Sunday, November 21, 2010

PillowMe: Styleframes

The mood and styles of PillowMe marketing ads are projecting that PillowMe can turn your tired and long day into a fresh and beautiful day within a quick sleep like cooking with a microwave.

Monday, November 15, 2010

PillowMe: Ads Inspiration




There is an advertisement for Hoover(though when I first saw it I had no idea what Hoover is). There is nothing much going on on the ads but an awaiting moment of a single deserted luggage slowly coming out from an airline luggage pick-up tray. Audience follow the ads and doubt about how the scene would pay-off.

I apply this awaiting moment to my PillowMe ads by having a clock on a microwave as the only moving object on the scenes, and the pay-off shows up when the clock counts as "0".

PillowMe "What It Does"



For "What It Does" stop motion, I generate the motion into each step occurring when the product is being used. Starting from a person gets tired, then she puts a pillow(PillowMe product) on, and the product puts this person into her deep sleep and in a stage of dream, and then when she wakes up, her dark circles surrounding her eyes disappear and she becomes fresh and ready for the day.




PillowMe: Marketing Strategy


PillowMe is physically an ordinary pillow that extraordinarily put a user to sleep and go deep into his/her dream at once with its futuristic microchipped technology.

An idea that I think would draw attentions from the audience to consider PillowMe as their useful and everyday products is to promote "a quick sleep bringing up full freshness".

I started brainstorming listing lists of things which metaphorically/visually represent "quickness/fastness". A microwave is the final answer.

Since PillowMe's target is quite mass, a house-whole for instance, especially ones involved with city life(living in rush hours and having small time for relaxation), microwave is a common kitchen tool that city people choose to cook for their meals. Thus, microwaves are relevantly connected to our audience's personal lives easily and directly.

Therefore, a microwave is used to narrate the whole ads by representing a rushing mood of quick sleep and an instant outcome of fully rest that is a pay-off of using the product.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Motion Design:Animation

Motion Design originally began with analog scenes. Each scene was created by consistent drawing or having human's consistent vision to perceive animation. It took a creator a great amount of time to create each single scene. Nowadays, since digital involves, creating animation consumes much less time. Also, other old techniques had been used in the past are still alive in the meantime. Since each technique of different type of animation has its own aesthetic, many contemporary film makers or animators manipulate them together to create their own signature in their works.

No matter how far we go today in technology involvement, number frames, smoothness or coarse of speed in films are still thought based on the same fundamental.