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Creative Brief: Love In A Lockdown

couple in love kissing standing at a subway station

Creative Brief – Special Keyword Code: LOCKDOWNLOVEP5BRIEF

This month‘s Creative Brief brings you Love In A Lockdown. With the COVID-19 Pandemic hitting its 1-year anniversary around the world, it’s been a long and gruelling road for everyone in some way. Dating, growing and maintaining relationships, and finding love have all changed drastically, and surprisingly not all for the bad. Despite one study showing a 122% increase in divorce enquiries from July to October over 2019, 65% of married people say they appreciate their spouse more. This is a chance to show how relationships have been affected by the pandemic–both for the good, and the not-so-good.

 

Creative Brief – Shot List Thought Starters:

  • Various angles and shots of online dating — people literally having dates in virtual setups
  • (POV) Shots of people using dating apps with masked users
  • People wearing masks at dinner, while hiking, or during any other date situations
  • Shots of a bride and groom at virtual wedding ceremonies
  • Shots of couples in virtual counseling/therapy, or even in a virtual divorce trial
  • Stressed couples worrying about finances due to the pandemic
  • Families spending more time together without TV or phones, such as playing board games, eating
  • Creative dating ideas while in quarantine, indoors and outdoors (e.g. drive ins, picnics, etc)

 

Suggested Keywords: relationship, love, dating, single, married, divorced, pandemic, covid19, courtship, couple,…

Typical Users: tech companies, news & media organizations, ad agencies, social media companies, vloggers, health and wellness industry, municipal governments, bloggers

 

Online Dating. Man At Self-Isolation Having Video Call. Champagne Against Laptop by CupOfSpring.

 

Pro-Tip: The biggest thing here is to stay safe and healthy when making this content, and don’t shoot with more people than what your government or public health agencies recommend. Secondly, do your best to cast real-looking talent with real skills to get authentic content. Also, please be conscious of logos and other intellectual property as well.

Casting Considerations:  Race and gender diversity, authenticity with talent and imagery. Accept the challenge to subtract artificiality from your setups. In other words, keep it REAL. These things will play an important role in the success of your shoot.

Location Diversity: homes, apartments, beaches, trails, garages, home studios/offices, condos

Masked Interracial Couple Is Choosing Christmas Decorations In Shop, Pandemic by Viktor_Lom.

Before You Shoot:

  • Firstly, please check what content already exists in the Pond5 marketplace
  • Also, think about a visual approach that will result in new and fresh footage
  • Remember that each shot must communicate a clear message

Submission Checklist:

  • Remember to tag your clips with the keyword code: LOCKDOWNLOVEP5BRIEF
  • Also, please have all property and model releases filled out and submitted
  • Furthermore, no logos or brands may be visible in any of the clips
  • Don’t forget to add any applicable conceptual keywords to the clips

Top image: Couple In Love Kissing Standing At A Subway Station by Yuralaitalbert .

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Buyer Requests: Green & Renewable Energy, Unity & Activism, Lines of Masked Individuals

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    Buyer Requests

    Buyer Requests is a monthly guide to the most requested content from real clients.
    Get inspired and increase the sales potential of your portfolio.

Most Wanted in February

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Nothing can stop us from guiding you through! 🙂

Now that the holidays are over, and everyone has gotten their feet under them in 2021, the time has come for production companies of all kinds, ad agencies, corporate clients and marketers to start spending money again! Put your Valentines down on the table and let’s get down to business! This month our buyers are looking for Green & Renewable Energy, Unity & Activism, Lines of Masked Individuals.

Green & Renewable Energy

Green & Renewable Energy

USE THIS SPECIAL KEYWORD IN YOUR METADATA: BRGREENRENEW2021
We have had a couple of UK client requests for more content focusing on green energy, deforestation and climate change. According to direct client feedback, this is going to be a real focus this year so remember this theme both as a trending category at the moment and also an evergreen concept throughout the year.

Shot List Thought Starters

  • Commercial and editorial clips of renewable energy sources
  • Global, but especially EU, people looking excited about green initiatives – bike rides, electric cars
  • Editorial footage of key events connected to ecological themes – protests
  • People of all ages, races, ethnicities and genders using eco-friendly services, such as car-sharing etc.
  • Current worldwide ecological problems – deforestation, overproduction of meat, etc.
  • New Technologies involved in Green energy, possible solutions for worldwide ecological issues
  • Eco-friendly lifestyle (zero waste, veganism, cleaning oceans, seashores, forests)

Suggested Keywords

Green, Renewable, Deforestation, Planet, Climate change, Emergency, Eco-friendly, The Paris Agreement

Target Group

TV production and advertising agencies

Unity & Activism

Unity & Activism

USE THIS SPECIAL KEYWORD IN YOUR METADATA: BRUNITY2021
Due to recent political events in the United States — which have caused an even deeper divide among the populace — many globally recognized brands have begun to distance themselves from certain elected officials. As a result, brands will be likely to increase their advertising and messaging around democracy, unity, peace, and justice. And not just brands – filmmakers and documentarians will be looking for content on this topic as well, especially those cleared for commercial use and looking natural, not ‘stocky‘.

PRO TIP

Firstly, always keep in mind that naturally-looking content cleared for commercial use is much more attractive for our buyers than overly “stocky” clips, especially for filmmakers who want to mix their own footage with media from our database. Secondly, clips cleared for commercial use should never contain any logos or 3rd party intellectual property, unless you get a property release from the owner and any recognizable person in the clip should sign a model release. Moreover, we highly recommend considering diverse actors or models of all ages, ethnicities, races, religions, genders or sexual orientations. Lastly, choosing the right metadata is crucial for the searching algorithm. Never spam your metadata with irrelevant keywords.

Shot List Thought Starters

  • Peaceful protestors wearing masks (cleared for commercial use)
  • Near city or state government buildings
  • Commercial clips of diverse individuals giving the peace sign
  • Individuals giving speeches to others in a public setting (commercial use)
  • Clips that help to illustrate unity
  • Commercial clips of diverse individuals giving ‘elbow bumps’

Suggested Keywords

Peaceful, Protest, Unity, Togetherness, Justice, Peace, Democracy

Target Group

All groups, but specifically ad agencies and corporate clients

Lines of Masked Individuals

Lines of Masked Individuals

USE THIS SPECIAL KEYWORD IN YOUR METADATA: BRLINESOFMASKS2021
Sometimes the requests we get from buyers can be quite specific. Here’s one that falls into that category. We’re seeing more and more requests about lines or queues of people waiting, but with masks on, and cleared for commercial use. Where the people are in line is not important, but your focus should be put on the actual length of the line and the fact that people are masked.

Shot List Thought Starters

  • People of all ages, races, ethnicities and genders waiting in a line wearing masks (could be waiting to enter a building or inside the building as well, but with masks on) cleared for commercial use

Suggested Keywords

Masked, Line, Queue, Covid, Social Distance, Facemasks

Target Group

Ad agencies, political campaigns, pharmaceutical and medical companies

Examples

Clips similar to this clip but again, with masks on.



People Queue Or Standing In Line. Indoors. Queueing Up. Waiting. Stock Video by purplevideos.

This clip also gives a good example of what people are asking for BUT with commercial clearance and people wearing masks.



Coronavirus Unemployment Line by MelbourneVideoTV.

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Music Briefs: Surf Rock, Sertanejo and Goth Rock

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New month, new music briefs. This month we’re looking for Surf Rock, Sertanejo and Goth Rock tracks.

Once you’ve completed your work, apply a unique code to each track – just add the code (provided in each brief) to your keyword tags when you upload. As a result, we’ll know which genre you’ve been focusing on.

Also, if you have any questions or comments about any of these music briefs, please email Pond5’s Director of Audio Collections, Mike Pace, at mike@pond5.com.

 

Surf Rock

Soundtrack that next big wave with a solid backbeat and retro-sounding electric guitars awash in reverb.

  • KEYWORD CODE: SURFFEB21
  • SUGGESTED KEYWORDS: Surf, surfing, waves, 1960s, reverb, retro rock, nostalgia

 

Sertanejo

Also known as “Brazilian country music,” Sertanejo features bright acoustic guitars, accordion and male/female vocal harmonies.

  • KEYWORD CODE: SERTANEJOFEB21
  • SUGGESTED KEYWORDS: Sertanejo, Brazil, acoustic guitar, accordion, Brazilian country music

 

Goth Rock

Influenced by post-punk and focused on romanticizing darker themes, goth rock typically features deep, often droning vocals.

 

  • KEYWORD CODE: GOTHFEB21
  • SUGGESTED KEYWORDS: goth rock, gothic, dark, post-punk, 1980s

 

Don’t Forget:

Take advantage of the 50-keyword limit and add both broad and specific keywords. On the other hand, do not use recognizable band or artist names, please!

We also encourage you to submit separate :15 and :30 versions of these tracks for social-media use.

Moreover, please note you can apply tags to existing tracks in your portfolio.

Top image: Young Man Playing Guitar On Beach by ImageSource.

Check out more Music Briefs here.