Cannes Lions

High School Girl?

WATTS OF TOKYO / SHISEIDO CO. / 2016

Awards:

2 Gold Cannes Lions
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OVERVIEW

Description

To offer young generation entertainment and surprise, we explore the idea of “Pretty young high school girls are actually a bunch of high school boys wearing a make-up”.

Moreover as pursuing detailed reality, we brought in the shooting technique; single continuous take without cut over more than seven hours and rewind back the full transformation process from female to male to show our concept dramatically.

Execution

We aimed to make the audience spread and share the movie voluntarily with their friends or community via word of mouth or social media, thus to avoid showing the movie commercially, we did not conduct any PR or media placements at first.

When we posted the movie on YouTube, the only thing we did was to tweet or post the movie on the private social media accounts of the high school students who performed and the staffs.

After a week of the release, the number of view on Youtube rapidly leaped over 4 million and we issued the press release which tells about what is behind the movie.

Besides this, through our own website, SNS, and corporate news letters, we also announced the information in public to recognize people the existence of the movie widely.

Outcome

The movie acquired over 918 million views, and its making of video had over 102 million views on Youtube as of 23d March 2016.

These results was achieved organically without advertising.

The words related to the movie ranked in hot topics on internet and major TV and web media in Japan took up the sensation that this movie caused with wonder.

Also hundreds of web media took up the movie in global, as a result, it has been watched by people in over 200 countries and regions and caused huge controversy around the world.

After a month of releasing, its exposure on twitter in Japan approached over 36 million times in total.

Moreover as we conducted the survey to the targeted generation and found that over 50% of the respondents answered they have favorable impression on our products and feel intimacy with Shiseido after watching the movie.

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