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i don't get it. is the footstep symbolizing the offender and his child as the future offender? how come these marks only symbolize the offences?
art direction is nice.
another thing i don't get is the statistics. what's the source and its credibility. Its important as otherwise being a new kind of a correlation, it might not get digested by the viewers.
shahid
I realy hate this kind of campaigns. Not only is the visual a forced idea but the idea and copy is not even advertising worthy.
Did you guys ever think about the use of the word WILL in this context? You take away al positive perspective with your fatalistic attitude.
There is no cycle to break because 1 on 3 WILL end up an offender.
So overall feel: ZERO.
Agree about the WILL could've been just as effective if not more without that in the line. Otherwise, I thought it was a great idea.
you two are pretty stupid, aren't you? don't get it? go visit some other sites, that are not so difficult to understand....mtv.com, espn.com or such......knobs
you are right, those two are ding dongs. Good ad.
i guess these two guys at the top dont know that when you are born they take your foot imprint, and when you get booked (arrested) they take your fingerprints, they are establishing a relation between the two important moments in their life... i love this ad. SIMPLE! & CLEAN!
This ad is FABULOUS. I echo the sentiment... the first two people that posted missed the point entirely. At birth you give a footprint, when you are booked for a crime, you give your thumbprint. Brilliant execution and fantastic concept. Nice work.
what you guys/gals stated as a defense of the ad is simply a fact. a fact that doesn't hold up as a defense of the execution. ok, babies are printed at birth. convicts are printed when arrested. and where is the correlation of 3 of one to 1 of the other? that's what's missing. and so that's what they clumsily tried to address (or remedy) with the line "1 in 3..."
don't get me wrong, it's not a bad ad. (you'd have to be an idiot not to understand what they're trying to say).
but this is a forced visual. if you remove the visual, it doesn't affect the communication. or... without the line, the visuals are worthless. without the visuals, the line works just fine. the line (1 in 3 children of offenders will become offenders) w/no visual tells the exact same story. in other words, the visual is not doing any work at all.
it feels like they're on to something but never quite got there.
eggo nailed it below.
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Here's my critique: It's just saying a fact. I think it could've been pushed further.
Example: There was an ad that used the same strategy as this (which is statistics). It was about rape. But they took it further than the statistic. It went, "1 in 4 women will be raped. Will it be your mother, daughter, sister, or wife?" See? That last sentence gave it more impact and personable.
This doesn't accomplish that and the art direction is difficult for me to sorta come back to the copy. I can see how it sort of relates, but I get no sense of it playing off of it. Reading the comments, I see that it was about how they take your footprint as a child and fingerprint as an adult. I would not have gotten that if I saw the other ad. I think this has a good idea somewhere in there, but it just needs more playing around to be clearer and more impactful.
You have to hate advertising in order to truly love it.
wow! rethink has really taken a nose dive in the last year or so.
yes. nice
Nice and clear message
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sooo, you say that the footprint is from a baby... rrright...
better visuals for good ideas like this, please...
i like the idea goood...
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