How Blue Cross Blue Shield Used Stylistic Post-Production Re-Editing to Transform a Commercial Campaign

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) offers health insurance and related services to more than 1.5 million customers. They approached Explore with a particular issue: for a statewide commercial campaign, they had already filmed on-camera talent (colleagues and employees) and put together edits. The problem? The spots didn’t resonate, or leave viewers feeling connected with the messaging.

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How Serta Mattresses Cast a Black Friday Commercial Without a Casting Director

Leo Burnett and Serta Mattresses needed to film creative involving actors reading actual social media posts from kids talking about their parents’ uncomfortable mattresses when they come home for the holidays. Genius! The only problem? There was money for either a scaled back casting session or locations, not both. Oh yes, and due to timing, the project needed to shoot almost 1 year in advance.

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Production Insurance for "Stunts" On Shoots

…Explore has a DICE policy to cover most of our production insurance needs. The key word is “most”. Shooting on a frozen lake in Minnesota in March? A DICE policy will definitely cover the shoot – until anyone in the crew steps across a very specific line: the lake’s shore.

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Amrita Nandagopal