PRESENTATION OUTLINE
THIS PRESENTATION IS NOT ABOUT ...
... OR THE AD LEGENDS WE MET
... OR THE PARTIES WE WENT TO
BUT THE MASSIVE LEARNINGS
MEDIA IS WHERE PEOPLE AND IDEAS MEET
IN THE PAST THE MESSAGE DEFINED THE IDEA
MAKE WOMEN REALISE THEY'RE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THEY THINK THEY ARE
MAKE YOUNGSTERS TALK ABOUT RAIL SAFETY
WE'RE NOT MAKING IDEAS ANYMORE
YOU ARE NOT EXPLORING ANYTHING NEW
CREATIVE ALCHEMY'S TOOLS
Kentaro Kimura (Co-CEO, Executive Creative, DirectorHakuhodo Kettle) pointed out that our conscious is like a city and our unconscious is like a forest.
Cities are mapped, known, safe while forests are unknown, dangerous, unpredictible.
Initially our mind was unconscious but over time our conscious took over.
Advertising is an activity to change unconscious desires to conscious ones through words and visuals.
CREATIVITY IS A BATTLE
Landor's work shop pointed to the same problem. We're trapped to our own perceptions. Our imagination starts as a perception: we see something we wanted to see. These perceptions are governed by our past experineces.
There are four ways to disrupt these perceptions:
- challenge conformity
- radical repurposing
- invite constraint
- disparate pairings
CREATIVITY COMES FROM PRESSURE
YOU MUST GET THE BRIEF PRECISE AND INSPIRING
MAGIC IS SCIENCE DONE IN AN ENTERTAINING WAY
CREATIVES ARE FRUSTRATED
Creative's muscles are at better use in innovation.
IT'S EASIER TO BUY NUMBERS THAN IDEAS
Patrick Collister's (Editor,
Directory Magazine & Resource) work shop revealed the four points of conflict and how to handle them.
1) Left-Brain v Right Brain -- Some people are not wired to be able to make the connection
2) Abstract v Concrete -- Sometimes you can be too damn clever. Read the brief more closely.
3) The Wood v The Trees -- Meaning and expression. Present the idea rather than the execution.
4) Competing Objectives -- What you want to say and what your client wants to hear are not the same. Empathise. Say yes rather than no, but.
GOOD LISTENERS MAKE BETTER SPEAKERS
The workshop of
http://swimprogram.ca/ was a weird but useful experiment. All we had to do is to listen in silence to our partner's story without even thinking about judging or reflecting to.
CLIENTS SHOULD FEAR MEDIOCRE IDEAS
WE DO STUFF AROUND STUFF
Andrew Deitchman's (Co-Founder, Partner, Mother NY) bold statement is out of doubt.
ASK NOT WHAT WILL CHANGE IN THE FUTURE
NEVER FORGET WHY YOU CAME TO THE BUSINESS
TALENT ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH
MEDIA IS WHERE PEOPLE AND IDEAS MEET
GIVE PERSONAL DATA MEANING
HOPES, DREAMS AND INSPIRATION
WHY ASK IF YOU CAN MEASURE?
GOOD TECH IS NO EXCUSE FOR A BAD IDEA
THE RIGHT TECH IS THERE TO BRING THE RIGHT IDEA ALIVE
CREATIVITY COMES FROM PRESSURE
YOU MUST GET THE BRIEF PRECISE AND INSPIRING
YOU NOT EXPLORING ANYTHING NEW
NEW TECH NEEDS TIME TO EXPERIMENT TO BECOME ARTISTS' TOOL
INSTINCT REACTIONS AND EXPECTED SOCIAL VALUE
Psychological Responses: happiness, exhilaration, awe, warmth, hilarity, contempt, disgust, sadness, pain, pride, nostalgia, surprise, knowledge, shock, confusion, arousal, fear, anger.
Social Motivations:
shared passion -- opportunity to connect, social IRL -- help to socialize offline, social utility -- relevant or valuable to friends, social good -- for a good cause / want to help
zeigeist -- current trend or event, kudos -- demonstrate knowledge / authority; first to tell, attention seeking -- get a reaction; self expression -- says something about me
shared emotional experience -- strong emotional effect to be shared.
EMOTIONS AND ENGAGEMENT WILL RESULT IN IMPACT
WHY ASK IF YOU CAN MEASURE?
GETTING PEOPLE TO WATCH A VIDEO IS ALL ABOUT DRAWING OUT EMOTIONS
Further reading on Thales S. Teixeira's (assistant professor, HBS, Marketing Unit) work:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7267.html