1. Nørrefest
Be Green, Keep It Clean
Strategic Communication B
Storey Stadler and Michelle Ashe
November 21, 2016

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INTRODUCTION
NørreFest is a music festival in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark that is held every
summer. Families and young adults from around Denmark attend the festival every year to listen
to alternative, rock, rap, and electronic music. Festival goers are also able to socialize, eat, drink
and just have a good time. It is imperative in every successful campaign to have a clear and
concise purpose. Our campaign, titled “Be Green, Keep It Clean” revolves around our main
purpose, which is to ensure the survival of NørreFest for many years to come. By defining our
purpose we established our main goal, which is to decrease waste at the NørreFest music festival
by encouraging festival goers to actively participate in and grow passionate about keeping the
festival grounds clean. The success of our campaign is essential for NørreFest’s annual
continuity. “Be Green, Keep It Clean” will mainly be facilitated through our App, titled
“NørreFest App,” and is further discussed in a later section of our paper. We are specifically
aiming to recruit waste pick up volunteers, partner with vendors, and create fun and engaging
ways for festival goers to manage their waste in order to accomplish our goal.
CORE STORY
Holding large events such as a music festival is a great way to bring a community
together as well as support local vendors and artists. While much of the music festival is
considered a positive contribution to the community, a major issue with holding this festival is
the excessive amount of trash that is present during the concerts and also left behind afterwards.
There have been complaints from local citizens that the trash is unacceptable and must be taken
care of, or the city will withdraw their support to fund the festival in N​ørrebro​. We have created

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a campaign with the ultimate purpose of ensuring that the festival continues to be an annual
event for years to come. The central theme of our campaign, ​“Be Green, Keep It Clean,” ​is to
encourage festival goers to become involved and passionate about keeping the festival grounds
clean. Our campaign will be executed through our phone application, social media outlets, and
advertisements. Being interactive is a large component of our campaign, it is vital for it’s
success, and it is what separates us from other campaigns. We provide an interface with the
necessary tools and even incentives for festival goers to navigate themselves and actively
participate in our campaign in an easy and fun way. Challenges that we might expect with the
campaign are recruiting festival goers to become volunteers as well as getting people to utilize
the App beyond using it to show their ticket at the entrance. The opportunities that can come by
successfully combating these challenges are that there will be optimum participation in the
proper disposal of waste at the festival. Once the festival is over, we expect for the amount of
waste to be significantly reduced, and therefore keep local citizens and public funders satisfied.
This will allow us to achieve our ultimate purpose of assuring the survival of NørreFest and it’s
return for years to come.

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TARGET GROUPS
We are communicating mainly to different demographics of festival goers and it’s
surrounding area. These being young families who typically attend festivals during the day,
young adults who typically attend the festival at night, and vendors who are selling food and
souvenirs. These target groups were specifically chosen because we feel as though they are the
most reachable as an audience and will have the most impact on our efforts in reducing trash at
the festivals.

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Young families who attend the festival during the day could presumably not be the worst
offenders in leaving trash behind at the festivals, but they do come to the festival to have fun and
to socialize. If we create a campaign that sheds light on the problem of trash at the festival, then
they could have a sense of protectiveness and a sort of duty to show their children that throwing
your trash away is good! It only seems natural to us that they not only would hope to set a good
example for their kids, but also be able to teach them habits and behaviors that they carry on for
the rest of their lives. In order to gain participation with parents and kids, the points system in the
NørreFest application will aid in involvement of families picking up trash, while also doing so in
a fun way.
Young adults are a more difficult target group to reach, as we’ve discussed in class
before, because they tend to be inebriated in one way or another at these festivals which probably
leaves them with a lesser moral compass in doing a good duty for the environment and the
neighborhood. Alas, we do feel as though they are still important to target because they are
presumably the worst offenders of our problem of excessive trash at the festivals, and it will be
our greatest challenge to change their behavior. From analyzing the street interviews we
conducted, it seems as though most young adults attend festivals to be social and have fun, and
since they pay an entrance fee they feel as though they should not have to participate in cleaning
efforts. In order to gain their attention, we have created a volunteer system that compensates for
the ticket price of the festival.
The vendors are also one of target groups because they are possibly one of the highest
producers of trash at the festivals and can be involved in the initiative towards getting festival
goers to throw their own trash away. Vendors must supply reusable cups that when used and

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returned the festival goer will attain a discounted next drink. In addition, all vendors and
throughout the festival grounds will solely use Drop Buckets to brand ourselves as a festival that
cares about the environment.
STAKEHOLDERS
Local people who live and work in the surrounding area are incredibly important
stakeholders. We rely on locals being pleased with the festival in order to gain their support
which is an essential component for public funding. If the festival goers disrespect the
neighborhood by trashing during the festival, locals will react poorly and complain. Their
opposition would force the state to withdraw their funding, and without funds the festival would
ultimately be shut down. Our campaign ensures locals that the festival is taking an environmental
initiative to protect and preserve their community and its cleanliness, which will elicit a positive
response. Our hope is to grow and maintain ours relationship with the local community so that
they welcome and support the festival in the future.
THREE OBJECTIVES
Our first objective is to recruit waste pick-up volunteers through social media and
newsletters. Each of the volunteers will have scheduled shifts that they must complete in order to
gain a pass to the festival. Once they have completed their shift they will have gained their way
to be able to attend the concert. The volunteers must collect a certain amount of trash within their
shift in order to be eligible to participate in the festivities. In addition, there will be incentives for
the volunteers to gain prizes, such as, concert gear, VIP access, food and drink stipends based on

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how much they are able to pick up. All of the prizes are distributed based upon a point system. If
one picks up more trash or volunteers more hours, they are eligible for more prizes. In order to
track this, we will be developing an app for the festival. In regards to the volunteers, the app will
show how much trash they must pick up and for how long, in order to receive certain free gear.
Secondly, we will form partnerships with festival vendors so that there is less potential
waste produced and given out in the first place. For example, the vendors will have to sell their
food or drinks in recyclable or reusable plates and cups. Vendors will offer reduced prices to
customers who return with their own bottle, cup or plate. We will also create a new rule that
requires any vendor who wants to participate in the festival to use Drop Buckets for each of the
different types of waste that will be used at the festival. For example, there will be different
colored Drop Buckets for paper versus plastic, which will create an easy separation system that
also is environmentally friendly.
Our third strategy is to create fun and engaging ways to encourage all festival goers to
recycle and toss their waste. The festival goers will be able to participate in a point system game
through the NørreFest app. By doing so, people will not only participate in fun activities through
their phone to earn prizes but will also be helping with trash pick up.
INTERVIEWS
After our group defined our target groups, our objectives and purpose, our next step was
to conduct preliminary research through interviews. First, we formulated a series of relevant
questions, catering them towards each of our target groups. The overall goal for our preliminary

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interviews was to gain a better understanding of our target groups and their current views on and
experiences with waste management.
We formulated our research questions for locals, young parents, vendors, and young
adults. We began each interview by asking the interviewee if they had been to a festival before.
Or, in the vendor's case, if they had catered a music festival before and if they had any waste
management guidelines that they had to abide by. If our interviewees had attended a festival
before, we asked them questions regarding previous behaviors and strategies they may have
already seen. We followed with questions specifically addressing how they thought people
would be motivated to pick up after themselves or even pick up other people's trash. If they
needed help thinking of ways to promote waste management we would ask specifically about
things which we had formerly brainstormed, such as the possibility of incentives such as food
stipends, free t-shirts, vip access, meet and greets, or free access.
Our preliminary interviews gave us insight into the unique perspectives of our target
audience. We successfully interviewed a store owner in his mid-thirties, a wine store worker in
his mid- thirties, two men in their late twenties, two girls in their mid-twenties, and a host family.
Overall, we found that a few common themes were persistent throughout the interviews. The
interviews shed light on the fact that many people are more intent on enjoying the festival instead
of working one. Another common theme was that festival goers didn’t feel inclined to pick up
after themselves which was no surprise. Interviewees also expressed that reusable cups had been
an effective strategy that they had been employed in the past. Lastly, we received feedback that
an engaging slogan or game could motivate people to clean up.

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COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
The channels we will use to promote not only the application for the festival, but
additionally the festival itself are Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Facebook and Instagram
will mostly be used beforehand, and the Snapchat geotag will be used while the event occurs so
that the overall objective of our mission is incorporated by the festival goers. The geotag will
represent the objective of the festival, sticking to the underlying message of creating a fun
environment, while also labeling the festival as being environmentally friendly and encouraging
behavioral changes. Before and during the festival we will use social media to promote not only
the festival itself, but also how the festival is environmentally friendly and to encourage a
mentality of how cleaning can be fun too.
DESIGN ELEMENTS
For the social media advertisements we worked for the various graphics to correspond
across various platforms. Our goal is to create a consistent visual for our viewers. The colors we
chose are meant to be fluorescent and eye grabbing. We chose gender neutral colors that appeal
to a young crowd, but also a young family as well. The aesthetic is meant to be fun and playful
while addressing the necessity of trash pick up throughout the festival. We will promote various
hashtags such as #keepitclean, #keepnørrefest, #cleanupfillup, and #savenørrefest.

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APP
The app will be called “Nørrefest App”. The festival ticket is going to be on the app. If
you have your ticket code from the app, you get a festival pin upon entry (the first “prize” a
festival goer can earn). We want people to take part in our campaign before the festival even
starts, and they can do so by downloading the app and having their entry ticket on their phone,
rather than printing a physical paper ticket. The idea is that the digital ticket saves paper and
causes less potential trash to clean up rather than a printed ticket. We don’t have the power to
force people to download an app to enter, but we do have the power to lead people to download
the app for a purpose that is worth their time and experience. Augmented reality is a very up and
coming technology, so we feel that including this in our app was a perfect solution to keeping
our festival clean. Augmented reality is defined as “​a technology that superimposes a
computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view”.
You will be able to photograph/film yourself each time you throw a piece of trash away. Due to
the augmented reality “game” and the location beacon, you will be awarded points through the
app automatically. Each “trash disposal area” will have a location beacon on it, so that the app

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knows you are physically close to the trash bin. The app won’t only be used for our trash pick up
campaign, but will also be a place where volunteers can check into the festival and alerts can be
sent out to festival goers.
Our app takes the process of throwing away trash and makes it a more fun and interactive
activity. The reward system is also in place to incentivize people to keep the festival clean so
that it can return the following year. The app will have a domino effect; once one festival goer
sees another using the app and getting a reward, others will follow. The purpose of the app is to
motivate our younger demographic to clean while having fun in the most “hip” way.
THREE CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENTS
1.) Instagram Ad

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Attending our festival this year? Be sure to download and use our
app to document throwing away your trash! Every 10 pieces of trash
YOU can earn free festival gear, food, drinks and more! #keepitclean
#keepnørrefest #cleanupfillup #savenørrefest
2.) Snapchat Geotag
Note: Because we aren’t expecting our festival goers to all want to have a snapchat geotag with
trash, the filter will be motion sensored. Like other snapchat filters a notification will pop up
informing the user to raise their eyebrows. When the user does this only then will the waste fall

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into the trashcan giving the user the option to photograph with or without the trash and trash can
in the photo.
3.) App for Mobile Devices
This app is necessary for entry into the festival due to the electronic ticket. Our app will have
four main options! Aside from the ticket option the other three options will correspond directly
to our platform. The camera will serve to share any photos taken at the festival with other festival

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goers (who will have the app on their phones as well). Additionally this will be the means for
festival goers to show live feed of throwing away their trash, which is connected to the beacons
at the waste stations. When opening the camera a notification will pop up explaining how the
process works. The user will be able to “go live” and document throwing away a piece of trash.
Every 10 pieces of trash documented the user can receive a free gear, food, drinks, etc. The app
will track the user and tally the pieces of trash that he/she throws away. If the user clicks ‘prizes’
there will be a description of how to win the prizes and where the prizes can be collected, and if
the user clicks the trash bubble there will be an explanation of why it is so important for
individuals to pick up their trash. Both the prizes option and trash option will have an option to
redirect to the camera to document live feed of throwing away trash.
CONCLUSION
Our campaign, “Be Green, Keep it Clean” meets our overall purpose of promoting waste
management to ensure the continuation of NørreFest. Our communication efforts purposefully
create a fun and casual way for both families and young adults to participate in waste
management. We use social media as our main channel for recruiting volunteers and vendors. In
addition to social media, our application will keep concert goers actively engaged in the cleaning
process through the use of a point reward system. We believe that these strategies will
successfully create a fun and exciting environment where people are motivated to clean up after
themselves.