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BACKGROUND
Having worked with Entropico previously on a campaign highlighting the state’s sexual consent legislation, the Department of Communities & Justice of the New South Wales Government approached Entropico about a new campaign. This time to raise awareness and promote understanding of more complicated, and less known laws surrouning coercive control. Coercive control is when someone repeatedly hurts, scares, or isolates another person to control them.
The laws surrounding this topic are extremely complex, and the behavior that constitutes a breach of the law is similarly intricate. Amongst the requirements of creating a digital and OOH campaign, Entropico was tasked with scripting four short video spots that each showed the complexities of coercive control, as well as what would constitute a breach of the law. All within a 15-20 second spot.
Entropico knew that communicating complicated laws and behavioural examples was a difficult task, especially in short bursts on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, which are increasingly becoming sources of entertainment over social media and photo-sharing.
The campaign centered on the tagline ‘It’s Not Love, It’s Coercive Control’, designed to have viewers and audiences consider ostensibly normal behavior through a more enlightened lens. The campaign creative, rolled out across digital placements, and OOH placements like bathroom and gym screens, depict the isolation of victims of coercive control. The films’ creative depicted a montage of moments of increasingly more alarming abusive behaviors. The aim was to use techniques normally employed in film and television to make highly engaging micro films. And central to that, to capture and optimise these films for each respective platform.