It is very refreshing to see such a creative advertisement like this one for IKEA UK. Advertising agency Mother London, Moving Picture Company, and director Dougal Wilson, kick off the new IKEA ‘Entertaining’ campaign with the television spot and extended music video, Playing with my Friends, which follows a young girl and her friends as they set up for a dinner party.

Here is the full music video, with music by Masters In France. All the life-size toy characters were performed by real people.

Even though it seems like it was all done in one take, there were several clever cuts that were made, as explained by Wilson:

And here is an interesting take on the regular BTS video. Rather than just having a straight-forward behind the scenes, IKEA starts off with Darren the Bear’s back story on how he started to work at IKEA and landed the role of being in the commercial. It’s a pretty cool, different take. Of course, if you just want to see the on-the-set filming, you can skip ahead to the 1:09 mark.

Finally, here is the actual television spot for the United Kingdom market.

Thanks to No Films School for the link!

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