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PNB MetLife / A campaign story

Make the warning
worth watching.

Insurance fraud is easy to ignore until it becomes personal. A familiar voice and a clear story made room for a practical warning.

ClientPNB MetLife
CategoryTVCs & Digital Films
The taskMake insurance fraud awareness watchable
Colour pencil artwork for PNB MetLife

PNB MetLife’s public-service films needed to make people aware of online threats associated with buying insurance. There was important information to communicate, and Anup Soni brought something valuable to that task before the camera began rolling: an established screen persona that audiences already connected with caution, credibility and the world of Crime Patrol.

The directorial challenge was to recognise how much of the treatment was already present in that association. Adding too many devices would compete with the very quality that made him right for the films. Our approach was to let that familiar authority do its work, keeping the presentation close to the essence of the format audiences knew.

The audio-visual treatment supported the delivery of the information and the viewer’s attention to it. The emphasis was on clarity and engagement, allowing the message to come through without asking a separate visual idea to carry equal weight.

The films gave PNB MetLife a recognisable public-service voice for a subject that required people to pay attention. For this project, the central creative decision was restraint: understanding the strength of the main ingredient and making the rest of the film work around it.

Important communication has to earn the attention its message deserves.

The work, on screen.

A different brief.
The same curiosity.

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