Take & Bake Pizza
HK / Publicis-Törmä
Plain table-top photography: wrapped fresh pizzas propped and stacked on white shelves against a perforated white wall, labels out, lit flat and bright so it reads as a shop fixture rather than a kitchen. One pizza tips up onto its edge and spins like a coin while the rest stay put, its label smearing into a blur, and this appears to be done in camera rather than optically, the only movement in an otherwise still film. A topped pizza then slides into a lit domestic oven, and the last shot is the baked one on a dark counter, the cheese browned with red and yellow pieces across it, a board and herbs behind. Cold shelf, hot oven, finished pizza: the structure is the product name acted out, and the pack shot and the appetite shot are the same object photographed twice. The only words are a sung 'Hei, baby!' and the end card is the HK crest rendered in three dimensions on black. There is no drawing or animation in it beyond the spin.
What is said: Hei, baby!