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Skytrax —
a case for votes.

A five-film campaign series for Hamad International Airport's annual Skytrax World Airport Awards run — confident, specific reminders of why HIA earns the title year after year, built for LED walls, social feeds, and voter-email nudges.

Campaign title frame · HIA × Skytrax · 2021
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The series

Five films.
One campaign.

The Skytrax campaign ran as a series of short films — each tied to a specific service moment HIA wanted voters to remember. The first three are the hero cuts; the last two round out the story.

Skytrax — Film 01
a case for votes · stereo
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Skytrax — Film 02
0:39 · stereo
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Skytrax — Film 03
0:37 · stereo
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Also in the series
Skytrax — Film 04
0:36
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Skytrax — Film 05
0:39
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Overview

The brief

The Skytrax Awards are voted by travellers. The campaign had to move from "nice airport" recall to specific-moment recall — the shower after a redeye, the quiet zone at Gate 12, the lounge with the mezze bar.

We wrote a montage of those specific moments, animated flat-line with a warm palette, and delivered cuts for airport LEDs, social, and the voter-email nudge.

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Specific service moments
5
Campaign films
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Languages · AR + EN
1
Awards campaign
Approach

How we worked

01 — Memory, not facts

Led with moments a traveller would remember, not statistics HIA could publish.

02 — Flat-line, warm-grade

Kept the film stylised so real-location photography didn't contradict the clean typography of the awards.

03 — Sized for the LED wall

Mastered at 4K for the Departures Hall LED + trimmed for 9:16 and 1:1 feed edits.

04 — Nudge-ready

Produced 6-second teasers sized for email signatures and voter reminders.

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