Entrant Company
TBWA\Media Arts Lab
Medium Type
Use of Music
Medium
Use of Music in Advertising
Category
61 Seconds to Five Minutes
How we hear sound shapes how we connect to the world and those around us.
Our House is a song about the incredibly ordinary yet important moments of life. Our stripped back cover performed by a teenage girl perfectly embodies our film’s themes of support, connectivity, and accessibility as it relates to hearing health and hearing loss - meant to pull on everyone's HEARtstrings (get it?).
As an additional layer to our story's authenticity, the on-screen dad, John, actually has hearing loss himself and his real-life children are all featured in the film.
While going out to breakfast in Laurel Canyon, Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash swung by an antique shop to buy a vase Joni had her eye on. After escaping to her home on the cold and drizzly day, Nash exclaimed in a moment of serendipity the opening verse to the song he spent the next hour writing – “I’ll light the fire. You place the flowers in the vase that you bought today.”
And though it took just slightly longer to make and with a whole lot more people, our Holiday film – much like Nash’s iconic song – came together with the same magical serendipity.