“Whether they are comic or dramatic doesn’t matter, we like good ideas. is on and neither one of us is watching it Your problem is everytime my. “We’re always looking for good concepts,” John Doe says. John Doe Video: Public Announcement: Its the middle of the day and we both have thrown a fit. The song Dumb Ways to Die from the video was written by John Mescall. The idea was to capture “real life” emotions. Dumb Ways to Die is an Australian public campaign made by Metro Trains in Melbourne. Three years later, Aldrich was convicted of having criminal sexual conduct with a 16-year-old Houghton (Mich.) High School hockey player, now known as John Doe 2. Among their more recent efforts is a public service announcement for Vodaphone’s RED service plan, which is composed from actual cell-phone videos collected from the pair’s friends and family. They can as easily provoke audiences to wistful empathy as laughter. They are shrewd storytellers, with an impeccable sense of character and emotion. They have won the attention of agencies on three continents by consistently delivering fresh and original work.

John Doe’s work has been short-listed at Cannes in six consecutive years.ĭespite their name, John Doe has been anything but anonymous. Along the way, they’ve collected scores of awards, including a Cannes Lions Direct Grand Prix for a campaign promoting Spain’s Banco Gallego that employed footage of a Barcelona sportscaster fainting during a live television broadcast. The group, whose work includes both traditional and viral campaigns for such brands as Blaupunkt, KFC, Nestle’s, T-Mobile, Vodaphone and motorbike maker Bajaj have been collaborating as John Doe since 2003 and have worked with ad agencies across Europe as well as South America and Asia. The international Directing Collective under the pseudonym John Doe, bring a smart, funny, occasionally provocative and always original style of storytelling to the market.

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