WEDDING SPEECH

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TitleWEDDING SPEECH
BrandSPARK
Product / ServiceSPARK
CategoryB09. Consumer Services / Business to Business
EntrantCOLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Idea Creation COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Media Placement PHD Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Production FINCH Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Additional Company SPARK NEW ZEALAND Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Credits

Name Company Position
Nick Worthington Colenso BBDO Creative Chairman
Levi Slavin Colenso BBDO Chief Creative Officer
Dan Wright Colenso BBDO Executive Creative Director
Renata Gordon Colenso BBDO Senior Business Director
Ryan Butterfield Colenso BBDO Business Director
Natasha Gill Colenso BBDO Senior TV Producer
Payton Cox Colenso BBDO TV Producer
Mylene Ong Colenso BBDO Head of Strategy
Sarah Williams Spark Brand Experience Tribe Lead
Hannah Bay Spark Brand Lead Partner
Karen Bryson FINCH Production Company Executive Producer
Jimena Murray FINCH Production Company Producer
Christopher Riggert FINCH Director
Jeremy Rouse Jeremy Rouse DOP
Stewart Reeves The Editors Editor
Pete Ritchie Pete Ritchie Colourist
Shane Taipari Franklin Rd. Sound Design
Guy Amitai Pivot Audio Music Composer

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

All the devices in our lives can help us create profoundly human moments. Those are exactly the times the technology should fade away. At their best our devices should help us be more human. Wedding Speech, for Spark -New Zealand’s largest telco -is above all a film celebrating our human relationships. It tells the story of the months leading up to a wedding. An already emotional time, complicated by the sudden hospitalisation of the bride’s father. As it unfolds, the film looks at the powerful connection between a father and daughter, their shared optimism, and a wedding gift made possible by everyday technology. Wedding Speech juxtaposes the audio from the wedding day celebration against pictures showing the often difficult journey to get there. The technique plays with the conflicting emotions that are a staple of every close relationship, mixing happy and sad together to create something textured and real.

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