN TO IMPRESS

Grand Prix
TitleHARD MAN TO IMPRESS
BrandPEDIGREE
Product / ServiceDOG ADOPTION
CategoryA13. Corporate Social Responsibility
1 of 3 Campaign
EntrantCOLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Idea Creation COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Media Placement STARCOM Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
PR IMPACT PR Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Production EXIT FILMS Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Credits

Name Company Position
Nick Worthington Colenso BBDO Creative Chairman
Andre Sallowicz Colenso BBDO Creative Director
Simon Vicars Colenso BBDO Creative Director
Andre Sallowicz Colenso BBDO Art Director
Simon Vicars Colenso BBDO Copywriter
Ahmad Salim Colenso BBDO Group Business Director
Abbi Barker Colenso BBDO Business Director
Alice Sopwith Colenso BBDO Account Manager
Ed Gunn Colenso BBDO Planner
Paul Gunn Colenso BBDO PR & Activation
Oliver Downs MARS NZ Marketing Director
Cormac van den Hoofdakker MARS NZ Marketing Manager - Pet
Maria Granados MARS NZ BRAND MANAGER – DOG & SPECIALTY
Mark Delvin Impact PR Director
Tim Freeman Colenso BBDO Experience Design Director
Will Thorrat Colenso BBDO Digital Producer
Dean Pomfrett Colenso BBDO Design Director
Craig Thompson Colenso BBDO User Experience Architect
David Arcus Colenso BBDO Lead Developer
Alex Krivenko Colenso BBDO Front-end Developer
Emma Tait Colenso BBDO Senior Product and Experience
Serena Fountain-Jones Colenso BBDO Senior Producer
Will Bailey Colenso BBDO Photographer
Jodi Davis Colenso BBDO Senior Mac Op
Reks Kok Colenso BBDO Retoucher
Jen Storey Colenso BBDO Head of Broadcast
Declan Cahill Exit Films Production Company Producer
Adam Gunser Exit Films Director
Pete Ritchie n/a Colourist

Brief Explanation

The commercial begins on a mostly empty room. We see that it’s a teenager’s room, and that teen has moved out. The camera pans slowly over trophies and accolades as a deep American voice over talks about the relationship between father and son growing up. We hear that the father was incredibly hard to impress. The camera looks out the window of the room. We see a small dog sit down in front of the father. The father leaps with joy, shouting to his wife to witness what has just happened. Cut to an endframe where a picture frame of the grown up kid is knocked over and replaced by a picture of the dog. The young man has been replaced.