Title | PLAY THE REAL THING |
Brand | NIKE JAPAN |
Product / Service | NIKE FIVE |
Category | B02. Consumer Products |
Entrant | BEACON COMMUNICATIONS Tokyo, JAPAN |
Entrant Company: | BEACON COMMUNICATIONS Tokyo, JAPAN |
Advertising Agency: | BEACON COMMUNICATIONS Tokyo, JAPAN |
Name | Company | Position |
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Jon King | beacon communications k.k. | Executive Creative Director |
Shunsuke Kakinami | beacon communications k.k. | Creative Director, Planner |
Shuhei Tsuji | beacon communications k.k. | Senior Copywriter |
Yusuke Morotomi | beacon communications k.k. | Art Director/Designer |
Norio Serizawa | beacon communications k.k. | Account Planner/Account Supervisor/Campaign Producer |
Masato Konno | beacon communications k.k. | Art Director/Designer |
Ryo Kobayashi | beacon communications k.k. | Copywriter |
Takuro Amada | beacon communications k.k. | Strategic Planner |
Kenji Kondo, Satoshi Inoue | beacon communications k.k. | Account Director |
TYO PRODUCTIONS | Film Production Company | |
Takeshi Fukuda | TYO PRODUCTIONS | Executive Film Producer |
Satoshi Mori | easeback | Director, Editor |
Hiromichi Takagi | TYO PRODUCTIONS | Film Producer |
Kyoichi Shibukawa/Suguru Uesugi | TYO PRODUCTIONS | Film Production Manager |
Shingo Fujii | oddjob | Creative Coordinator |
Takaya Murakami | Artist Bureau | Sound Designer |
Masashi Sasaki | Camera | |
Shohei Mukaide | TENPRINT | Book Producer |
Jun Fukahori | ART PROCESS | Photo Producer |
Ryosuke Dohi | CAS & CAST | Photographer |
Root Communications | Website Production Company | |
Toru Terashima | Root Communications | Technical Director |
Toshinori Matsuura | Root Communications | Website Designer |
Tsuyoshi Tanaka | Root Communications | Programmer |
Taizo Hirose/Akinobu Toyohara | NIKE JAPAN | Client Supervisor |
Nike sold out, of all NIKE5 boots and clothing. The matches became more and more crowded with spectators as the rumors got out that a mysterious professional team was at the local field playing any team who challenged.
We used the actual futsal fields as our media. We created a mystery dream team of futsal professionals to invade tournaments across the country. They were like a futsal “Harlem Globetrotters” putting spectators and other players in awe with their skills and expertise. Our Nike5 mystery team started invading fields and playing games to whoever wanted to challenge. These masters gave an abject lesson in how the game is played at the highest level, time and time again.
Futsal is a game of five-a-side football played on a small field. The sport is growing in Japan but few people have seen or experienced it played at higher level outside of weekend get-togethers. In fact many players don’t even know the real rules. The objective was to promote this high performance line of products to Japanese players. But how do you launch high performance sportswear to weekend players? Our idea was to “Play the Real Thing.” Nike needed to create a benchmark for the game and give players the opportunity to experience first-hand how it can really be played.