Cannes Lions

PEDIGREE ADOPTION DRIVE

COLENSO BBDO, Auckland / MARS / 2012

Awards:

2 Shortlisted Cannes Lions
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Overview

Description

The Pedigree Adoption Drive offers support to thousands of abandoned dogs around the country. While numbers hadn’t dropped, unfortunately public interest had. We needed to find a new way to connect. This project was designed to remind all people how important donations to the cause are, and to show how their support, no matter how insignificant it may seem, could save the life of an abandoned dog – and raise money for the cause in the process.

Execution

Every now and then an innovation comes along that changes the way people will experience cinema forever. By adapting the way 3D glasses work we were able to simultaneously project 2 entirely different films on the same screen so cinemagoers can watch 2 different films at the same time. Utilising this ground-breaking technology, we created 2 parallel stories. One was of a mistreated dog who gets rescued, re-nourished through the shelter process and then re-homed; the other, of the same mistreated dog who tragically never gets found. Before the movie, cinemagoers are faced with a choice: donate and receive a yellow pair of donation glasses, or pay nothing and receive a red pair. That choice decided the fate of the dog on screen. For the first time ever, cinemagoers were able to see the difference a donation makes, live.

Outcome

Every now and then an innovation comes along that changes the way people will experience cinema forever. By adapting the way 3D glasses work we were able to simultaneously project two entirely different films on the same screen so cinemagoers can watch 2 different films at the same time. Utilising this ground-breaking technology, we created 2 parallel stories: 1 of a mistreated dog who gets rescued, re-nourished through the shelter process and then re-homed; the other of the same mistreated dog who tragically never gets found. Before the movie, cinema-goers are faced with a choice – donate and receive a yellow pair of donation glasses, or pay nothing and receive a red pair. That choice decided the fate of the dog on screen. For the first time ever, cinema-goers were able to see the difference a donation makes, live.

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