Cannes Lions
BBH, London / ST JOHNS AMBULANCE / 2013
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Description
With limited budgets, St John Ambulance needed to generate work that would be amplified by media conversation to ensure the necessary reach.
The film was built around the statistic that first aid could help prevent up to 140,000 deaths every year. The same number of people that die from cancer.
Following a young father's fight with cancer, the film shows his diagnosis, early on-set and difficult recovery. Once in remission, he then tragically dies from choking on a burger at a BBQ because none of the guests know the first aid needed to be the difference between life and death.
Execution
Sia’s ‘I’m in here’ (licenced track, acoustic version) was chosen, as it did the near impossible task of being both sad and uplifting, whilst mirroring the emotional rollercoaster that the viewer was taken on.
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