MUSE Gold

2022

A Place At The Table - PLACE Cards

Entrant Company

Junction Road Pictures

Category

Video - Nonprofit

Client's Name

A Place At The Table

Country / Region

United States

A Place At The Table is a local café with a pay-what-you-can business model, so everyone can eat there regardless of their means. People can pay any amount for food, they can volunteer for a meal, or they can redeem a token for a free meal. Until recently, the token has been an actual wooden coin token. But because Table is so committed to putting all its patrons on equal footing, they have introduced a new pay-it-forward device, the PLACE card. This credit-card-shaped token is not only a way to remove the visual differentiation between paying and non-paying customers, it also is a way to spread the use of the card to lots of different people with different backgrounds.

With that in mind, we wanted to create a piece that showed the card being received in lots of different scenarios (as a tip, as a gift, as a welcome-to-town item, and as a help to a person in need) and also showed the positive effects of paying it forward. We see a café patron choose the PLACE card as a way to pay it forward, the energy of which then goes out into the community, connecting people from all walks of life. We used some particle effects to show the metaphorical energy that binds us all together, spreading from person to person and showing how these cards can be a great choice in lots of scenarios. By the end of the piece, everyone is eating together in the café as one big group, and our energy has spread throughout the city, creating a web that connects us all.

Credits

Director
Nick Heim
Producer
Susan Lacney
DP
Alexander Rivera
AC
Ryan Shackleford
Gaffer
John Knudsen
Key Grip
Tony Holderfield
HMU
Denise Hutter
PA
Jeff Buckner
Aerial
Digital P Media
VFX
Mesh Design
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