Wednesday, March 25, 2015

OK Go’s First Official Ad Is for Chinese Furniture, and It’s Full of Optical Illusions


OK Go has collaborated with plenty of brands—including Chevrolet, Google, Samsung and State Farm—on its own music videos. But here is the first truly traditional commercial the band has ever filmed. Though of course, this being OK Go, it's far from typical.



The ad, which the band worked on in China for much of February, is for the Chinese furniture store Red Star Macalline. Full of optical illusions, it visually references OK Go's 2014 video "The Writing's on the Wall" (which the band later accused Apple of ripping off) but is set to another OK Go track, "I Won't Let You Down" (a remixed version by drummer Dan Konopka).



Hear the band talk about the project here:



CREDITS

Director: Damian Kulash Jr.

Co-Director & Creative Director: Mary Fagot


Executive Producer: Fung Ni

Director of Photography: Luke Geissbuhler

Art Director: Julius Mak

Production Manager: Bihong,Chan

Assistant Director: Joan Chen


Photograph group:

Steadicam Operator: Alec Jarnagin

1st Assistant : Kenan Qi

Assistants: Xinfeng Zhang Hongyan, zhang Yanru, wang

Equipement: Wei Pang

Digital Image Engineer: Tiger

Equipement Company: Yiying Shanghai


Light Group:

Lightman: Kok Kin Wing

1st Assistant: Jingdong Wang

Light Assistant: Bin Xu Xinbin Jiang Yongchao Hu Chaoliang Wang Yang An

Light Equipment : Chenjun Zhou


Art Group:

1st Assistant: Ong Wan Hoong

Art Assistants: Harris Eddie Sequerah, Rae Chen

Props: Songyi Wu

Studio Factory Manager: Yubin Xia

Recordist: Yan Xia


Production Group:

Executive Producer: Xiaoming Tang

Production Assistants: Jojo Ying Yuanbiao Wang Yong Dong Longhui Li Yi Zheng

Translator: Lingyi Chen, Yifei Gu

Runner: Chao Huang

Transport: Shuguang You


Casting: Fei Huang, Jingyuan Yuan

Choreography: Guanglei Zhang

Dancers: Weijia zhou, Chuanjing XU, Kaijie Wang, Xi Xu, Zhijing Cao, Yimian Song, Xuqin Hua, Wentao Fan, Qin Zhang, Xubin Geng, Chunmeng Yan


Costume:

Stylist Director: Mengjia Zhan

Stylists: Yuanjun Xiao, Shiqi Zhang, Yinghui Huang, Zhihui Wang, Chen Wang, Bin Lang, Huiting Wang


Postproduction

Offline Editor: Fenny

TC : Jian Wang

Online user: CiCi & Yuqian Jin

Post Producer: Jojo Ying

Behind the Scene: Steven

Post Production Company: Liveplus Shanghai, Film Vally Shanghai

Music Studio : Take One, Shanghai


General Planner: Red Star Macalline "Two Days coming" program

Agency: 25hours, Shanghai

Production House: STEAM ,Shanghai

Advertising Agency Executive Creative Director: Lei Tao

Advertising Agency Creative Director: Song Zhang

Advertising Agency Art Director: Lei Shi, Binyan Huang

Account Director: Lingning Yan

Account Executive: Yan Huang, Da Li








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