The
commercial for my product, Dove Men's Care Post Shave, will show examples of
all the different aspects of "manliness." More in depth there will be
the toughness aspect, the successfulness, attractive, and so on. This goes back
to men wanting to be something they aren’t, idolizing somebody or
something and wanting to become it. The commercial will open with a tough
gritty football player then shoot to an image to the product in the locker
room. By showing a big, strong, manly, tough football player using this product
will open a door to men showing them that they can be one step closer to being
like this man. Now this will be repeating throughout the commercial, for
example, the net slides will consist of a successful, rich man with a big house
and fancy car and then a man in the club with plenty of women around his arms.
This product doesn’t guarantee that women will appear out of thin air, but
women will be attracted to the smooth skin that this product will give the
user. The punch line will be something like; “We are all men on the inside, but
its what’s on the outside that counts. Get your man on.” And that is exactly
true with this product. Women see a man’s appearance before they actually meet
them, so it is good to make a good first impression.
Jason's OG Advertising Class
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Week 10 EOC: Golden Globes
If I were working for the advertising agency that as trying
to promote one of the new nominations for the best drama movie for the Golden
Globes, I would try to make the trailers and previews more intriguing and
simplified. For example, “The Room”, the preview is confusing and
uninteresting. It does not invite the audience or send the message that is a
Golden Globe deserving movie. Most people would see the trailer of a movie in
theaters, online, or on television before they even see the art composition of the
poster. These trailers have to give enough information about the movie to make
it intriguing but not so much to where the plot is spoiled away. As for some of
these movies the trailers are boring and uninformative, to where other has not
gotten the publicity it needs. “The Revenant” has gotten publicity, but not
good publicity. There is a controversy
with the trailer about Leonardo DiCaprio being raped by a bear, a rumor started
by Drudge Report (Libbey). Obviously not the best publicity, but it still gets
the movie out in the universe. This controversy has been cleared up since from
a spokesperson for Entertainment Weekly, “As anyone who has seen the movie can
attest, the bear in the film is a female who attacks Hugh Glass because she
feels he might be threatening her cubs. There is clearly no rape scene with a
bear.” (Libbey) As a hypothetical advertiser for any of these movies I would
first decide on what demographic we would need to target. Is the movie an
action thriller for men or a romantic comedy for couples? Then I would advise
to make a correct trailer that is interesting for the demographic that we have
chosen. By doing this there is no confusion on who or what the purpose of this
movie is. The trailer would hopefully be played in theaters, on TV and on other
media websites and things. The next step would be to make a poster or a graphic
for this movie and display them at bus stops or that can be put on t shirts or
even create some sort of interactive device that one could be engaged in. The
final step would be the build up, I think putting out a small, maybe even
blurry, screenshot of the movie out on the internet will bring people to make assumptions
or question the movie making them want to see it even more to see what this
mysterious mage represents. By doing all of this I believe any one of these nominations
could be promoted a little better than they previously have.
Storyboard
Script:
Slide 1:
The final slide:
Slide 1:
My commercial takes all aspects of what men want themselves
to be. For example with the first slide we see a football player which
represents toughness. The immediate slide after is a shot of the Dove’s Men’s
Care Post Shave.
Slide 2:
Promoting the product in the locker room.
Slide 3:
The next slide we see a businessman, clean cut, dressed
nicely and he looks confident. Again the next slide is a shot of the “rich” and
“successful” businessman holding the post shave. This commercial has shown 2 aspects
of what men would like to have, toughness and success.
Slide 4:
This slide is the rich successful man posing and promoting
the product.
Slide 5:
After the shot of the product there is a 10 second slide of
a man surrounded by women with his 2 hands out holding the post shave. This man
represents that women would be attracted to your smooth attractive fragranced
face.
Slide 6:
More promotion of the product by zooming in to the man’s
hand.
Slide 7:
So far we have shown men with toughness, success, and women
have used this product. So what else do we need? Well how about the complete
opposite person than what we discussed. A high school/college student. He uses this product and is the smart,
athletic and good looking stereotype that comes with the high school scholar
athlete.
Slide 8:
We see the college/high school kid playing basketball.
Slide 9:
Then we see the guy taking a shower shaving his face.
Slide 10:
This slide is an action shot of the Post Shave next to the
razor.
Slide 11:
This slide is a man who is dressed nicely, like a
millionaire, talking about the product saying, “We are all men inside. But
what’s inside doesn’t matter, it’s what’s outside that counts.”
The final slide:
A long close up of the final product.
This post shaved is used by men who are successful,
attractive, and tough, but is also used by teenagers in school so the
demographic is not just targeted on older men. We men see others as role models
almost as if we wish we were them, but we are not. However by using this
product we can be one step closer in achieving our fantasies. Get
your man on.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Consensus
All companies are concerned about their fan base, branching
out, and becoming a more powerful audience. We are too, that is why dove
branched out to becoming a men’s grooming company instead of just a female
orientated company. By widening our demographics we were able to create a
larger group to advertise and market for. “Advertising
reaches us through a channel of communication referred to as a medium. An
advertising medium is any nonpersonal means used to present an ad to a large
audience.” (Chapter 1.)
This opened the door to more social media and digital
advertising opportunities. Now we have a Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Not
to mention we are also putting out commercials, magazine ads and promotional
adverting campaigns to help spread the word to a larger audience. “We have radio advertising, television
advertising, newspaper ads, Google ads, and so on. When you tell somebody how
much you like a product, that's sometimes called word-of-mouth (WOM)
advertising. Although WOM is a communication medium, it has not generally been
considered an advertising medium. However the popularity of social media, such
as Facebook and Twitter, is forcing advertisers to reconsider this belief.”
(Chapter 1.)
Now that we have a larger consumer base, others see Dove as
a good strong company that does provide good results. We wouldn’t be this
successful if we didn’t have the proof behind our facts. We are still focused
on communicating to the masses, but we are still concerned with putting out
campaigns to the consumers who see us as an overrated company.
Liking
Here at Dove we not only like our customers, loyal or
seasonal, we love and respect them. This is what we are going to do, with any
purchase of our Dove Men’s Care Post Shave we are going to give our male
customers either a free stick of deodorant or 50% off of our other Dove Men’s Care products. For our female
customers buying for their loved ones we will include a free bar of women’s
Dove soap or 50% off any Dove Women’s Care
products as well.
Here is how it will work. With all Dove Men’s Care Post Shave there
will be a special tag that has a coupon code depending on what you the customer
decides they want. We have done a lot of research to find out what our
customers need and want. “Companies
spend heavily on marketing research in order to discover the needs and wants
that exist in the marketplace and to define a product's general characteristics
in the light of economic, social, and political trends. The goal is to use this
information for product shaping and development—designing products, through
manufacturing, repackaging, or advertising, to satisfy more fully the
customers’ needs and wants.” (Chapter 5.) We believe heavily on researching
what our customers fully care about.
As we said, we are not only doing this for our loyal
customers, but for our seasonal customers as well. This company wants to retain
and rebuild our fan base among the world. “It
may be easiest to think of all these in terms of what one researcher calls the
three R’s of marketing: recruiting new customers, retaining current customers,
and regaining lost customers.” (Chapter 7.) We realize our most loyal
customers care little about our promotions, but we know we should still give
thanks to them. Our most important goal is to regain and recruit new customers
that may have Dove as their second choice in grooming products. “Sole users are the most brand loyal and
require the least amount of advertising and promotion. Semi-sole users
typically use Brand A, but have an alternative selection if it is not
available. Discount users are the semi-sole users of competing Brand B.
Trial/rejectors bought Brand A's advertising message but didn't like the
product. More advertising won't help; only a reformulation of Brand A will
bring them back.” (Chapter 6.)
We understand that some may not like Dove and that some may
love Dove, either way our customers deserve only the best that we can offer.
Consistency
Dove is consistent with the way they handle business,
produce products and treat their customers. We are a business that likes to expand the
selling points of products so ultimately it’s easy for our customers to get
what they want. “Local
merchants or dealers often carry hundreds of different brands or numerous
models of an exclusive brand…” (Chapter 4.) We want our customers to
have easy access to all of their needs as well as create more opportunities to
spread out our company. “National
companies are concerned about building their brands…” (Chapter 4.)
Another way we strive to stay on top of our professionalism is by our
advertising campaigns. We have built our company on targeting magazines, mainly
gossip orientated, however we have broadened our spectrum to commercials and
other media. “With the advent of modern
technology and the natural maturation of the marketplace, many more media are
available to choose from today, and each offers more choices.” (Chapter 9.)
Since this is the new age of advertising and a constant change in advertising
it is our duty to stay on top of our game. “Until
the advent of the Internet, broadcast television grew faster than any other
advertising medium in history.” (Chapter 14.) “The nature of the Internet is a constant state of evolution. Therefore
advertisers have new and interesting ways to reach target audiences that extend
beyond the more standard ad placements.” (Chapter 15.)
Our advertisements will always be targeted to represent something
that either you need or that will benefit yourself. Most of our ads have a
positive impact, but we do have a few that may contain some type of concern.
But that doesn’t mean that it was a waste of money. “From the advertiser's point of view, ads that don't resonate are a
terrible waste of money. In fact, for them the greatness of the advertising is
in the “bang per buck.” Great ads give their sponsors much more advertising
effectiveness per dollar spent.” (Chapter 10.)
Product placement in popular or block buster summer movies
has also been effective to our advertisements. “Another way to reach movie and television audiences is to pay a fee
to have the product written into the movie or program. Such product placement
is becoming more common.” (Chapter 16.) These campaigns are possible
because of our media buyers and how efficient they are. “The person in charge of negotiating and contracting with the media is
called a media buyer. Media buyers often specialize in one medium or another,
so there are print media buyers, spot TV media buyers, network media buyers,
and so on.” (Chapter 13.)
Nothing would be possible without our creative team. They are
to thank for our successful advertisements and marketing schemes. We have
strong commercials and other ads but they are all thought out carefully and
thoroughly. “The average reader has
little idea of the intricate technical stages that ads go through from start to
finish…” (Chapter 12.)
Authority
People like a company that is control of their business at
all times. They like a company to takes responsibilities for their mistakes and
fixes them in the proper manner. “One of
the most important public relations tasks for any corporation is crisis management.
Brand value can be quickly destroyed if “damage control” is not swift and
thorough.” (Chapter 18.) One reason that Dove is a strong and striving
company is because we have been in control of all of our mistakes and have
fixed them quickly and responsibly.
Another reason that we are in constant control is because of
our marketing plans and advertising campaigns. Though we have had trouble with
some of our advertisements we fixed them correctly and we still have sent a
powerful message through them. “The
marketing plan has a profound effect on an organization's advertising. It
dictates the role of advertising in the marketing mix. It enables better
implementation, control, and continuity of advertising programs, and it guides
the allocation of advertising dollars. Successful organizations do not separate
advertising plans from marketing. They view each as a vital building block for
success.” (Chapter 8.)
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