Login

Lost your password?

Don't have an account?

Become a member
2016

RSA Anatomy of a Split Second

Company Irish International BBDO
Client RSA
  • Bronze
    7 Advertising: Craft - Editing (Single)
Copywriter
Dillon Elliott
Art Director
Clayton Homer
Executive Creative Director
Dylan Cotter
Account Director
Ken Kerr
Account Manager
Dave Power
Agency Producer
Gráinne O'Driscoll
Production Company
Partizan
Director
Martin Stirling
Agency Producer
Miranda Johnstone
Client
Brian Farrell and Annette Regan
Editor
Kevin Konak
Post–Production Company
Smoke & Mirrors
Music
Silas Hite
Director of Photography
Carl Burke
Copywriter
Dillon Elliott
Art Director
Clayton Homer
Executive Creative Director
Dylan Cotter
Account Director
Ken Kerr
Account Manager
Dave Power
Agency Producer
Gráinne O'Driscoll
Production Company
Partizan
Director
Martin Stirling
Agency Producer
Miranda Johnstone
Client
Brian Farrell and Annette Regan
Editor
Kevin Konak
Post–Production Company
Smoke & Mirrors
Music
Silas Hite
Director of Photography
Carl Burke

When you’ve gotten away with it once, you think you’ll get away with it again. But it only needs to happen once, and in the words of so many victims of road traffic crashes: “it only takes a split second”. When you use your mobile behind the wheel, taking your mind off the road for just a split second can destroy everything forever.

This TVC about mobile distraction focuses on just this point. We see a split second under the microscope – caught in time. We introduce the viewer to a serene world in a barbecue setting in a family garden. However, as our focus moves over to the road, we see that a driver is using his mobile phone while driving, and his collision with a family is devastatingly imminent.

At the end of the ad, time returns to normal. We see the crash from the point of view of the offending phone. All of the serenity in the ad up to this point completely destroyed through one simple act of inattention. A split second is all it takes. And of their mobile phone, we ask the viewer: “would it kill you to put it away?”