New Campaigns: Midwest

Client: The Cleveland Clinic Agency: BBDO Chicago Chief Creative Officer: Phil GrantCopywriter: Derek Sherman Art Director: Dan Weeks Executive Producer: Chuck SeldonsActual patients of the Cleveland Clinic are featured in two 30-second television spots airing in the Cleveland area. The themeline for the spots is 'The Cleveland Clinic: Every Life Deserves World Class Care.' One spot features a man identified by a caption as 'Former prostate cancer patient.' Vince Schuyler is now shown enjoying a spirited game of Bocce ball. Schuyler's recuperation from prostate problems and his new carefree attitude are reinforced with the caption 'Told the cable guy any time's fine.' The scene switches to Martha Curtis, described in a caption as 'Former brain surgery patient.' She is shown appreciating the outdoors, followed by another caption, 'Enjoys the sound of her alarm at 6 a.m.' The message 'Everything changes when you get your health back' and the themeline complete the spot. A second ad depicts Kerri-Simone Price, 'Former digestive disease patient,' relaxing in a hammock. The message here appears to be that life can be a joy following treatment at the Cleveland Clinic.--Trevor Jensen------------Client: Saint Louis Zoo Agency: Advertising Savants, St. Louis Creative Director: Donna Hagerty-Payne Copywriter: Corrine Mitchell Art Director: Vince Cook Director: Rick GouldThree TV spots for the Saint Louis Zoo portray life from the animals' perspective, with comic voiceovers. In one, some polar bears decide to entertain a scout and his dad. 'Whaddya think the ball or the pool thing?' one bear asks another. The bears leap into the pool; the humans remain unmoved. One bear stands on hind legs to provoke a response--to no avail. 'I'm getting too old for this,' the bear laments. In another spot, lizards discuss their next meal. 'Whaddya think, crickets for lunch?' one asks. Two people press their faces to the aquarium. 'Oooh, that killed my appetite,' one reptile says. 'I know, I can never get used to them; they're so big and pink,' says another. Parrots also talk about humans in a third spot. 'Can you come out and play' is the campaign's tagline. Outdoor work features giraffes and apes appearing atop or over the billboard.--Trevor Jensen------------Client: Coleman Agency: Martin/Williams, Minneapolis Creative Director: Lyle Wedemeyer Copywriter: Tom Kelly Art Director: Jim Henderson Director: Boris DamastThe ease and quickness of Coleman's new air mattress inflation system are selling points conveyed with humor in a 30-second commercial shot in South Africa. An out-of-breath man enumerates various activities one can accomplish while camping. The viewer is left to assume this man is winded because he has been canoeing, climbing a mountain, hiking and fording a stream, as described and shown in intercut footage. When asked by an announcer why he is winded, the man, however, confesses he has not started doing any such activities yet--that his energy has been spent trying to blow up the air mattress. The camera pans to reveal his son, now blue in the face with his own efforts to inflate the air bed. The solution presented is a battery-powered device from Coleman that fills up the air mattress with a flip of a switch. The commercial is airing in spot cable television markets.--Trevor JensenCopyright ASM Communications, Inc. (1997) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Midwest

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