The duo of Daniel Titz and Dorian Lebherz (students at the Film Academy of Baden-Württemberg in Germany) are back with another brilliant spec ad, with the ok from Volvo to create the ABC of Death. You might remember them from last year, they created the wildly popular and simply beautiful spec ad for Johnnie Walker, "Dear Brother."
Is it spec? You bet your life it is. That said, the directors got Volvo's blessing before going ahead. "We contacted Volvo to ask about some of their brand new models," Lebherz tells AdFreak. "We knew that was a little risky with that script, but we wanted [to show] a car that had not been released at that time. And actually, we were a little bit surprised when they told us it was OK."via David Gianatasio at Adfreak
THE CREDITS:
Director: Dorian & Daniel
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
DoP: Jan David Günther
Producer: Celina Finger, Madlen Folk
Production Design: Mona Otterbach
Editor: Raquel Caro Nunez
Music: Yessian Music GmbH
Composer: Ralf Denker Ingmar Rehberg
Sounddesign: Marvin Keil
Idea: Dorian & Daniel
Idea dove scene: Andre Price
CAST
Amber: Johanna Katharina Riebesam
Berry: Stephen M. Gilbert
Clara: Verena Plangger
Dora & Friends: Leonie Walther, Julian Weiss, Martin Lapp
Eric: Frank Roder
Garry: Andreas Wellano
Heinrich: Marcus Widmann
Couple: Katharina Wittenbrink, Manuel Flach
Basset Hounds: True Pleasure Basset Hounds
CREW
Unit Production Manager: Alexander Pietzsch Christian Dieckhoff
Unit Production Manager Assistants: Fabian Kappes David Jasim Anja Schmidt Peer Andre Grote Ganya Mosolf Tobias Gerginov
Costume Design: Annika Osterrieder Kathrin Radke
Hair and Make-Up: Hanna Pfeiffer Carlo Benz
Production Sound Mixer: Markus Fass
1st Camera Assistant: Adrian Huber, Felix Koster
2nd Camera Assistant + DIT: Alexander Zimmermann
3rd Camera Assistant: David zu Höhne, Joscha Bongard
Gaffer: Johannes Reichau, Maximilian Pittner
Best Boy: Felix Zenker, Dominik John
Lighning Technicians / Electricians: Michael Throne, Timon Dangel, Fabian Decker, Mehdi Ayadi, Fabian Rumor, Lucas Maibaum, David zu Höhne, Lukas Eicher, Ernst Lattik, Philipp Henze
Grip: Mark Zechner, Manuel Musch
Production Design Assistant: Marta Jeszke, Carla Jerschl, Amelie Hofmann, Tim Peter
Stunt Coordinator: VIP Stunts, Sigi Polap & Igor Tjumenzf
Swingfog Operator: Christian Grözinger
VISUAL EFFECTS ARTISTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Julian Weiss
CGI doves: brickbeach c/o Power to the Artists GmbH
CGI explosion: nhb video GmbH
Matte Paintings and additional CGI: Dorian & Daniel
Color Grading: Harvest Digital Agriculture GmbH
Color Grading Artist: Dennis Wieck
Catering: Ganya Mosolf, Nathalie Lamb
Car Rental: car motion service GmbH
sponsored by: Caligari Preis 2016, Gestiftet von der Stadt Ludwigsburg, ARRI Loaner, ARRI Rental Deutschland GmbH
special thanks to: Robert Gross VOLVO Autohaus G. Gross GmbH, Uwe Nesselthaler, Waltraut, Ochotzki, Ingmar Rehberg, Lukas Lehmann, Max Leist, ZAV München — Hermann Malzer, Agentur Julia Krüger, LVL Jäger — Frank Metzger