Discovery’s new docu-series Hustlers Gamblers Crooks pulls back the curtain on the world of gambling and the winners and losers that inhabit it.
For the launch campaign, Miami-based creative agency 2C designed a motion-graphics and sound package that put viewers in mind of gambling meccas like Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Woven between first-person confessional sequences are fast cuts of spinning roulette wheels, poker chips and playing cards, as well as glimpses of a neon-lit casino, all set to swinging music.
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The spots promise to tell the “most outrageous stories,” and that promise is followed up one woman saying, “My lottery dream turned into my lottery nightmare.”
“No one out-cheats this cheater,” says one of the show’s subjects in the final cut.
2C produced a :30 and a :15 spot ahead of the new series’ premiere.
Hustlers Gamblers Crooks premieres Friday, January 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Channel.
CREDITS
Client: Warner Bros. Discovery
Senior Vice President, Marketing: Josh Kovolenko
Vice President, Creative: Pablo Pulido
Vice President, Production: Daniel Oleksiuk
Vice President, Strategy: Megan DeSouza
Senior Creative Director: Jamie Dugger
Senior Writer/Producer: Alex Rodriguez
Senior Production Manager: Javier Montufar
Marketing Manager: Chris Leavy
Agency: 2C
Executive Creative Director: Chris Sloan
VP of Operations, Executive Producer: Bob Cobb
Creative Director, Editor: Victor Otero
Designer: Aaron Magee
Sound Engineer: Cesar Haliwa
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