Smashbox Goes Behind the Scenes of a Photo Shoot in Its Foray Into VR

Plenty of iconic magazine and fashion shoots over the years have taken place at the 25,000-square-foot Smashbox Studios in Los Angeles—a Stuart Weitzman campaign shot by Mario Testino, for instance, and Annie Liebovitz's shoot with Reese Witherspoon, Amy Adams and Channing Tatum for Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue last year. Now, Smashbox—the makeup brand named after the space—is making its first push into virtual reality with a video that takes folks behind the scenes at its headquarters. Created with L.A.-based agency Omelet, the three-minute clip shows a handful of the studios in the space and what goes into putting together a shoot. One scene, for example, shows a room called Flashbox that can be used to recreate a dozen different types of light. Ginny Chien, executive director of global digital and consumer marketing at Smashbox, said VR represents somewhat of a shift in the brand's video marketing over the past year after it invested in YouTubers and other influencer programs. "It's the perfect storytelling platform for us because we are the only brand born out of a photo studio—a real, functioning photo studio," Chien said. "We've seen over the years that people don't grasp that concept because competitor brands are latching on to being behind the scenes and knowing how to take good photos. We realized that people don't know that our history is authentic as this studio brand until they're here." In addition to posting the film on Facebook and YouTube... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]

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