Client: CitiBank
Product: CitiBank Photocard
Campaign: Man of a Million Faces
Medium: TVC
Duration: 30”
Concept: The one photo worth smiling for
Music: Pictures of People Taking Pictures by Jack Johnson
Product: CitiBank Photocard
Campaign: Man of a Million Faces
Medium: TVC
Duration: 30”
Concept: The one photo worth smiling for
Music: Pictures of People Taking Pictures by Jack Johnson
Scenario
A child sits on Santa’s knee, brooding when he should be grinning with delight. His mother can be seen shaking her head as she stands behind the photographer, exasperated by her terminally unhappy child. A few years later, her poses with his date for the school formal – a gorgeous specimen, a real dream girl that any guy would be over the moon to have on his arm. Again, he can barely crack a smile as his and her parents snap away. Fast-forward another few years, his first child is born. This is a momentous day for anyone, a day that would fill a father with absolute joy but still his face stays blank, his demeanour grim rather than grand as someone snaps him holding the beautiful child. What if anything could get a rise out of this down and out man with a perpetual pout? Strangely, he is seen straightening himself up in front of a white portrait backdrop, primping and preening like never before. When he’s done he looks right at the camera before him and smiles genuinely for the first time. It is a real smile, something natural, as if he’s been able to do so since the day he was born. What is this photo? CitiBank Photocard. The commercial ends with the screen fading to black, showing the words “Smile knowing tour money has never been safer” and a voiceover states that, with CitiBank Photocard your money is truly YOUR money.