Don't Fail Idaho
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Don't Fail Idaho

'Nowhere'

Drake Cooper of Boise, Idaho, approached us to help them craft a story of engaging disparity surrounding their “Don’t Fail Idaho” campaign. The staggering fact surrounding the core of the story, that only 1 in 5 kids are prepared for life after high school, became the center point of our visual exploration. We wanted to drop these kids off in “Nowhere,” so to do that we took our team to the sprawling, mountainous countryside of Sun Valley, Idaho. The beautiful landscape gave us everything we needed to visually accentuate a magnificently ballsy script. We’re already looking forward to heading back someday.

Credits

Production Company
Scholar

Directors
William Campbell & Will Johnson

Executive Producer
Jo Arghiris

Head of Production
Rachel Kaminek

Line Producer
Tommy Dingwall

Director of Photography
Thomas Banks

 

Post Production Company
Scholar

Creative Directors
William Campbell & Will Johnson

Senior Producer
Tyler Locke

2D Animation
Sarah Beth Hulver, Matthew Andrews

Editor
Jason Webb

Flame Artist
Federico Saccone

 

Client
J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation

Agency
Drake Cooper

Creative Director
Jennie Myers

Associate Creative Director
Sean Young

Senior Copywriter
Scott Steele

Brand Manager
Jess Carter

Executive Producer
Dylan Amundson

 “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

– Carl Sagan

Behind the Scenes


We couldn’t travel all the way from Los Angeles to Idaho and not have a good time. Every moment was a new adventure and we found ourselves in awe of the surroundings at nearly every turn. After capturing hours of footage for the campaign, we found ourselves with an equally humongous amount of footage of us being… well, us.