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Briefs and
Briefing
Throwing Down
the Gauntlet?
Briefs and Briefing
Critical shift of Focus

The End
of the
Beginning

Creative Brief
Creative Briefing

‘What’ we Say

The
Beginning
of the End

‘How’ we Say it
What

How

Boddingtons
is the ultimate
smooth-drinking
pint

less this

more this

Outcome
What

How

Easy insurance for
young value-conscious
Irish people

Tapping into
the Irreverence of
the Ryanair generation

Outcome
BRAND

PRODUCT/PROCESS

Insight
is NOT
Confined to
Consumers

COMPANY ETHOS

‘Discovery consists of looking at
the same thing as everyone else
and thinking something different’
	
Albert Szent-Gyorgi

CULTURE

CONSUMER/TRADE

COMMUNICATION
‘The key to all story endings
is to give the audience what
it wants, but not in the way
it expects’
Adventures in the Screen-Trade
William Goldman
One Brief
owned by ALL
Stakeholders
in Creative
Process
Collaboration

Stereotypes
66%*
communication
of

is

non-verbal

* Social Psychologists cannot
agree on the exact figure you’ll hear estimates from 66%
up to 95% but I have erred on
the conservative side
Making
the Brief
Tangible
The
Ice-Rink
Cometh
Proposition A

Proposition
Smoposition

IBM new range of
advanced computers
will put you ahead
in the human race

Proposition B
IBM computer
features are
solutions to your
work problems
Great
Briefs
Contain
Tension
Cirque Du Soleil Rage Against the Machine
Great
Briefs
are
Resonant
Orange
Let it be a beam
of hope
The
Elevator
Pitch
What exactly is
the communication
trying to do ?
What is
the Exact
Role for
Advertising?

Got Milk
To remind people
of the horror of
running out of milk.
Lynx
To dramatise getting
ahead in the mating
game in a credible
knowing way
Stork Margarine
To put the joy
back into baking
Sometimes
the Brief
is off-Brief
Rigour
Shared Ownership

Ingredients
of Good Briefs
and Briefing

Iterative Process
Honesty and Feedback
at All Stages
Constructive Debate
Throwing Down
the Gauntlet
BBH
Challenge
to Lynx
U.S. Client?

Red Pill ?

Blue Pill?
So what are WE
prepared to DO?

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