Brand Communication

Creating the Brief 

During todays lecture we watched a section from a film called 'The Lovers Guide to Brand Persuasion' we took notes on Chapter 4 - Creating the Brief/Inspire the Briefing. 

The first point that interested me was that a brief should be tight, only 1 page or so, not lengthy - clever and simple. The brief should reflect the truth about the product, however not be so logical in its ideas for creativity. What the product does and what does it say to the consumer! 

"A good brief is more like a spring board than a straight jacket" - it needs to be fresh, inventive and individual. 

For example the Guiness advert focusing around the fact it takes 119.5 seconds to pour a guiness pint - therefore good things come to those who wait. It play on the kinds of things you can do while waiting for your pint to be poured (but not just going to the loo or making a sandwich, the more extraordinary things, the things that you COULD do) 

Ideas

After the brief has been created Ideas then need to be capsulated in order to start the creative ball rolling. They should capture the human imagination, and still be believable as well as extraordinary. It needs to be able to feel like a product of tomorrow rather than yesterday, with a sense of purpose. What are the needs of that brand, what does it want to create, what is it trying to communicate! 

There needs to be powerful ideas that deliver! Never believe that the idea can't get any better, as there is always room for it to become better and stronger. 

In business you need to be an optimist.

The Execution of the Idea

Anything from Pomotion, Advertising, Events. Taking the idea and bringing it to life!

Speed is needed within this process as time tends to kill a good idea - context changes, the world that we live in and what we expect from it changes, new ideas are being made and promoted everyday, you need to get in there before the next person does!

Flexibility about which ways you what to capture that idea and the types of shots, designs or films you want to do, need to be able to have some leeway. However try to change as little of the actual idea as possible, only change what really needs to be changed. Try ad-libbing some bits and see what comes naturally, what is created in that moment. For example this Nike advert idea was never what was actually planned, the creators saw Tiger Woods messing around doing this trick on the side lines when he was bored and so they shot it and it become the main focus of the idea instead.

You have to be in charge of your idea, at this point it can be hard for the Client to let go of the idea and leave the Agency to it, however it can be hard having them looking over you at every point, they need to leave you to relax and get on with it.

Timeline

- Client creates the brief

- Agencies receive the brief

- Agencies cultivate and create ideas

- Agencies choose one idea and stick to it

- Clients receive the idea from the agencies and then choose to accept or decline the idea

- If accepted the idea cannot be changed, the client then leaves it down to the agency and their team to bring the idea to life!

Love Livy x

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Bill Cunningham, New York

BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK 

During my first week at NTU, part of our induction was to go to Nottingham's Broadway Cinema and watch the film titled 'Bill Cunningham New York'. I have to say it is definitely one of the most inspiring films I've ever seen. 

Cunningham photographs people and the passing scene in the streets of Manhattan every day, focusing on their genuine usage of clothing to express personal style. He is known not to overly photograph celebrities (like the paparazzi) or people that use fame to showcase clothing they didn't originally pick themselves (sponsored, free clothing). Most of his pictures, he has said, are never published. "You see if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do kid” he states that freedom is the most expensive thing, and money is the least.

BRIEF HISTORY

Born in Boston, Cunningham dropped out of Harvard University in 1948 and moved to New York City, where he initially worked in advertising. Not long after, he quit his job and struck out on his own, making hats under the name ‘William J’. This business folded when he was drafted. After serving a tour in the U.S. Army, he returned to New York and started writing for the Chicago Tribune.

During his years as a writer he contributed significantly to fashion journalism. While working at the Tribune and at Women's Wear Daily he began taking photographs of fashion on the streets of New York. He published a group of impromptu pictures in the Times in December 1978, which soon became a regular series. His editor, Arthur Gelb, has called these photographs "a turning point for the Times, because it was the first time the paper had run pictures of well-known people without getting their permission”. He photographed socialites within the fashion industry such as Anna Wintor, who speaks very highly of him within the ‘New York Documentary’.

"More than anyone else in the city, he has the whole visual history of the last 40 or 50 years of New York. It's the total scope of fashion in the life of New York”.

I think it will be one of those films that stays with me throughout my whole life.

Love Livy x

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