Best of 2014 #2 TV/Film: Anna Kendrick Wonders if She's 'Beer Commercial' Hot in Newcastle's Super Bowl Ambush
Actress and Keyshawn Johnson on How They Could Have Been in Beermaker's Ad
Editor's Pick
Through this week, we continue our countdown of the best work of the year in TV/Film, Print/Outdoor/Design and Interactive (IX)/Integrated/Social. See all the Best of 2014 so far here.
At #2 in TV/Film, Droga5 New York took the piss out of Super Bowl advertising with its ambush campaign for Newcastle Brown Ale, featuring spots and online films that imagined what would happen had the advertiser decided to appear in the big game. The effort started off with an outrageous teaser trailer that poked fun at the Super Bowl pre-game tease trend and then continued with super funny films starring Anna Kendrick and Keyshawn Johnson talking about their big game ads that never happened.
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Newcastle Brown Ale and Droga5 have added to their "If We Made It" campaign (about the Super Bowl ad it could have made if it had the money) with two funny "Behind The Scenes" films about the stars who could have been in the ad, if the beer brand decided to actually made it. Football player Keyshawn Johnson and (potty-mouthed) actress Anna Kendrick are interviewed about the disappointments of not starring in ad for, as Kendrick puts it, a beer they don't drink. Ms. Kendrick, is at her comedic finest, spouting bleeped out expletives and contemplating whether or not she is "beer commercial" hot. "Not," she thinks, but she always likes a challenge, she adds.
The mocked-up storyboards of skateboarding cats, which Johnson laments that he "could have voiced," are also particularly good. There's also a hilarious new Focus Groups video on the website, IfWeMadeIt.com
Credits
- Date
- Jan 29, 2014
- Brand :
- Newcastle Brown Ale
- Client :
- Newcastle Brown Ale
- Agency :
- Droga5
- Chairperson :
- David Droga
- Chief Creative Officer :
- Ted Royer
- Creative Director :
- Scott Bell
- Art Director :
- Dan Kenneally
- Copywriter :
- Ryan Raab
- Head of Integrated Production :
- Sally-Ann Dale
- Head of Broadcast Production :
- Ben Davies
- Executive Broadcast Producer :
- Matt Nowak
- Production Assistant :
- Goldie Robbens
- Production Assistant :
- Heather Black
- Integrated Campaign Production :
- Droga5
- Edit :
- Droga5
- Lead Editor :
- Matt Badger
- Editor :
- Kellan Davidson
- Live Action Production Company :
- Smuggler
- Director :
- Randy Krallman
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