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2021 ADC Awards - Advertising

Family Diary

Agency BBDO Group Germany GmbH + AlmapBBDO / Sao Paulo + ANORAK Film GmbH

Client WhatsApp Inc. / WhatsApp

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Category

Craft in Video / Editing

Annual ID

ADC_ADV21_075M

About the Work

Despite the hardships of 2020, there’s no denying that there was also an incredibly strong sense of community that shaped this year. WhatsApp broke bittersweet records with the amounts of messages that were sent through the platform. That’s why they wanted to show the importance of relationships with family and friends during these tough times and wish for a hopefully happier New Year. Since the film had to work for different core markets, it was important that people of all ages, no matter where in the world, could find a piece of themselves in the film and its characters.

On New Year’s Eve, the protagonist relives all the highs and lows of her special 2020 by scrolling through her WhatsApp family chat, as if it was a diary. The scrolling is the core editing element of the film. It transitions between chat and memories seamlessly and tells the product in a very unobtrusive way. Chat conversations, voice messages, and video calls enhance the emotional roller coaster of the year-in-review, edited in way that they blur the lines between phone screens and reality. In the protagonist’s memories, we find that while there was hardship and frustration, she also remembers the support and closeness of her family. As a viewer you can relate because you have felt it yourself. The film hence manages to show our year through the lens of a single family and lands on a strong message: Even in a really tough year like this, where we had to stay apart from the people we love the most, it’s the bond we shared that got us through.

2021 Awards

Total Points: 3

Merit Honor

Credits

Agency

BBDO Group Germany GmbH
AlmapBBDO / Sao Paulo

Client

Bosco Zubiaga Delclaux
Eric Rottenberg
Eshan Ponnadurai
Felipe Chavez
Maz Sharafi
Summer Schiavo
Vispi Bhopti
Vivian Odior

Production Company

ANORAK Film GmbH

Post Production Company

Strangelove Studio 8

Chief Creative Officer

Josy Paul
Luiz Sanches
Till Diestel

Composer

Caribou

Director

Joanna Nordahl

Director of Photography

Tim Lorentzén

Editor

Emma Backmann

Executive Producer

Catherine Baikousis

Music Supervisor

Caribou

Sound Designer

Calle Budee Ross

Account Team

Kadia Sow
Mark Andree

Audio Production House

Ponytail Sound AB

Casting

Gray's Casting
Kayos Casting

Creative X Team

Amanda Godspeed
André Felix
Belén Márquez
Lucas Heck
Chad Emerson
Julian Katz
Devin Baker
Rodrigo Moran
Soham Chatterjee

Makeup Artist

Michelle Leigh Collins

Producer Post Production

Bevil Schwartz

Setting

Irma van Heerden

Styling

Neil McClean

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