BACON

TitleBACON
BrandCDO FOODSPHERE INC.
Product / ServiceDANES CHEESE WITH REAL BACON BITS
CategoryA01. Direction
EntrantARCADE FILM FACTORY Makati City, THE PHILIPPINES
Idea Creation GIGIL Manila, THE PHILIPPINES
Production ARCADE FILM FACTORY Makati City, THE PHILIPPINES

Credits

Name Company Position
Badong Abesamis Gigil Chief Creative Officer
Herbert Hernandez Gigil Chief Creative Officer
Jeano Cruz Gigil Copywriter
Raphe Ramirez Gigil Copywriter
Ces Alegre Gigil Copywriter
JR Bumanglag Gigil Art Director
Heninah Salus Gigil Art Director
Cath Dizon Gigil Art Director
Micco Balana Gigil Account Supervisor
Jake Yrastorza Gigil Managing Director
Wendy Campos Freelance Agency Producer
Marius Talampas Arcade Film Factory Director
Mara Bernaldo Arcade Film Factory Line Producer
Ahnel Gozon Arcade Film Factory Executive Producer
Codie Larracas Arcade Film Factory Associate Producer
James Sales Freelance Assistant Director
Zach Sycip Freelance Director Of Photography
Timi Dominguez Freelance Production Designer
Vianka Amurao Freelance Wardrobe Stylist
Dee Nermal Freelance Production Manager
Nare Dela Cruz Freelance Production Assistant
Alvin Chan Freelance Editor
Neil Mendoza Freelance Editor

Write a short summary of what happens in the film.

In this absurd film, a cheese man faces a series of serious questions about his physical appearance from random people around him.

Cultural / Context information for the jury

The processed cheese category in the Philippines has always been bland. Ads were mostly emotional and targeted to mothers, alienating the millennials who are starting make their own grocery purchases and to cook for themselves. Danes Cheese created a unique product catering to their ever-changing tastes for food, and launched it with a film that adapted to their ever-changing taste for content, too.

Tell the jury anything relevant about the direction. Do not name the director.

The director received a simple and straightforward script from the agency. The script was single-minded in its attempt to seem as "absent-minded" advertising, which surprisingly appeals to millennials in the Philippines. So to bring this idea out futher, the director set up the film's scenarios in a world where a humans don't even get weirded out by a walking-and-talking block of cheese, but are more weirded out by the red specks of bacon over the cheese man's body (which represented bacon bits, a market-first introduced in the Philippines by this brand). This intentional choice to make the scenarios normal, mundane, and everyday life-like helped push the weirdness and humor of the ad that captured the hearts of Filipino audiences.

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