Walking ad board in city from @madewell

The video captures a person walking across a busy city street while carrying a large advertisement board for the Alexa Chung x Madewell Fall 2024 fashion collaboration, serving as a candid, real-world teaser for the campaign.

Creator: @madewell on Instagram

Video format

One Shot

Video outline

  1. Introduce a surreal object
  2. Ground it in a real environment
  3. Show the object in purposeful motion

Hook overview

An immediate, disorienting visual of a person carrying an object of an unusual scale, instantly breaking the viewer's pattern of expectation for a typical street scene.

Visual hook

An unusual and large-scale object, a fashion campaign advertisement board, is being carried by a person across a busy city street, creating immediate visual intrigue and curiosity.

Hook strategies

  1. curiosity-open-loops

Payoff

The successful completion of the object's short journey, leaving the viewer with a memorable and slightly absurd image that reinforces the core message, often clarified by the caption.

Narrative framework

The Surreal Incursion

Narrative framework logic

To generate intrigue by placing a large, out-of-context, symbolic object into a mundane, everyday environment and documenting its simple, purposeful movement through that space.

Narrative framework breakdown

  • frameworkName: The Surreal Incursion
  • frameworkType: Standard Narrative
  • coreLogic: To generate intrigue by placing a large, out-of-context, symbolic object into a mundane, everyday environment and documenting its simple, purposeful movement through that space.
  • confidence: 92
  • pendingStatus: created

Topics: Advertising, Brand Marketing

Concepts: Candid Spectacle, Brand Showcase

Formats: One Shot

Account types: Brand, Personal Brand

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