KMSCP
‘Ice Ice Puddle’
Following our successful ‘Don’t limit your future’ campaign, with Kent and Medway Safety Camera Partnership we worked to create a video ad that would educate drivers to adapt their driving behaviour to the changing conditions of the road (e.g fog, ice, rain).
Video & Animation
The brief
Creative in social campaigns needs to stand out amongst the noise of increasing competition on the platforms. We felt that we needed to create a campaign that would be attention-grabbing and get the message across in an engaging way.
Following a collaborative session in our war room with KMSCP we agreed on a ‘thumb-stopping’ social campaign which would incorporate both real-life and animated videos. We rapped, we sang, and we threw out ideas onto our whiteboards until we created the memorable ‘ice ice puddle’ hook line. The next step, storyboarding the concept, bringing it to life!
Concept development
Making a cloud come to life
After nailing down the script we knew we wanted this campaign to have a comedic element to it but to still educate and make people think before they set off on their journeys. Our main challenge was going to be how to bring a talking cloud to life? We collaborated with a bespoke animator to create our cloud that we could insert into the footage, it created an eye-catching moment for the campaign.
In the making
If there’s a problem, YO you’ll solve it!
How do you make it look like snow when it’s brilliant sunshine outside? With a lot of fake snow and a sheet that’s how! On a beautiful January day, we visited a fantastic location which had a large barn for us to be able to get all the camera equipment and the crew. The shoot was fun (but freezing!) and Anton our actor was fantastic to work with having to interact with an imaginary cloud the whole day. We felt it was important to really capture the energy of the script by using a series of quick shots and motion throughout the shoot.
Ready, set, GO!
Launching the campaign
Ice Ice Puddle garnered a great engagement rate from the first day with the audience responding well to the video. Over the week the campaign was launched we reached 420,000 people (5% increase on the previous campaign) and saw a massive increase in website traffic to the landing page. Users also watched the video to completion more than any other campaign so far.