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Warning: contains scenes of sexual violence
Beautifully made awareness film from Finland about human trafficking. It reminds me of the movie Lilja 4-ever. There is no important text until the end but you should have the CC on for a translation.
Ad Council’s Happier Home Movies (and Photo Albums)
Happier Home Movie (via TV Tropes): Have they lost a family member… do you want to show that no matter how much time has passed, they just can’t get over it? It’s easy: just have them watch a home movie of the happier times with that family member. Said movie will often include one or both parties declaring outright how much they love the other, just to drive the point home.
And if such a trope exists in advertising, it would find its place in a social NGO spot. Usually, the topic would be a preventable cause. In one London Public Information Film, for instance, a greiving mother rewinds and replays a clip from Christmas 1989 of her child opening a wrapped plush giraffe. The child died of smoke inhalation due to the parents not getting or inspecting their smoke detectors.
And American public service announcements aren’t strangers to the trope. During the first decade of the good ol’ Ad Council’s drunk driving campaign, crashing glasses and handshakes with skeletons deterred people from having their pints before driving home. Thus at the time, alcohol-related fatal MVA’s plunged from 60% to 45%.
It came to a head in 1993 when the Ad Council switched agencies - they were looking for ways to either have them drive sober or designate sober drivers. Skeletons and smashing glasses had worked in the past, but what about people who were either too young to drink, people who didn’t even drive, or even people who had always been careful drivers?
That’s what the ad producers had in mind. They complied home videos and photographs of people who became casualties to drunk drivers. Not only it was so inexpensive to produce, but it was simplistic and less gory. But the psychological SFX’s of home movies and photos of deceased average Joes and Jills made the PSA’s anything but.
With few exceptions like the footage of Carissa Deason singing TLC’s “Scrubs” during Spring Break 1999 (she was killed by a drunk driver afterwards), this PSA of the campaign has music - and it’s not just any music. Accompanying the montage of photos and death dates are synth strings playing a chilling lament. And though it had moved from skeletons in cars and shattering glasses in a toast, the Ad Council produced one of their darkest NGO spots to date.
According to the report, Public Service Advertising that Changed a Nation, the Ad Council received a lot of positive reception for the chilling and heartbreaking PSA’s. A 17-year-old emailed the agency on how they deterred him from drinking and driving. “I am one less person to worry about when it comes to drinking and driving,” the teen wrote, “Also, I will stop my friends if I can. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.”
Currently, the Buzzed Driving campaign is ongoing, but I wonder if the Ad Council and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would remake this disturbing PSA for that matter. The music would be reworked and played by a real string orchestra and the photos would be more up-to-date. I wonder if today’s kids would be unnerved by this proposal…
More PSAs from this campaign, and some posters can be seen at the website of Colene Barlow Durocher
Manipulative poster from NHS England encouraging women to have cervical cancer screening. Obviously, this is important for health, but implying that it will be your fault if you get cancer and you’ll be a bad mother comes across as bullying.There are many reasons why people may not want to have a personal and invasive medical examination.
This also doesn’t mention the fact that the NHS has targets for cervical screening and get bonuses for the number of patients they test. That’s better than some private healthcare systems that are only interested in people when they are already sick, but the poster is still misleading. This site quotes an official campaign brief from Yorkshire and the Humber NHS (which commissioned the posters):
“Ideal creative format: Imagery – crucial to be able to read the hurt in the eyes. image should unambiguously convey loss/grief (quiet crying vs. noisy crying). close-up important. context helps (stairs/on the bed). Headline – needs to refer to smear test, ‘my mum missed her smear test now I miss my mum’ was most compelling headline”
The poster was developed in response to a decline of numbers of patients having cervical screening, after a temporary increase around 2009 when the reality TV star Jade Goody raised awareness before her death from cervical cancer.
From RSA (Road Safety Authority) Ireland, about the problem of women wearing seatbelts under their arm. I don’t know why they bother to use the seatbelt at all? Possibly because a lot of cars have a feature that sounds an alarm if someone isn’t wearing a seatbelt.
This reminds me of a road safety film from (I think) Romania that showed glamour shots of women in cars, all of whom have mutilations or limbs missing because they were injured in road accidents. Unfortunately, I can’t find it again to post here.
BECAUSE YOU COULD BE TRAMPLED BY WILDEBEESTS TOMORROW
These posters were used in 1950s Germany as part of the “War against the potato beetle”.
1985 public information film about the “Colorado Beetle”, which destroys potato crops. They’re not native to the UK, so if they arrive, it’s important to do something about them as soon as possible. They are so dangerous to potatoes that Allied forces considered using them as a weapon against Germany during WWII, and it’s true that you are supposed to take the Colorado Beetle to a police station if you find one. I don’t know whether you’re allowed to squash it first.
Three posters from the American Legacy Foundation’s “Truth” campaign to reduce youth smoking. Until 2014, Truth concentrated on encouraging young people to protest against the tobacco industry’s lies and unethical marketing. These posters refer to tobacco company documents which used very offensive consumer profiling.
A PIF from SIRE in the Netherlands, called “Give kids their game back” about why parents shouldn’t ruin sports for their children. According to the website, parents causing trouble during children’s sport (such as behaving aggressively and attacking the referee or opposing team) is such a big problem in the Netherlands that SIRE has run at least two national campaigns about this subject.
Worrying radio advert from 2006 about paedophiles on the internet
I don’t understand this video. It says “Remember, you’re not the only one on the road.” So, why is there no traffic and no pedestrians anywhere in sight?
Why don’t they make these road safety adverts anymore? They were the best.
This film promoted a scheme for disabled drivers to carry a flag that they could use to get help if their car broke down. The scheme lasted for only two years because it attracted thieves to vulnerable disabled people. In the words of Applemask who uploaded the video: “You can still get emergency HELP flags, though, in motor factors shops and what have you, only they're not government issued and don't have a ruddy great wheelchair logo printed on them.”
Made by BP/Castrol Pakistan, who found a creative way to get around the problem of limited budget.
The comics are lying to you. Batman doesn’t fight the bad guys all by himself, he just calls Crimestoppers and lets them take care of it.
WWI Australian propaganda poster
This campaign by NOAS (Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers) highlights the problem of people being rejected for asylum even when there are good reasons for them to be allowed to stay. In this film, a man who has escaped from Gaza tries to tell the judges on a reality show why they should choose him to “win” and stay in Norway. But they’re not convinced, and he is competing with a lot of other people. On the campaign website, you can read profiles of the different “contestants”, all based on real cases that NOAS deals with.
