WINE IS NORMAL

Bronze Spike

Demo Film

Film

TitleWINE IS NORMAL
BrandEMART
Product / ServiceEMART WINE
CategoryA03. Casting
EntrantTBWA\KOREA Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Idea Creation TBWA\KOREA Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Media Placement TBWA\KOREA Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Production TIKITAKA Seoul, SOUTH KOREA

Credits

Name Company Position
Hyunwoo Nam TBWA KOREA Creative Director
Jaeyoung Lee TBWA KOREA Copywriter
Nakyeong Jeong TBWA KOREA Copywriter
Heejun Shin TBWA KOREA Art Director
Jongsung Kwon TBWA KOREA Art Director
Minki Kim TBWA KOREA Account Director
Seonyeon Lee TBWA KOREA Account Manager
Cheolbin Kim TBWA KOREA Account Executive
Kwangyong Lee TBWA KOREA Agency Producer
Minho Cho TBWA KOREA Agency Producer

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

The name of this country village is “Winery”; the villagers are typical Korean elderly men who are just seemingly unrelated to wine. However, this village’s morning is quite different from that of other villages. They drink wine instead of coffee in the morning and of milk or water in their daily life. They even drink wine with unique “Mariage” such as Kimchi, hot wings, or other Korean traditional dishes. When decanting wine, they ride a cow to stir it up.

Cultural/Context information for the jury

Ahead of the 10th anniversary of wine sales, emart, a hypermarket chain, was preparing a big discount promotion. In the market, inexpensive wines were starting to gain a certain deal of popularity. Thus, emart decided to exploit it as a new opportunity to popularize wine in Korea, as a common, daily alcohol drink. For this goal, above all, the convention that “Wine is special” had to be shattered. To most Koreans, wine is special; it must be with special marriage, to celebrate special occasion, as it has been portrayed so by the media. Hence, wine has usually been consumed in fancy restaurants, not at homes as a daily drink like beer. We aimed to break this preconception created by the media in a way that people can actually relate to.

Tell the jury about the casting process.

In order to deliver the message that ‘wine is normal’, this village called “Winery” has to look natural as if it really exists. We were planning to make up the imaginary village with an existing place; thus we thought the actors should blend well in to the background without any sense of incompatibility. A few days before the shooting, we went to the village and casted real villagers as leading actors who were fit for shooting. Moreover, we had a course of assimilation with the villagers while having a dinner and conversation with them. Since they were not professional actors, it was hard for them to speak their lines naturally on the actual shooting day. Still, the residents were so passionate and cooperative that the shooting site even resembled an audition site, and they eventually succeeded to act very naturally

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