Thursday, 22 January 2015

Wieden+Kennedy fact file


Agency Fact file

Favourite advert- Honda ‘Cog’ 2003-

Wieden+Kennedy



Logo of agency?

 http://www.mandmglobal.com/Libraries/IMZ_company_logos/wkLogo.sflb.ashx

 

When was the agency founded?

April 1, 1982



Who were the founders?

Founded by Dan Wieden and David Kennedy

 

How did they start?

Dan Wieden met David Kennedy in 1980, at the William Cain advertising agency while working on the Nike account. They took Nike with them as a client after founding Wieden & Kennedy (later changed to Wieden+Kennedy).

 

Where are the headquarters?

Portland, Oregon

 

Have they won awards?

In 2002, the Gunn Report named W+K as the most-awarded agency in the world                 

Recent awards:









 

 

What other products have they worked on?

Nike, Facebook, Coca-cola, Microsoft

 

Find one of their TV adverts and analyse in detail.


This advert is called ‘possibilities’ by Nike and reflects  on the sportive audience who all activities they see in the advert interest them. This advert makes them feel if they have the right sports wear they can accomplish things they see in the advert. It uses non-diegetic up beat motivating music, the voice we hear is a motivating voice telling the audience what they can do, they can do better with Nike. He uses the repetition of the word ‘beat’ as being a competitive sportive people, this is what the audience want to do. The message of this advert is, everything is better with Nike. With Nike you can accomplish anything and anyone.

Friday, 16 January 2015

4 TV advert analysis

BTEC Creative Media Production – Advert Analysis

Name of Product
Visual / Text
Music / Sound FX
Audience
Meaning / Message

Honda 2003
‘Cog’

Wieden+Kennedy


Car parts placed in a Rube Goulberg.

Mostly silent apart from clinks of metals clicking together. Until the radio flicks on to play ‘Sugarhill Gang-Rappers Delight’. (diegetic)

Parents/families as the car is a 5 seater family car.

Everything works together perfectly- ‘isnt it great when things just work’. Reliable, family car.

Sony Bravia 2005

Fallon WorldWide


Multi-coloured bouncy balls, falling from a hill in Sanfrancisco.
‘colour’ ‘like no other’

‘Jose Gonzaelz-Heartbeats’, non diegetic.

Adults, Sony fans, anyone who needs/wants high quality picture.

‘Colour, like no other’. The colour and quality of the tv is excellent. Better than the rest, nothing like no other.

John Smith 2002
‘Ball skills’

TBWA


Football skills on a football pitch, someone else kicks it over the fence.
Celebrity endorsement with Peter Kay and used humour.
Low buget, cheapest.

No music, hear the thumping of the football, diegetic.

People older over 18, old enough to drink. Stereo-typically male, masculine drink, masculine advert.
Anyone who relates too Peter Kay.


Cheap, has effects, get you drunk, no nonsense.

Tmobile 2009
‘Dance’

Saatchie & Saatchie





350 dancers in Liverpool Street, London.

‘Shout- LuLu’
‘Yaz- The only way is up’
‘Pussy Cat Dolls- Don’t cha’
‘Blue Danube- Strauss’
‘Get down on it- Calling the gang’
‘Rainbow- Since you've been gone’
‘My boy lollipop- Millie’
‘Do you love me- contours’
Cheering, clapping, laughing
Diegetic.

People who want a network that can share their life.
Anyone with a phone. Technology audience. Younger, social media infused generation.

‘Life is for sharing’.

Friday, 12 December 2014

Annotating print ads



    • What is the product?
      Nike trainers
    • What are they advertising?
      Their brand
    • What are they telling us about the product?
      A lot of effort and hard work from lots of people went into the shoe.
    • Is there a message in the advert?
      The shoe took a lot of work therefore it is very good quality.
    • Who is the advert meant for? (target audience)
      Sportive, stylish people from the younger generation
    • Do you think it reaches the correct target audience?
      Yes
    • What type of advert is it? (humorous, informative, surreal, dramatic, realist – you may have to research these terms and define them to find out)
      Humorous
    • What do you think of the advert and do you think it works?

I think the advert does work well as I feel each individual shoe is made perfectly

 

 

 

 

 


    • What is the product?
      Volvo Car
    • What are they advertising?
      Their car company
    • What are they telling us about the product?
      Its family friendly, yet adventurous
    • Is there a message in the advert?
      Yes, The car is fantastic for both jobs
    • Who is the advert meant for? (target audience)
      Fathers as they are more adventurous but also need to consider their family
    • Do you think it reaches the correct target audience?
      yes
    • What type of advert is it? (humorous, informative, surreal, dramatic, realist – you may have to research these terms and define them to find out)
      Surreal
    • What do you think of the advert and do you think it works?
      I think the advert works as seeing the rubber duck makes me think of a child who left it there after an adventure with its family.