Yamaha Audio Series Creative Communication

Our mission was to revise the communication product-by-product, to a campaign that would express the quality shared across the new series. Therefore, we devised a campaign concept highlighting the experiential value of Yamaha's ‘TRUE SOUND’ – a sound that carries the immersive contrast between stillness and motion. Working closely with the client to create more customer benefit-based communications, we designed the campaign so that users with different levels of technical understanding can easily be directed to the product they are looking for. For Yamaha’s new Soundbar and AV Receiver series, we proposed the concept: 'Feel truly, at home,' to convey the feeling of discovering the truest sound from the comfort of one's home. By emphasizing the original audio as if the artists were performing in the room, the user is immersed in the experience at their maximum comfort. We considered home enjoyment to be the greatest value offered by these products, especially by targeting a millennial audience with high demand for entertainment at home.

The Soundbar and AV Receiver can be connected to a TV to improve sound quality and power, optimize timbre and produce cinema-like sound. This key feature of these products is their ability to share ‘TRUE SOUND,’ a Yamaha-defined sound that reproduces the creator’s atmosphere as if you’re there with them as they are performing. The campaign film, produced in full CG, provides the truest expression of each whisper, explosion, and a delicate gust of wind through the trees. A powerful gun battle unfolds amidst a flurry of flying objects to portray a visceral immersion of sound and visuals. The film was produced to an international-standard, where CG and sound were used in collaboration with top creators. Visuals that explain the functions of each product were also created using CG. The visuals show how the product can be used not only for watching TV and films but also for games and other forms of media.

We decided to collaborate with overseas creators who are known to be the most advanced in the field of CG production. For example, we chose to work with Canadian director, Artem Skiy, whose expansive work also includes Hollywood productions. The project was originally planned to be shot in Japan in live-action, but due to various COVID-19 restrictions, the project was abruptly re-envisioned as a CG production. Thanks to monopo's global network of top-level creators, we were able to produce high-quality CG film in a fully remote location with a limited time and budget. Thorough confirmations at the initial stage of CG production are essential since once they are locked, it is challenging to modify. Therefore it is necessary to proceed through production utilizing low-quality CG, with each scene visualized in black and white— while ensuring close communication with the creators and clients to determine the finished product. This project demonstrated the true strength of monopo, a company that specializes in multi-lingual and remote production with creators worldwide.