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AIACarnival, in Full Colour

AIA Carnival is Hong Kong's biggest seasonal event — thirty days of rides, games and harbour lights on the Central Harbourfront. We were asked for one film that could carry the whole festival: the scale, the energy and the family feeling, all inside a single minute and a half.

Client
AIA
Project
AIA Carnival 2024
Year
2024
Location
Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong
Scope
Direction · Production · Post
Deliverables
1 hero film · social cutdowns

The brief

A live event gives you no second takes. Rides run on their own schedule, crowds move constantly, and the best light lasts twenty minutes a night. The film had to feel spontaneous while still hitting brand beats — safety, family, community — and work as both a broadcast spot and a vertical social asset.

Our approach

We shot across multiple evenings to bank golden hour and full blue-hour neon. A compact two-camera crew moved with the crowd: one long-lens unit for candid faces, one gimbal unit for motion through the midway. Colour was graded warm against AIA red so the brand reads in every frame without a single logo lock-up.

01

Hero film

AIA Carnival 2024

The full campaign film. Ride motion, candid family moments and harbour skyline cut to a rising rhythm, closing on the Carnival at night.

“It looks like the Carnival actually feels. That is the hardest thing to get on camera.”

Brand Marketing, AIA Hong Kong

Results

30

event days covered in one production plan

1:37

hero film, plus vertical and square cutdowns

2M+

combined views across owned and paid channels

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