First Choice: Ridiculously Good Prices by VML
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First Choice is positioning itself as a low-cost holiday provider, as it sets up measures to stop it following in similar footsteps to Thomas Cook.
Shifting away from its parent brand - Tui - First Choice has moved away from expensive all-inclusive packages, in favour of cheaper self-catering deals.
To let the world know about its new lower-costs venture, First Choice got VMLY&R onboard who in turn created an ad with equal measures of weird and wonderful.
Set to the catchy tune 'In the Jungle' by Tight Fit, a couple lie sunbathing, basking in the glory of their well-priced holiday. "To think it was just £299 each for our First Choice holiday," the husband tells his wife.
As a young boy blows a conch like a battle horn, the ad then spirals into a vortex of madness. A tiki bar drummer bursts from the pool playing a watermelon drumkit, as a hairy creature drives by on a jetski with a go-go dancer attached. Next a quirky ventriloquist feeds her doll, as a merman shoots from a canon, being marked by a table of judges. The ad ends with the voiceover ‘Ridiculous deals need ridiculous adverts.’
Credits
Agency: VMLY&R
Chief Creative Officer: Laurent Simon
Chairman: Mark Roalfe
Creatives: George Robb & Sophie Taylor
Business Director: Rachel Clapp & Kate Douglas
Account Director: Miriam Goode
Account Manager: Tom Hayward
Strategy Director: Josh Taylor-Dadds
Strategist: Ollie Chakraverty
Agency Producer: Charlotte Davis
Assistant producer: Maddie Ramsay
Designer: Michal Landa
Head of Design: Chris Willis
Production Company: Partizan
Director: Djawid Hakimyar
Director of Photography: Simon Drescher
Producer: Jason Oakley
Production Manager: Charlie Scannell
Editing house: Final Cut
Editor: Ed Cheesman
Post production company: Framestore
Producer: Emma Cook
Shoot Attend: Paul O’Brien
Colourist: Steffan Perry
Sound design: Machine
Lead sound: Alex Bingham
Music Supervision: Native