Cannes Lions
ARTPLAN, Rio De Janeiro / BRAZILIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / 2016
Overview
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Credits
Description
In partnership with one of the largest children's TV channels in Brazil, we launched a free tablet app. Before the cartoon starts, children just needed to point the tablet to the TV to synchronise and listen to the orchestra playing throughout the entire episode. With this fun experience, we were able to introduce classical music during an educational moment of life and also have shown the parents that they already liked classical music.They just didn’t notice it.
Execution
Famous cartoons are orchestrated, so we recorded the orchestra playing complete episodes from several cartoons, everything from the soundtracks to the sound effects, and in partnership with one of the largest children's TV channels in Brazil, we launched a free tablet app. Before the cartoon starts, children just needed to point the tablet to the TV to synchronize and listen to the orchestra playing throughout the entire episode.
Outcome
We managed to insert classical music into the children's culture in a key phase of their lives, before they grow up and build a personality of their own and close their minds for everything that is not already part of their own tastes and attitudes. We plant the seeds that will flourish later. The tablet app + TV cartoon combo was clear and effective as we were not selling concert tickets or promoting the orchestra in a obvious way. It was pure entertainment but with a direct impact on the orchestra's image and relevance among children. We created a demand that will last forever: the taste for music and art.
- Over 20.000 downloads.
- More than 500.000 children impacted.
- A 60% increase in the number of children at the Orchestra concerts.