SEE MORE OF NEW ZEALAND BY RAIL

TitleSEE MORE OF NEW ZEALAND BY RAIL
BrandKIWIRAIL
Product / ServiceRAIL JOURNEYS
CategoryB03. Consumer Services
EntrantCLEMENGER BBDO Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Entrant Company:CLEMENGER BBDO Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Advertising Agency:CLEMENGER BBDO Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Media Agency:OMD Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

Credits

Name Company Position
Matt Mcneil OMD General Manager
Kate Wilkinson OMD Account Manager
Craig Osborne OMD Head Of Digital
Philip Andrew Clemenger BBDO Executive Creative Director
Brigid Alkema Clemenger BBDO Art Director
Emily Beautrais Clemenger BBDO Copywriter
Tom Cunliffe Clemenger BBDO Copywriter
Zac Lancaster Clemenger BBDO Art Director
Lindsay Keats Photographer
Lisa Dupre Clemenger BBDO Art Director
Scott Mcmillan Clemenger BBDO Agency Producer
Steve Jaycock Clemenger BBDO Retoucher
Emma Foot Clemenger BBDO Account Director

Results and Effectiveness

Thousands of potential passengers were shown exactly what they were missing – the 681km of New Zealand you can only see by train.

Creative Execution

To make this long photograph, still shots were taken out the train window every few seconds for the whole 12 hr journey. Then we combined all 31,509 images into the longest snapshot ever. In magazines, the train journey ran across every single page. Consecutive street posters took up a whole city block near the airport. We took the train journey inside the terminal, running it right around the airport luggage carousels. And when people got on the plane, there it was along the overhead lockers.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

Flying between New Zealand’s major cities is quick and cheap, so why bother taking the train? We figured if you fly, all you see of New Zealand is clouds. Take the train, and you get to see some of the world’s most beautiful scenery. To show people what they’d see from the train, the entire 681km journey was recreated as one long continuous photograph.