Have you ever seen a pair of puppets promoting a hair salon franchise? We have not.
Minneapolis shop Periscope (NOT New York’s Posterscope, which we’d never heard of before today, thanks Digiday) turned to the slightly twisted directorial duo The Perlorian Brothers for this campaign for client Great Clips.
“Benny & Lenny” tells the story of a sadly neglected puppet and his search for the man whose hand usually goes up his ass, Kanye-style.
Demand for ventriloquists must be pretty weak if he’s willing to lose his trademark ginger head-bush for nothing.
This isn’t really too much of a departure for the client, which already took a deep turn into Oddvertising territory with “Ralphpunzel” more than a year ago.
Credits:
Great Clips: “Benny & Lenny”
Director: The Perlorian Brothers
Director of Photography: Bobby Shore
Line Producer: Merrie Wasson, Soft Citizen
Executive Producer: Eriks Krumins, MJZ
Editor Jim Hutchins, HutchCo, Los Angeles
Puppetmaster: Jamie Shannon, Toronto
Agency: Periscope, Minneapolis
Executive Creative Director: Charlie Callahan
Creative Director, Copywriter: Chris Wareham
Senior Art Director: Jen Neis
Head of Production: Patty Hofstad
Freelance Producer: Tammy Auel
Management Supervisor: Teddy Hobbins
Account Executive: Brooke Lattin