Moxie Pictures, Bicoastal/London director Neil Gorringe captures the feral nature of children in a comical, if not frantic new :30, “Fanta Fruitizz (Director’s Cut),” for McDonald’s out of Leo Burnett, London. Currently airing in Wales, the :30 captures several wild youngsters shaking fruit as if trying to kill it.

We open on a young boy shaking something in slow-motion, followed by shots of children frantically shaking fruit. A driving punk track supports the action as a voiceover declares, “It’s tough making fruit fizzy. That’s why there’s new Fanta Fruitizz. It’s fruit juice with sparkling water and counts as one of their five a day. That’s what makes Fanta Fruitizz. That’s what makes McDonald’s.” The McDonald’s logo closes out the spot.

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Credits:
Client: McDonalds
Title: “Fanta Fruitizz” :30
Airdate: 3/2/2011 (Wales)
Production Company: Moxie Pictures, Bicoastal/London
Director: Neil Gorringe
DP: Richard Mott
Producer: Jess Ensor
Agency: Leo Burnett, London
Agency Prod: Claire Taylor
Creatives: Jim Bolton, Caroline Rawlings
Editorial: Final Cut, London
Editor: James Rosen
Post Prod: MPC, London ###