Samsung Mobile Explorer (Vancouver 2010): Ice Hockey

The advert titled Ice Hockey was done by Cheil Worldwide advertising agency for SAMSUNG MOBILE (SAMSUNG company) in Canada. It was released in the November 2009. Business sector is Home electronics & audio-visual.

Credits:

• Client: Samsung Electronics
  Product: Vancouver 2010 – Samsung Mobile Explorer
  Title: “Ice Hockey” & “Figure Skater”
  Media: Viral/Internet
  Ad Agency: Cheil Worldwide
  Creative: Andrew Berglund (Cheil), Joohee Lee (Cheil), The Viral Factory
  Seeding & Digital Media Planning: The Viral Factory
  Production Company: The Viral Factory
  Canadian Production Service Company: Transmission Inc.
  Director: Wayne Holloway with The Viral Factory
  Producer: Jon Stopp
  Producer (Canada): Joe Lafleur
  Lighting Cameraman: Tony Mirza
  Offline Editor: Dave Tree @ Burning Branch
  Post Production House: Moving Picture Company (London)
  Moving Picture Company VFX Team:
  Lead Nuke*: Alex Harding
  Assist Nuke: Jason Hayes
  Ice Particles: Rob Hesketh
  Matte Painting: James Bailey
  Nuke Assist: Kelly Bruce & Alasdair McNeill
  Telecine: Graded by Alex Harding in Nuke
  *(Nuke an SFX program)
  Post Production Producer: Josh King @ Moving Picture Company London
  Audio Post Production Company: Norwell & Green
  Senior Dubbing Mixer: Tristin Norwell
  Music: Audio Network
  Statistics:
  Location of Shoot: Town of Langley, about 1 hour from downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  Venue: George Preston Arena (ßprobably do not publish venue name)
  Shoot Dates: September 22nd & 23rd (night)
  Trivia:
  All of the actors we used are semi-professional hockey players and ice skaters.
  Canadians are very friendly people.
  Canadians are ‘mad’ about hockey – it’s a very popular sport!
  A curling stone weighs 44 lbs.
  The best hockey pucks are made in Slovenia.
  It is very cold in an ice rink in the middle of the night.
  This project required people to collaborate from 3 different countries, spanning a 16-hour time difference.