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Introducing Windows Phone 7

To announce the upcoming new Windows Phone 7 Series, Crispin Porter + Bogusky partnered with Blind to create a brief, yet engaging introductory video. The piece covers the backstory of current smart phones and highlights a few key problems with the way they function. To avoid making the story a bit too dry, the idea was to build a virtual representation of the smart phone and to personify the apps within the phone, by way of some fun actors and animated interfaces.  As the main character becomes increasingly disappointed interacting with the apps, the solution is presented: the new Windows Phone. She escapes into the living breathing real world where the features of the new phone are highlighted.

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Design Exploration
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Behind The Scenes
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6 Comments

  1. Excellent execution.
    Ryan M
    April 4, 2010 at 11:49 pm
  2. Well done! A bit of production process is always nice to see.
    Umer Tahir
    May 19, 2010 at 2:50 pm
  3. Wow! This is something worth waiting for. :)
    Boomdocks
    May 30, 2010 at 10:11 pm
  4. Wow!....it´s Amazing, good job guys!!
    Edwin Velasquez
    June 26, 2010 at 8:57 am
  5. The storyboards for this project were well done. Great concept and great execution. I wonder why it's called Series 7. Where there other serious prior to this series?
    Ellsworth
    July 19, 2010 at 11:08 am
  6. @ Ellsworth. Windows Phone 7 is the latest in the Windows Mobile Phone operating systems. The current version is called Windows Mobile 6.5. They are rebranding the naming system from "Mobile" to "Phone" but are keeping the numbering system. You can read more about it on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile
    erik
    July 19, 2010 at 11:24 am

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Crispin Porter + Bogusky
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Rob Reilly, Mark Taylor, Matthew Gilmour, Andrew Ure
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Sloan Schroeder

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Erik Buth
Production Company
Blind
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Erik Buth
Executive Producer
David Kleinman
Post Producer
Lisa Pierce
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Steve Pacheco, Delfino Gamboa, Erik Buth
2D Animators
Chris O'Neil, Daniel Chang, Mathew Encina, Jason Foreman
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Glenn Suhy, Ehren Addis
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Gregg Lukomski
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Gregg Lukomski, Lin Wilde
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Alan Latteri
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Vincent Lucido
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Bengt Jan Jönsson
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Todd Lent
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Jason Webb

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