Amplificação is a different award. Every year ECDs from the main Rio de Janeiro’s agencies are invited to write a radio spot to a selected NGO. They are all made by the same producer called “Silence Productions” and judged by well-known creatives of Brazilian advertising. As we won in the previous year, we were invited to create the award’s 3rd edition campaign.
Do good just for a change.
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Invitation from Hell
To ask the Creative Directors to take part of Amplificação Award this year, we appealed to common sense in advertising. As the deadlines and budgets are short, ECDs have to be evil sometimes.
We sent a Bible rolled in bread paper because in Portuguese the expression “going through hell” is better know as “eating the bread smashed by the devil” along with the message “there’s still time to save yourself.”
The
Evilness
Portfolio
This was just the beginning: in each agency, we interviewed several creative teams collecting genuine and original stories about the some ‘evilness’ done by their bosses.
Things like “working at the weekend that was scheduled to meet his girlfriend back home, 3 months earlier”; “do not let the creative team watch the classic match between Brazil x Argentina”; “never say thank you to the cafeteria’s employee”; are just some examples of how the ECD’s could be part of the dark side.
The result were 25 different short films of the Devil himself checking the ‘perversity portfolio’ of ECDs full of sarcastic and insider jokes and the unauthorized appearance of a Brazilian B-Celebrity (or maybe C) ‘Inri Cristo’ (a mad guy who thinks he’s Christ) revealing the campaign main tagline “You have been evil, but you still have time to redeem yourself. Take part of Amplificação Award that will help Make a Wish NGO”. Good luck trying to understand ;)
Decide their future
A website with a custom hostname for each of the 25 invited ECDs hosted the short movies. There, people could choose by voting in a pool if he should go to heaven or burn in hell. After they delivered a script for the contest, they automatically guaranteed their spot in heaven.
Immediately, many of the invited ECDs took response sharing and asking their followers to vote and decide their future.
Media Reaction
After sending every ECD from Rio to hell, our client got extensive coverage on the specialized media …. and most important: in the end, every ECD delivered a script to us and helped Make a Wish NGO with their ideas.
