Usain Bolt is best known for being the fastest 100m runner in the world, but meet the Bolt family - a whole clan of old, young, male and female Usain Bolt's, taking advantage of Virgin Media's extra fast broadband.
Director:
Benji Weinstein
Production Company:
Blink
Agency:
BBH
Created by BBH, the spot shows the Jamaican athlete (as himself) watching his favourite team in the front room, while a younger version plays on his PlayStation 4 and Grandpa Bolt chats to female friends online. Mrs Bolt explains that she is watching her favourite athlete, only for the sprinter to come in and see that she is watching a Mo Farah race.
Mill producer Rachel Stones comments, "The main challenge on this project was time. As with any sports star you get a limited slot so we didn't have the luxury of working in the Eddie Murphy "The Klumpfs" approach. The time required for make up and costume would have almost certainly ruled the script out entirely! But with the help of Blink we figured out a way we could utilise post to make this happen - head replacements! We then shot the family members' bodies and Usain's head seperately and our expert post production team then composited the two together seamlessly."
Agency: BBH
Producer: Natalie Parish
Creative Directors: Matt Doman & Ian Heartfield
Creatives: Hugo Bone & Tony Clements
Account Director: Lucy Scott
Production Company: Blink
Director: Benji Weinstein
Executive Producer: James Bland
Producer: Patrick Craig
Director of Photography: Alex Barbour
Editing Company: Stitch
Editor: Max Windows
Edit Assist: Paul O’Reilly
VFX & Design: The Mill
VFX Producer: Rachel Stones
Shoot Supervisor: Dan Williams
2D Lead Artists: Dan Williams
2D Artists: Joe Tang, Gary Driver
Motion Graphics: Jessica Tan, Henry Foreman, Shaun Leong-Williams