MATTHEWS HYUNDAI
Project Name:
Going Up
Client:
Matthews Hyundai
My Role:
Creative Producer
Sixteen actors. Four locations. One elevator. Zero room for error.
Matthews is the biggest Hyundai dealership in Central New York. When they decided to revive their entire brand identity, they didn't want a campaign — they wanted a statement. The kind that makes people stop and say: this isn't the same dealership anymore.
The concept was simple and strange in equal measure: a customer steps into an elevator, the doors open, and they're somewhere completely different. A garage. A living room. A yoga studio. A kitchen. A car showroom. Sixteen spots, sixteen moments, each one a different world — all tied together by the same feeling of possibility.
Ten days of pre-production, a $50,000 production budget, two shoot days, sixteen actors, four locations. Getting sixteen spots out of two days meant the pre-production had to be airtight. Every transition planned, every actor briefed, every location locked before we ever showed up on set. The kind of shoot where a thirty-minute delay on day one means you're finishing in the dark on day two.
We didn't finish in the dark. Every spot delivered, every location captured, every actor on their mark. Matthews got sixteen pieces of content that felt like one cohesive campaign — because that's exactly what they were designed to be.