Purina Pro Plan
Case study · Animals
Fuel For Life
More life in every day.


The idea
Fuel For Life follows the everyday bond between people and their pets, finding energy, curiosity and companionship in moments that feel observed rather than staged. Across a family of dog-and-cat films, director Terry Rayment keeps the camera close to the small routines that make a shared life richer.
Dual
Cat
Supporting cut
Cat, 15
The approach
Scale, with intimacy
The treatment began with a productive tension: make the world feel expansive without losing sight of small connection. Mountain ranges, open shoreline and decisive camera movement give the films scale, but the emotional center stays with how a person and pet share space, attention and momentum.
The visual language keeps those qualities working together. Wide frames establish environment, closer observation protects unrepeatable gestures, and natural light gives every setup presence. Rather than watching action from outside, the camera moves at the animals’ level, letting athletic performance and quiet companionship belong to the same world.
“They connect the emotional with the elemental.”



“Athletic and intimate.”
“Our camera won’t be observing from a distance, it’ll move with purpose.”
Making it
Letting real behavior lead
The creative challenge was simple to describe and exacting to capture: let pets behave like pets while every department remained ready for the instant a gesture became the story. The production built generous space around each setup, giving the animals time to settle, explore and connect naturally with the people in frame.
The campaign moved between quiet interiors and broad coastal landscapes without losing that intimacy. Close observation connects the scales. A paw at a piano, a run toward the water or a glance across a room all carry the same idea: nutrition supports more of the life pets already love to live.
Behind the campaign
Fuel For Life
On set
Built around the animals
A three-day British Columbia shoot paired two units across homes, forest and shoreline. That structure let the team protect the pace of the animals and move when a useful weather window appeared. Camera, art and production stayed responsive as cloud, rain and changing coastal light continually reshaped the day.
Experienced animal trainers worked beside each pet and handler, preparing actions while preserving room for surprise. Instead of forcing identical takes, the crews watched for authentic pet-and-human moments and adjusted coverage around them. The resulting images feel precise without becoming rigid, balancing the practical demands of a large production with the looseness that real animal behavior needs.








Credits
Made together
- Client
- Purina Pro Plan
- Production
- Friends & Family Films
- Director
- Terry Rayment
- Managing Director / Executive Producer
- Scott Kaplan
- Executive Producer
- Jed Herold
- Executive Producer
- Alana Hearn
- Producer
- Jeff Tannebring
- Service Production
- Filmgroup
- Service Producer
- Oliver van Beek
- Service Executive Producer
- Nathan Miles
- Service Executive Producer
- Renee Poulin
- Head of Production
- Alexandra Wilson
- Director of Photography
- Brandon Kelly
- Second Unit Director / Director of Photography
- Jeanne Vienne
- Production Manager
- Darwin Chepil
- Production Coordinator
- Jack McWilliam
- First Assistant Director
- Paul Barry
- Production Designer
- Michelle Derrick
- Set Decorator
- Zach Goulding
- Props Master
- Tom Martin
- Wardrobe Stylist
- Sekyiwa Wi-Afedzi
- Wardrobe Stylist
- Brooke Wilcox
- Stills
- Lou Bopp
- Stills
- Wayne Hoecherl
- Stills
- Dan Kozma
- Gaffer
- Greg Goudreau
- Key Grip
- Mike Scoffield
- Animal Wrangler
- Bonnie Judd