Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Allegra Before & After Ad

This commercial shows people in black & white complaining about how life sucked before they started taking Allegra, and then it switches to full, vivid color for how super awesome life has become since they started taking Allegra. Allegra is apparently some allergy medicine, so this approach, while visually striking, I would tend to think is not particularly appropriate for an advertisement for this product. Instead, this black & white drab before becoming a vivid full-color and enthusiastic after seems like a wonderful concept for an antidepressant ad campaign. That way it would show how life was drab and colorless before they took the drug, when they were in the depths of depression, but after taking the drug, it would show how their life has woken up and become bright and cheerful. See what I mean?

But for allergies, I would think a different approach would work better. How about this?: Show a dog-lover who likes gardening look at their flowers, and the flowers morph into scary monsters via CGI, and then their dog turns into a vicious werewolf beast, and the music turns to horror movie music, etc., and then the actor/actress could say that their horrible allergies turned their favorite things (like flowers, pets, etc.) into oppressive, scary things. But now that they use Allegra, it has broken the spell and turned the threatening things back into beautiful flowers and loving, cute animals, etc. I think this would work far better for an allergy medication. (Has this idea been done before? I don't believe I have seen it.)

I'm sorry, but I can't find this commercial anywhere except for on the Allegra website on the ads page (It's called: "Architect" if you'd care to seek it out.), but this page has a glitch on it where it tries to play the audio for all the clips at once, and it's very annoying, so I'm not including a link here. But it's just b&w shots turning into color, etc., so you can imagine what it looks like pretty easily. (It basically looks like an ad for an antidepressant.)