Animations employed in Staffordshire’s social media campaign.
1 of the greatest overall health and financial costs to the economy is alcohol. This is true up and down the country, and it is no diverse in Staffordshire where, in purchase to change behaviour, I have realised that we want to intervene earlier than ever before.
A large challenge for councils is communicating with so-named tough to reach audiences. This consists of younger men and women who quite frequently would run a mile from people perceived as being in authority, never ever mind what they might see as a stuffy council.
To target this problem, Staffordshire has taken a distinct strategy. After asking younger people about their drinking routines, it grew to become clear that there was a big big difference in between how frequently younger men and women drink and how a lot they believe their peers are drinking.
From nationwide statistics it is also clear that kids who have their initial drink before the age of ten are substantially much more most likely to grow to be regular drinkers (as soon as a week or a lot more frequently).
In purchase to appeal to our target age group the council needed to be smarter. For this age bracket, friends and social media are the best techniques for them to locate out information and information, so operating with a range of partners such as police, fire and district councils, and thirty younger folks an alcohol fails campaign was set up. It is made for other eleven-14-yr-olds in Staffordshire.
For these who will not know, “fail” is a popular web slang for brief videos depicting circumstances with unfortunate outcomes. The word is utilized to level out a person’s error: “a fail”. They’ve got their personal focused channel on Youtube that will get 1000′s of views on a day-to-day basis and are incredibly well-liked with youthful people.
A single of the greatest identified virals of this nature is the dumb approaches to die ad campaign by Metro Trains Melbourne which provided inspiration for the campaign.
Employing a major Staffordshire-primarily based animations studio, myself and a group of colleagues worked with young men and women to create a series of animated movies with the aim of delaying consuming inside of that age assortment and promoting a modify in behaviour in terms of how these younger men and women approached alcohol. The animations had been based mostly on simple alcohol relevant stories – this kind of as social existence experiences and long term prospects – followed by a clear fail message.
Posters utilized as element of the council’s campaign.
Their aim was to send a strong message to youthful people about why consuming alcohol is a “fail”, but in a way that didn’t preach.
The fashion adopted is reminiscent of retro 8BIT design personal computer graphics and music, which we knew to be extremely common with 11–14-12 months-olds and the animations, although not branded, had signposting to how to see a lot more and entry additional resources. In developing the characters and scenarios the youthful people drew on their experience of popular video and online gaming.
It was a chance and at instances, but the youthful people who were concerned have been genuinely enthusiastic. They had wonderful ideas and actually aided us to develop something that could appeal to other younger men and women.
A multi-platform technique was adopted and the last animations and visuals have been shared online through the principal social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and on Tumblr, with young men and women being encouraged to share the fails with their peers (with parent’s permission if they have been under 13).
We also created confident the campaign was noticeable in venues well-liked amongst youthful individuals, like the animations becoming shown at cinemas in the county prior to blockbuster twelve rated movies. This was completed for free of charge – a real coup for us.
Large visually lower out stands and counter top dispensers depicting characters from the animations had been placed in video outlets, cafes and restaurants.
The animations were proven at Christmas light switch on occasions, and at nappy nights – targeted youth events at nightclubs in the county. We also held a series of particular town centre events, taking the message immediately to youthful folks.
The cast of animation characters used in Staffordshire’s campaign.
It was a really different method and it wasn’t all plain sailing. Funding was secured from the IEWM social media suggestions fund which actually helped as it gave us breathing room to consider out new thigns. So far, the campaign has genuinely made a difference. To date, there have been one,319 views on YouTube, one,000 guests to the blogging site which also consists of phase-by-step updates on making the animations, and one,881 likes on Facebook.
Out of 250 younger folks across the county that we asked about the campaign, 89% stated they would share the animation fails and numerous of them had. And even more importantly for us, 89% also explained they would believe twice prior to drinking alcohol as a result of the campaign. But for me, it really is summed up greatest by James Skidmore, an eleven-year-old from Heath Hayes close to Cannock who worked on the Disco Fail video.
He mentioned: “I went to a workshop, and assisted layout one particular of the characters in the disco video. It’s actually very good to be capable to watch one of your creations come to daily life, and I really feel proud that my ideas have been utilised. I hope these movies will stop the following generation of kids from drinking and ruining their lives, and it is nice to come to feel I have helped to make a variation.”
You can see the movies right here.
Emma Rodgers is senior campaigns officer at Staffordshire county council.
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#Fail - Staffordshire"s social media campaign to lower underage consuming
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