Christmastime might be powerful for individuals who have skilled the lack of a love one. This spot from Dutch grocery store chain Plus contains a teenage boy who has misplaced his father and should come to phrases along with his mom’s new accomplice.
Yearly, the grocery store releases a vacation marketing campaign that tells a family-based story, and this yr isn’t any completely different. For 2022, the marketing campaign focuses on 15-year-old Gio and his response to assembly his mom’s new boyfriend, who ultimately turns into his stepfather.
With Christmas because the backdrop, Gio’s grief is expressed as anger after he walks in on his mom kissing her new boyfriend. He constantly rejects him and acts out at school, resulting in rising stress at house. At one level, he slams his bed room door shut which causes a framed photograph of him and his late father to fall to the ground and break.
Ultimately the state of affairs reaches a climax: Gio is alone in his bed room and the door opens simply sufficient so {that a} wrapped present might be slid inside throughout the ground earlier than it closes once more. Opening it, he finds that it’s the photograph of him and his father in a brand new body. He confronts his stepfather, who has given him the present, they usually hug, releasing the strain.
Gio then joins the household on the eating desk for a Christmas dinner collectively. On display screen, the phrase “Consuming nicely means consuming collectively” seems forward of the Plus branding.
‘An actual Christmas film’
Created by Amsterdam-based company Energize, it’s a severe marketing campaign that’s wrought with emotion and reminds audiences how the expertise of the festive season is completely different for everybody, however that it is usually a time for households to come back collectively.
“It has change into an actual Christmas film, with a coronary heart. About being collectively, consuming collectively and the worth of household,” defined Robin Pas, artistic director at Energize.
The TV marketing campaign started to run within the Netherlands on Dec. 5 and can start to seem in cinemas throughout the nation Dec. 8. It would even be supported by out of house, social media and radio content material. On-line movies that includes the household within the hero advert will provide viewers concepts for dishes to make, inexpensive festive options and wine strategies out there inside Plus shops.
CREDITS:
Promoting company: Energize
Artistic director: Robin Pas
Technique: Els Dijkstra
Account director: Simone Ottenbros, Nicole Nouwens
Company producer: Cariola van Beek
Manufacturing firm: Pink Rabbit
Director: Ismael ten Heuvel, Rogier Hesp
Director of images: Bjorn Charpentier
Senior producer: Monique van Beckhoven
Editor: Martin Heijgelaar/MRTN
On-line and grading: Barry Clarke/Captcha!
Music: Tom Tukker/Huge Music
Sound: Jacco Lenstra/Studio Levalo
