Toyota RAV4 Hybrids Comedic Multi-Platform Campaign Featuring Keegan-Michael Key Taps The Colonie's Editorial VFX Talent
Bob Ackerman Cuts The Mix Of Broadcast Commercials, Web Spots Social Media Videos Helms The Chicago-Based Creative Boutique's Seamless Full-Service Approach To Burrell Communications' Off-Beat Integrated Campaign
Hybrid Learning': https://vimeo.com/151064147
Toyota and Burrell Communications introduce the 2016 RAV4 Hybrid with a series of broadcast commercials, web spots and video vignettes starring Keegan-Michael Key ( MADTV,' Comedy Central,' Key & Peele' and Playing House') that take a comedic approach to dispelling the misconceptions about hybrid vehicles. Bob Ackerman, creative editor, and partner at The Colonie, along with the full-service boutique's visual FX and design team took the package from cutting through finishing.
The storyline of the campaign is driven by Key's character, Ravelle Forman, (RAV4, get it?) a wide-eyed, slightly unhinged driving school instructor. The zealous fan of the 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid has come out of retirement on a mission: To educate student drivers about a new generation of high-performance hybrids with sophisticated features that rival those of traditional vehicles - while providing a budget-conscience, environmentally friendly alternative
The :30 broadcast spot, Why Wouldn't Ya,' establishes the premise of the campaign with an outlandish parody of driving school.
It opens with Ravelle in front of a blackboard with Hybrid Learning' written in bold letters. As the bell rings, he begins the class by posing the question, Who here wouldn't consider driving a hybrid?' All of the students raise their hands and respond with a litany of reasons based on misinformation about everything from style, performance and power, to maintenance and mileage.
The wacky yet well-informed instructor proceeds to enlighten his skeptical students - each with a distinct and quirky personality and style that clues
viewers as to the features that they most value in a car - and assume that a hybrid won't provide. Using references to his own beloved Toyota RAV4, a mix
of visual aids and a steady stream of oddball metaphors, he presents an arsenal of facts, disproving their notions about hybrids with theatricality and
unbridled enthusiasm.
Burrell developed a concept that masterfully utilizes multiple platforms to tell the story. The agency's creative team Elyse Simpson and Derrick Harmon
delivered a series of nuanced, off-beat comedic scripts co-written by Keys, a lauded comedic actor and writer who work in both discipline has garnered
multiple accolades (Writers Guild of America Award, Peabody Award, Primetime Emmys) and Rich Talarico, (Peabody Award winner and Emmy, WGA
and American Comedy Award nominee) best know for his work on Comedy Central's hit sketch show, Key & Peele.')
Keegan-Michael Key is such a natural, spontaneous comedic performer that it was no surprise he delivered an abundance of golden moments to pick
from, which made the editing of this campaign a joy.
Director Tucker Gates ( Parks and Recreation,' The Office,' House of Cards,' etc.) at Independent Media encouraged Key and the talented supporting
cast to improvise and play with material, giving the pieces an uncontrived, from the hip feel. Burrell's creative team took advantage of the web spots'
longer format to give Key time to play out new directions and interactions between his character and the pupils.
The volume of spots and videos in this campaign required particularly close collaboration with the agency, says Ackerman. We've worked with Burrell on
numerous projects over the years, and always find that having EVP, Chief Creative Officer, Lewis Williams and his team in the room sparks new ideas -
and collaborating with them on this project was no exception.
Each of the online spots ( Hybrid Learning,' Acceleration,' Cost Saving,' Maintenance,' Styling,' and Mileage,') took advantage of their longer format to
give Key time to play out new directions and interactions between his characters and the pupils. The three :15 spots, ( Dodge Ball,' High-Price,' and
'Teachers' Lounge,') featuring Ravelle will live on the Toyota Facebook page.
Shot on the Cal State campus in LA, and both Bob Ackerman and assistant editor Graham Chapman were on location during the production. They took
advantage of the opportunity to begin editing the performances during the shoot while the footage was still fresh in their minds. The final cut, visual effects,
and motion design were completed back at The Colonie's Chicago-based boutique.
The fact that this package had so many moving parts also made it important that The Colonie's team didn't miss a beat. The award-winning company's
approach to project management and the level of attention its team gives to every detail were key to maintaining efficient workflow and effectively culling
through the wealth of footage to create a series of videos that shared the same basic storyline without being redundant.
While the posting of the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid campaign is editorially driven, it also called for a considerable amount of visual effects. Senior VFX
supervisor Tom Dernulc took an organic, natural approach when creating the projected-look of the videos that needed to run behind Ravelle.
When I approach an FX shot I always keep in mind the overall needs of the project, says Dernulc. The running footage on the classroom screen
needed to be blended and finessed to appear natural, but at the same time, the product had to be showcased in the best possible light.
Dernulc and assistant VFX artist, Ben Pokorny, took a very different approach to the
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Toyota RAV4 Hybrids Comedic Multi-Platform Campaign Featuring Keegan-Michael Key Taps The Colonie's Editorial VFX Talent
