The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has launched its 2014 campaign to promote the Festival, which will run from 15 to 21 June. The organisers teamed up with McCann London and commissioned award-winning photographer, Max Oppenheim, to perfect the art of the classic stock shot.
The press campaign will run in national newspapers and trade magazines around the world from now until June. It features a collection of world-renowned creative professionals portrayed as super-positive, fist-pumping, stock photography models.
The campaign highlights the fact that attending the world’s leading festival of creativity and being surrounded by the greatest creative work and people on the planet is a hugely valuable experience. It inspires delegates to return to work with renewed enthusiasm, like a reset button of the creative mojo of even the most senior/jaded industry figures.
Each execution features a stock image-style watermark with the legend: ‘You’ll come back as pumped as a stock photo model.’ Along with relevant search terms like ‘Success’ ‘Winning’ ‘Inspired’ ‘Energised’ ‘Cannes’ ‘Festival’ ‘Pumped’.
Senta Slingerland, Director of Brand Strategy at Cannes Lions, said, “Our campaign celebrates the one thing that everyone who goes to Cannes experiences: the feeling of falling in love again with what you do for a living.”
The five executions were shot in generic office spaces in New York and London with models dressed in bland office attire befitting the stock image style.
Photographer, Max Oppenheim, commented, "It was a challenge to find just the right visual language to pull off this series. I was very careful to select neutral locations, styling and wardrobe to capture the generic world of stock. And it helped massively that all the 'models' understood how great the idea was and threw themselves into their performances. They were pumped!"
Executions include:
Amir Kassaei, Global Chief Creative Officer of DDB and this year’s Film Lions Jury President, punching the air euphorically at his desk.
Ted Royer, Chief Creative Officer of Droga5, New York, and Sean Sim, ECD of Ogilvy China, bursting with joy as they push an excited Angel Anderson, VP/Experience Director of CP+P in LA, in a chair along an office corridor.
Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO of If We Ran The World/Make Love Not Porn, sitting with her feet on her desk throwing a ream of paper into the air with blissful abandon.
James Hilton, Co-founder and CCO of AKQA, and Laura Gregory, CEO and Founder of Great Guns, jubilantly draw an upward ‘success’ arrow on a graph.
Benjamin Palmer, Chairman of The Barbarian Group, and Chloe Gottlieb, ECD of R/GA, performing a super-impressive, mid-air, high-five manoeuvre.
Mike Oughton, Creative Director at McCann London said, ‘This campaign will strike a chord with everyone in the world who has ever typed the word ‘success’ into a stock image library search bar.’
Credits
Agency: McCann London
Campaign: Pumped
Client: Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
Photographer: Max Oppenheim
Chief Creative Officers: Rob Doubal & Lolly Thomson
Creative Director: Mike Oughton
Copywriter: Mike Oughton
Art Director: Simon Hepton
Digital Team: Thomas Ilum & Carl Rapp
Typographer: Gary Todd
Producer: Anna Henderson
To view the campaign: http://www.canneslions.com/about_us/pumped
61st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, 15-21 June 2014, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
The International Festival of Creativity, also known as Cannes Lions, is the world's leading celebration of creativity in communications. Founded in 1954, the Festival takes place every June in Cannes, France.
As the most prestigious international annual advertising and communications awards, over 35,500 entries from all over the world are showcased and judged at the Festival. Winning companies receive the highly coveted Lion trophy, a global benchmark of creative excellence, for Film, Print, Outdoor, Interactive, Radio, Design, Product Design, Promo & Activation, Film Craft, Mobile, Branded Entertainment and Integrated advertising, as well as the best Media, Direct, PR, Titanium, Creative Effectiveness and Innovation ideas. The Festival is also the only truly global meeting place for advertisers, advertising and communication professionals. More than 12,000 delegates from 95 countries attend a week-long programme of exhibitions, screenings and talks by worldwide thought leaders. As the networking and learning opportunity of the year, Cannes Lions is the must-attend event for anyone involved in brand communications. www.canneslions.com
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61st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity: 15-21 June 2014, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
