Clementine's Naughty & Nice Creamery
Clementina
The Client
Clementine's Naughty and Nice Creamery is a handcrafted creamery based out of St. Louis Missouri. They utilize small-batch production, trade-secret processes, and local high fat milk to create sumptuous, decadent ice creams and sorbets in uncommon combinations.
While Clementine's thrives across multiple storefronts in St. Louis, they also offer a mobile solution to reach new customers at food and drink events, and event catering through their vintage ice cream truck, thoughtfully named Clementina. Pushed through social media, awareness of the truck and services was there, but it wasn't presented in an engaging or exciting way.
The Direction
While pitching the concept, we sought to blend the high-brow finesse of the all too common "maker piece" with subtle narrative, more of a distinct edge and arc, and scenes of intimate customer interaction. We wanted to elevate the brand to new visual heights, and to energize fans of Clementine's with the prospect of treating their friends, families, and guests, to the best ice cream in the world.
What first culminated was a basic storyline; an emphasis on passion, handcrafting, and satisfying customers. A satirical hint of shade thrown at "craft" films littered across Vimeo. Storyboards came together to depict dramatic lighting in the first portion -- a tinge of grit and low key lighting. In the climactic arc, we wanted to amplify the edge, and depict the (albeit, slow) ice cream truck as a race car, which would only be successful through powerful sound design, deliberate shot size decisions, and fast cuts in post. In the final scene, we wanted to powerfully portray our lead with epic hero shots, and also give a subtly lighthearted conclusion to the tension built throughout the balance of the film.
The Result
The end result was a film that not only captured audience imagination and excitement through social media, but also garnered a significant boost in reservations for the mobile creamery at weddings, food festivals, birthdays, and more. In addition, local media coverage increased, dramatically boosting consumer awareness of the truck, and the bespoke creamery as whole.