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Buchanans // The Pianist

Brand: Diageo · Agency: Santo · Year: 2016 · Category: Commercials · Medium: video

A dark, available-light interior shot from a doorway: the camera sits in a black-framed hallway looking through an open panelled door with a brass handle, into a warm-lit room where a figure sits at an upright piano, seen in profile and reduced almost to silhouette. Heavy foreground shadow occupies more than half the frame, a strip of patterned wallpaper, a small framed picture and a windowsill ornament visible in the lit sliver beyond. Period European domestic detailing, low-key naturalistic grade, the doorway used as an internal frame so the viewer is positioned as an onlooker rather than a

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