Agency: CP+B LA
Client: 2K Sports
Date: Sep 2017
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CP+B LA has helped launch the annual NBA 2K video game releases since 2015. This year for NBA 2K18, they built an open-world neighborhood, allowing gamers not only to play basketball, but to immerse themselves with all the culture that surrounds it. Gamers can go to the barbershop, get ink done at the tattoo parlor and play ball at the local courts.

To announce and celebrate this new feature, CP+B LA created a two-minute film showing a kid on his journey from his apartment to the local court, ducking in and out of all his haunts and greeting everyday regulars on the way. It just so happens that those regulars are all NBA superstars (10 in total). And for the eagle-eyed fans, the neighborhood is furnished with basketball Easter eggs. The NBA players are in order of appearance: D’Angelo Russell, Paul George, Joel Embiid, Isaiah Thomas, Damian Lillard, Bill Walton (retired legend), DeMar DeRozan, Devin Booker, Karl-Anthony Towns and Kyrie Irving.

Credits

CLIENT NAME: 2K Sports

AGENCY: CP+B LA

EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Kevin Jones

CREATIVE DIRECTOR (s): Barnaby Blackburn, Gustavo Kopit

VP DIRECTOR OF VIDEO PRODUCTION: Kate Hildebrant

SR INTEGRATED PRODUCER: Jackie Maloney

MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Andy Hamm

PRODUCTION COMPANY & CITY: Imperial Woodpecker

DIRECTOR (s): Stacy Wall

LINE PRODUCER (PRODUCTION CO): Robbie Mooring

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Mihai Malaimare Jr

EDITORIAL COMPANY & CITY: Cut & Run LA

EDITOR: Sam Ostrove

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Moss Eletreby

POST EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: James Drew

POST PRODUCER: Catherine Yi

POST PRODUCTION & CITY: ETC

FLAME ARTIST: Eric Mason

MIX COMPANY & CITY: Eleven LA

AUDIO ENGINEER: Jeff Payne

COLOR DESIGN COMPANY & CITY: Company 3

COLORIST: Tom Poole

VP GROUP ACCOUNT DIRECTOR: Ryan Skubic

CONTENT SUPERVISOR: Jake Welch

VP / EXECUTIVE BUSINESS AFFAIRS MANAGER: Rebecca Williams

JR. BUSINESS AFFAIRS MANAGER: Taylor Tsuji

PROJECT MANAGER: David Rowe