KEEP HOPE ALIVE

TitleKEEP HOPE ALIVE
BrandCHILD FOCUS
Product/ServiceCHILD FOCUS IS THE BELGIAN CENTER FOR MISSING CHILDREN.
Category C02. Interactive & Dynamic Billboards / Posters
Entrant THESE DAYS Antwerp, BELGIUM
Idea Creation THESE DAYS Antwerp, BELGIUM
Media Placement MEDIACOM Brussels, BELGIUM
Production THESE DAYS Antwerp, BELGIUM
Additional Company THE BLACKBOX.ORG Zoersel, BELGIUM
Credits
Name Company Position
Dirk De Pover Child Focus Communication Manager
Pieter Staes These Days Creative Director
Manuel Ostyn These Days Creative Director
Jolien Tuyteleers These Days Copywriter
Kate Bellefroid These Days Art Director
Inge Vanhees These Days Designer
Max Heirbaut These Days Design Director
Tallita Ortiz de la Torre These Days Strategy
Jentina Van Eynde These Days Account Manager
Cedric Joris These Days Account Manager
Sam Serrien These Days CTO
Stijn Janssen These Days Solution Architect
Sven Lemmens These Days Front-End Developer
Veerle Struyf These Days Developer

Brief Explanation

To keep hope alive, we literally brought the original posters of six long-term missing children to life. Using a 3D mask technique, we brought natural movement to the pictures, from eye movements and blinking to larger movements and facial quirks. Turning these mostly ignored portraits into gripping confrontations on social media and digital billboards. The moving pictures were spread via hundreds of digital billboards in major train stations and subway stations. By adding sudden movement to the original posters we surprised people and made them pay attention these children again. Child Focus normally uses normal posters to spread messages. By choosing digital billboards and adding sudden movement to the old pictures, we created something that's never been done before, using the strength of this medium. Viewers were directed to a separate webpage for each missing child, where they could read more about the disappearances and also share the search messages.