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Clif Coffee Collection launch assets.

An inside look at how we crafted an asset library and marketing campaign for one of Clif's most unique bars.

Services

Pre-production

Creative direction
Producing services

Production

Production design
Video production
Lifestyle photography
Studio photography

Post-produciton

Video editing
Animation
Motion graphics
Color grading

Overview

A tasty way to shift your day into high gear–that's the tagline for Clif Bar’s eyebrow-raising product–Coffee Collection. It’s a coffee flavored Clif Bar containing the same amount of caffeine as a shot of espresso.

While planning how to reveal their new creation to the world, Clif came to us to execute their vision in the form of a video marketing campaign plus a photo and video asset library for their artists to pull from when crafting future creative assets.

Coffee Collection needed to appeal to an unfamiliar cross-section of Clif's audience–people who enjoy coffee house culture, but are too busy to indulge in it.

Our challenge was to capture photo and video assets that would speak to this niche and to make sure we supplied Clif's creative team with enough creative building blocks to cover Coffee Collection's launch phase, and introduce the already-planned Coffee Mini bars.

Approach

Clif's world-building deck gave us a great idea of their vision. We broke it down into its components to make a production plan, which included locking down casting, wardrobe, props, locations, and crew.

We'd only have a single shoot day, so our plan had to be airtight. It meant finding locations as close as possible to each other, and having two small sets running simultaneously–one shooting lifestyle photos, the other shooting video.

We sent reference-graded image selects to Clif so they could make their final picks, and started work on the video assets on our list of deliverables–a hero product video, a looping landing page marquee, and product videos for Coffee Minis.

We also had a day of shooting in-studio to capture some live-action elements we'd need for the video assets, and afterward, handled all the post-production in-house, including editing, compositing, animation, and color grading.

Results

After the dust of production settled, we were able to pass Clif a world-class image library their artists could leverage to create all the marketing materials they'd need for the product's introduction cycle.

On top of this, the video assets we produced added texture and movement to the coffee house world Clif envisioned, reinforcing the look and feel in a more immediate way.

Clif Coffee Collection

Product Video

Clif Coffee Minis

Product Video

And the best part–everything was delivered on time, on budget, and to the delight of our partners at Clif.

Huge thanks on this project to the wonderful creative team at Clif, and to our amazing partners at K8C Studio for making this such an enjoyable project, as usual.

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"Our go-to agency"
Axes is our go-to agency for a full range of video and production projects. They consistently deliver top-notch quality work and are a reliable, collaborative partner–like an extension of our internal creative team. They bring a calm, positive attitude to everything we work on together, and I know I can rely on them to solve any challenges that come up while always delivering on time and on budget.
Julia Mitchell, Creative Program Manager, Clif Bar & Co.

Team

Mackenzie Mathis

Production supervision, animation

Robert Burns

Art direction

Ashley Andrews

Concept design, world-building, social strategy

Kate Chuang

Concept design, world-building, social strategy

Julia Mitchell

Project management

Brandon Hall

3D modeling and texturing

Tony Hocevar

3D lighting and animation

Dan Juenemann

Studio lighthing

Alex Harvey

Copywriting

Janice Whang

Hand modeling

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