In this campaign from CP+B LA, NBA 2K16 challenges us to #BeTheStory with a focus on the all-new MyCAREER storyline that was created for the videogame by filmmaker Spike Lee. NBA 2K16 is allowing gamers to star in their own Spike Lee Joint and experience what it’s like to rise to the NBA through an interactive storyline.
This spot has Lee introducing us to the importance of story when it comes to basketball. From street courts to high school and college gyms, to Madison Square Garden, he makes it clear that at every level of basketball, the story is everything. Even the three NBA 2K16 covers designed by 2K and CP+B celebrate the individual stories of this year’s cover athletes–NBA All-Stars Stephen Curry, James Harden and Anthony Davis–by featuring highlights that span their careers. The game covers, TV and online film are the first pieces in a multi-media campaign that will roll out as the year progresses. Like in the game, each piece of the campaign will show how the on and off court drama comes together to tell each player’s story.
Credits
Client 2K Sports/NBA 2K16 Agency CP+B LA Kevin Jones, executive creative director; Cameron Harris, VP/creative director; Nicholas Loftus, Jimbo Embry, associate creative director; Eric Scott, copywriter; Daniel Koo, art director; Kate Hildebrant, VP/director of video production; Sloan Schroeder, VP/executive integrated producer; Addison Born, integrated producer; Jake Welch, content supervisor. Production Plus Productions Cameron Harris, director; Kesshann Cortez, line producer; Peter Deming, Matt Bass, DPs. Editorial Lost Planet, Santa Monica, Calif. Max Koepke, editor; Glenn Teel, assistant editor; Karena Ajamian, post producer; Robert Owens, exec producer. Postproduction Method LA Wenson Ho, Flame artist. Audio Post Lime Studios, Santa Monica Mark Meyuhaus, engineer. Post Company 3 Stefan Sonnenfeld, colorist.
For World Cancer Day (Feb. 4), Gustave Roussy, a treatment center in France ranked number one in Europe and number four in the world in the fight against cancer, is once again speaking out through film. โLucieโ retraces the life of a young woman, from her birth, her joys, her encounters and her trials, in particular the illnesses she faced or may have faced (if not vaccinated) during her life but which did not kill her thanks to advances in science and medicine, including the discovery of her rare cancer at the age of 36.
Conceived by Publicis Conseil and directed by Jaco Van Dormael via production company Hamlet, โLucieโ takes the gamble of using almost exclusively scientific images to tell this story (scanners, MRIs, microscopes, 3D). It highlights the beauty of these images beyond their raw meaning, the poetry that can emerge from them to pay tribute to all the researchers, doctors and specialists who over the centuries have transformed what were once serious illnesses into benign ones, saving many lives in the process. Like most of us, Lucie lives her life without even thinking about all the times when science and medicine have enabled her to go on living.
โIn a world where cancer affects one person in two and more and more young adults, we want to show that the disease is a stage in life from which the majority of sufferers are now recovering, thanks to scientific progress. Lucieโs story is the story of thousands of patients. This film makes Gustave Roussy, its doctors, researchers and professionals part of the history of major scientific advances,โ said Professor Fabrice Barlesi, CEO of Gustave Roussy.