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NSW Rural Fire Service launches chilling new campaign

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The speed, danger and unpredictability of a bush fire is highlighted in a haunting new NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) public awareness campaign launched recently. The campaign developed and executed by J. Walter Thompson Sydney and GPY&R Sydney after a pitch process.The integrated campaign will run and evolve over the next three fire seasons (2015-2018), and comprises a 60-second TVC, two 30-second TVCs and two 15-second TVCs. It also involves a bespoke pre-roll, print executions, digital banners and radio spots. Each individual element has been created to highlight specific bush fire dangers and simple actions people can take to make themselves safer.The campaign makes it brutally clear that since fire has a plan for your destruction, you also better have one for your own protection. The creative approach of personifying fire as a sinister force that knows exactly what it’s going to do and how it’s going to do it, was developed to make people feel personally at risk.Take a look at the TVC:https://youtu.be/Z-dUdQZTqsY To support the TVCs and other campaign elements, GPY&R was appointed to develop a new bespoke online hub www.MyFirePlan.com.au. The hub helps people quickly and easily assess their risk and gives them simple, clear and easy tasks to reduce their risk. The tasks are tailored to their risk profile and provides information in formats and timeframes designed to motivate them to change their future behaviour.A state-wide Get Ready Weekend was also held on September 12/13, with a focus on creating a groundswell of bush fire preparation activities in NSW. More than 600 events and activities were held across the state to provide bush fire preparation tips and motivate the community to plan ahead.“Research has shown that most people, even some of those living in high risk areas, do not consider themselves to be personally at risk from bush fires. Around half of those in at-risk areas believe their property would survive a bush fire, even if they had made no preparation,” NSW Rural Fire Service director of corporate communications, Anthony Clark said.“But the reality is that bush fires are an annual threat across NSW. There are approximately 1.3 million properties at risk from bush fires in NSW, occupied by around 3 million people. The NSW RFS needed a high-impact, attention grabbing campaign to reiterate that there is a very real risk for many people, and that simple steps like having a conversation can make a big difference”.JWT executive planning director, Angela Morris added: “We needed to reframe risk and discovered that people are less afraid of a risk they think they have some control over and more afraid of risks that are personified than anonymous.” 

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