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Method Studios: The Ballad of Tina Pink

Zune continues to fund weird and beautiful work, and while I’m not sure how effective their marketing strategy is, I’m certainly glad they’re doing it. The latest Zune-fueled creation is an ethereal spot entitled “The Ballad of Tina Pink.”

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Although the transitions and vignettes played out in the project are impossibly surreal, Method pulls it all off with deadpan sincerity. This is the kind of visual effects I like. Beautiful but not overwrought. Unbelievable and yet enchantingly real. Hooray Method!

Posted on 7 November 2007 by justin
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Comment by david
2007-11-07 02:37:39

My god, she’s trapped inside a zune, I can think of no worse fate!

 
Comment by Simon Robson
2007-11-07 04:30:00

This is delightful. It’s like Gondry meets Nagi Noda meets Joji Koyama. Brilliant stuff.

 
Comment by Marc B.
2007-11-07 08:49:36

I like. Unfortunately a product that’s 2 years behind.

 
Comment by TheTofuFactory
2007-11-07 09:42:33

@Marc B. - Very true. Great commercial, horrible product.

I wish Apple would open up more with their creative. They seem to have died out and gone to a corporate kind of scheme.

 
Comment by rhooks
2007-11-07 12:03:18

Wow! Amazing spot, would almost convince me into buying a Zune. O’ the power of persuasion. Kexp/Ted Leo/Indie Hipster college scene?? I think that demographic may be a bit smart for Microsoft(wink).

 
Comment by chaimeli
2007-11-07 14:54:07

If you like the spot check out Firstborn’s amazing site for the same campaign… http://www.zunejourney.net

I was the producer on this one and also helped concept it, its so beautifully executed in both programming and design.

Would love to hear what you guys think…

 
Comment by bk9
2007-11-07 15:55:24

geez can they think of something other than the jellyfish thing?

i think i first saw it in the Chemical Bros video The Test. then i saw it again in a Scissor Sisters video.

use a goddamn seahorse, ffs!

 
Comment by iline
2007-11-08 10:00:09

I would be a bit pissed if I was Gondry watching this. I mean, it’s nice he’s such an influence on the ad industry, but for some disciple in another land to just clearly steal ideas and art direction from him seems wrong.

However it’s a nice advert all the same.

 
Comment by Marc B.
2007-11-08 10:57:27

@iline

How is this gondry? It’s not like he owns the copyright on stylized sets and costumes.

 
Comment by blahblahblah
2007-11-08 13:19:27

Spot looks good……………………….but the endtag is really really nice!

 
Comment by cokedhead
2007-11-08 14:39:43

PATRICK DAUGHTERS is the director. A lot of the ideas in this spot seem to come from his great music video work. See his work and realize the realized reality.

 
Comment by ochyming
2007-11-08 19:13:54

This ad reinforces my love to Apple ad approach.
I think an ad shouldn‘t be [al-thought it is art] a conversation between artists, but actually to be franc and honest.

This is pretty.
But as someone said ART is dead.

 
Comment by Apoteka
2007-11-08 22:06:43

Art is dead? Oh crap!

 
Comment by anonymouse
2007-11-09 09:28:33

“How is this gondry? It’s not like he owns the copyright on stylized sets and costumes.”

time to watch his smirnoff commercial to know what people are referring to.

 
Comment by zeniamai
2007-11-12 00:58:05

I love the ad and I especially like the surreal like transitions. The jellyfish part is rather very common, I must agree with bk9 however nonetheless it still fits and the visual effects brims with elegance and magic..

 
Comment by csmallfield
2007-11-12 15:05:40

Hey all, nice to see so many compliments. I was one of the many artists that worked on it. We are all really proud of how it turned out.

It should be noted that the production designer for this commercial, KK Barrett, is the production designer who did many Gondry films and was the art director for the Chemical Brothers “Let Forever Be” (directed by Gondry). So it’s not a huge surprise that the art direction feels like Gondry :)

Check for another spot in the same vein, made by the same people soon.

 

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