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The Allplants advert shows many of the beautiful dishes which they deliver to your home in sustainable packaging. Dishes available from Allplants include Rigatoni Carbonara, Smoky Soul Chilli, Bhaji Daal, Shepherd’s Pie and Teriyaki Udon. Allplants flash freezes the food to lock in the freshness and package up the meals in boxes of six.
Advertising food photography is a highly specialised business; getting the food to look delicious is only half the battle. Filming extreme close-ups of steaming food calls for some special equipment, on this project we used a boroscope lens from a company called Optex Excellence. The long lens keeps the furiously expensive camera well away from the sizzling and spitting food.
Another issue to deal with was the need for action shots of cooking. We used a glass-fronted oven to allow filming as the food cooked. This technique provided some of the more stunning baking shots in the TV advert.
Getting the food styling right is key to the advert looking good, and the food looks tasty. A brilliant food stylist called Rob Morris made sure the dishes in the advert looked at their best. Having a professional food stylist on the shoot is a must; food has the incredible ability to look unappetising if not presented correctly.
We’ve all heard the methods used when filming food for adverts; using mashed potato instead of ice cream and PVA glue instead of pizza cheese.
We used no food advertising tricks on the Allplants advert. Allplants pride themselves on wholesome and delicious food and wanted to show the real food on screen. The only shot that involved any food rigging was to split apart two pieces of dragon fruit as the camera moved between them.
Allplants are one of the newest food brands on the market. They specialise in plant-powered food delivery directly to your door. Allplants was founded in 2017 by brothers Alex and Jonathan Petrides. A recent round of funding has seen Allplants raise £7.5 million in Series A funding.
Allplants will use this funding to grow their range of dishes. It also hopes to grow its user base by expanding its advertising coverage.
Toast has an excellent track record of working with startup brands that have reached a certain user base but need to grow faster than the limited audience provided by social channels. TV advertising allows growing startups to gain a massive boost in customers.
One of our most popular food advertisement videos was for the startup Innocent Smoothies. At the time, they had gained some traction by selling in selected retailers but needed a push to get their brand more widely recognised. TV advertising gave Innocent the boost they needed.
