Leo Burnett Change Holds its Breath for Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Leo Burnett Change Forces You to Think About Meningitis

Ready for a semi-trippy buzzkill?

Leo Burnett Change, the “specialist social change division of the Leo Burnett Group,” teamed up with UK charity Meningitis Now to paint a one-minute portrait of a horrifying disease from a UX perspective.

This is the org’s “first-ever awareness film,” and it’s positively brutal:

The PSA first aired on Monday on Channel 5; there’s a website and a #FastestHour tag on all social media channels.

The ad even aired in cinemas before — we presume — tonally appropriate films like The Spongebob Movie.

The release tells us that the film is part of an “ongoing push to increase public knowledge of the disease,” and it certainly got our attention.

This is no joke; the org’s CEO says that “In the last year some 1500 people aged over 15 contracted the disease, some of who may have sadly died or, as our film shows, suffered life changing consequences.”

Lest you think this is a UK-specific thing, a high school student is currently undergoing treatment at Yale’s hospital for a bacterial meningitis infection; doctors gave her a 20 percent chance of survival.

And while media outlets everywhere freaked out over Ebola, more than 1,000 people died of meningitis in 2014 in Nigeria alone.

 

Creative Credits:

 

Client: Meningitis Now

Agency: Leo Burnett Change

Executive Creative Director: Justin Tindall

Creative Director: Beri Cheetham

Copywriters: Ben Newman & Milo Williams

Art Directors: Ben Newman & Milo Williams

Agency Producer: Helen Choonpicharn

Production Company: Bare Films

Director: James Lawes

Senior Executive Producer: Helen Hadfield

Producer: Tom Ford

Director of Photography: Malte Rosenfeld

Post-Production Company: Framestore

VFX Supervisor: Tim Greenwood

Editing Facility: The Quarry

Editor: Jim Robinson

Sound Design Company: 750mph

Sound Designer: Sam Robson

Channel: TV & cinema, UK

Leo Burnett Change Aims to Shock with Cosmopolitan Cover

Cosmo_Karma Nirvana coverLeo Burnett Change, a specialist arm of Leo Burnett dedicated to social change, designed an attention-grabbing cover for Cosmopolitan as part of an awareness campaign for Karma Nirvana, a UK charity aiding victims of so-called “honour-based violence.”

The cover (pictured above) was inspired by the death of of Shafilea Ahmed, a 17-year-old British-Pakistani woman who was suffocated to death by her parents in front of her siblings after refusing to honor an arranged marriage. It depicts a woman who appears to be suffocating, and is encased in a plastic wraparound. A 7-second online video, also created by Leo Burnett, depicts the cover being ripped open as a symbolic representation of the release of women from such violence. The harrowing cover will run on limited editions of the February issue of Cosmopolitan in the UK, and the video will run on the magazine’s social channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Vine and Instagram.

Credits:

Creative Agency: Leo Burnett Change

Executive Creative Director: Justin Tindall

Creatives: Darren Keff and Phillip Meyler

Account Director: Chris Jackson, Sofia Sarkar

Photographer: Erin Mulvehill

Design: Tim Fletcher

Producer: Mickey Voaks

Production Co.: Messrs Group

Comercial se inspira no botão “skip” do YouTube para mostrar dificuldades de ex-presidiários

Já tem um tempo que o YouTube tornou obrigatório que os usuários assistam a pelo menos cinco segundos de propaganda antes de finalmente chegar ao vídeo desejado. Isso não quer dizer, necessariamente, que as marcas estejam sabendo aproveitar de um modo eficiente a oportunidade, tentando despertar a nossa curiosidade antes que o prazo vença e a gente finalmente alcance o botão “skip” ou “pular o anúncio”.

Mas como em toda regra sempre há exceções, já vimos por aqui alguns casos de quem soube usar isso muito bem, como a Mayo Digital, em uma campanha para o incentivo de práticas sustentáveis patrocinada pela Sodimac, e ainda a VML Australia, que ajudou a Polícia Federal australiana a divulgar nomes e fotos de pessoas desaparecidas.

Ainda seguindo os caminhos dos serviços comunitários, a Leo Burnett Change simplesmente arrasou ao utilizar a ideia do botão “pular o anúncio” para apresentar Ban the Box, projeto da Business in the Community que visa estimular empresários a dar uma segunda chance a ex-presidiários.

O filme, disponível somente no site da iniciativa, mostra um ex-condenado tentando convencer um possível empregador a dar um emprego a ele, mas logo que ele revela que esteve preso, o botão “skip ad” aparece na tela. Toda vez que o botão aparece e nós o apertamos, o personagem se torna cada vez mais desesperado. Em seguida, aqueles que pularam as partes podem assistir ao vídeo novamente, para conhecer a história sob um outro ponto de vista.

É uma forma bastante inteligente de mostrar como rejeitamos aquilo que não queremos saber, antes mesmo de ouvirmos o que os outros têm a dizer, porque já temos uma opinião formada. E como, se dermos uma chance, o resultado pode ser diferente.

Brainstorm9Post originalmente publicado no Brainstorm #9
Twitter | Facebook | Contato | Anuncie