What a great ad idea… Love the moment when he get stuck in the middle of the slide… 
The ad was filmed in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo):
Agency: Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH, London)
Creative Director: Pete Bradly
Creatives: Gary McCreadie, Wesley Hawes
Agency Producer: Nerine Soper
Production Company: Gorgeous Enterprises, London
Director: Peter Thwaites
Producer: Anna Hashmi
DP: Marcel Durst
Editor: Neil Smith @ Work Post
Post Production: The Mill
Music: “Let Your Love Flow” by Bellamy Brothers
The making of:
The spoof (by Specsavers / UK / Creative Director: Chris Denton):
And now…The Barclaycard Waterslide Challenge -- Create a waterslide. Film it. Submit it:
Barclaycard are challenging you to create a version of their waterslide film. All you need to do to enter the competition is create a waterslide, film it and post it. The film that gets the most votes on YouTube will win a once in a lifetime trip for two riding some of the world’s top waterslides in Dubai, China, Brazil, Germany and the US. You’ll also get a camera and a laptop to blog about your trip.
Competition Entries close 8th March.
Enter your film at: http://www.youtube.com/barclaycardcreate
This is amazing! The slide coming out of the building in the original commercial is crazy. I liked the guys re-creation of the slide too. “Happy face” – They’re just doing it to make people smile, and of course for the paycheck if they win…
Chaps! – I created a video for the above competition, and I would love you even more than I love you already if you could vote for it. The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYUk7f0kisw
(Towards the end, there’s a link which pops up. Just click on that, then press ‘Vote’ on the Barclaycard website….then click my video ‘Fish goes watersliding’ and give it a green thumbs up… It only takes 5 seconds or so,,,,I promise! Obviously, only do this if you actually like my video!)
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