WHO OWNS THE STREET? -SHIBUYA HACK & PLAY-

TitleWHO OWNS THE STREET? -SHIBUYA HACK & PLAY-
BrandSEIKO WATCH CORPORATION
Product / ServiceWW
CategoryF02. Challenger Brand
EntrantHAT INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation CHERRY Tokyo, JAPAN
PR PA COMMUNICATION. Tokyo, JAPAN
Production HAT INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Post Production LAPOSTA Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Post Production 2 PTHREE Tokyo, JAPAN
Additional Company GROUNDRIDDIM Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Shotaro Nieda CHERRY Inc. Creative Director
Yuto Tamura TM Inc. Art Director
Taiki Kawakami CHERRY Inc. Agency Producer
Satoshi Ichishima ADK Creative One Inc. Copywriter
Masato Nakamura ADK Marketing Solutions Inc. Account Executive
Akina Okabe ADK Marketing Solutions Inc. Account Executive
Aya Shibata ADK Marketing Solutions Inc. Account Executive
Tomoaki Okumura PA Communication PR Planner
Syoya Kato PA Communication PR Planner
Yusuke Watanabe HAT INC. Producer
Masayuki Shiobara HAT INC. Production Manager
Spikey John GROUNDRIDDIM DEPT. Director
Mikul Eriksson Freelance Cinematographer
Kiyoshi Ogami L’espace Vision Co., Ltd. DIT
Tetsuichiro Kitagawa grid_FPV LLC. Drone Operator
Yuta Nakamura Freelance MOVI Operator
JIRO - JIYURO Molding
Shinichi Nishiyama JIYURO Molding
Kesuke Kano Freelance Stylist
Lil Honey Princess GROUNDRIDDIM DEPT. Casting Director
Airi Takesaki HAT INC. Casting Director
Pablo Tufaro Laposta Inc. Post Producer
Raul Lavado Verdu Laposta Inc. Colorist
Federico Quiros Laposta Inc. Compositor
Pablo Maiesse Laposta Inc. Compositor
Chido - Laposta Inc. Compositor
Sandra Osorio Laposta Inc. Compositor
Iga Moto Laposta Inc. Animator
Hernan Carattoli Laposta Inc. Animator
Nicolas Broner Laposta Inc. Animator
Nicolas Cantarellii Laposta Inc. CG Artist/Lighting Artist
Macca - Laposta Inc. CG Artist
Pablo Verettoni Laposta Inc. Character Development
Lobo - Laposta Inc. Character Rig
Alejando Libman Laposta Inc. Matchmover
Gonzalo Canepa Laposta Inc. CG Lead/Lighting Artists/Cloth Set Up
Kim Quiroz Laposta Inc. VFX Producers
Celeste De Dios Laposta Inc. VFX Producers
Antonio Gallardo Laposta Inc. VFX Producers
Thomas Takamura A VERY SMALL COMPANY VFX Coordinator
Yosuke Kuboe L’espace Vision Co., Ltd. 3D Scan
Yu Azumi Freelance Offline Editor
Koji Yoshida PTHREE Flame Artist
DJ UPPERCUT GROUNDRIDDIM DEPT. Sound Designer

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

Shibuya, the epicenter of japan’s youth culture. The man dashing through its streets in a pair of inline skates is WW man, the poster boy of WW. While skating jauntily, he notices a no skating sign and is forced to change direction. A security guard stops him. Onlookers take pictures and post them online without permission. He gets away from such a reality that plagues skaters and skates on the walls and rooftops of buildings unchallenged. A drone chases him, but he takes a big leap to dodge it. (drones are banned in tokyo.) He runs up 109, shibuya’s landmark, and leaps off. He lands in front of a police box, but is too fast to make a clean landing. It impresses upon the tagline of the new watch brand WW, unlocking the potential of those who are expressing themselves on the streets in ways that are unique to them.

Please tell us about how the work challenged / was different from the brands competitors

To embody "UNLOCK YOU", we've done some outside-of-the-box staffing. Young people, the target audience, can detect the non-genuine article, so we hired a 24-year-old music video director with no advertising experience. To portray the new Shibuya, the cameraman was brought in from LA instead of Japan. Also, to create the uniqueness and interest of the most important characters, we felt a foreign company that expands computer graphics would be more suitable than a Japanese company that makes no mistakes, so we selected one from Buenos Aires after viewing many reels. Movements of the characters are motion-captured from professional skaters, but the wide range of movement requires a huge studio at huge costs. Therefore, we adopted a motion capture suit used by Vtubers to capture movement. In addition to the movie, the data was used for movements of characters that appear on the web, AR, and OOH, reducing the overall budget.

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